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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fuerza Regida Want to Become the Beatles of Corridos. They Might Already Be
The cameras, iPhones, assistants, and Mountain Valley Spring Water glass bottles orbit him like he's Neptune with its 16 moons. It feels like a red carpet gala arrival — but Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz is just getting to his newly built Street Mob Records offices near San Bernardino. 'What's up, brother?' JOP says, dressed in an Oakley sweatsuit and Chanel beanie — the same look he'll sport later while snapping sideline pics with Kendall Jenner at a soccer game. 'They said you had a question for me, no?' More from Rolling Stone Fuerza Regida Reacts to Making History on Billboard 200: 'We Manifested This' For the First Time, the Top Two Albums in the U.S. Are in Spanish Grupo Firme Level Up With Anticipated Album 'Evolucion' Yes, I'm about to ask him a few questions, and he's also about to preview the mysterious album he's been making for months, 111Xpantia. We weave through his new office building past his impressive car collection: several Rolls Royces, a 2021 Lamborghini SVJ, one of his first cars, a Chevy Camaro SS, and an old-school, Chevy 454 SS, because corrido pioneer 'Chalino [Sanchez] always used to rock these,' Mosca, the band's manager tells me, before JOP arrives. We head into a darkened part of the building, styled like the album — part listening room, part underground club, with a Legends of the Hidden Temple-esque backdrop. JOP refused to send 111Xpantia out to avoid leaks, so his team asked that I come in person to hear him play me a few of the songs. (He warns the room to put their phones away: 'If it gets leaked, va 'star cabrón,' he says before playing 'GodFather,' on which he imagines himself as Vito Corleone.) 'This album right here, is all about making your dreams come true, bro,' says JOP. 'The eye [in the artwork], it resembles manifestation. It resembles new beginnings. The 111 [angel numbers] in the name. The name Ixpantia comes from the Aztecs… It's all about manifesting.' (The word 'Ixpantia' comes from the Nahuatl language, which loosely translates to 'manifestar' in Spanish, 'to present something to others.') Manifesting was big for JOP when he started his career as a barber, and later a party-thrower, before becoming one of the leading faces of the música mexicana movement, headlining arenas across the Americas. Manifesting was also big for him when he spoke to Rolling Stone in 2023, when he shared his love for Lil Baby and later brought him on to co-headline a festival with Fuerza Regida. And now, he's manifesting for Mexican music to go global. 'We wrote [some of] the songs in Paris. This guy stayed back producing them,' he says, pointing to Moises Lopez, and referring to his trip for Fashion Week with KidSuper. 111xpantia is a sort of homecoming to a classic Fuerza Regida corrido style, while still elevating the group's sound. For the band's tenth album, JOP incorporated the banjo — an instrument never used in the corrido tumbado space — and synths that add a new layer to the tracks. He makes his voice extra raspy on some of the songs, too. 'This one, we tried to stick to the roots, but make that shit elevated,' says JOP. 'This is the question I always get, 'Where's the old Fuerza?' And we're not going to do that. That stayed in 2018, 2019. We're not going to go and redo that.' The closest JOP gets to 'old Fuerza' on the record is 'Marlboro Rojo,' which he says was produced using the same instrumentation — the tuba, charchetas, guitars — as the band used on fan-favorite, 'Sigo Chambeando,' from 2018. After 2023's Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada and the group's early 2024 EP Dolido Pero No Arrepentido landed the band a few chart-toppers, he decided to step completely out of the band's comfort zone, and experimented with electronic music on what he coined 'Jersey Corridos,' an experimental sound with 808s and synths over a typical corrido structure that didn't fully land. It was all part of the plan. 'We needed a little bit of a risk, like a novela. If everything's the same, it gets boring. So I wanted a little drama,' he says of Pero No Te Enamores, which featured Afrojack and Major Lazer. 'I wanted people just talking their like shit, 'Hey, what the fuck? We lost this guy.' I wanted that… I wanted the turbulence to hit so we could come back and do what we do.' The new songs hear him singing about living a thug life and a lot of hip-hop-prevalent lyrical themes: partying, love, sex, chicks, and drugs. On 'Ansiedad,' he sings to a girl about his struggles with love and balancing that with his life as an artist: 'You want to change me/This story will never end.' The song includes a subtle sample of a live version of Vicente Fernández's 'Acá Entre Nos.' On 'Tu Sancho,' he incorporates an Ellie Goulding sample that's easy to miss. 'In the hip-hop, reggaeton world, everybody uses samples, and in our genre, nobody does,' he says. 'This brings the extra little sauce on the album.' The album notably stays away from alluding to the cartel culture that he sometimes sang about in earlier records. It's an issue that many other Mexican artists have skipped altogether: Grupo Firme, Luis R. Conriquez, and Julión Álvarez have all skipped their previous narcocorridos during live shows. JOP avoids discussing politics, especially in the current climate. 'I'm showing the roots and showing our culture. It helps without us getting too involved,' he says. 'We are not political, man. We don't talk here about presidents, none of that. I just don't want to get involved in something que no me corresponde.' When asked about the visa issues affecting his peers (Los Alegres del Barranco had their visa revoked just days before the interview), he steers clear: 'I don't want to get involved in no way with those things. We've been working our name so hard, we don't want to,' he says. 'That's why we don't put that in our shows or nothing like that.' He does touch on the assumptions of Mexican music's connections to narco-culture on the new album, though. On 'Ayy Weyy,' he sings, 'The cops pulled up, it was in a white neighborhood/They keep fucking with us because the music's loud. They broke our door down looking for the damn laundering/But all they found were diamond and platinum disc plaques.' (The song's video, with clips of a SWAT team going through his house, dropped Tuesday.) JOP would rather keep the conversation focused on the new music and how he sees the Mexican movement continuing to grow. He'll be the first to say his group is 'competing with nobody' else, since most Mexican acts are solo artists, but he's manifesting being spoken about in the same sentences as other major stars in the American market. 'Now, we're competing against Coldplay, those bands that are up there… Of course, we still need a lot to do and sell out in Brazil like Coldplay does,' says JOP. 'That's our whole goal, and that's our point. To manifest being on Anglo television, to manifest being on Anglo charts, and that's where we think we're heading with this album… We want to be the ones, the rock stars, the crazy ones — the Beatles of this genre.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Los Angeles Times
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Fuerza Regida beholds the power of manifestation in new album ‘111XPANTIA'
The members of Fuerza Regida say they manifested their dreams of becoming the hardest-working act in música mexicana. Now, a decade into their career, the multiplatinum corrido stars are marking the milestone with the release of their most spiritually minded album yet, '111XPANTIA.' Recorded in the band's hometown of San Bernardino, the 12-track LP — condensed from a total of 40 written songs — dives further into the quintet's Mexican heritage, encapsulating the group's hustle, vision and evolution over the course of its long career. 'We put a lot of thought into it, a lot of hours in the studio,' says Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, frontman of Fuerza Regida. 'Can't wait to hear what the fans think, there's something for everyone.' The band's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob, marks Fuerza Regida's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music. 'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said JOP in the press release. The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some regard as an 'angel number,' or a lucky sign; the second is the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.' The musicians of Fuerza Regida, who got their start in the business by playing cover songs at local parties in San Bernardino, know a thing or two about the law of attraction. After years spent covering legacy acts like Bobby Pulido and Los Humildes, Fuerza Regida's 2018 hit single, 'Radicamos en South Central,' fueled its momentum in the Latin music industry. In the last three years, four of the group's albums have graced the Billboard 200 chart. Although Fuerza Regida is known for its flashy public performances, the band has taken a low-key approach to the rollout of its latest LP, with the exception of the lead single, 'Por Esos Ojos.' The love ballad, which JOP sings a capella, was first performed at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year during KidSuper's runway show. The song later peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard 100. There were, however, some surprise lead-ups to the release of '111XPANTIA,' including a skywritten message over the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Easter egg hunts across select California malls. Bandleader JOP also went undercover, dressed as an elderly man, to try and sell the new CD for $1 at gas stations in Southern California. To further celebrate the album's release, Fuerza Regida will host a special pop-up at the Complex LA storefront (433 N. Fairfax Ave.) from May 2 to 4, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's the first Latin band to work with the popular streetwear and media enterprise. '111XPANTIA' is available on all streaming platforms, CD and vinyl.
Khaleej Times
24-03-2025
- Business
- Khaleej Times
Dubai property owners struggling with overdue service fees offered relief through Tayseer
To support Dubai property owners struggling with overdue service fees, the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera), has launched the Tayseer initiative. This programme offers flexible payment plans to unit owners — with a minimum term of six months — in collaboration with jointly owned property (JOP) management companies, making it easier for unit owners to settle outstanding fees. Tayseer aims to ease financial burdens on owners and contribute to greater financial stability within the real estate sector. By offering flexible financial solutions to property owners, Tayseer initiative contributes to social and economic stability and positively impacts the quality of life across the emirate. The initiative was launched following a meeting held by the Real Estate Regulatory Agency with JOP management companies, where both parties discussed mechanisms for settling current overdue service fees by property owners. It was agreed to open registration for the initiative for two months through the management companies, with a commitment from these companies not to initiate enforcement actions against unit owners while implementing the payment plan. Following the meeting, 19 companies joined the initiative, reflecting the real estate sector's commitment to supporting property owners and enhancing financial stability and sustainability within jointly owned communities. This initiative also aligns with the objectives of the 'Year of the Community,' which was announced by the UAE President under the theme 'Together, hand in hand,'. Mohammed Ali Al Bidwawi, acting CEO of the Rera at the Dubai Land Department, affirmed that the initiative reflects the DLD's ongoing commitment to enhancing the real estate sector's readiness and sustainability while strengthening public-private partnerships. He said, 'Dubai Land Department continues to launch impactful initiatives that keep pace with market developments and address the needs of property owners and investors. The 'Tayseer' initiative aligns with our vision of delivering proactive, customer-centric services that build trust and balance economic and social priorities.' Through the 'Tayseer' initiative, the DLD aims to achieve a set of strategic objectives, including reducing the number of service fee-related cases registered with the Rental Disputes Center, minimising complaints and observations, and enhancing the efficiency of service fee allocation across real estate projects. The initiative also seeks to improve the experience of property owners and stakeholders by providing seamless payment services, thereby boosting satisfaction and supporting the long-term sustainability of the real estate sector. The initiative draws its objectives from the Dubai Real Estate Sector Strategy 2033, aiming to establish flexible and sustainable service fee payment plans for property owners in collaboration with property management companies. This is designed to achieve owners' economic and investment goals while ensuring timely payments in line with the agreed schedule. Additionally, the initiative fosters collaboration among relevant stakeholders to enhance the quality of life for owners in jointly owned property projects. It also focuses on early identification, analysis, and resolution of future challenges through proactive planning to encourage payment of service charges before disputes escalate to legal action. The initiative supports national and local priorities across three key pillars. It enhances Dubai's global competitiveness by supporting the government's efforts in future foresight and fostering an enabling environment that attracts and retains investments. It also promotes sustainable development by reinforcing trust and transparency in the real estate market. Additionally, it reflects the Department's spirit of progress and leadership in service delivery, aiming to achieve the happiness of customers, employees, and partners alike. The Real Estate Regulatory Agency urges all property owners to contact their management companies directly to benefit from the initiative and calls on more management companies to join and contribute to supporting these efforts. The list of jointly owned property management companies is available on the official website of the Dubai Land Department.
Hi Dubai
24-03-2025
- Business
- Hi Dubai
Dubai's RERA Launches ‘Tayseer' Initiative to Ease Service Fee Payments
Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA), a subsidiary of the Dubai Land Department (DLD), has introduced the 'Tayseer' initiative to facilitate the payment of outstanding service fees for property owners. The initiative offers flexible payment plans with a minimum six-month term, in coordination with jointly owned property (JOP) management companies. This move is designed to alleviate financial burdens on unit owners while promoting financial stability across the real estate sector. Aligned with the 'Year of the Community 2025' initiative, 'Tayseer' underscores Dubai's commitment to strengthening community ties and fostering cooperation. By enabling structured repayment plans, the initiative enhances social and economic stability, ensuring a more sustainable real estate environment. The launch follows discussions between RERA and JOP management firms, resulting in 19 companies joining the initiative. Registration is open for two months, during which participating firms have committed not to take enforcement actions against property owners adhering to the plan. Mohammed Ali Al Badwawi, Acting CEO of RERA Mohammed Ali Al Badwawi, Acting CEO of RERA, emphasized the initiative's role in enhancing market trust and stability, stating: 'The 'Tayseer' initiative aligns with our vision of delivering proactive, customer-centric services that balance economic and social priorities.' By reducing service fee disputes, streamlining payment processes, and fostering collaboration, the initiative contributes to Dubai's Real Estate Sector Strategy 2033. It further strengthens Dubai's global competitiveness, promotes sustainable development, and reinforces trust and transparency in the real estate market. RERA urges property owners to coordinate with their management companies and encourages more firms to participate. The list of JOP management companies is available on the Dubai Land Department's official website. News Source: Cicero & Bernay
