Ten years after La Gran Señora died in a horrific plane crash, Jenni Rivera’s family is set to release never-before-heard music from the late Mexican icon. After taking over her mother’s estate from aunt Rosie earlier this year, Jenni’s daughter, Jacqie Rivera, announced that there’s an LP on the way made up of songs previously unreleased to the public.
“It’s definitely music in Spanish, it’s more than one song, and it’s regional Mexican,” Jacqie Rivera told Billboard. “I think it’s very important that we tie in how she started, what [music] put her up there, and share that.”
Jacqie said that the new songs will be part a project due to be released before year’s end. Several of the tracks are set to be produced by Banda MS’ Sergio Lizárraga. Jacqie suggested that English music would be released soon and that a biopic was in the making.
“The little decisions, I make them. For the big decisions, we all get together and we all vote,”She spoke of her four siblings. “My little brother Johnny is working with me, especially for the music. He’s always been involved in producing, and we’re working closely together. But we definitely need each other, all of us together, to really do it.”
Rivera’s children will perform at a concert to remember her 10th anniversary, which will include performances by Chiquis, her daughter. Abeja ReinaEarlier this year.
“My genre is so male-dominated and has been since forever; my mom came in and broke down those barriers and was one of the very first women to sing corridos and really hold her own,”Chiquis was previously a storytellerRolling Stone. “So I always knew that I wanted to sing corridors.”