Pablo López used to be a singer in the sprawling halls and cars of the metropolitan subway system in Mexico City, becoming sort of a celebrity thanks to videos posted by fans. Now, he is on the way to become successful in reality, after winning the Mexico Got Talent contest.

“Now people tells me I am famous. I tell them I am known, I don’t have a Lamborghini yet. I have nothing yet. Therefore, I am known and that’s nice,” said López to EL UNIVERSAL a couple of weeks ago. Now, he is really famous and even better than getting a Lamborghini, he can improve his living conditions, what he really wanted. And a million pesos, around 68,000 dollars, should help a lot.

"It is pretty clear to me that I will never see you in the subway again, but in some theater," expressed a night before, in the semifinals, Héctor Martínez, judge known for his and very strict points of view, but who expressed his pride for the other contestants in the semis: Ginger and Pato, Diana Ham, Archo's Dance Studio, Jhoniván, and José Antonio Paredes.

But the winner was decided by the audience, and Pablo López conquered them with a rendition of "I Feel Good", a hit by James Brown.

When Pablo was five he got lost and did not know how to return to his home. A woman took him to the Red Cross of Torreón, Coahuila, where he stayed until he was sent to a reformatory.

"I never heard from my biological parents. One day someone told me that they had died. In any case I felt that they abandoned me and that is not nice," he said once at the exit of Villa de Cortés subway station.

Pablo lived in an orphanage until he was adopted, at the age of 10, by a family from Utah. His adoptive father was a veterinarian and his adoptive mother, a housewife. He remained at his adoptive parents' home until he was 18.
 
"I was a hostile and rude man. I kept the bad habits that I learnt at the reformatory. My adoptive parents got tired of me and asked me to leave their house. I never returned," Pablo explained.

As a young man, he sang in a church choir with his adoptive father. "Once I repeated a strophe twice and I was severely scolded", so I stopped singing for 15 years, he explained.