Adán Zapata | |
Birth Name: | Adán Zapata Morales |
Alias: | Adán Zapata |
Birth Date: | 20 October 1990 |
Death Place: | San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico |
Occupation: | Rapper, singer |
Years Active: | 2006–2012 |
Label: | Zapata Producciones |
Past Member Of: | Mente En Blanco |
Website: | Mente en Blanco |
Adán Zapata Morales, or simply Adán Zapata (October 20, 1990 – June 1, 2012), was a Mexican singer and rapper within the genre of hip-hop/rap. He was born and lived in the colony Mexico Lindo in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León. From 2006 he belonged to the group called Mente En Blanco (MEB), where he was lead vocalist and the one that raised the group, until his murder in the colony "Los Morales" San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo Leon on June 1, 2012, at the age of 21, by an armed command of organized crime together with 3 other young members of the same group "Blank Mind" — two of them children of a former secretary of public security.[1]
Adán Zapata was killed on June 1, 2012, at the age of 21, in the work of organized crime. He was in a van with 3 other members of the Blank Mind: Iván de Jesús Serna González, 25, known as DJ Esus, and brothers Diego Salvatore and Hector Daniel Almaraz Huerta, aged 20 and 19, respectively. The latter were children of the former Secretary of Public Security of the municipality of Guadalupe José Santos Almaraz.[2]