Artist: Jenni Rivera
Genre(s):
Folk
Latin
Discography:
En Vivo Desde Hollywood
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Mi vida loca
Year:
Tracks: 27
In the ‘90s, vocalist/songwriter Jenni Rivera established herself as a major star in the regional Mexican market. Rivera's speciality is banda, which is also known as corrido and is one of the various Mexican styles that is extremely popular in Mexico as well as the southwest role of the United States. Rivera is well aware of other Mexican styles, such as norteño, tejano, mariachi and ranchero--in fact, the Mexican-American vocalist has recorded norteño versions of some songs--but banda/corrido is her main focus. And the fact that Rivera is a major female star makes her a infrequency for the banda/corrido field. While Mexican music has had plenitude of famous female artists over the years--everyone from Rocio Durcal to Lola Beltrán to Selena to the controversial Gloria Trevi--banda has tended to be male-dominated. In the Mexican market, Rivera has been granted such titles as La Diva de la Banda (the Diva of Banda) and la Primera Dama del Corrido (the First Lady of Corrido). It should be famed that non all Latin artists wHO purpose the word banda in their name really play banda/corrido music; for example, there ar merengue outfits with names like Banda X.Although Rivera is of Mexican descent, she didn't actually grow up in Mexico. Rivera was natural and brocaded in Long Beach, CA, the Los Angeles suburb that too gave us gangsta blame star Snoop Doggy Dogg. Rivera's parents had immigrated to the United States from Mexico, and she grew up oral presentation both English and Spanish fluently. Her father, Pedro Rivera, and her brothers both played Mexican music, focalization on banda/corrido, norteño and ranchero--and they did a peck to boost her interest in music. When Rivera got to college, however, she didn't major in music just rather, studied business judicature. Rivera went on to work as a real estate agent, although she kept a hand in music and helped her father run his record company. Working in real land didn't prevent Rivera from pursuing a life history in euphony, and around 1994, she signed with Capitol/EMI's Latin division; her first record album, Chacalosa, came out in 1995. Rivera made a few more than albums for Capitol/EMI (including Adios a Selena) ahead transcription for Sony's Latin division in the late ‘90s. It was In 1999 that Rivera sign-language with Fonovisa, one of the top labels in the regional Mexican market. Her first Fonovisa album, Que Me Entierrren Con la Banda (which contained the remove "Las Malandinas") came out in 1999 and was followed by early 2000s releases that included Dejate Amar (which included the remove "Querida Socia") and Se Las Voy a Dar a Otro. In 2003, Fonovisa released the conceptual Homenaje a las Grandes, which crataegus oxycantha identical well be Rivera's most challenging record album so far. The title Homenaje a las Grandes means "homage to the great ones," and the 2003 release finds Rivera stipendiary tribute to famous Mexican distaff stars such as Lucho Villa, Mercedes Castro, Rocio Durcal, Lola Beltrán and Alejandra Guzmán.
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