
Rosalino "Chalino" Sanchez Felix (30 August 1960-15 May 1992) was a Mexican singer-songwriter from Culiacan, Sinaloa. He composed his forst corrido following his brother's murder in 1984, and he eventually began to profit from his compositions and was gifted guns and presents by his customers. He became a star in California in 1989, performing throughout the state and being nicknamed "Rey de Los Corridos" ("King of the Corridos") during the 1990s. On 25 January 1992, he was shot and injured by a heroin-addicted and drunk mechanic during a concert in Coachella, shooting back at Gallegos and injuring him as well. Four months later, during a performance in Culiacan, Chalino was handed a note containing a death threat from an audience member, but he was filmed crumpling up the note before singing his song "Alma Enamorada." After midnight, he was kidnapped by hitmen disguised as state police, and he was found murdered by an irrigation canal near Highway 15 the next day. It has been speculated that Sanchez was murdered as revenge for a shooting at a party in Culiacan when he was a teen, whether the cartels wanted him dead because of the lyrics to his songs, because of a possible love triangle with a furious drug lord, or because of possible links to a drug trafficler. His son Adan Sanchez, who followed in his musical footsteps, died in a car crash in 2004. The video of Sanchez's defiant last performance became an internet meme in 2023.