Family of ‘genre-defining artist’ Jenni Rivera accept posthumous Hollywood star

Family of ‘genre-defining artist’ Jenni Rivera accept posthumous Hollywood star (AFF/Alamy)

The five children of trailblazing Latin musician Jenni Rivera have accepted a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a “bittersweet moment” for the family.

As the female leader of the Mexican banda genre, singer-songwriter Rivera was known globally as La Diva de la Banda but died in December 2012 when she and six others were killed in a plane crash.