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In addition to his criticized relationship with Ángela Aguilar, Christian Nodal adds a new controversywell Universal Musicwith whom he signed a contract in January 2017 and which has distributed his three official albums, I got carried away, Now and Ay ay ay!accuses him of simulation of contracts and falsification of documents.
For this reason, he requested to prosecute an investigation file opened by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). against his parents and himself to determine if they committed a crime.
Christian Nodal and his parents, Jesús Jaime González Terrazas and Silvia Cristina Nodal Jiménezfiled a lawsuit against the record label on November 11, 2021, which was filed in the Eighth District Court in Civil Matters of Mexico City, with file number 257/2021, to claim ownership of the recorded songs. by Nodal in such works, for example, “Goodbye Love“, “A Drunk is Born” and “Of the Kisses I Gave You”.
Universal He didn’t take long to react and Since March 2022, he denounced Nodal and his parents for simulating documents, forging signatures and accused them of profiting from phonographic materials that are their property. under the terms of a contract signed between both parties, which recognizes the transfer of the rights of the songs recorded by the singer-songwriter to the company.
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A copy obtained by Gente from the investigation folder of the federal Public Ministry FED/DGCAP/DGCAP-CDMX/94/2023, indicates that the legal representative of Universal asked the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic to prosecute the case for having found irregularities and inconsistencies in 32 documents provided by the family Nodal to support your claim.
Therefore, it requires that the interpreter (full name Christian Jesus Gonzalez Nodal), in addition to Jesús Jaime González Terrazas and Silvia Cristina Nodal Jiménez, are presented before a control Judge of the competent Federal Justice Center.
Christian Nodal and his parents, Jesús Jaime González Terrazas and Silvia Cristina Nodal Jiménez, are involved in a legal dispute.
José Ángel Echevarría, lawyer Universal Music Group Mexicopresented this Monday, June 10, documentation in which it states that the signature of Notary Public Luis Fernando Ruibal Coker, of Hermosillo, Sonora, which appears in the supposed certifications of the contracts exhibited by the Nodal familydoes not correspond to the one made by his own handwriting.
It differs in nine aspects, such as “basic alignment, direction, inclination, tension, skill and spontaneity”, as well as presenting “signs of slowness in its layout, slight tremors and a poor interpretation of the graphic development”, according to the report of graphoscopy expert Jesús Luna.
Likewise, in the alleged contracts provided by the Nodal A link is established with a collaborator named Alejandro Martín Ramírez Espinal, who in ministerial interviews stated that he did not remember the date on which the family paid him for his services.
He added that he supposedly received the payment in cash, that he did not provide any receipt and that he does not know if a notary public was present at the signing of the contracts.
Furthermore, in the legal document there is a list of several payments, some in pesos and others in dollars, made to Nodal and his parents (Jesús Jaime González Terrazas, as producer of his son’s work through his company, JG Music) on behalf of Universalto prove the legality of the use and exploitation of his work, which those involved had accepted.
They received, for example, $14,500 as an advance to record the video for “Nace un Borracho.”
For the recording of Ay ay ay! (2020) obtained a consideration of one million 340 thousand pesos. All of the above, Universal asked to present the investigation file before a federal criminal judge to determine whether Nodal and his parents committed any crime.
If the investigation file is prosecuted, a process would begin to charge one or more crimes to the people named in it. Nodal He also has to resolve his exclusivity with the record label, the terms of which are not known.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Universal sent a letter to several media outlets asking them to refrain from distributing, marketing and/or promoting any recording of the Sonoran.
Universal departure
On his own initiative, he has worked for Sony Music when recording with artists such as Banda MS, by Sergio Lizárraga, the song “La Sinvergüenza”, from 2021.
”I’m doing this live because I want to clear things up. Many fans are worried about what is happening with me and my career these last few days. I do not have a contract with Universal. Universal I didn’t want me to leave, but I gave them five years of my work and did what I was supposed to do. “I worked hard giving my 100 percent,” he said. Nodalin a broadcast on his Instagram account in November of that year.
Álex Gallardo, president of Sony Music US Latin, and Roberto López, president of Sony Music México, welcomed him to their ranks in February 2022.
”I am very grateful for the opportunity to close a cycle in my career and start a new one with a lot of passion, joy and emotion. (…) It is a great alliance. The best is coming,” he said. Nodal in a statement released by Sony, with which he has published singles such as “Kbron y Medio” and “La Intention”, this one, a duet with Peso Pluma.
People sought statements from both Nodal like Universal about this conflict, but there was no response.
