Grupo Mojado

Grupo Mojado emerged as an innovative force in Mexican regional music, exploring styles that ranged from pop and grupera ballads through cumbia, ranchera, bolero, and huapango to occasional reggaeton. The group formed in 1992 and signed immediately with Fonovisa, releasing La Gorda, which reached number three on the Mexican Regional Albums chart. Muerto arrived in 1993 and Sin Fronteras in 1994. Sueño y Realidad, issued in 1996, marked their breakthrough; its singles “Caldo de Pollo” and “Piensa en Mi” both entered the Hot Latin Songs chart, the latter receiving the Lo Nuestro award for Best Regional Mexican Song while the album climbed inside the Top 20 on the Latin Albums chart. Every release the band issued during the 1990s landed inside the Top 25 of the Mexican Regional Albums chart.

By 2000 the musicians had performed throughout Mexico as well as the United States, the Caribbean, South America, and Southern Europe. That year they delivered three studio albums—Tonta 1 and 2, collections of humorous material, and Los Angeles Tambien Bailan. The next year brought La Familia, a set of songs carrying Christian lyrics across varied genres. During the opening decade of the new century the group posted further entries on the Top Latin Albums chart; their first major hits anthology, 30 Inolvidables, reached the Top Five on two separate tallies. Although commercial momentum eased after the 2006 release of Amarte Es un Castigo, Grupo Mojado kept recording, expanding their catalog beyond 2,000 songs that continued to cross multiple styles. Their final active studio year before a lengthy break came in 2009, when they issued the reggaeton project Skizo’, the well-regarded Las Viejas Mas Buenas, and the live album Arena. The band maintained a touring pace of roughly 200 dates annually yet ceased new recordings, although Fonovisa and WEA International continued to issue compilations that sustained their presence. In 2017 they appeared on the multi-disc Grandes Duetos set released by Discos America alongside Bronco, Industria del Amor, and Liberación.