México en las noticias: Muertes de músicos

In reference to the previous post on corruption: Last weekend two prominent Mexican musicians were murdered in what is suspected to be the work of drug gangs.

Neither performer was directly connected to the Mexican drug culture, and their music did not feature the violence and crime typical of some Mexican music.

Sergio Gómez, lead singer for the group K-Paz, had received death threats warning him not to perform his next concert in the state of Michoacan. He performed the concert, and his beaten and strangled body was later found on the side of the road.

In an even more brutal and determined act, Zayda Peña (lead singer of Zayda y los Culpables) was killed when shot in her hospital bed, where she was recovering from a previous bullet wound.

Apparently the music of an artist can be associated with a drug gang regardless of personal affiliations, leaving the music culture vulnerable to violence that has little to do with the musicians themselves.