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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
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Monday, September 12, 2022
Jesus Sonqui, Narco Corrido Music Promoter Gunned Down in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora
By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
Early this morning, music promotor Jesus Sonqui was killed by gunfire from several attackers while at a street food stand in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora. He was ambushed on Quintana Roo street, in the Chapultepec neighborhood around 2:00 a.m., according to local nota roja twitter Sonora Informativo.
News site En el Radar reported that after being surprised by his attackers, Sonqui exchanged gunfire, but was killed. Photos show his body lying on the street next to his car. A chromed 45 caliber pistol with pearl grips and a pouch with extra magazines were found at the crime scene. Some sources say he was accompanied by two men, one of them a high profile artist.
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| Photo from Cajeme News Twitter. |
En el Radar said that Sonqui once managed the band Alta Consigna, a banda group that produced narco corridos. He was currently managing Panchito Arredondo, another artist who makes narco corridos.
It is so far unclear why he was killed, but narcocorrido related music promotors and artists often face fatal risks for playing music venerating rivals in the wrong territory, or even being involved in organized crime in a supporting role themselves.
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| Jesus Sonqui Instagram |
The last photo posted on his Instagram, posted in November 2021, shows him dressed in a suit with skull makeup brandishing a pistol. The caption says: "Live is short".
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| Jesus Sonqui Instagram |
Warning: graphic photo of the crime scene below.
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| Sonora Informativo Twitter |
Sources: En el Radar, Sonora Informativo Twitter, Cajeme News Twitter.
Friday, March 5, 2010
3 Musicians Face Drug, Arms Charges
Three Mexican Musicians Face Drug, Arms Charges
The musicians, along with Ramon Ayala, were arrested in December while they were performing at a party thrown by the Beltan Leyva drug cartel.
Besides the musicians, federal law enforcement personnel who raided the party also arrested 11 members of the Beltran Leyva cartel who are also facing drug and arms charges, the AG’s office said.
The leader of the group Los Cadetes de Linares, Guadalupe Fidencio Tijerina Peña, as well as two membes of that band – Gustavo Guerrero Garcia and Jorge Luis Verastegui Lerma Cantu – were released on Wednesday.
Three Mexican musicians, two of them with the band Torrente and the other with Los Cadetes de Linares, are under arrest on drug and weapons charges, while four other members of those bands were detained but then released, the Attorney General’s Office said.
The musicians, along with Ramon Ayala, were arrested in December while they were performing at a party thrown by the Beltan Leyva drug cartel.
Besides the musicians, federal law enforcement personnel who raided the party also arrested 11 members of the Beltran Leyva cartel who are also facing drug and arms charges, the AG’s office said.
The leader of the group Los Cadetes de Linares, Guadalupe Fidencio Tijerina Peña, as well as two membes of that band – Gustavo Guerrero Garcia and Jorge Luis Verastegui Lerma Cantu – were released on Wednesday.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
El Corrido De Arturo Beltran Leyva
El Corrido De La Muerte De Arturo Beltran Leyva
Natalio Trevino
El Chacal del Valle
Corridos of Arturo Beltran Leyva are popping up in every little cantina of every little town in old Mexico.
The dude Natalio says that his new song is a corrido, but I think it's more of some type of analysis, setting a tone of most Mexican in the "know" if you will, but anyhow, see it for what is worth, but interesting to say the least. A piece from this angle was needed for a character of this type, eh?
Natalio Trevino
El Chacal del Valle
Corridos of Arturo Beltran Leyva are popping up in every little cantina of every little town in old Mexico.
The dude Natalio says that his new song is a corrido, but I think it's more of some type of analysis, setting a tone of most Mexican in the "know" if you will, but anyhow, see it for what is worth, but interesting to say the least. A piece from this angle was needed for a character of this type, eh?
