By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

When the news of the tragic death of Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera was announced Sunday, Latin America went into mourning.

The bilingual Rivera, who was one of the biggest stars of the banda genre, a brassy, percussive style of pop music invented in northern Mexico, died when her private plane crashed outside Monterrey, Mexico where she had earlier performed. She was just 43.

Although Rivera wasn't as much of a household name in the U.S. as she was in Mexico at the time of her premature death, she was in talks to produce a sitcom for ABC and had just been signed by Hollywood talent agency CAA. If she had lived, her talent most certainly would have been appreciated by a wider audience and she would have achieved yet another milestone in her already successful career.

Here are seven things you should know about Jenni:

1. While Jenni Rivera might not have been a household name to many outside of Mexico and Latin America, she has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide and was nominated at the 2003, 2008 and