Yrma Lydya was shot three times while having dinner at a Japanese restaurant.
the Mexican singer Yrma Lydya she was shot and killed by her husband, the lawyer Jesus Hernandez AlcocerThursday night in a restaurant in Mexico City. The victim was 21 and the femicide 79
Lydya, who was a ranchera music artist, died inside the Japanese cuisine restaurant located in the Del Valle neighborhood of the Mexican capital, local media reported. He was shot three times in the chest. Apparently after a violent argument. Femicide tried to escape in his luxurious BMW, but he was arrested.
Without mentioning the singer’s name, the capital’s security secretary for citizens, Omar García Harfuch, said on his Twitter account Thursday that “A man shot his wife three times” and added that the attacker was arrested along with another woman who accompanied him.
Lydya died instantly. Femicide was arrested.
The Mexico City Attorney General’s office reported in a short Twitter message that it had opened an investigation under the Femicide Protocol, but did not provide further details.
Lydya began her career as a singer more than a decade ago and has appeared in at least 10 soap operas and six stage plays. You have received the National Award for Culture awarded by the Senate and the Laurea Honoris Causa from the Chamber of Deputies for your contributions to culture.
The murder of the singer generated numerous reactions in the local artistic environment and among her followers.
Yrma was a singer and had starred in at least 10 soap operas.
“It’s very shocking that someone’s life is being ripped off, but it’s even more shocking by a 21-year-old girl who had life ahead of her, who was so full of dreams.” said Mexican singer and actress Dulce to the local newspaper El Universal to mourn Lydya’s death.
Yrma Lydya was supposed to rehearse this Friday for Saturday’s show, but on Thursday night, at Suntory, a luxury Japanese restaurant, the young woman’s life would be shot to death.
Feminist lawyer Jesús Hernández Alcocer was arrested by local police.
Who was Yrma Lydya
Yrma Lydya was the daughter of one of Mexico’s most influential businessmen. Carlos Quiñones, founder of Grupo Radio Comunicación SA in 1960, and who during his years was a great promoter of the radio. The man died in 2020 due to Covid-19.
Yrma’s interest in singing began when she was 6 and she discovered the love she felt for ranchera music performed alongside mariachis. Among her influences she has continuously named Agustín Lara, Javier Solís, José Alfredo Jiménez, Jorge Negrete, María Grever and Lola Beltrán.
Lydya was shot three times in the chest and died instantly.
In addition to accumulating more than 11 years of experience in music, she was also a talented artist with a passion for acting and ballet. She has participated in at least 10 soap operas and 6 theatrical performances, as well as being part of the National Dance Company and the Royal Academy of Dance.
Through his official Spotify, you can only listen to one of his albums. The album “Eternamente” released in 2019, a total of 10 songs with mariachis where in songs of great fame in Mexico such as “Sombras”, “Check en Blanco” or “Caballo Viejo”, among others, demonstrates the skill that she had to sing in front of the audience and be one of the great performers of the genre.
Source: Clarin
