By NBC News and news services
Jim Urquhart / Reuters file
Singer Jenni Rivera, seen here during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January, was abaord a plane that went missing shortly after leaving the northern Mexican city of Monterrey early Sunday.
Updated 5:19 p.m. ET: A plane carrying Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera and six others went missing Sunday?shortly after leaving the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said.
The Mexican transportation and communications ministry said Rivera's Learjet went off the radar about 62 miles from Monterrey after taking off at 3:15 a.m. local time/0900 GMT.?
Rivera was heading for the city of Toluca in central Mexico after a concert in Monterrey on Saturday night. The singer, two pilots and four other passengers are all missing, the ministry said.?
Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state government, told Milenio television?a search for the plane was under way with civilian protection agency helicopters flying over the state. The missing included her publicist, lawyer, makeup artist and the flight crew, the ministry of transportation and communication said in a statement.
In a?photo?posted on her?Twitter account?on Friday, Jenni Rivera can be seen referencing her concert in Monterrey. In the photo she is seen holding up a sign with the words, "Nos Vemos este 7 en Colima, 8-en Monterrey. I love you!" ?Translation: "See you this 7th in Colima, 8 in Monterrey."
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Born in Long Beach, California, to Mexican immigrant parents, Rivera has sold some 15 million records in her career and won several awards and Grammy nominations, her website said.?
The 43-year-old mother of five is renowned as an exponent of the Nortena and banda regional musical styles.?
The so-called Diva of the Banda recently won two Billboard Mexican Music Awards: Female Artist of the Year and Banda Album of the Year for "Joyas prestadas: Banda." Her famous songs include "La Gran Senora" and "De Contrabando." ??
The singer, businesswoman and actress appeared in the movie "Filly Brown," as the incarcerated mother of Filly Brown, and has her own reality shows including "I Love Jenni" and "Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis and Raq-C" and her daughter's "Chiquis `n Control."
Rivera had given a concert before thousands of fans in Monterrey on Saturday night. After the concert she gave a press conference during which she spoke of her emotional state following her recent divorce from baseball player Esteban Loaiza.? ?
"I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you. Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do. I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women," she said Saturday night, according to The Associated Press. "The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up."? ?
The mother and grandmother had announced in October that she was divorcing Loaiza after two years of marriage. It was her third marriage.? ?
Rivera is the sister of Mexican singer Lupillo Rivera. Patricia Chavez of Lupillo Rivera's office in the United States told The AP that "for now we don't have any information that would be useful."
Celebrities tweeted about Rivera's disappearance.
"OMG! Just heard about @jennirivera Praying for her and her family during this difficult & uncertain time!" Gloria Estefan tweeted.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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