In August, they collaborated with Enigma Norteño on the number four hit "No Estoy Perdiendo Nada." In February 2020, they collaborated with Lenin Ramirez on the single "Yo Ya No Vuelvo Contigo" it went all the way to number one, and their collaboration with La Maquinaria Norteña on the single "En Honor a Ti" went to number six that same month. In October, Grupo Firme's live collaboration with Banda Coloso on a cover of Calibre 50's "El Amor No Fue Pa’ Mi" went to number 17. Their 2019 single, "Cada Vez Te Extrano Mas," featuring El Yaki Luis Alfonso Partida, went to number eight. In 2018, while on tour, they released En Vivo Desde Medellín Colombia. They issued the studio album El Barco that year it performed respectably at streaming and garnered airplay regionally. He approached them with a very different proposition: to transcend the raw corridos in favor of a hybrid approach to Mexican Regional music. He loved them but imagined them in a different space than the one they occupied. In 2017, Isael Gutierrez, CEO of indie regional Mexican music label Music VIP, caught them live in Tijuana after seeing their videos. They kept posting videos of their informally recorded singles for several years while establishing a reputation for incendiary live performances. Their warts-and-all rawness and spontaneity netted viral videos for the songs "Juro por Dios," "Ni El Dinero, Ni Nada," and "Pideme." They changed their name to Grupo Firme in 2014. At the time, they were an underground norteño group singing improvised and traditional corridos in informal settings. They were founded as Grupo Fuerza in 2013 by Eduin Cazares (leader and vocalist) with guitarist Joaquín Ruiz, singer Jhonny Cazarez, harmony vocalist Abraham Hernández, bassist Christian Téllez, accordionist Dylan Camacho, and drummer Fito Rubio. While the majority of bandas usually hail from Mazatlán and contain anywhere from a dozen to 16 members, this septet hails from Baja California, Tijuana - which also sets them apart from most norteño groups, who perform as quintets. Grupo Firme have never fit into categories neatly. Their second studio album, 2020's Nos Divertimos Logrando Lo Imposible, also placed in the upper rungs at streaming. Since then, they have netted ten charting singles that include three number ones in 2021: their live "Ya Superame," "El Toxico" (feat. That same year, the single "Cada Vez Te Extrano Mas," in collaboration with El Yaki Luis Alfonso Partida, hit the Mexican Regional airplay charts. While El Barco, their 2017 debut album, performed well at radio and streaming, their 2019 breakthrough version of Calibre 50's "El Amor No Fue Pa’ Mi" registered 200 million views on YouTube and broke through to audiences on both sides of the border. Their stylish videos and streaming covers of songs by other Latin artists helped to establish their considerable popularity. ![]() Grupo Firme is a banda septet from Tijuana who play a 21st century hybrid of Mexican Regional Music that straddles banda and norteño.
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