The lawyer for drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Mariel Colón, has launched her music career with the video “La Señora,” featuring Guzmán’s wife, Emma Coronel.
Mariel Colón, the lawyer for the infamous drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has launched her music career with the video “La Señora,” starring Emma Coronel, Guzmán’s wife.
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán became famous for his cartel’s battles for control over international drug trafficking before his extradition to the U.S. in 2017.
Cólon, 31, has adopted the stage name “Mariel La Abogada” (Mariel, the Lawyer). In an interview with the Associated Press, she stated that the video is a kind of tribute to the wife of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who was released from prison in 2023.
“My work opens doors for me because of people’s morbid curiosity. They want to understand this,” she explained. Cólon is the daughter of a Puerto Rican music director but initially pursued a career as a lawyer.
She worked on “El Chapo’s” defense team in 2018 after graduating as a lawyer. She served as a part-time legal assistant.
Cólon still keeps in touch with Guzmán, visiting the drug lord three times a month in a maximum-security prison in Colorado, singing for him on those occasions, according to the New York Post.
The video for “La Señora” has over 750,000 views on YouTube. Cólon plans to release her first album in December 2024.
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