The renowned Mexican artist who started as a songwriter and singer at a very young age is none other than Peso Pluma whose real name is Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija. He was born on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico but spent most of his time as a teen in New York and attended high school in San Antonio, Texas.
Birth Date and Career
He was born on 15th June 1999, indicating he is currently 25 years old. Just at the age of 11, he released a debut album in 2020 “Ah y Que?”. His songwriting and singing journey started while he was learning to play the guitar at a very early age and has been much inspired by regional Mexican Music. The major hits in his career have been when he collaborated with Natanel Cano, AMG, and PRC in the Latin music community after its usage on TikTok.
Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado are regarded to have made a successful history with “Ella Baila Sola”, which is considered to be the very first Mexican regional song. This song even reached the top 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been ranked at the fourth position where the commercial growth of this song boosted the popularity of the singer worldwide.
Consecutively, Peso Pluma has been successful in pleasing his other eight songs on the Hot 100 in the week of 29th April 2023 while being the major Mexican act with the most Spanish-language across the US.
Achievements
By the end of 2023, the songs of Peso Pluma have also been revealed by Spotify as the 5th most streamed song globally. The third album of Peso Pluma “Genesis” of 2023 won a Grammy Award for Best Musica Mexicana Albun.
On 20th June 2024, he released his 4th studio album and Exodo. These albums have been regarded as attaining major success that peaked at 5th position on the Billboard 200. His most distinctive style of music has been dominated by Corridos tumbados.
Here, Pluma has been accounting to give his significant contribution to the revival of corrids. Apart from this, Peso Pluma has been titled the most streamed artist of all time across Mexico.
Breakthrough
Peso Pluma on 4th February 2022 grouped up with Raul Vega on the single “EI Belicon”, which accounts to be a corrido anthem on the local narcoculture. This song has been further doubted at number 50 on Billboard Hot Latin Songs, which reached 46th rank in just two weeks while becoming Plum’s first entry on the charts. In addition, he has also released Sembrando which includes five new songs. In partnership with Prajin, Peso Pluma was able to successfully launch his independent record label named “Doble p Records on 20th April. Peso Plum in August 2024 confirmed his relationship with a famous influencer in America “Hannah Howell” but it soon ended.
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