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December 04, 2007

Two more grupera singers killed in Mexico...

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Sergio Gomez, lead singer for the group K-Paz de la Sierra, had been kidnapped in the southern state of Michoacan late Saturday and had been missing for two days before officials found his body. Zayda Peña was killed in her hospital bed in the border city of Matamoros on Saturday, hours after surviving an assault.

At least seven other performers of the grupera genre, a form of folk music that blends norteno and tropical rhythms, have been killed over the last 18 months. Some groups in the genre sing songs associated with drug-trafficking, but Gomez and Peña are better known as singers of romantic ballads.



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