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Lupillo Rivera – The 2015 Tour

Lupillo Rivera will be hitting the city of Anaheim, California hard, playing at the gorgeous City National Grove of Anaheim in a show with Jesus Mendoza this August. Don't miss out on this highly anticipated performance. Lupillo Rivera always delivers a spirited concert that is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Don't miss out on your chance to see one of Mexico's finest singers! Get your tickets today!

About Lupillo Rivera

Born on January 30, 1972, Guadalupe Rivera Saavedra is more commonly known by his stage persona, Lupillo Rivera. This American singer-songwriter was born in Mexico. In 2010, he would earn a Grammy for Tu Esclavo y Amo.

Born to Pedro Rivera and Rosa Saavedra in La Barca, Jalisco, Lupillo Rivera and his family landed in Long Beach, California as illegal immigrants. There, Rivera graduated in 1990 from the city's Polytechnic High School. Rivera aspired to own a restaurant. His father, however, was the owner of a studio and recording label called Cintas Acuario. He hired his son to work at the studio when a singer did not show up for his recording session, giving the junior Rivera some practical business experience. The son was given the job of scouting for local talent at bars that could be signed to his father's record company.

When Rivera first began singing, he was given the moniker of Lupillo El Torito Rivera. When he later became more famous, his stage name changed to El Toro del Corrido. Rivera's uncle was a moderately famous pro boxer, nicknamed El Toro Rivera among fans of Mexican boxing. By 1999, Rivera had started to sing under his own chosen stage name, Lupillo. By this point, he had been signed to Sony Discos. His fame began to grow astronomically and, in 2001, Rivera won a Premios lo Nuestro award.

Almost ten years into his singing career, Rivera had got several Latin Grammy and Grammy nominations. In 2010, he would finally take home a Grammy for his full-length release, Tu Esclavo y Amo.

Rivera has had his share of death and near-death experiences. While driving to a concert in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Rivera's SUV flipped, and the singer required hospital care. Just months later, his longtime friend Adán Sánchez, who had admired Rivera in the manner of a little brother, passed away in another car crash at the age of nineteen, leaving Rivera distraught. In the wee hours of a December night in 2006, while leaving a restaurant in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Rivera's SUV was repeatedly shot. It was never determined whether the shooting was part of an attempted robbery, murder, or kidnapping. In December of 2012, his sister and singer Jenni Rivera died in an airplane crash at the age of forty-three.

Pedro Rivera, Jr., Rivera's brother, is a Spanish-language Christian musician and Southern Baptist Church pastor. The church is located in Whittier, California, and is called Primer Amor. The services are held in Spanish.

In August of 2008, Rivera's son entered the world. Rivera, along with his two young kids, would later appear on Cristina, a Spanish talk show. Rivera told the host that he has eight kids, seven of which are biological and one of which is adopted.

Previous Hits

Lupillo Rivera has landed countless albums and singles on the charts both in the United States and South America. His three most successful albums are Amorcito Corazon (2002), Con Mis Proprias Manos (2004), and El Rey de las Cantinas (2005). Amorcito Corazon is tremendously fun from beginning to end, from the brass fanfare of the bubbly Te Solte La Rienda that sets off Rivera's amazingly breezy vocals, to the title cut with its quirky out-of-tune whistle working as an unforgettable hook, to the flowing Cien Anos, a track that is about as low-key as Rivera gets, which is really not that low at all. For English-speaking listeners, this high energy collection serves as a perfect introduction to this amazing artist.

2004's Con Mis Propias Manos demonstrates Rivera to be a true traditionalist in an era where even the most traditional of singers tend to try out the occasional sample or synth. On Con Mis Propias Manos, Rivera sticks with his tried and true formula, delivering these Norteno corrido cuts with a backing that rarely consists of more than drums, an accordion, and a horn section. This has the impressive effect of focusing the audience's attention on the vocals and the tales they spin, which concentrate on the heroic and not-so-heroic human condition. Rivera's passionate pipes provide an admirable balance to the jaunty cumbia, polka, and waltz rhythms that accompany these stories of death and love.

It is not unheard of for a Mexican vocalist to master both banda and mariachi (Ezequiel Pena, for example, is one such bi-talented musician). But the manner in which Rivera categorizes banda and mariachi on his double disc El Rey de las Cantinas (which translates to The King of the Bars) is a true rarity. Both discs feature the same eleven songs in identical order, but one disc is mariachi-oriented, and the other contains banda arrangements (whose brassiness is in no way compromised by the addition of norteno accordion). This 2005 album is the first instance in which the Mexican-born, U.S.-based performer has brought a mariachi band into the studio, and his renditions of old Mexican favorites like Las Llaves de Mi Alma by Vicente Fernández and Que Suerte la Mia by José Alfredo Jiménez show that Rivera is confident in a mariachi context.

Trivia

In 2004, a Marine who had lost his life in Iraq had asked that Rivera perform at his funeral should he pass away, and Rivera granted this final request, leaving in the Marine's burial casket one of his famous sombreros.

The Lupillo Rivera Concert Experience

More than two decades into his musical career, Lupillo Rivera is back to bring you his unforgettable catalog of his songs and irrepressible energy onto the stage. Whether he is playing his earliest hits like Tu Y La Nubes or busting out his latest material from El Rey de los Borrachos, Lupillo Rivera will give you a live concert experience that is not one to miss. Don't pass up your chance to see this legendary Mexican singer in the flesh! Start planning your Lupillo Rivera concert experience today!