El Chapo’s granddaughter launches singing profession

El Chapo’s granddaughter is able to hit the large time — the teenage singer lately turned a finalist on a nationally televised actuality present in Mexico.

Frida Sofia Guzman Munoz, 16, turned one among three finalists on “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento,” the Mexican equal of America’s Obtained Expertise in November, in line with press reviews. Though she didn’t win the competitors, the fact present has boosted her nascent profession as a singer of regional Mexican ballads.

She is the daughter of Edgar Guzman Lopez, a favourite son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. El Chapo, who headed up the Sinaloa Cartel, is serving a life sentence for homicide and drug-trafficking at a Colorado jail.

Guzman, whose stepfather is the son of retired Mexican boxing legend Julio Cesar Lopez, rocketed to nationwide prominence when she sang the Mexican nationwide anthem throughout a boxing occasion in Durango in 2020.

Along with singing Mexican regional music, Guzman additionally works as a mannequin and lives within the US, in line with press reviews. Her Instagram web page, which boasts greater than 81,000 followers, options movies of the younger singer in live performance in glamorous outfits.

Guzman additionally likes to field, a talent she acquired from her step-father, Julio Cesar Lopez Jr., knowledgeable boxer who held the World Boxing Council’s middleweight title from 2011 to 2012. Guzman’s mom married Chavez Jr. after the homicide of Guzman’s father in 2008.

Edgar Guzman Lopez was one among El Chapo’s favourite sons and chosen successor. However he died in a gun battle in a shopping mall car parking zone in Sinaloa’s capital Culiacan in Could 2008.

Authorities recovered 500 bullet casings from AK-47s after the the shoot-out, which in line with press reviews was a case of mistaken id. Guzman Lopez was mistaken for Arturo Beltran Leyva, the top of the rival Beltran Leyva cartel.

El Chapo was reportedly so distraught after his son’s homicide that he purchased up all of the roses within the metropolis of Culiacan — greater than 50,000 — for the funeral, in line with Mexican information reviews.