Sergio Gómez

Paulo Sergio Gómez Sánchez (2 June 1973 – 2 December 2007), better known as Sergio Gómez, was a Mexican singer who was the founder and lead vocalist of the duranguense band K-Paz de la Sierra.

Biography He was born in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán in 1973. In 2003, while working in Chicago in the United States, he created K-Paz de la Sierra with other native Mexicans also working in Chicago. Gomez lived in Avon, Indiana, just west of Indianapolis.

Death Following a concert in the state of Michoacán, while traveling in a car in the early hours of a Sunday morning, Gómez and two of the group's representatives were abducted by a group of gunmen. The other passengers were later released, but Gómez's dead body was found on Morelia's outskirts, bearing signs of torture. His body had signs of severe beating and strangling, with bruises all over his chest and abdomen; his face was burned with a cigarette lighter. Early evidence suggests that the murder might have been due to Sergio dating a woman that belonged to a Narco, a stronghold for drug related gangs.

On 6 December 2007 Gómez, as well as another murdered Mexican musician, Valentín Elizalde, El Gallo De Oro were nominated posthumously for the Grammy Awards.