aggering, streetwise songs about high-luxe, extravagant living are among his most popular. Today, he’s about to make a few more.
Through the doors, the studio feels like a tropical frat house, playing cheat on video games, packed with polite, laid-back guys who might pass for regular twentysomethings, except that many of them are casually wearing diamond-dripped watches and gold chains heavy enough to cause neck injuries. Achieving musical dominance requires both ingenuity and skill, qualities Peso and his bandmates embrace as they shape new, groundbreaking hits. Most are Peso’s bandmates — young but seasoned musicians who play bass, double bass, guitar, requinto (a smaller kind of guitar), trombone, and charchetas (alto horns), all instruments that define Peso’s particular brand of corridos tumbados.