Thousands of people accompany the hearse carrying the body of Sergio Gomez, the lead singer of the band K-Paz de la Sierra, at his hometown of Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. Gomez was tortured and strangled to death after a show Saturday.

Mexico City ? A wave of organized crime violence terrorizing many parts of Mexico is driving fear into the heart of the entertainment business with the murders of several popular musicians, suggesting no one is immune to the rampant brutality.

Most disquieting were the weekend slayings of two singers who had crooned only about love and loss, not drugs and guns like some “narcocorrido” celebrities killed in the past.

The murders of Sergio Gomez, lead performer for the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, and Zayda Pena of the group Zayda and the Guilty Ones has mainstream singers worrying they may become targets by becoming identified with one or another of Mexico’s warring drug gangs.

“What can I say? We are dismayed about this. I mean, we are all in the same boat,” said Javier Diaz, representative of Los Tucanes del Norte, a popular group that often poses with assault rifles to promote its songs and violence-filled videos.

Although not known for songs glamorizing the drug business, Gomez had reportedly received death threats urging him not to appear in the capital of the western state of Michoacan, a hotbed of the drug trade where he was tortured before being strangled Sunday.

Pena was killed with similar brutality the previous day. Gunman fired an execution-style gunshot into her at the hospital where she was recovering from surgery for a bullet wound in her neck suffered Friday at a motel in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.

Some fear that singers, whether they have any links to drug cartels, are routinely “adopted” by drug gangs, which post Internet videos showing their members torturing and executing rivals to soundtracks of popular tunes.

“It really has people worried, because you never know if you go to a concert, what will happen, whether somebody might get shot,” said Pablo Zuack, press coordinator for Bandamax, a cable TV channel specializing in northern Mexican music. “When you interview a performer, you never know if it’s the last story you’ll write about him.”

Elijah Wald, author of the book “Narcocorrido,” said the musicians’ fears may be justified.

“They’ve just kidnapped and murdered a major international star traveling with bodyguards,” he said, referring to Gomez. “That is a very clear message: ‘We can get anybody.”‘