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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Peso Pluma And The Rise Of Regional Mexican Music

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Regional Mexican music has taken the music industry by storm. Earlier this year, Mexican artist Peso Pluma and band Eslabon Armado made history when their song "Ella Baila Sola" topped the Billboard Global 200 chart. But this musical trend didn't come out of nowhere. In this episode of NPR's Alt. Latino, hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras head to Peso Pluma's performance in Nashville and try to understand the root of the phenomenon.

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Regional Mexican music has taken the music industry by storm and its growing in popularity in the US.

0:06.0

Earlier this year Mexican artist Pesso Pluma and a band from California's Central Valley,

0:11.0

Es Lebonne Armando, made history when they hit the top of the Billboard Global 200

0:16.0

chart with their blockbuster hit Ile Baila Sola.

0:19.1

I'm going to that you're all the family. That's alt-alt Latino, that no-didal to be me.

0:25.0

Maybe go.

0:30.0

Our pals at NPR's Alt-Letino

0:32.0

know that this musical trend didn't just come out of nowhere.

0:35.2

I'm Stephen Thompson and the Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode of

0:40.6

Alt Latinos series about the rise of regional Mexican music.

0:44.4

In this episode, hosts Felix Contradas and Anna Maria Sayer,

0:48.0

head to Nashville for a Pesso Pluma concert. Check it out.

0:51.2

The Revolution Mexican in the music,

0:55.0

I've got a number that we've been a prime.

0:58.0

Guego,

1:02.0

that I'm going to play. Piao, who I can't

1:04.0

keep their career of the album Genesis.

1:07.0

That's what I'm here I'm Rubico. He just said that the Mexican Music Revolution has a name and that name is Feso Pruma.

1:25.0

And people really hate that.

1:28.0

I love this. From NPR Music, this is out Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm Anamaria Sayer. Let the Cheesem begin. Pesso Pluma doesn't look like a revolutionary. He's 24 years old, Scrani, kind of unassuming. assuming? in front of a roaring crowd of thousands of Latinos braving a torrential rainstorm

2:15.2

in the capital of country music, Nashville, Tennessee. None is the door vivarvie.

2:23.0

Nunk.

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