Jenni Rivera (July 2, 1969 – December 9, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter
and entrepreneur who became one of the defining voices in banda and regional
Mexican music. Raised in Long Beach, California, she recorded and released early
material in the 1990s, opening her catalog with the album La Chacalosa (1995)
and continuing with releases that built her reputation as a plainspoken
storyteller in corridos, banda, and ranchera styles. Her breakthrough era
arrived in the mid-2000s, led by Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida (2005), followed
by widely circulated projects such as Mi V...