Who said that Mexican corridos tumbados were not liked? Featherweight He has put an end to that stereotype once and for all and has established himself as one of the most influential Latin artists of the year and arrives at the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards with the aim of sweeping it.
The gala takes place this Thursday in Miami (Florida) and the singer has 21 nominations, being the artist with the most mentions of the year. Among them, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year or Composer of the Year stand out.
Featherweight is the man of the moment and one of his achievements is having achieved it in such a short time, since His career did not take off until the end of 2022. Do you want to know him?
What is it really called Featherweight?
Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, Known artistically as Peso Pluma, he is a 24-year-old Mexican singer and has been familiar with music since he was very young. The artist born in Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)who learned to play the guitar at the age of 15 thanks to YouTube videos, began composing while still a teenager.
Writing songs ended up becoming his therapy and a way of escape when his classmates ridiculed him. “I used to have a diary and my friends made fun of me, because that is considered ‘feminine’, but it worked for me. That’s where I wrote how I felt, then I realized that some things would rhyme. I kept practicing and got better with time,” said the singer in Billboard.
So the singer’s short but intense professional career comes from an early and independent habit: Without artists in his family, he has learned – and is still not doing – to move in the industry on his own, with references such as Ariel Camacho, a great artist who belonged to the sierreo genre with tuba in Mexico.
Why did he put on Featherweight?
Everyone thinks about him boxingbut the reality is that the artistic name of the Mexican project is a cluster of coincidences that awakened an old idea.
“We were already thinking about giving the group that name,” Feather continued in his interview with Mexican record producer Pepe Garza. “I have never boxed. It’s because of the THC pens“It was very fashionable when it came out and we were all slim in complexion.”
Furthermore, fate wanted the Mexican to meet the boxer Marco Antonio Barrera, boxing champion in the featherweight category, enough to confirm the stage name.
The most famous songs of Peso Pluma
When he was in his second year of high school, 10 years ago, Pluma moved to New York and there he began a more serious involvement with music. His journey in the industry began in 2020, when he launched your album Oh and what?. That same year, shortly after, came Relaxed I go, Thousand Stories either With money the dog dances. His fame was in crescendo in his native Mexico and little by little he broke international barriers. In 2021, he released his second album Side effects.
In 2022, the Mexican signed for the first time with a record label and did so with the independent label Prajin Records. Although we have already seen his work since the 2020 pandemic, it was not until this year that the singer’s weight stopped being a feather.
The artist currently holds the position number 4 on Spotify’s list of the best global music artists. I’m as excited about everything as I am scared. I’m just enjoying the moment. “I think I’m doing well,” he told Billboard.
That the Mexican is one of the most promising musical stars on the current musical scene in his country is obvious. 2023 is his year and the addition of successes on his list does not stop. His collaboration with Natael Cano in PRC, the firecracker with the reggaetn remix of The baby that went viral on TikTok (254 million views in Youtube), The Belicón, with Ral Vega (211 million)…
Yng Lvcas & Peso Pluma in the video clip for ‘La Bebe (Remix)’.
They are not only the feats, Pluma has already been on the key stages to make its international reach official. His appearance in April at the mainstream festival Coachella singing along with the renowned Becky G the song they share, Chanel, and the images talking with celebrities like Bad Bunny among the public made people talk on social media.
Furthermore, he interpreted a month ago in Jimmy Fallon’s beat, The Tonight Show, his last collaboration with Eslabon Armando, She dances Alone. This is the same issue that has made Featherweight manage to become the first Mexican singer to be Top 1 in the World on Spotifysurpassing flowers by Miley Cyrus, her own remix of The Baby either TQGby Karol G and Shakira.
And in the end, the feat with the producer Bizarrap, a song that helped him In this way he will reach the minority that did not yet know him, especially in Spain.
I received death threats
The Featherweight career has not been a bed of roses and at times he has had to face adeath threats in Mexico. In mid-September 2023, several local media reported that up to four banners had appeared in Tijuana warning that if he does not cancel his next October concert, There will be terrible consequences.
“This goes to you Featherweight, refrain from showing up on October 14 because be your last presentation, this for disrespectful and loose tongue. You show up and we’re going to break all your M***. Att CJNG”.
Those responsible for the threats were the drug cartel Jalisco New Generation Cartel and they would have done it supposedly because of the lyrics of some of the Mexican’s songs like The blue, Just like my app either The bellicose Their lyrics talk about Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo) and his children.
Featherweight has not canceled the concert and has reinforced its security team buying a bulletproof vest worth more than $4,000. He also travels in armored trucks to avoid being a victim of any armed attack.
His relationship with Nicki Nicole
The Mexican maintains his private life with great discretion and little is known about it, although it is rumored that He maintains a relationship with the Argentine artist Nicki Nicole. The theory emerged in mid-February when the two launched the collaboration At night and the fans realized the complicity they had.
It took several months until double P and Nicki They were seen walking together in Guadalajara after one of his concerts. They were partying and some claim that they were seen very close, dancing and hugging.
They upload photos togetherbouquets of flowers are givennice comments are left… However, they have never confirmed anything.
Are they a couple or just friends? It’s too soon to know.
