Lupillo Rivera
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Guadalupe Rivera (born 1972), better known as Lupillo Rivera, is a famous Mexican northern music singer. He is a native of La Barca, Jalisco.
As a youngster, Lupillo, his sister Jenny and the rest of the Rivera family moved to Los Angeles, where Lupillo graduated from Poly high school in 1990.
Rivera wanted to be a restaurant owner. His father, however, was a recording studio owner. Wanting to give his son a hands-on business experience, Mr. Rivera hired his son Lupillo to work at the studio.
Lupillo was given the task of looking for local talent at bars, with the idea that some of that talent could be signed by his father's company. It was while searching for talent that he met the now deceased Chalino Sánchez, father of Adán Sánchez.
Lupillo's uncle was a semi-famous professional boxer, known as El Toro Rivera to Mexican boxing fans. In 1990, Lupillo discovered that he could sing, and he began performing under the nickname of "El corrido del Toro" ("The bull's dance(r)"), as a homage to his uncle.
By 1993, Lupillo began to sing using his own name. By then, he had already signed with Sony Discos.
His star began to rise meteorically at that point. In 2001, he was awarded a Premios lo Nuestro.
In 2003, Lupillo Rivera suffered a life-threatening accident in Monterrey, while he was driving to a concert location. He required hospitalization. Months later, Adán Sánchez, a years-long friend who had grown to admire and become like a little brother to Lupillo, died at the age of nineteen in another car accident, leaving Lupillo Rivera devastated.
In 2004, a Marine who died in Iraq had requested for Lupillo to sing at his funeral should the soldier die, and Lupillo complied with the request, leaving one of his famous sombreros on the Marine's burial casket during the funeral.
Lupillo Rivera has amassed great fortune and fame with his recordings; he is the owner of several houses and luxurious cars. Nevertheless, he has also been involved in controversy; many of them tying him romantically to different women. Rivera has three daughters from his marriage, but some of the women he has been linked to claim to have children from him.
Jenny Rivera, his sister, is a budding singer who has also received much television exposure.
Discography
- Despreciado
- El Tren del Corrido