Grupo Frontera Explains Why “ME JALO” Continues to Pull Listeners In

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Grupo Frontera talks about their Grammy nomination and announces their Latin American tour.

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00:00From surprise, we are talking about some.

00:03In some concerts, maybe we will have special guests.

00:08Well, it's true that the magazine is very different in each song.

00:13For me, it's a bit more special in my personal life,

00:17because I'm nominated as a composer,

00:21so I think it's a bit more special.

00:24It was a very nice moment to write that song in Miami,

00:27with Edgar, Barriela, with Alex Hernandez and Vanga Mez.

00:32The song of Mejalo was something out of series for us.

00:38When we created the song of Bebe Dame,

00:40and the song of Noemi, we were going to sing a song,

00:43but we didn't know that we were going to sing another song,

00:46but we didn't know that it would be so spectacular

00:50as it came out of Mejalo.

00:52That song still continues to be...

00:54Sigue jalando.

00:56Meanwhile, your EPs, Mala Mía y Lo Que Viene,

01:01are nominated for Best Música Mexican Album at the Grammys.

01:05Yes!

01:06What do you feel?

01:07How did they receive the news?

01:09What do you feel to know that these two projects

01:11are in the same category?

01:13They couldn't pick and choose. They're that good.

01:16In the same category.

01:17In the same category.

01:18In the same category.

01:19When we realized that we were nominated for that song,

01:21because we were in Nashville,

01:22and we just woke up,

01:24and as we were called,

01:25we were lost by Ethan Barrera.

01:26And he was nominated, man!

01:28And so we already talked about each one of the groups.

01:31It was cool.

01:32It was cool.

01:33It was cool.

01:34I want to talk a little bit about the new album,

01:36what I need to cry.

01:37I like, you know, the collaborations that you do.

01:41At the beginning, I feel that you would collaborate with these big artists,

01:45the pop, reggaeton.

01:46But you would make them do Norteño, Cumbia, Tejano.

01:50But now I'm seeing that they're like,

01:52no, we have Mike Towers,

01:54we have a trap.

01:55We have a Manuel Turizo,

01:57we have a Merenguito.

01:58You know?

01:59How has it been to release that part of you?

02:01Like, let's go all out.

02:03Everything started with Bad Boy, the truth.

02:06When we made the song 1%,

02:08we didn't know we wanted to be in the song,

02:10so we didn't realize that later.

02:12But when he started singing his part,

02:14he removed his version of Cumbia,

02:17he put some pianos and a different rhythm

02:21and then he returned to the Cumbia.

02:23And then we went to Mejalo,

02:26that started with the rhythm of the guitar,

02:29and then the Cumbia,

02:31and the process that started with us,

02:33and then the style of Manuel Turizo.

02:35And the truth is that we really like to experiment.

02:38Obviously, we love the Cumbia

02:41and all kinds of music that we do,

02:43but we also like to experiment,

02:47to play different styles.

02:49We've tried a little bit more

02:52the style of country music

02:54with our instruments.

02:55We've tried a little bit of the Cumbia,

02:58I think, with the Cumbia and Aurora.

03:01and we like to learn a little bit of our music.

03:06Now, how do you feel that you have changed

03:09your way of creating music,

03:11since you were a local band in McAllen

03:14that played in the 15s and in the dance,

03:16until now that you are Grammy nominated?

03:18How have you created your way of creating music,

03:21or writing?

03:22Everything happened little by little.

03:25Since we started,

03:26we were just our instruments,

03:28we were just our instruments,

03:29and we came out of

03:31the Que Vuelvas,

03:32the Bebe Dame,

03:33and I think,

03:34after those two songs,

03:35we started to put some instruments

03:37hidden behind.

03:39Like the one that has a guitar,

03:41which is the bass of Beto

03:43and the instruments of us,

03:44but at the bottom,

03:45we have a guitar that is playing

03:46during the whole song.

03:48And,

03:49what was the one that we put in the style

03:52first?

03:53The...

03:54I don't know.

03:55I don't know.

03:56I don't know.

03:57I don't know.

03:58I don't know.

03:59I don't know.

04:00I don't know.

04:01We put more instruments

04:02different there,

04:03but they're listening,

04:04and it's beautiful.

04:05So, we're still changing,

04:08not changing,

04:09but changing a little bit

04:11the style of our Cumbia.

04:13Now,

04:14there's a new tour

04:15that we're going to announce

04:16exclusively next week,

04:17next week.

04:18What can you tell us?

04:19This will be later.

04:21So, what can we expect

04:22the fans?

04:23What cities are going to visit?

04:24Well,

04:25by the way,

04:26this tour will be in Latin America.

04:28So,

04:29we're going to go

04:30for all the places

04:31that we can go there.

04:32I think we've touched

04:33a few, but...

04:34We're excited

04:35because every time

04:36we go there,

04:37we're going to be nice

04:38and the people

04:39are really nice.

04:40Of surprises,

04:41we're already talking about

04:42some.

04:43In some concerts,

04:44we're going to have

04:45special guests.

04:46But I think

04:48that's all

04:49what I can say.

04:51Mr.

04:52What is the place that

04:54makes you happy to be

04:55with us?

04:56For all of us,

04:57we're going to be

04:58ватely.

04:59And we're going to have

05:00a special guest in this

05:01movie.

05:02I'm going to have to go

05:03to the head and see

05:04this video,

05:05there's a special guest.

05:06I'm going to have to

05:07catch up on the students.

05:08So,

05:09we're going to have to go

05:10and see how they see

05:11the phone.

05:12I'll walk away from this

05:13story,

05:14right?

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