- Title: USA: Friends and family mourn Mexican singer Jenni Rivera
- Date: 11th December 2012
- Summary: PRINTOUT REMEMBERING RIVERA
- Embargoed: 26th December 2012 12:00
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- Location: Usa
- Country: USA
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA74BXTK0ZSF7IVHUBDXD0URP68
- Story Text: Despite confirmed reports of Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera's death in a plane crash on Sunday (December 10) family members outside her parents home south of Los Angeles still held out hope, despite a spokesman for the state government of Nuevo Leon saying that investigators had found the remains of Rivera's Learjet.
"Our wish was that she is kidnapped or whatever, a kidnap can be solved," said the singer's brother, Pedro Rivera Jr. "A crashed plane, a plane where there is all those things, destroyed and where they have found bodies, there you have no hope, with a kidnap because things can get solved one way or the other."
Investigators are still searching the crash site in the municipality of Iturbide, south of Monterrey. The transportation and communications ministry said the wreckage was strewn so far and wide that it was hard to recognize anything.
It was not clear what caused the crash.
Rivera, 43, was heading for the city of Toluca in central Mexico after a concert in Monterrey on Saturday night.
Born in Long Beach, California, to Mexican immigrants, Rivera sold some 15 million records in her career, won several awards and received Grammy nominations, her website said.
"I remember one time that she said to me; look, this is what she said: you won't know how far you can reach or how far you can get until you don't go out and get it," said family friend Armando Gastellum near the singer's parents' home.
A mother of five, Rivera was a renowned performer of the Nortena and Banda musical styles. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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