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Mexican singer shot dead after denying murder rumours
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 29 June 2010
A Mexican singer called Sergio Vega has been killed while he was travelling to a concert in his home country. Unknown gunmen specifically targeted Vega’s vehicle and, according to reports, shot him dead.
Vega, who has been performing since the early 1990s, was particularly known for making so called ‘narcocorridos music’, controversial songs which celebrate the lives of drug dealers through their lyrics. It is thought that by singing such songs, Vega had enemies among some drug gangs (presumably those who consider themselves enemies of the dealers Vega celebrated), and one such gang may have been behind his shooting.
In a dark irony, just hours before his death Vega gave an interview with entertainment website La Oreja in which he responded to online rumours he had been murdered. He told the site: “It’s happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I’ve been killed, or suffered an accident. And then I have to call my dear mum, who has heart trouble, to reassure her”.
A number of Mexican musicians who sing songs similar to Vega have been shot in recent years, and the singer had admitted he had stepped up his security as a result.
