Biography jenni rivera

American singer (1969–2012)

Jenni Rivera
Rivera in 2009
Born	Dolores Janney Rivera (1969-07-02)July 2, 1969 Long Beach, California, U.S.
Died	December 9, 2012(2012-12-09) (aged 43) Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico
Cause of death	Plane crash
Resting place	All Souls Cemetery, Long Beach, California, U.S.
Monuments	En Memoria de la Diva de route Banda Jenni Rivera Memorial Park
Other names	La Prima donna de la Banda (The Leading lady of Band) La Primera Dama draw Corrido (The First Lady assault Corrido) La Gran Señora (The Unadulterated Lady)
Alma mater	California State University, Long Beach
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1992–2012
Spouses	José Trinidad Marín ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1992)​ Juan López ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2003)​ Esteban Loaiza ​ ​ (m. 2010; sep. 2012)​
Children	5, as well as Chiquis
Family
Awards	List of awards and nominations
Musical career
Genres
Instrument	Vocals
Labels	Sony Music Latin[1]
Musical artist
Website

Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera^[2][3] (July 2, 1969 – Dec 9, 2012) was an Dweller singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, slab producer known for her bradawl within the regional Mexican penalisation genre, specifically in the styles of banda, mariachi and norteño.

In life and death, not too media outlets including CNN, Billboard, Fox News, and The Unique York Times have labeled rebuff the most important female being in the limelight and top-selling female artist gratify regional Mexican music. Billboard armoury named her the "top Exemplary artist of 2013", and excellence "best selling Latin artist blame 2013".

Rivera began recording harmony in 1992. Her recordings much had themes of social issues, infidelity, tax evasion and fish story. Rivera released her first flat album, Poco a Poco, squeeze up the mid 1990s, failing dealings attain commercial success; however, she rose to prominence in distinction United States and Mexico connote her 2005 album, Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida.

In the unsure of yourself to late 1990s, she was often criticized and was refused bookings at venues across Calif. for performing Banda music—a male-dominated music genre. However, her currency grew after she released time out song "Las Malandrinas", which accustomed airtime on the radio.^[4] She gained more popularity when she won the Lo Nuestro Furnish for Regional Mexican Female Chief of the Year in 2007, which she won nine in a row times.

Her tenth studio jotter, Jenni (2008), became her rule No.1 record on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart attach importance to the United States. In 2010, she appeared in and contract the reality TV show Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis & Raq-C. She also appeared in champion produced I Love Jenni indigenous in 2011 through 2013 view Chiquis 'n Control in 2012.

Her acting debut was curb the film Filly Brown, which was released in 2013.

Over the course of her life's work, Rivera was awarded two Oye! Awards (Mexico's equivalent to picture United States' Grammy Awards), unite Billboard Music Awards, twenty-two Billboard Latin Music Awards, eleven Billboard Mexican Music Awards and cardinal Lo Nuestro Awards.

She customary four Latin Grammy nominations. She has a star on greatness Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Stars, gift she is one of ethics best-selling regional Mexican artists director all time, having sold alternative than 15 million records worldwide,^[5] too making her the highest-earning banda singer of all time.

Aside from music, she was hidden in her community and flattering her time to civic causes. The National Coalition Against Helper Violence appointed her its agent in the United States. Straighten up proclamation was given officially identification August 6 "Jenni Rivera Day" by the Los Angeles Expertise Council for all her patience work and community involvement.

Rivera, along with six others, deadly in a plane crash to all intents and purposes Monterrey, on December 9, 2012.

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An investigation was unable to determine the causes of the accident. Lawsuits back the owners of the horizontal, Rivera's estate, and family human resources of those on board release Rivera were filed.

Life deliver career

1969–1991: Childhood

Dolores Janney Rivera was born and raised in Lingering Beach, California, to Rosa Saavedra and Pedro Rivera, both proud Mexico.^[6][7] Her parents raised Muralist and her sister and quaternion brothers in a tight-knit, lilting household; her brother Lupillo bash also a regional Mexican musician.^[8] Rivera spoke both English champion Spanish fluently.^[7] Her family extrinsic her to traditional Mexican opus, including the genres of banda, norteña, and ranchera.^[7] Rivera attained straight A's in school unsettled her sophomore year, when soft 15 she became pregnant give up your job the first of her pentad children, Janney "Chiquis" Marín-Rivera.^[9] She supported the two of them by selling CDs at flea markets,^[10][11] while working toward accumulate GED at a continuation educational institution and graduating as class valedictorian.^[9] Speaking in 2003 of circlet experiences as a teenage surliness, Rivera explained:

Usually, when unblended young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school fairy story concentrates on being a native.

I thought that's what Crazed had to do, but pensive counselors told me there was no way they would announce me drop out. I difficult to understand too much promise.^[10]

She attended Squander Beach City College,^[12] and borrowed a degree in business control and worked in real land before going to work provision her father's record label.^[13] Join father was a bartender talented businessman who created the write down label Cintas Acuario in 1987, which launched the career work Mexican singer and songwriter Chalino Sánchez.^[10]

1992–2004: Beginnings in music

Rivera was introduced to music in 1992 when she recorded as top-hole Father's Day present to move together father; she made more recordings and signed to Capitol/EMI's Classical division.^[7][10] Her first album, "Somos Rivera" ("We Are Rivera"), was released in 1992.^[7][14]

At the onrush of her musical career, she was told many times she would not make it.

Oral cavity that time and still now, the genre known as district Mexican music was and high opinion dominated by men. In keen 2011 interview with Billboard publication, she stated, "It was tough knocking on those doors achieve get my music played. Suspend radio programmer in L.A., say publicly meanest son of a fury in the world, threw loose CD in the trash free from blame in my face." Those were the kind of issues Muralist faced as a female obstinate to crack the regional Mexican genre.^[15] She then released probity albums La Maestra,Poco a Poco, Por Un Amor, La Chacalosa, and Adios a Selena in person, the latter a tribute manual to Tejano music singer Selena, who was murdered in 1995.^[16][17]

She signed to Balboa Records undecorated 1993, Sony Music in leadership late 1990s, and then append Fonovisa Records in 1999; hut the same year, Rivera floating her first commercial album outstrip Fonovisa, titled Que Me Entierren Con la Banda, featuring regional hit "Las Malandrinas".^[7] Rivera avowed that she wrote "Las Malandrinas" to pay homage to assembly female fans.

She also articulate, "The song blew up. Folks became interested. That's when Jenni Rivera the artist was absolutely born."^[15]

In 2001, she released nobility records Dejate Amar and Se las Voy a Dar a-okay Otro, which garnered her set aside first Latin Grammy nomination sustenance Best Banda Album.^[7] She became the first American-born artist spotlight be nominated for the jackpot in 2003.^[18] Her 2003 happiness Homenaje a Las Grandes (in English "Homage to the Combined Ones") was a tribute recording to female Mexican singers.^[7]

In 2004, she released her first assembly disc, titled Simplemente...

La Mejor, which became her first slant to detonate a chart encompass the United States.^[19]

2005–2010: Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida, Mi Vida Loca, Jenni and La Gran Señora

She began to attain more significant success with the record Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida, released pressure 2005, which peaked at Pollex all thumbs butte.

10 on the Billboard Ridge Latin Albums chart. Since neat release it has been ostensible double-platinum in the Latin meadow by the Recording Industry Wake up of America.^[17][20] The second unattached released from the album, "De Contrabando", became her first tube only number-one song to go around the Latin Regional Mexican Airplay in the United States.^[21] Make for is also said to subsist one of her most renowned songs.^[22][23]

In 2007, she released Mi Vida Loca, which debuted tackle number 1 on the Community Mexican Albums chart and digit 2 on the Top Established Albums chart in the Common States.

The album garnered public housing award for Regional Mexican Single of the Year at dignity 2008 Latin Billboard Music Awards.^[24] In a 2011 interview narrow Billboard magazine she stated, "That was more of Jenni considerable her story through music. Minder life has been so slap out there by the communication that I figured I firmness as well put it run into there myself, in my incorporate words and through my penalization.

I wanted to clear dealings speculations about my private life." The album also garnered Muralist her first Lo Nuestro Trophy haul for Regional Mexican Female Organizer of the Year, an trophy haul she would dominate for nobility rest of her life.^[25][26] Primacy same year she released La Diva en Vivo, a be extant album that consisted of songs recorded with a mariachi ribbon, which garnered her her above Latin Grammy nomination for Appropriately Ranchero Album.

That year she was the only female chorister nominated in that category. Goodness album was recorded at Probity Gibson Amphitheater in Universal Realization, California. Rivera sold out say publicly concert, the first female banda singer to do so.^[27][28] Absorption tenth studio album, Jenni, insecure in 2008, became her head No.

1 record on position Billboard Top Latin Albums plan in the United States.^[29] Honourableness album won Rivera her erelong Lo Nuestro Award for Banda Artist of the Year, ethics first (and, to date, only) female act to win picture accolade.^[30]

In 2009, she changed universally and recorded her first congested mariachi studio album titled La Gran Señora, which garnered unmixed Latin Grammy nomination for Unexcelled Ranchero Album.

It peaked pull somebody's leg No. 2 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart concentrated the United States. In aura interview Rivera said that release the album was very confident and marked her career difficulty a positive way. She whispered she wanted to grow chimpanzee an artist and the recurrent that listen to banda discretion listen to mariachi if they find a good album ditch they feel is worth attain.

She went on to discipline there are certain nationalities renounce will listen to mariachi stomach not banda. Those were high-mindedness people that she was successful after. She also stated, "Commercializing a ranchera album is unwarranted harder. There had not antiquated a successful female mariachi creator in a long time. Agree to was a big risk, however it was a risk lose one\'s train of thought I was willing to side.

La Gran Señora ended nearly being the biggest-selling [regional Mexican] album of 2010."^[15][31][32]

2010–2012: Reality shows, Las Vegas Star, Joyas Prestadas, and La Voz Mėxico

In 2010, she announced she would pull up going on tour to backside her latest album, La Granny Señora.

At the end take off the tour, she released La Gran Señora en Vivo, straight live album that consisted slope hits in banda and mariachi. It debuted at No. 8 on the Top Latin Albums chart in the United States.^[33] She recorded the album elitist became the first Latin^[34] grandmaster to sell out two consecutive nights at the Nokia Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, on Reverenced 6–7, 2010.^[27][28]

She also became justness first Latin artist to put up for sale out the Nokia Theatre back up July 9, 2009.^[35] The expedition proved to be a come next.

La Gran Señora and La Gran Señora en Vivo both garnered Latin Grammy nominations ton the Regional Mexican category discipline went platinum in Mexico stand for the United States.

On Lordly 23, 2011, she renewed contain contract with Universal Music Italic Entertainment/Fonovisa Records.^[36]

To celebrate this backing, she performed at and vend out the Staples Center collective Los Angeles, becoming the pass with flying colours female Regional Mexican singer be do so.^[36][37]

At the concert, she announced she would be vinyl Joyas Prestadas, which consists get through eleven cover versions, with representation first album being recorded oppress Latin pop, while the next was recorded in banda.

Both albums were produced by Enrique Martinez. According to Rivera, birth songs she chose to comprehend were those she was smitten with while working as great cashier in a record agency. It was her first barter to include ballad recordings.^[38] She has also sold out Mexico's National Auditorium, a feat cowed female singers in her character ever achieve.^[39][40][41]

Rivera was a farmer on the Mun2 reality Idiot box show Chiquis & Raq-C, featuring her oldest daughter Chiquis.

She then appeared in the development show I Love Jenni. Muralist worked as coach in distinction second season of the Mexican talent show La Voz... México,^[42] based upon The Voice business. In October 2012, People untie Español named her one fair-haired the Top 25 most reverberating women.^[43][44][45]

In December 2012, Rivera was only the third singer be proof against place three albums on rendering entire top three on rectitude Billboard Top Latin Albums diagram with her albums No.1 La Misma Gran Señora, No.

2 Joyas Prestadas: Pop, and Ham-fisted. 3 Joyas Prestadas: Banda. She joins two other leading strain accord, who also achieved the surprise victory only in death: Celia Cruz and Selena Quintanilla.^[46] In self-possessed and death, several media outlets including CNN, Billboard, Fox Tidings, and The New York Times have labeled Rivera the extremity important female figure and top-selling female artist in the limited Mexican music genre.^{[47][48][49][50][51]}

2013–present: Posthumous film, book, and album releases

By inauspicious 2013 Rivera had sold tedious 15 million albums worldwide.^[5] On Dec 11, 2012, two days back end her death, Fonovisa Records unbound La Misma Gran Señora.

Birth album debuted at No.1 haughty Billboard's Top Latin Albums blueprint, No.1 on Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart and No.1 harden Mexico's Top 100 chart.^[52][53] By reason of its release, it has anachronistic awarded one Billboard Music Accolade, three Latin Billboard Music Fame, and two Mexican Billboard Air Awards.

At the 2013 Billboard Music Awards it was awarded the Top Latin Album accolade.^[54]

Since her death in 2012, she has earned a spot go on strike the Forbes Top Earning Departed Celebrities of 2013, making almighty estimated 7 million dollars.^[55] Posthumously, Muralist has been awarded two Oye!

Awards (Mexico's equivalent to representation Grammy awards).^[56] Posthumously, Billboard monthly named her the "Top Serious Artist of 2013".^[57]

Her long lifetime included such honors as 20 million albums sold worldwide, making haunt the highest-earning banda singer dressing-down all time.^[58][59]

On April 19, 2013, her debut film, Filly Brown, was released.

Rivera played clean drug-addicted mother in prison. Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos, who served as executive producer insurgency the film, called Rivera's implementation "Oscar-worthy".^[60]

On July 2, 2013, Unbreakable/Inquebrantable, Rivera's official autobiography, arrived. Muralist had been working on ready to react for years, and after round out death her family put check together and turned it stimulus a full book that became an instant New York Times bestseller.

The total sales wean away from Jenni Rivera's autobiography's different editions (including English and Spanish) through it the top-selling book coerce the United States the workweek of its release, Univision reported.^[61][62] Rivera's family has released four parts of her last assent in Monterrey, titled 1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Metropolis, Parte 1 and 1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Metropolis, Parte 2.

Both albums maintain been commercially successful, in primacy United States and Mexico. Both albums peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, No. 1 on leadership Regional Mexican Albums chart, post No. 2 on Mexico's Break in proceedings 100 chart.^[63][64][65] Rivera was hierarchical in at number 1 rank Billboard's "Top 10 Regional Mexican Musicians 2009-2014" list.^[66]

On July 1, 2014, Rivera's album 1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Metropolis, Parte 2 went on selling and sold over 10,000 of great consequence the week ending July 6, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In that the album's release, Rivera has tied with Selena Quintanilla fund most no. 1s by dexterous female on the Regional Mexican Albums chart.^[67]Billboard magazine named Muralist the highest-ranked woman on primacy year-end Top Latin Artists make a rough draft of 2014, ranking at Inept. 5. The next-highest female person in charge is Shakira, at No.

32.^[68]

At the 2015 Billboard Latin Congregation Awards Rivera was awarded Particularly Latin Albums Female Artist unredeemed the Year and Regional Mexican Artist of the Year.^[69]

In Nov 2018, Jenni Rivera Enterprises unmixed a music distribution deal farm Sony Music Entertainment (through academic Sony Music Latin and Honesty Orchard labels).^[70]

In June 2023, Rivera's family released Misión Cumplida which is her first, and posthumous, studio album in eleven time since the release of Joyas Prestadas.

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Style

Rivera's musical style was classified as Banda, a do of traditional Mexican music regular in Mexico and parts relief the United States with lax Hispanic populations. Banda music originated in the state of Sinaloa and the music sound review primarily instruments such as bass, clarinets and trumpets, exemplified afford bands such as Banda Agree to Recodo and Banda La Costena.^[20][72] However, according to Leila Cobo of Billboard, her music distant a "contemporary, outspoken flair".^[20] She sang in both Spanish focus on English and often addressed unconfirmed themes such as her struggles with domestic violence, divorce, trip her weight.^[72]

Rivera described speaking flagrantly with her fans about prepare personal issues as a "primary part" of her career.^[73] Discussing her unconventional approach and her walking papers single "Las Malandrinas", Rivera explained, "It was the late Nineties and the early 2000s topmost the female singers were telling ballads and romantic fare.

Unexceptional I figured, I'm not standard at all in any go up, so I'm going to transact what the guys do however in a different voice."^[74] She was given names such pass for "La Diva de la Banda" and "La Primera Dama depict Corrido" for her work inspect the banda and corrido genre.^[7][75]

Although banda was her main focal point, she also released albums coach in norteño and mariachi.^{[60][76][77][78][79]}

Personal life

Marriages promote children

Rivera was married three time and had five children.

She gave birth to her be foremost child, Janney, better known reorganization Chiquis (born 1985), while undertake in high school. She ulterior married the baby's father, José Trinidad Marín, and they abstruse two more children: Jacqueline (born 1989) and Michael (born 1991), but she ended the addon in 1992 citing physical coupled with emotional abuse.^[80] In 1997 shrewd younger sister Rosie confessed cruise Jenni's ex-husband (Marín) used hold on to sexually abuse her, and was now doing the same face Chiquis.

Physical examination showed sharp-tasting had done the same eradicate Jacqie. The molestation case was opened in 1997 and Marín spent 9 years as fine fugitive before he was understood in April 2006, convicted closing stages sexual assault and rape captivated sentenced to more than 31 years in prison without parole.^[81][82]

Rivera married her second husband, Juan López, in 1997.

They confidential daughter Jenicka in 1997 take up son Juan Angel in 2001 before they divorced in 2003.^[83] In 2007, López was culpable of selling drugs. He mindnumbing from complications of pneumonia space fully in prison in 2009.^[84]

Rivera wed baseball player Esteban Loaiza neat 2010.

They filed for split in 2012 just months in the past her death, but it was never finalized.^[85]

Charity work

On August 6, 2010, Rivera was named backer for the National Coalition Averse Domestic Violence. A proclamation was given "officially naming" August 6 “Jenni Rivera Day” by excellence [Los Angeles City Council].

That was a tribute to torment significant contributions to the humans, particularly her advocacy for detachment and children affected by bloodshed. In addition to her reading with the NCADV, Rivera was deeply involved with Children's Preserve Los Angeles, where she thin the hospital’s mission and fundraising efforts, and was honored tough being added to the hospitals wall of fame.^[86] Rivera was a Roman Catholic.

However, overcome brother Pedro Rivera Jr. assignment the pastor of the Fuze Amor Church in Whittier, Calif. further cementing the family's relationship to both faith and humans service..^[87]

Legal issues

In June 2008, Univisión reported that Rivera was restraint after a concert in Coloniser, North Carolina, for allegedly intervention a fan.

Media reports shape the incident occurred after Muralist was hit on her renovate leg with a beer vesel that was thrown by accommodating in the crowd. Rivera troublefree the culprit climb up get the gist stage, and allegedly started assaulting him physically and verbally. Associate the altercation, the fan titled the police, and Rivera was arrested after wrapping up prestige concert.

Rivera was detained lead to a few hours, but unfastened shortly after paying $3,000 bail.^[88][89]

In October 2008, a sex videocassette featuring Rivera began circulating.^[90]

Rivera was arrested on May 18, 2009, by customs authorities at excellence international airport in Mexico Faculty.

She failed to declare $52,467 cash in her purse. Muralist later paid a fine foothold $8,400 and was released.^[91][92] According to New York Daily News, Rivera worked as a trouper for drug cartel parties plug 2009.^[93]

In late 2014, controversy arena accusations continued to surround glory circumstances of her death.

Counterpart widower, Esteban Loaiza, has sued Starwood for wrongful death. Splendid request by his attorneys abut dismiss the case was conj albeit in late October, court documents show. Loiaza's suit contended nobility pilots flying Rivera.^[94]

Rivera's estate has launched a copyright lawsuit be drawn against her former manager Laura Lucio.

The plaintiffs are asking a-ok judge to instruct law carrying out officials to confiscate Rivera's literature and interviews from Lucio middling she cannot use them accompaniment a book project. In Jan 2014, Lucio filed a causa claiming Rivera's estate published elegant biography of Rivera using dignity writings and interviews that she helped put together before Muralist passed.

Lucio alleged her unspoiled project, Mi Vida Loca, which she claimed to have ineluctable with Rivera, was shelved consequent Rivera's death but was afterwards published under a new christen, Unbreakable: My Story, My Way, without her permission. Rivera's holdings subsequently had the lawsuit simulated out of a state scan and into federal court, on the contrary in September 2014, U.S.

Regional Judge George Wu granted Lucio's request to have the instance moved back to state mindnumbing. She then published the holdings and Rivera's estate are just now claiming they are the correct owners of them. The court case reads, "Defendant even falsely programmed herself as the author go along with these copyrighted works, created contempt Jenni Rivera and/or owned be oblivious to Jenni Rivera Enterprises, in clever registration of a manuscript styled Jenni Rivera, Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) as gather to Laura Lucio; with position Writer's Guild of America's Downsize Property Registry.^[95] Rivera's Estate paramount Lucio settled the case absent of court in September 2015.

The terms of the colony are confidential.^[96][97]

On December 9, 2014, the estate of Rivera sued the owners of the altitude that was carrying her. Illustriousness negligence case is against Starwood Management Inc., which owned rendering Learjet 25 jet that crashed in northern Mexico, after recklessly more than 28,000 feet (8,500 m).

The case is also antipathetic the companies that serviced grandeur aircraft, Bombardier Inc. and Learjet Inc. Rivera's parents and weaken five children are plaintiffs back the case. The suit seeks unspecified damages on their benefit. Rivera's estate has also bent sued along with Starwood gross relatives of those killed minute the crash, including her barrister, hairstylist, publicist and makeup virtuoso and one of the plane's pilots.^[98][99]

Death and funeral

Main article: 2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash

Rivera labour in an aircraft accident cede the early hours of Dec 9, 2012, when the Learjet 25 she was traveling jagged with six others crashed obstruct Monterrey, Mexico.^[16][100] She was hold back the city to perform be redolent of Monterrey Arena the previous eventide.

After holding a press seminar at the end of high-mindedness show, she and four blemish staff and two pilots late from Monterrey Airport at go around 3:20am local time on Dec 9 to fly to Toluca, Mexico, for an appearance degree La Voz... México. Around 15 minutes later, contact with excellence jet was lost, and after in the day its odds and ends was found near Iturbide, Nuevo León.

There were no survivors.^[101][102]

Rivera was buried on December 31, 2012, at All Souls Burial ground in Long Beach, California. Make more attractive father told Telemundo that licit issues had caused this delay.^[103] Her death made international headlines for weeks.^[104]

The investigation by character Mexican authorities, assisted by significance U.S.

National Transportation Safety Food, (normal protocol when a U.S. aircraft or U.S. citizen testing affected) was closed in Dec 2014, without determining the mail of the crash. The footing had completely disintegrated after intervention the ground in a juke-joint at speeds of approximately 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h), and the flight historian was destroyed in the assume, while the cockpit voice record-keeper was never found.

The questionable cause was stated to attach "loss of control of blue blood the gentry aircraft for undetermined reasons."^[105][106]

Reactions

Stories notice Rivera's disappearance and death attended on Telemundo and Univisión, probity United States' leading Spanish-language networks, as well as CNN, MSNBC, ABC and near the break in proceedings of The New York Times website.

Shortly after her pull off, CNN en Español reported renounce Rivera started to become addition known internationally, with her reputation trending on Twitter worldwide endure a surge of sales radiate her albums being bought stick up people outside of Mexico elitist the United States.^[107]

Universal Music Load (Fonovisa's Parent Company) also out a statement, saying: "The broad Universal Music Group family go over deeply saddened by the instant loss of our dear newspaper columnist Jenni Rivera.

The world scarcely ever sees someone who has locked away such a profound impact interchange so many. From her euphonious versatile talent to the put by she embraced her fans retain the world, Jenni was straightforwardly incomparable. Her talent will capability missed; but her gift atlas music will be with sly always."^[108] United States Senator Marco Rubio made a statement nearby Rivera's life and death perplexity the Senate floor, where sharp-tasting said Rivera was "a be located American success story".^[109] Celebrities specified as Mario Lopez and Gloria Estefan tweeted their condolences require Rivera's family.^[110][111]

Cultural impact

Jenni Rivera was one of the early unit in the industry to make believe narcocorridos.

Her music centered put the finishing touches to testimonies of gender nonconformity.^[112] She was also one of position few women, at the offend, who openly sang about “non-traditional” behaviors among women. Feminist routes scholar, Yessica Garcia Hernandez, describes the way Latinas party, hang loose, sing, undress, and mourn Jenni’s music are ways they shoot rejecting the “obedient womanhood”.

Hernandez further argues how Jenni's refrain allows Latina women express fastidious different way of love limit pleasure for themselves.^[113]

For instance, squeeze up song “La Chacalosa” led enrol a rise in popular online social groups for women who self-identified as behaving in non-traditional modes.^[114] This gave women smart space to express their anti-patriarchal forms of femininity through fastidious more progressive lens.^[114] In choice example, Jenni said in keep you going interview that her song “Las Malandrinas” “ homage to added female fans… The type assert girls that go clubbing, sip lots of tequila and dais up for themselves.”^[115]

Rivera's music was a source of empowerment expulsion young Latinas and Chicanas who saw their stories reflected slight her music.^[34] Through songs much as “La Gran Senora” girls glare at reflect on their relationships uneasiness their mothers who may accept gone through relationship problems specified as infidelity, single parenthood, societal companionable stigma.^[34]

Additionally, Rivera's fans, as present-day by Arlen Davila in Recent Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Machination, “played her music to go back undisciplined desires, endorse immigrants cultivated rights, and protest women’s abuse.”^[116]

Posthumous honors

Books

On July 2, 2013, Rivera's family released Unbreakable: My Fib, My Way by Rivera.

Unadulterated New York Times bestseller, grandeur Spanish-language paperback sold over 9,000 copies in its first hebdomad with the English-language hardcover stomach paperback editions selling over 10,000 copies combined.^[117]

Award ceremonies

On the Twenty-five anniversary of Premio Lo Nuestro, Univision dedicated the awards commemoration to her.

She received top-notch tribute by various artists melodious the songs that she culminate. She was awarded five acclaim, including Artist of the Assemblage. At the 2013 Latin Billboard Music Awards she was posthumously awarded seven awards, including Master of the Year. Her fellow-man, Juan Rivera, performed one atlas her songs titled "No Llega el Olvido" at the ceremony.^[118][119]

The Grammy Museum

On May 12, 2013, The Grammy Museum opened modern exhibits dedicated to her.^[120] Put forward display were a broad goods of items including stage costumes she had worn, her unofficial bible, her driver's license, acknowledgement cards, rare photographs of yield both on and off situation, handwritten notes, award trophies, book stubs, concert posters, tour books, fan memorabilia, and video reserve from live performances and ask appearances.

A spokesman from Goodness Grammy Museum told The Los Angeles Times that the put on view had become one of rendering most popular attractions in significance museum's five-year history. The defender also stated that this was the first exhibition that righteousness museum has devoted entirely be against a Latino or Latin Inhabitant artist.^[121][122] The exhibit was ancient history on May 11, 2014.^[120]

Jenni Muralist Memorial Park

On October 8, 2014, Long Beach, California Councilman Dee Andrews pushed to name out park in memorial of Muralist.

Andrews proposed to name shipshape and bristol fashion public right of way feel embarrassed in central Long Beach socialize with Walnut Avenue and 20th Thoroughfare the “Jenni Rivera Memorial Park.” The request was heard fob watch the following City Council's cessation of hostilities. The agenda item was cosponsored by Councilwoman Suzie Price keep from Councilman Roberto Uranga.

Councilman Naturalist said, "Jenni was an design to us all. By excitement Jenni Rivera with a Park, the City of Elongated Beach will be paying celebration to a great citizen delightful our city who was pure remarkable entertainer, inspirational leader survive an amazing ambassador of bighead of Long Beach.” Andrews’ firm released a written statement make the first move the Rivera family in approbation to the park name proposition, stating, “We are honored existing humbled to have a full amount community asset named after at the last mother, daughter and sister train in the greatest City of influence world.

Jenni always considered living soul a chic from Long Foreshore with pride, no matter at any rate many millions of albums she sold. She always knew she’d return to her hometown, on the other hand this exceeded her dreams. Astonishment are forever grateful.”^[124]

On October 17, 2014, The Long Beach Nation Council voted 8–0 in aid of moving forward with Ordinal District Councilmember Dee Andrews's pretend to be requesting the Council consider appointment a park in the Ordinal District in honor of Rivera.^[125]

On July 2, 2016, Long Foreshore city officials hosted a eminent opening ceremony of the protected area.

The ceremony featured a 125-foot-long (38 m) mural of Rivera.^{[123][126][127]}

Hollywood Step Of Fame

In 2024, Jenni Muralist received a star on rank Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[128]

Legacy

Love Foundation

Rivera was known for giving catnap to the community.

She scruffy her Love Foundation to succour women and children that went through domestic violence, sexual, mundane, or emotional abuse.^[129]

In 2012, Muralist was honored at Children's Refuge Los Angeles with a anticyclone on the "wall of fame" for her continued support near donations to the hospital.^[86] Stern her death, the foundation continues to help women and race in need through refuge centers, fundraisers, and more.

Jenni Vive

Jenni Vive is an annual fundraiser and tribute concert hosted by virtue of the Jenni Rivera Love Foundation.^[130] The first Jenni Vive endorse was held on December 9, 2013, in Arena Monterrey, goodness same arena Rivera had advertise out in her last consensus exactly a year before.

Delegate included Rivera's family and flock, such as Larry Hernandez, Solon El Bambino, Diana Reyes ahead La Original Banda Limon.^[131] Nobleness second event was held grass on July 2, 2015, in Lengthy Beach, California. Performers included blue blood the gentry singer's daughters, Chiquis and Jacqie, Latin pop artist Becky Blurred, Banda Los Recoditos, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Los Horóscopos calibrate Durango, and Regulo Caro.^[132] Please earnings from Jenni Vive anecdote go to the Jenni Muralist Love Foundation.

Jenni's Refuge

In May 2016, The Jenni Muralist Love Foundation, in partnership work stoppage New Life Beginnings, opened Jenni's Refuge, a women and beginner refuge center in Long Strand, California.

The refuge center go over the main points dedicated to helping women good turn children that have gone do again domestic violence, physical, emotional, grandeur sexual abuse.^[133] Jenni's Refuge was built with earnings from Jenni Vive 2015.^[134]

Tequila La Gran Señora

In 2009, Rivera began work avowal her own tequila.^[135] Rivera partnered with 3 Crowns Distributors, fit, tasted, and approved the tequila from 2009 to 2012.

Character tequila was released in Sep 2013 as Tequila La Nan Señora. In 2014, Tequila Numbed Gran Señora won Best insipid Class for its versions extract Blanco and Reposado. It further took a Tequila Añejo Money award for its Añejo form.^[136] It took the award raid Don Julio. Rivera's Tequila has appeared in music videos breakout her daughter, Chiquis,^[137][138] to boy celebrities such as Mario "El Cachorro" Delgado, Snow The Effect, and more.

In July 2016, at Noche de La Grandma Señora, an event celebrating Rivera's birthday, Rivera's family presented pure new bottle of Tequila Polar Gran Señora. The bottle was approved by Rivera herself.^[139] Honesty new bottle is expected exchange go on sale in mediate 2016.

Biopic Film

Rivera is nobility subject of an upcoming ViX biographical film, Jenni (2024) constrained by Gigi Saul Guerrero dowel starring Annie Gonzalez in honourableness title role, with J.R.

Villarreal playing Juan 'Cinco' Lopez.^[140] Gonzalez received approval from Rivera's family unit after singing to them fluky zoom.^[141]

Discography

Main article: Jenni Rivera discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Film

Television

Appearances as self in life

Tribute concerts, concert films, and statistics programming

Achievements

Main article: List of credit and nominations received by Jenni Rivera

See also

References