Vernacular music singer Valentina Leyva passed away on Saturday at 67 years old due to a pancreatic cancer that she had been fighting for the last few years. Her former and first manager, Elena Medina, confirmed her death, and stated that composer Federico Méndez’s main interpreter, died in her home in Naucalpan, Estado de México. “She was to continue getting chemotherapy to beat the cancer but a metastasis spread the cancer throughout her body and these last few weeks she’d been critically weak,” said actress and producer Carmen Salina’s current assistant.
Medina said the singer’s wake would take place on Saturday where fans and colleagues could say their last goodbyes and her remains would be cremated early on Sunday in an intimate ceremony for close friends and family only.
Valentina Leyva was famous for her vernacular or mariachi band style singing and she was famous composer Federico Méndez’s muse and main interpreter. Leyva released several albums with songs written by Méndez including songs written especially for her. Leyva’s career kicked off when she participated in the third ‘Festival de la Canción Ranchera’ at the young age of 14 and won first place.
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