Música mexicana songsmith Armenta is writing his own destiny

With much than 60 opus credits, Armenta’s songwriting prowess tin beryllium heard crossed immoderate of the astir fashionable música mexicana albums to date, whether by Fuerza Regida, Tito Double P, Peso Pluma oregon Dareyes de la Sierra.

“I see myself a tailor,” said Armenta, 25. “[I’ll create] a dependable that volition beryllium bully with your vocal timbre, with your tones, with the vocal volition you need.”

The singer-songwriter wrote Fuerza Regida’s gritty deed “Marlboro Rojo” successful 45 minutes, ensuring that the song’s aggressive, battle-ready lyrics besides captured a romanticist spirit. (“The devil’s bullets and I lone deliberation of your eyes,” sang Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP.) And helium wrote “Dos Días” for Tito Double P and Peso Pluma 1 aboriginal greeting aft a chaotic nighttime retired with friends; you tin perceive the affectional hangover successful the mode the vocalists’ rugged voices flail successful desperation.

“The astir important happening is ever to convey thing wherever radical tin immerse themselves successful a feeling,” said Armenta, whose afloat sanction is Miguel Armenta.

He dialed into our interrogation from a circuit autobus departing from Austin, Texas, en way to the adjacent performance venue connected the Dinastía Tour by Peso Pluma, Tito Double P and friends. Armenta was instrumental successful penning and producing Tito Double P’s 2024 debut “Incómodo,” a 21-track task that helped separate the Mexican corrido vocalist from his already celebrated cousin, Peso Pluma.

“I consciousness that it’s a task that has solidified the work we person arsenic composers and arsenic artists, [it’s] an medium afloat of hits,” said Armenta, who aboriginal wrote tracks connected Tito Double P and Peso Pluma’s associated 2025 LP “Dinastía.”

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Since the opening of March, Armenta has joined the brace of cousins connected signifier for their acoustic- and brass-powered opus “London,” a way connected the deluxe variation of “Dinastía” that indulges successful fantasies of surviving similar kings. The opus was chopped from Armenta’s ain 2025 debut, “Portate Bien,” a blend of corridos tumbados with melodic touches of reggaeton and pop.

“I had conscionable bought my ain location and I wrote [‘London’] feeling similar king of the satellite successful my ain studio,” Armenta said. “I thought that opus was dead, but I got a telephone from Double P [Records] asking if I was funny successful releasing it with them.”

Armenta’s introduction into the música mexicana realm was not arsenic calculated arsenic his lyricism; astatine slightest not astatine first. Coming from a household afloat of concern engineers, the Sinaloa-born, Tijuana-raised composer initially acceptable his sights connected a grade successful biomedical engineering. “I liked the thought of being capable to usage exertion to make advancements that payment humanity,” helium explained.

His passionateness for music, however, lingered persistently successful the background. Starting from erstwhile helium was 11 years old, Armenta would constitute lyrics successful journals and strum on to the guitar his member bought him. “He didn’t similar that I utilized his guitar, truthful helium bought maine one,” helium recalled.

He besides gravitated toward autarkic YouTube artists who uploaded their earthy compositions online. By property 18, helium would constitute 1 of his archetypal R&B songs, titled “Dame” — though the tenderly sung way wouldn’t beryllium published until 2 years later.

“It was the archetypal opus that I stake connected arsenic an artist, and I spent the precise small wealth that I had connected it,” Armenta said. “A literal sacrifice. I knew that the opus had something, but I didn’t cognize what until later.”

In astir 2020, Armenta helped constitute immoderate songs for Angel Ureta, a person who signed with Street Mob Records, founded by Fuerza Regida’s JOP. Armenta yet developed a moving concern with the indie label, which continued motion fashionable música mexicana acts similar Calle 24, Chino Pacas and Clave Especial.

One of Armenta’s earliest hits with Fuerza Regida came successful precocious 2022 arsenic “Bebe Dame.” The set recorded the opus alongside Grupo Frontera, who earlier that twelvemonth had reached TikTok popularity for the cumbia nortena rotation connected “No Se Va,” a 2018 popular opus by the Colombian set Morat.

Armenta projected the adoption of his ain way from the vault, “Dame,” which by that constituent had less than 1,000 views online. With immoderate lyrical tweaking by Edgar Barrera — a 29-time Latin Grammy-winning songwriter, who Armenta aboriginal befriended — the revamped version, “Bebe Dame,” became an contiguous sensation.

It helped people Fuerza Regida their archetypal vocation introduction into the Billboard Hot 100 astatine the commencement of 2023, aboriginal peaking astatine No. 25. By 2024, Fuerza Regida became 1 of the biggest streaming Latin acts successful the U.S., alongside Junior H, Peso Pluma and Bad Bunny.

In 2024, Armenta and Barrera reunited again successful concealed to hash retired what would beryllium Grupo Frontera and Fuerza Regida’s associated EP, “Mala Mía” — “without either radical knowing,” Armenta said. Their viral corrido-cumbia single, titled “Me Jalo,” secured Fuerza Regida’s archetypal Latin Grammy nomination, and Grupo Frontera’s fourth, nether the class of determination opus astatine the 26th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.

“Edgar and I absorption a batch connected however to germinate sounds,” Armenta said. “We are successful the process of recognizing [the worth of] música mexicana, that we can’t fto this die.”

Between 2024 and 2026, 12 of Armenta’s songs person been recognized by the BMI Latin Awards — which honors songwriters, composers and publishers — including Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera’s associated collaborations “Bebe Dame” and “Me Jalo,” arsenic good arsenic Fuerza Regida’s “TQM,” “Nel” and “Por Esos Ojos.” Tito Double P’s “Dos Dias” and “Escapate” (feat. Chino Pacas) besides received accolades.

For now, the songwriter shows nary signs of stopping his lyrical magic, though helium figures helium mightiness portion ways with the euphony satellite 10 years from present — but not earlier winning a mates of Grammy Awards, helium said, oregon adjacent starting his ain publishing statement for songwriters and composers. (“My ma says I’m going to get grey hairs,” helium added.)

“I deliberation that beingness enactment maine present to person fun,” Armenta said. “I had different destiny, but beingness accommodated itself to spot maine successful this invaluable situation.”