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"Many are mourning the loss of popular Latina singer Jenni Rivera, who was killed Sunday after her plane crashed in a remote area in northern Mexico. Although the Mexican ministry of transportation hesitated to admit that the pop star had been killed, every passenger on the small plane has reportedly died, including her publicist, lawyer, hairstylist and makeup artist. A mere 10 minutes into the flight, which was headed to Toluca (west of Mexico City), where Rivera was scheduled to tape an episode of the Mexican version of The Voice, air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots. An investigation for the cause of the crash is currently underway. Rivera, who was 43, sung &amp;quot;banda&amp;quot; music, a Spanish-language form of pop music involving lots of percussion and brass. She sold over 15 million albums. In 2002, 2008 and 2011 she was nominated for Latin Grammy awards, and she recently won two Billboard Mexican Music Awards, for Female Artist of the Year and Banda Album of the Year. She also starred in several successful Latin reality television shows. Although Rivera was enormously popular among Mexican-Americans, Mexicans and Central Americans, in recent years she made strides to be recognized by other Hispanic groups in the US.   She is survived by her five children and two grandchildren. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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