The 40-year-old singer, known as El Shaka, was driving his red Cadillac to a
concert in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Saturday when unidentified
shooters in a truck intercepted his car, reports said. His murder came just
hours after he told entertainment website La Oreja that online reports of his
death were wrong. "It's happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio
station or a newspaper I've been killed, or suffered an accident," said
Vega. "And then I have to call my dear mum, who has heart trouble, to
reassure her." Fans posted condolences on Twitter after they learned of
the death of the singer, who recently boosted his security following the
killing of several Mexican musicians. Musicians performing narcocorridos, or
songs celebrating the lives of drug barons, have become the targets of rival
drug gangs in Mexico with Mexican media reporting several such deaths in recent
years.
