{"id":8645,"date":"2012-12-10T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:16:18","slug":"singer-jenni-rivera-dies-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8645","title":{"rendered":"Singer Jenni Rivera Dies In Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MONTERREY, Mexico (AP)\u00a0 \u2014 U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash, December 9, 2012\u00a0in northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to help investigate the crash, and the board said Mexican authorities had informed them that Rivera had died in the accident.<\/p>\n

Rivera\u2019s relatives in the U.S. already had few doubts that she was on the Learjet 25 that disintegrated on impact Sunday in rugged territory in Nuevo Leon state in northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son Lupillo told me that effectively it was Jenni\u2019s plane that crashed and that everyone on board died,\u201d her father, Pedro Rivera, told dozens of reporters gathered in front of his Los Angeles-area home. \u201cI believe my daughter\u2019s body is unrecognizable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that his son would fly to Monterrey Monday.<\/p>\n

Messages of condolence poured in from fellow musicians and celebrities.<\/p>\n

Mexican songstress and actress Lucero wrote on her Twitter account: \u201cWhat terrible news! Rest in peace … My deepest condolences for her family and friends.\u201d Rivera\u2019s colleague on the Mexican show \u201cThe Voice of Mexico,\u201d pop star Paulina Rubio, said on her Twitter account: \u201cMy friend! Why? There is no consolation. God, please help me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Long Beach, California, Rivera was at the peak of her career as perhaps the most successful female singer in grupero, a male-dominated regional style influenced by the norteno, cumbia and ranchero styles.<\/p>\n

A 43-year-old mother of five children and grandmother of two, the woman known as the \u201cDiva de la Banda\u201d was known for frank talk about her struggles to give a good life to her children despite a series of setbacks.<\/p>\n

She was recently divorced from her third husband, was once detained at a Mexico City airport with tens of thousands of dollars in cash, and she publicly apologized after her brother assaulted a drunken fan who verbally attacked her in 2011.<\/p>\n

Her openness about her personal troubles endeared her to millions in the U.S. and Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the same as the public, as my fans,\u201d she told The Associated Press in an interview last March.<\/p>\n

Rivera sold 15 million records, and recently won two Billboard Mexican Music Awards: Female Artist of the Year and Banda Album of the Year for \u201cJoyas prestadas: Banda.\u201d She was nominated for Latin Grammys in 2002, 2008 and 2011.<\/p>\n

Transportation and Communications Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said \u201ceverything points toward\u201d the wreckage belonging to the plane carrying Rivera and six other people to Toluca, outside Mexico City, from Monterrey, where the singer had just given a concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing recognizable, neither material nor human\u201d in the wreckage found in the state of Nuevo Leon, Ruiz Esparza said. The impact was so powerful that the remains of the plane \u201care scattered over an area of 250 to 300 meters. It is almost unrecognizable.\u201d<\/p>\n

A mangled California driver\u2019s license with Rivera\u2019s name and picture was found in the crash site debris.<\/p>\n

No cause was given for the plane\u2019s crash, but its wreckage was found near the town of Iturbide in Mexico\u2019s Sierra Madre Oriental, where the terrain is very rough.<\/p>\n

The Learjet 25, number N345MC, took off from Monterrey at 3:30 a.m. local time and was reported missing about 10 minutes later. It was registered to Starwood Management of Las Vegas, Nevada, according to FAA records. It was built in 1969 and had a current registration through 2015.<\/p>\n

Also believed aboard the plane were her publicist, Arturo Rivera, her lawyer, makeup artist and the flight crew.<\/p>\n

Though drug trafficking was the theme of some of her songs, she was not considered a singer of \u201cnarco corridos,\u201d or ballads glorifying drug lords like other groups, such as Los Tigres del Norte. She was better known for singing about her troubles in love and disdain for men.<\/p>\n

Her parents were Mexicans who had migrated to the United States. Two of her five brothers, Lupillo and Juan Rivera, are also well-known singers of grupero music.<\/p>\n

She studied business administration and formally debuted on the music scene in 1995 with the release of her album \u201cChacalosa\u201d. Due to its success, she recorded two more independent albums, \u201cWe Are Rivera\u201d and \u201cFarewell to Selena,\u201d a tribute album to slain singer Selena that helped expand her following.<\/p>\n

At the end of the 1990s, Rivera was signed by Sony Music and released two more albums. But widespread success came for her when she joined Fonovisa and released her 2005 album titled \u201cPartier, Rebellious and Daring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides being a singer, she is also a businesswoman and actress, appearing in the indie film Filly Brown, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, as the incarcerated mother of Filly Brown.<\/p>\n

She was filming the third season of \u201cI love Jenni,\u201d which followed her as she shared special moments with her children and as she toured through Mexico and the United States. She also has the reality shows: \u201cJenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis and Raq-C\u201d and her daughter\u2019s \u201cChiquis \u2018n Control.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2009, she was detained at the Mexico City airport when she declared $20,000 in cash but was really carrying $52,167. She was taken into custody. She said it was an innocent mistake and authorities gave her the benefit of the doubt and released her.<\/p>\n

In 2011, her brother Juan assaulted a drunken fan at a popular fair in Guanajuato. In the face of heavy criticism among her fans and on social networks, Rivera publicly apologized for the incident during a concert in Mexico City, telling her fans: \u201cThank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Rivera had given a concert before thousands of fans in Monterrey. After the concert she gave a press conference during which she spoke of her emotional state following her recent divorce from former Major League Baseball pitcher Esteban Loaiza, who played for teams including the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t get caught up in the negative because that destroys you. Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do. I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other woman,\u201d she said Saturday night. \u201cThe number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rivera had announced in October that she was divorcing Loaiza after two years of marriage.<\/p>\n

There have been several high-profile crashes involving Learjets, known as swift, longer-distance passenger aircraft popular with corporate executives, entertainers and government officials.<\/p>\n

A Learjet carrying pro-golfer Payne Stewart and five others crashed in northeastern South Dakota in 1999. Investigators said the plane lost cabin pressure and all on board died after losing consciousness for lack of oxygen. The aircraft flew for several hours on autopilot before running out of fuel and crashing in a corn field.<\/p>\n

Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker was severely injured in a 2008 Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people.<\/p>\n

That same year, a Learjet slammed into rush-hour traffic in a posh Mexico City neighborhood, killing Mexico\u2019s No. 2 government official, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, and eight others on the plane, plus five people on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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