Scant hours after famed Mexican music superstar SERGIO VEGA aka El SHAKA told worried fans he was very much alive, he was shot dead on his way to perform a concert.
Vega who was renowned for tunes about Mexico’s drug south of the border, was pumped full of bullets, the BBC reports.
El Shaka, 40 rose to fame for "narcocorridos" songs glamorizing drug cartel much like gangsta rap in US.
At least seven other performers who sang drug songs been killed in the past three years, the target of warring drug gangs.
On Saturday, Vega spoke to a website La Oreja to deny rumors he had been murdered.
"It’s happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I’ve been killed, or suffered an accident," Vega said.
"And then I have to call my dear mum, who has heart trouble, to reassure her."
Vega told several media he had increased his personal security detail after the 2007 slaying of Sergio Gomez, frontman for the K-Paz de la Sierra. Gomez, a fellow Grupero, had been kidnapped from a concert and strangled.
Vega was gunned down in a Mexican state controlled by the dangerous Sinaloa cartel while driving his red Cadillac en route to a concert.Gunmen opened fire on Vega’s car, causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
The gunmen then "finished Mr. Vega off" with shots to the head and chest, according to El Debate, a Mexican tab.
