R.I.P: 5 Latino Celebs We Lost in 2012

By Jill Pankow | 12/28/2012 - 16:40 | 0 Comments

No year is without tragedy, and 2012 was no exception. While grief is a natural human emotion, more important than mourning what has been lost is celebrating what has been gained by its mere existence in the first place. We would like to take this opportunity to commemorate the incredible lives of those Latinos lost this year.

Whether a beautiful visionary, a charismatic fighter, a musical trailblazer, a stereotyped actress, or even a notorious drug dealer, each of these people no longer with us brought something to the Latino community that they served.   

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Jenni Rivera

Latinos everywhere continue to mourn the death of a talented woman taken too soon. Mexican-American singer and reality television star Jenni Rivera first hit it big breaking into the banda music genre which was a predominantly male form of music at the time, she is fondly known as “La Diva de la Banda." She since branched out into ranchera and pop music selling more than 15 million records. Her entrepreneurial spirit did not end with music, however. The beautiful Rivera had three reality television shows, television production companies, a clothing company, a cosmetics company, and even a real estate firm. Evidence of future ventures are now bittersweet reminders of the incredible woman that Rivera was and the unbelievable woman she would have continued to be. Tragedy struck on December 9 when a plane carrying Rivera crashed in Mexico killing all onboard. This shining star was only 43 years old.

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