From Defense Lawyer For 'El Chapo' To Successful Ranchera Singer
The lawyer says she sang for 'El Chapo,' and now she's singing for her fans.
Mariel Colón (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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[My work] opens doors for me because of the morbid, because of people’s curiosity … They want to understand this. I’ve always told people that Mariel is a singer who became a lawyer.
[People ask] how I can do this job, that I’m part of the mafia, how can I sleep at night? I don’t care what they say about me. I sleep very well at night.
— Mariel Colón, defense lawyer to drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in comments given to the Associated Press, on her budding music career under the stage name of “Mariel La Abogada” (Mariel, the Lawyer). Colón told the AP that while she wanted to be a singer, her family insisted that she become a lawyer.
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