The Monterrey-born singer scandalised her native press while scaling the Latin charts with gusto. Mixing hard-rock riffage with Europop bombast and down 'n' dirty blues, Gloria Trevi's albums were raunchy affairs, stuffed with double entendres nearly as outsized as her club-rat hairdo. But she also took on the Mexican elite, slinging out condemnations of religious hypocrisy and Latin machismo in an instantly recognisable rasp. Beloved by the Mexican public, her countless controversies have always taken a back seat to her unstoppable pop mastery.