Its success has been such that it will be presented on Friday the 28th live from New York with Jimmy Fallon, one of the main night shows on television in the United States, which will be the first time that the featherweight bellicose corridos are on one of the screens with the greatest exposure in the neighboring country.
The interview will take place on Friday, April 28 at 9:35 p.m., Mexico City time. In Mexico, it can be seen live through the Sky One pay channel.
But to all this,who is Featherweight? What do we know about him and his career? This conversation is happening and we will give you some elements so that you can understand the phenomenon that this interpreter and his music represent.
Hassan biography, better known as Featherweight
Hassan Kabande Laija (Zapopan, Jalisco, June 15, 1999) today known as Peso Pluma, is one of the most played artists on the Spotify music platform in Mexico and the United States.
Although based in the capital of Jalisco, his family is originally from Sinaloa, the cradle of this musical movement that has evolved into the fusion of banda music and traditional northern corridos.
He is the son of a Jalisco native and a Sinaloan mother, whose relatives still live in Badiraguato, a municipality famous for being the origin of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, his paternal family is of Lebanese descent.
The origin of his name comes from an occasion in which he was able to talk with the boxer Marco Antonio Barrera who noticed that Hassan, and the musicians who accompanied him, were thin. Reason why the issue of the featherweight category in boxing came up. Marco Antonio Barrera gave him the idea and Hassan decided to adopt the pseudonym Featherweight.
Who are your parents?
Until now, very little is known about Hassan’s parents, Featherweight, although on more than one occasion photographs of them have been shared with the singer on social networks. For their part, some users of social networks have located images of when Hassan Emilio was young and posed with them and his brothers, although without many details of this. Her mother is a regular at her presentations, as was the case with her Coachella presentation with Becky G, where she sent a greeting to her mother pointing to the audience. “I love you mama. This is all for you,” said the young man.
What does Double P mean?
In his songs and performances it can be heard that he says “Puro Doble P”, it is a way of referring to the initials of his pseudonym Featherweight, so it is one of his ways of musically signing his songs.
What genre does it play?
Featherweight is a considered performer in the Mexican regional, emphasizing corridos.
The corrido is a musical genre characteristic of Mexico. It consists of a popular narrative conceived to be sung, recited or danced, which usually can be found in the form of a song, poetry or ballad. The current corridos are also known as tragedies, feats and narratives of heartbreak or the world of drug trafficking. In this subdivision enters a genre that drives “Double P” the bellicose corridos and the lying down corridos.
Featherweight songs
Speaking of the songs of this interpreter, 2023 began with the presentation of “PRC” in collaboration with Natanael Cano, another important interpreter of this genre, this song is followed by “El Azul” with Junior H, “Por Las Noches Remix ” with Argentine Nicki Nicole, “El Hechizo” with Ovy on the Drums, “La Bebé Remix” with Yng Lvcas, “Chanel” with Becky G, “Las Morras” with Blessd, “El Tsurito” with Junior H and Gabito Ballesteros .
But the song that is at the top is “Ella Baila Sola” with Eslabon Armado, this is easy to listen to in almost any meeting of young people, who are promoting the fame and success of “Doble P” with more force.