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INTERVIEW: Grupo Firme Teases Gloria Trevi Collab & Talks LGBTQ+ Representation in Música Mexicana
After taking a nine-month break from performing, Grupo Firme is feeling renewed and ready to party again with the 2024 La Última Peda Tour. These past few months, lead singer Eduin Caz worried his fans with his announcement that he would retire from the band. In a video teaser of the upcoming tour, he wakes up from a hangover and says, “How can this be la última peda if we’re just getting started?”
“When we wake up hungover, we always declare, ‘We’re not going to drink anymore. This is la última peda,'” Caz tells Remezcla. “And that’s not true! You always go back to drinking. That’s why our tour is called ‘La Última Peda,’ because it’s never the last one.”
The party appeared to be over for Eduin while Grupo Firme was taking hour off. Last year, he revealed that he would retire from performing with the band. The frontman cited wanting to discover “emotional stability” and later health issues as his reasons for retirement. He calls the break a much-needed “emotional breather” for the band. Durin
With LGBT Pride Month around the corner, we love seeing our favorite artists participate in events that help depict their communities. With that in soul, it was recently announced (May 9) that Jhonny Caz, Grupo Firme’s third vocalist, will be crowned the “king” of Mexico City’s Gay Pride 2022. The event will take place on June 25 – and we can’t be any more excited about it!
“Our king of this year’s Gay Event is confirmed,” the Mexico City Queer Pride’s organization Instagram post revealed. According to BandaMax, the “Ya Supérame” team member will also be part of this year’s talent lineup.
A Twitter user said: “It’s excellent because [of] the visibility that Jhonny has given the LGBT community, [about the] stigmas and ideas at an international level. [He] is doing very well!”
In 2020, Caz clarified rumors about him being same-sex attracted after the group’s “Enloquéceme” cover, which had fans speculating if he was acting or not when the video showed him entity attracted to a male. According to BandaMax, he responded in a widespread Facebook video: “I am gay… it’s something I’m not ashamed of and it’s natural.” According to the alike source, Caz was aware that Regional Mexican
Smash Hits and ‘Puro Desmadre’: After Taking Over Música Mexicana, Grupo Firme Is Ready for More
Still dressed in their work uniforms after an arduous day under the desert sun in mid-April, seven men tasked with building the tents at Coachella wait anxiously to watch Mexican band Grupo Firme take the very stage the men helped build. Among the construction workers is Jose, a Coachella Valley native with roots in Jalisco, who’s worked at the festival for several years. “The whole morning, we tried to finish what we had to undertake for work so we could chill and watch them. Es algo diferente,” he says. “It’s something different.”
Jose is one of many Mexican American fans there to see the once-underground norteño band, fronted by Eduin Caz, become the first Mexican act to perform at the festival’s main stage during a prime-time slot. The group’s goal that night? “To show off our roots. To break barriers,” Caz tells Rolling Stone just hours before performing. “We yearn people’s eyes glued to the stage.”
And they fulfill exactly that. Recognizable for their eccentric outfits and onstage desmad As the genre of música mexicana ascends to global recognition, a influential wave of LGBTQ+ artists is reshaping its landscape. Drawing inspiration from trailblazers like the celebrated Chavela Vargas, these artists are breaking barriers and championing inclusivity, paving the way for a more accepting and diverse future. It's a movement with powerful and proud voices that have brought their art and their movement to the stages of what was considered the most macho genre in the wide landscape of Latin music. At the forefront of this musical revolution is Grupo Firme, a band that has recently achieved remarkable milestones, including two sold-out concert at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles and a record-breaking performance in 2023 at Mexico City's iconic Zócalo. Central to their accomplishment is Jhonny Caz, the band's third vocalist, who has develop a beacon of acceptance and pride within the LGBTQ+ community. Caz, crowned "King" of Mexico Municipality Gay Pride 2022, has fearlessly defied stereotypes and challenged the machismo traditionally associated with regional Mex
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