Gomez Santos was born in Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico in 1990. He was the owner and lead singer of Grupo HEGO, a Regional Mexican music band. He had also played for various other local music bands in the past. According to his Facebook page , Gomez Santos enjoyed Japanese food, chicken wings and was a fan of his local paintball team known as Club Airsoft Sharks Minatitl

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Assaults and murders against Mexican musicians are

in the country's ongoing drug war. In the past, many musicians have been killed by drug gangs for their alleged ties to organized crime, for singing certain ballads glorifying the underworld (songs known as

), or sometimes simply for

more songs to an audience. Anything can get a musician killed in today's violence-torn Mexico.