Personal Life
In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, while he was driving to a concert location, his SUV flipped over. He required hospitalization. Months later, Adán Sánchez, a years-long friend who had grown to admire and become like a little brother to Lupillo, died at the age of nineteen in another car accident, leaving Lupillo Rivera devastated. In 2004, a Marine who died in Iraq had requested for Lupillo to sing at his funeral should he die, and Lupillo complied with the request, leaving one of his famous sombreros on the Marine's burial casket during the funeral. On December 11, 2006, after leaving a restaurant around 1 am in Guadalajara, Jalisco, his SUV was shot 7 times. It is not known if the shooting was an attempted murder, 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, CA. it is a Spanish speaking service. On August 8, 2008 he had a son.
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