Early life

Rivera was born in La Barca, Jalisco to Rosa Saavedra and Pedro Rivera. At the age of four, Lupillo, and the rest of the Rivera family migrated, without documents, to Long Beach, California, where Lupillo graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1990.

Career

Rivera initially wanted to be a restaurateur. However, his father, Pedro Rivera, was a recording label/studio owner (Cintas Acuario). Wanting to give his son a hands-on business experience, Rivera hired his son Lupillo to work at the studio when a contracted singer failed to show up for a recording session.

Lupillo was given the task of looking for local talent at bars, with the idea that some of that talent could be signed by his father's company. When Lupillo first started singing he was called "El Torito" Lupillo Rivera. Later when becoming more famous he was known as "El Toro del Corrido". His uncle was a semi-famous professional boxer, known as El Toro Rivera to Mexican boxing fans. By 1999, Lupillo began to sing using his own name . By then, he had already signed with Sony Discos. His star began to rise meteorically at that point. In 2001, he was awarded a Premios lo Nuestro.

By 2010, nearly a decade into his career, Rivera had received various Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations for his work, that same year, he was awarded a Grammy Award for his album, Tu Esclavo y Amo.

Personal life

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In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, while driving to a concert location, his SUV overturned and he was hospitalized. Months later, Adán Sánchez, a friend, died at the age of nineteen in a car accident. In 2004, a Marine who died in Iraq had requested that Lupillo sing at his funeral in case he should die. Lupillo complied with the request, leaving one of his famous sombreros on the Marine's burial casket during the funeral. On 11 December 2006, after leaving a restaurant around 1 am in Guadalajara, Jalisco, his SUV was shot seven times. It is not known if the shooting was an attempted murder or kidnapping or just robbery.

Lupillo's brother, Pedro Rivera Jr., is a Spanish-language Christian singer and ordained pastor of the Southern Baptist Church. The name of the church is Primer Amor located in Whittier, California. On 8 August 2008, Lupillo sired a son. On 21 June, he and his two young children appeared on the Spanish talk-show Cristina, and he told Cristina that he has eight children, seven of whom were biologically his and one who was adopted. He also has one child out of marriage.

Death of Jenni Rivera

On 9 December 2012, Lupillo's older sister, Mexican-American singer and actress Jenni Rivera, died in a plane crash at the age of 43.

Discography

• 1995 - Selena, La Estrella
• 1999 - El Moreno
• 1999 - Puros Corridos Macizos
• 2000 - El Toro de Corridos
• 2001 - El Señor de los Cielos
• 2001 - Y Sigue La Vendimia
• 2001 - Cartel De Tijuana
• 2001 - Veinte Mujeres
• 2001 - Despreciado
• 2001 - Sufriendo a Solas
• 2002 - Amorcito Corazón
• 2002 - Los Hermanos Más Buscados
• 2003 - De Bohemia Con Lupillo Rivera
• 2004 - Con Mis Propias Manos
• 2004 - Pa' Corridos
• 2005 - El Rey de Las Cantinas
• 2006 - Entre Copas y Botellas
• 2007 - Mi Homenaje a Pedro Infante
• 2007 - Desde Una Fiesta Privada
• 2008 - En Acústico
• 2008 - El Tiro de Gracia
• 2009 - Tu Esclavo y Amo
• 2010 - 24 Horas

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the United States. Rivera has received one award from three nominations.

Year	Recipient/Nominated work	Award	Result
2008	Entre Copas y Botellas	Best Banda Album	Nominated
2009	El Tiro de Gracia		Nominated
2010	Tu Esclavo y Amo		Won

Latin Grammy Awards

The Latin Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the United States. Rivera has received two nominations.

Year	Recipient/Nominated work	Award	Result
2004	Live! en Concierto - Universal Amphitheatre	Best Banda Album	Nominated
2005	Con Mis Propias Manos		Nominated

Lo Nuestro Awards

The Lo Nuestro Awards are awarded annually by the Spanish-language television network Univision in the United States. Rivera has received three awards from seven nominations.

Year	Recipient/Nominated work	Award	Result
2002	Lupillo Rivera	Regional Mexican Male Artist of the Year	Won
		Banda Artist of the Year	Won
	Despreciado	Regional Mexican Album of the Year	Won
	"Despreciado"	Regional Mexican Song of the Year	Nominated
2003	Lupillo Rivera	Regional Mexican Male Artist of the Year	Nominated
		Banda Artist of the Year	Nominated
	Amorcito Corazón	Regional Mexican Album of the Year	Nominated

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