Singer Carín León will release a country music album after “stomping” with this genre in the United States, particularly on the stages of Nashville, which he links to ties with the regional region of Mexico, he announced this Monday at Billboard’s Latin Music Week.
“The second part of ‘Boca chueca’ that we did is coming, from the album, and the country project, which is what excites me the most, or the best thing I’ve done, of everything I’ve done, next year,” the artist revealed at The Fillmore theater in Miami Beach.
The performer announced this album after becoming the first Latin artist with his own song list in June at the Spotify House of the CMA Fest, a country festival in Nashville, Tennessee, in the southern United States, where he also debuted in 2024 at the Grand Ole Opry, the genre’s main stage.
In addition, he released the duet “She Hurts Like Tequila” with Cody Johnson, country icon, in March, with what he considers “is making a big splash in the community” that listens to this music, originally from the southern United States.
“I have always had respect for (country) and I have always said it, there is a very important communion between our root genre, which is the Mexican regional, and one of the root genres of the United States, which is country music,” said the singer, originally from Sonora, a state on the northern border of Mexico.
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Carín León, with more than 28 million monthly listeners on Spotify, will also be the first Latin artist to perform at The Sphere in Las Vegas, where tickets for her first three dates sold out in one hour, said her manager, Jorge Juárez.
The success of the creator, whose real name is Óscar Armando Díaz de León and who started with a local band 20 years ago, is due to his versatility, according to Juárez, as he incorporates rhythms such as rock and R&B to the Mexican regional, and has done duets with artists as diverse as Kanny García, Maluma and Bon Jovi.
Despite his current popularity, the artist revealed that at the beginning “there was a lot of criticism” towards his music, his clothing and his expressions “because it was something new.”
“Always when there is something that changes things, a blow or a crash, there always has to be a bit of controversy, people have to question whether it is right or not right,” he said.
But the performer insisted that he sees no “limits” in the Mexican regional, defending that there can be accordion music, a distinctive instrument of the genre, in pop or rock songs.
Carín León was the featured guest this Monday at the start of Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2025, considered the most important meeting in the Spanish-language music industry, and which will have its awards night on Thursday.
With information from EFE
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