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Hundreds of fans attend as banda and ranchera recording artist Jenni Rivera was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Her Spanish language lyrics take an assertive female stance in the face of betrayal and abuse. Her lyrics speak to fans with working class and immigrant backgrounds because the songs include messages of perseverance.about a woman who stands tall after telling her partner she’s pregnant and he asks her to get an abortion.
“A lot of people don’t know this, when she used to play at… El Parral in South Gate,” said Los Angeles resident Marcia Estrada. “I’m from South Central. That’s where I met her, I must have been 14, 15 ,” Estrada added. She showed off tattoos of five butterflies on her leg with the words “Mariposa de Barrio,”Victoria Bakatra from Yorba Linda with a photo of Jenni Rivera from an April, 2012 concert she attended, months before Rivera died.
Rivera’s success is deeply rooted in urban, working class, Mexican American culture. She was born in Long Beach to immigrant parents. She went on to sell 15 million records in an era before streaming became the dominant way of listening to music.“Jenni Rivera was the most successful regional Mexican act in the business,” Justino Aguila told LAist. He interviewed Rivera about a dozen times when he was writing for Billboard.
“Even though there were those struggles for Jenni Rivera, she always stayed focused on making sure her family was OK, and making sure she had a way to keep it all together financially and in many other areas,” Aguila said.Fans at the Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling said they felt a sense of fullness and absence at the same time.
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