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Jenni Rivera is being mourned as the Diva
of Banda, after the musical superstar died Sunday in a plane crash in Mexico.
She built a recording and performing
career, several businesses and a devoted following — and her life was as full
of the ups and the downs as any of the characters she sang about.
She was born 43 years ago in Long Beach,
California, to Mexican parents Rosa and Pedro Rivera who named her Jenny
Dolores Rivera Saavedra.
In an interview with CNN en Español in
2010, Rivera spoke about how she once sold cans for scrap metal and hawked
music records at her family’s stand at a Los Angeles flea market.
When she was just 15 and a high school
student she became a mother herself, giving birth to her first child, Janney
“Chiquis” Marin Rivera in 1985. She then had two more children –
Jacqueline Marín Rivera and Michael Marín Rivera — with her then-husband, José
Trinidad Marín.
Rivera spoke about how Marín physically
abused her because while she wanted to attend college, he wanted her to quit
school and be at home “cooking and cleaning.” She said she grew up with
four brothers so she knew how to fight back.
They divorced in 1992 when Rivera found out
Marín molested their daughter, Janney, and Rivera’s younger sister, Rosie.
Marín was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Divorced and on welfare with three
children, Rivera worked in real estate and took a second job at her father’s
record label, Cintas Acuario, which led to her passion and career in
Regional/Banda/Norteño music.
Since the release of her groundbreaking
debut album “La Chacalosa” in 1995, Rivera has released more than 12
hit albums, all reaching Platinum and Gold status in the U.S. and Mexico. Her
heart-wrenching ballads often center on infidelity, social issues and
relationships. One of her independent albums was “Farewell to Selena,”
a tribute album to slain singer Selena that helped expand her following.
Rivera married Juan López in 1997 and had
two children with him: Jenicka and Johnny López Rivera. They divorced in 2003,
and he then died in 2009. Then in 2010, Rivera married baseball player Esteban
Loaiza but they filed for divorce earlier this year.
Perhaps it was her personal struggles that
made Rivera known not only for her music but for her strong, resilient attitude
when faced with adversity.
“In Mexico, she represented a lot of
ladies that can’t talk about their feelings,” Jose “Pepe” Garza,
Rivera’s godfather and friend of the family, told CNN en Espanol. “The
public feels represented by Jenni Rivera, and by the lyrics of her songs.”
Garza is very well-known within the banda
and norteña music genres and has worked with other big artists in the regional
Latin music. He also gave Rivera her big break.
Rivera was also a woman of many firsts. She
became the first artist to sell-out two back-to-back nights at the Nokia
Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 2010. And she was the first female Banda
artist to sell-out a concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City,
California.
The business mogul also started companies
including: Divina Realty, Divina Cosmetics, Jenni Rivera Fragrance, Jenni
Jeans, Divine Music and The Jenni Rivera Love Foundation. Rivera made her film
debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with the indie family drama Filly
Brown, set to be in theaters in January 2013.
Her fan base was only expected to grow with
a show in development with ABC, confirmed a source with knowledge of the deal
to CNN Entertainment.
A multi-camera family comedy, according to
Deadline, was expected to star Rivera as a strong, middle-class, single Latina
woman working to raise a family, struggling to run a family business and manage
her extended family — all while fighting the cultural perception that she
needed a man to do it all.
“It is very flattering when they tell
me I’m a great artist and performer,” said Rivera in a 2010 interview with
CNN en Espanol. “But I am a businesswoman, I’m primarily
business-minded.”
Breaking into a male-dominated music genre
was not easy, but Rivera made it look that way with her endless perseverance.
“I think she just did it with her
pantelones, and you need a big personality to do it. She’s been through so
much,” said Damarys Ocana, executive editor of Latina magazine, in an
interview with CNN, “She’s been a victim, but never thought of herself as
a victim.”
The drama that surrounded Rivera’s life received
just as much attention as her successful, career but that never stopped her
from being a “mama bear to her five kids,” said Ocana. Family always
came first for Rivera.
Flashback: Jenni Rivera reflects on her
success
In May 2011, Latina magazine put both Jenni
and Janney Rivera on their cover, the first time the magazine put two people on
the cover.
“We put both of them on the cover
because they were the stars of ‘I Love Jenni’ and the show was doing incredibly
well on Mun2,” said Ocana.
Rivera also spent part of her life
volunteering at the Love Foundation, an organization that promotes programs to
support immigrants, children with cancer, women victims of violence, reports
CNN Mexico.
In 2010, the National Coalition Against
Domestic Violence named Rivera as their spokesperson.
Photos: Singer Jenni Rivera
Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Monday
afternoon, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida described Rivera as “a real
American success story.”
“She was a singer in a genre of music
that’s largely dominated by males, and she brought a powerful voice to that
genre where she sang frankly about her struggles to give her children a better
life in this country,” he said.
Universal Music Group also released a
statement, saying: “The entire Universal Music Group family is deeply
saddened by the sudden loss of our dear friend Jenni Rivera. The world rarely
sees someone who has had such a profound impact on so many. From her incredibly
versatile talent to the way she embraced her fans around the world, Jenni was
simply incomparable. Her talent will be missed; but her gift of music will be
with us always.”
Also believed aboard the plane were her
publicist, Arturo Rivera, her lawyer, makeup artist, Jacob Yebale, and the
flight crew.
“It’s hard to accept. It’s painful. I
cry,” said Rivera’s brother Gustavo Rivera in an interview with CNN en
Espanol, “But the support from the fans is consoling to us.”
She told CNN in 2010 that she wouldn’t let
scandals or personal tragedy stop her.
“Staying defeated, crying and suffering
was not an option,” she said. “I had to get off my feet, dust myself
off and press on. That’s what I want to teach my daughters.”
In an interview with the Immigrant Archive
Project she said:
“If I had the opportunity to speak to
a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have
for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out
there. And, know that you aren’t the only immigrant or the last to come to this
country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.”
Jenni Rivera is survived by her parents,
Rosa and Pedro, three other siblings: Pedro Jr., Gustavo and Rosie; and her
five children: Janney, Jacqueline, Michael, Jenicka and Johnny.
Source:
http://1pieceswimsuit.16mb.com/2013/01/jenni-rivera-is-mourned-but-still-inspires/