Jenni Rivera

Jenni Rivera, a popular Mexican-American singer, reality TV star and coach on The Voice Mexico, died Dec. 9 in a plane crash in northern Mexico, her father and brother confirmed to Telemundo. She was 43.

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Rivera the Superstar Singer

Born and raised in Long Beach, Calif., Rivera is known for her interpretations of Mexican regional music known as nortena and banda. She has had 10 top 10 songs on Billboard's Regional Mexican Airplay chart (including a No. 1), eight top 10 entries on the Regional Mexican Albums chart (including four No. 1s), seven top 10 hits on the Top Latin Albums chart (including one No. 1) and one top 10 hit on the Hot Latin Songs chart. She has sold about 1.2 million albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Rivera the TV Star

The singer, one of the most successful female performers on today's Latin scene, was a coach on the Televisa program The Voice Mexico and star of her own reality show, I Love Jenni, on Spanish-language cable network mun2. She recently signed with ABC to star in her own comedy series, Jenni.

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Rivera the Movie Star

Jenni Rivera's performance in Filly Brown, a gritty drama co-starring Edward James Olmos, marked the singer's big-screen debut. The film was being planned for release in April, and Olmos praised Rivera as "an amazing force. From the very beginning I've said that she could garner an Academy Award for her work in Filly Brown. She had a tough life, but she also had an extraordinary gift. She touched millions of people and she'll be missed."

Remembering Rivera

Stars from Mario Lopez and Ricky Martin to Pitbull and Eva Longoria took to Twitter to offer condolences and reflect on Rivera. "Spent some time with Jenni Rivera recently. What an amazing lady… Cool, smart, funny & talented. Such a travesty… God Bless her family," Lopez wrote. Weighing in, Longoria said: "My prayers go out to her family. We lost a legend today."

Rivera’s Family Mourns

"It's a devastation to the family," her brother, Pedro Rivera Jr., said, adding: "Life is like that. We live and we die. We may be sad, but when God has the last word for all of us in our last days, it's time to go. And this was the way Jenni had to go."

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Rivera’s Final Press Conference

Before her death, the mother of five spoke out about her divorce from ex pro baseball pitcher Esteban Loaiza, from whom she split earlier this year after two years together. "I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you," she said, according to E! News. "Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do. I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other woman. The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up."

‘I Love Jenni’

The Spanish-language cable network mun2, which airs Rivera's reality show I Love Jenni, dedicated programming in her honor on the day of her death, rolling out two previously produced episodes while sibling network Telemundo broadcast a two-hour primetime special on the singer.

‘La Voz Mexico’

The cast and crew of La Voz Mexico, in which Rivera participated as a music coach, expressed their condolences to the family, friends and fans of Rivera while reflecting on her career accomplishments. Singer and friend Paulina Rubio broke out in tears during the impromptu homage to Rivera.

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Rivera, Queen of Social Media

Rivera, who had 1.7 million followers, "took pains to answer tweets personally and preferred to use her Twitter account to update fans rather than sending out press releases," Billboard reported. Her makeup artist, Jacob Yebale, who also perished in the plane crash, posted what was probably the last picture taken of the singer on Instagram with the message: "We getting Back To Mexico City…..jenni Rivera ,Arturo , Gigi and Me.. Los Amooo!"