Gerardo Ortiz

Gerardo Ortíz, a regional Mexican singer and songwriter focused on corridos and ballads, gained mainstream traction in 2010 via the album Ni Hoy Ni Mañana and the string of hit singles it generated. He ranks among the principal creators of the alternative corrido movement.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, he issued his first full-length project in 2009, the live recording En Vivo las Tundras on Del Records. The next year brought his major-label studio debut, Ni Hoy Ni Mañana, distributed through Sony Music; the set climbed into the Top Five of the Billboard Top Albums chart on the strength of tracks including "A la Moda," "En Preparación," "El Trokero Lokochón," and "La Última Sombra."

En Vivo Desde el Gibson Amphitheater arrived as a live album in 2011, while the studio release Primer Ministro followed in 2012, reflecting a broadening approach that embraced polished romantic ballads still embraced by longtime listeners.

He ventured further on 2013’s Archivos de Mi Vida by folding mariachis and cumbias into the arrangements, securing his fifth consecutive number-one placement on the Mexican Regional charts. Heartened by that performance, he released the advance single "El Cholo" in early 2015, which reached the Top Five, then delivered the full-length Hoy Mas Fuerte; the album attained the top position within two weeks of its May release.

January 2016 brought two separate television features on distinct networks: the concert film Como un Sueño, previously shown in theaters, debuted on Telemundo, followed by the four-episode biographical documentary Gerardo Ortiz: Sin Censura on NBC Universo, which examined his off-stage routine.

That same year he toured and joined the judging panel of Estrella TV’s reality competition Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento. In July 2016, however, Federal Police detained him at Guadalajara Airport in Mexico on "apología del delito" charges linked to the music video for "Fuiste Mia," which officials found excessively violent.

He returned in 2017 with Comere Callado, Vol. 1 (subtitled Connorteno: Tuba y Guitarras), his sixth studio album, which reached number two on Top Latin Albums, number one on Mexican Regional albums, and number 101 on the Billboard 200. Vol. 2 followed, fronted by the Top Five single "El Aroma de Tu Piel."

The full-length Más Caro, Que Ayer appeared in 2020 and spotlighted the track "Otra Borrachera."