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 Saturday 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." Full story