Eme Malafe, El Malilla and El Bogueto are La Trinidad. (Spotify)
The MEXCLA Spotify stage was the perfect place for Mexican reggaeton to show its strength on the music scene. A space used in a very special way by El Malilla, El Bogueto and Eme Malafe, who presented for the first time their joint project: LA TRINIDAD, a team with which they seek to take Mexican perreo to an even higher level.
Behind the chatter in the Bicentenario Park, LA TRINIDAD exclusively told Infobae Mexico Where did the idea of creating this group come from? Although they were tired after giving such an intense show, upon hearing that they will soon be the favorite “boyband” of Mexicans, the three of them laugh. According to them, it was the vision of Martín Geovanni Aldana Cervantes, better known as Eme Malafe, that promoted this collaboration.
“Martín was the one who brought us together. We all got along well, at the end of the day there was a relationship, but he was the one who insisted on doing something collaborative between the three of us,” El Malilla said. “From that phone call he told me ‘I want to do a project.’ I said yes, carnal. We went to the studio and from the first day we made two hits,” added El Bogueto.
El Malilla, El Bogueto and Eme Malafe present LA TRINIDAD. | Cover: Jovani Pérez, Infobae México.
Last Sunday, November 3, LA TRINIDAD took to the main stage of the Spotify festival. Although fans expected to hear their usual hits, the group surprised them with a listening party in which they presented the six songs that will be included in their first musical work as a team. The response from the public was even better than they expected. “I saw people singing songs they didn’t know, carnal. I don’t know how they do it,” commented Eme Malafe, laughing.
“We are very happy because this carnal project has already seen the light, after a year of working on it, yes, no… well, thank God we have already managed to make it happen, and today we present the six unreleased songs here for the first time,” said El Bogueto.
For LA TRINIDAD, working together has been easier than it seems; They describe their collaboration as “well-crafted chemistry.” That special connection was key to making this project a reality. The creative process, as they explain, is so natural that they even compare it to “getting together to play play with your friends.”
La Trinidad confesses that working together was like “playing play with your friends.” (Photo: Luis Angel H Mora)
“I think it was achieved so damn well because clearly, clearly, there is a great chemistry in the studio. You get together with these carnals and the songs came out one after another. And everyone put their magic into it. That’s something difficult to explain, but you realize when you’re on stage and you see that people are liking it because there was some really cool magic behind it that made all this come out,” shared Eme Malafe.
The trio was not afraid to experiment and explore different styles within the genre. Their new songs cover a variety of sounds, from energetic and “thuggish” reggaeton to romantic ballads. For them, this diversity is key, as it reflects their own tastes and desire to offer something new to their audience. “These are topics that people do not know about and they are topics in which people have not known us. For example, there is a ballad, there are beautiful reggaeton songs, there is mischief, there is perreo,” they detailed.
Although they are confident that they have “suits” or possible successes within their six songs, they recognize that it will be the public who decides. “We can say ‘this is the hit’, but at the end of the day the public is the one who decides, and we saw that emotion, that euphoria that the public gave us today at MEXCLA,” added El Malilla.
La Trinidad on stage at MEXCLA Spotify. (Spotify)
El Malilla, known for several years as a representative of Valle de Chalco, said on stage that the creation of this team responds to the need for the neighborhoods of Mexico City and the State of Mexico to communicate and achieve musical reach even greater. Next to him are El Bogueto, from Nezahualcóyotl, and Eme Malafe, from the Morelos neighborhood in the Mexican capital.
For the three of them, reggaeton in Mexico is born from the neighborhoods, places where, they say, it emerges authentically. For them, this music is more than a genre; It is a representation of their environment and the experiences they live, something that the audience can deeply identify with.
“The reggaeton here is going to come out of the neighborhoods. No matter how cool the band was, the reggaeton from here, from Mexico, was going to leave the neighborhoods and it was achieved, carnal. It was possible to get out of some neighborhoods that clearly no one saw. Nobody thought that the stars of some time would come from there,” Eme Malafe proudly shared.
The Bogueto. (Photo: Luis Angel H Mora)
Far from copying the reggaeton born in Puerto Rico, these artists seek to make their sound something completely Mexican. “Mexican reggaeton has already had a longer struggle, right now we are the main faces, but there were already DJs, there were producers, there were already people who were there day after day trying to make this happen. How happy that we are, because at the end of the day we are three faces that work every day and that we are hard and tough,” explained El Malilla.
At MEXCLA Spotify, the audience responded with a unique energy. The fans showed that they had been waiting to see them together for a long time. Curiously, they were the ones who baptized the group. “The truth is we didn’t have a name. The name is given because we uploaded a photo, right? And people commented ‘The Trinity’ and we said, ‘well that’s it’. People are saying it, so let the public ask what they ask,” said the boy from Valle.
The golden trio of Mexican reggaeton spoke with Infobae México about their participation in the MEXCLA Spotify and about their new project ‘La Trinidad’
THE TRINIDAD will not stop with this initial presentation. The group announced that their first single, “La Motora,” will be released this Wednesday, November 6, along with an official video. This premiere marks the beginning of a series of audiovisual productions that will accompany each of its songs. When asked about a possible tour, they responded enthusiastically: “Delighted. That tour is going to be expensive for the businessmen, so get together.”
“You said it, it’s the most amazing fucking boy band that’s going to exist in Mexican reggaeton. “That’s fast,” concluded Eme Malafe excitedly and to applause.
