:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elfinanciero/37WVHO5WJNCJBGFEO65JARR4CU.jpg "“Mexican Singer Featherweight Meets Soccer Star Edson Álvarez at Johan Cruyff Arena”")
The Mexican singer Peso Pluma continues to be successful in Mexico and abroad and as an example is his compatriot soccer player Edson Álvarez, with whom he met this Tuesday at the Johan Cruyff Arena from Ajax Amsterdam.
Despite being on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Edson Álvarez, defender of Ajax in the Eredivisie, is one of the new followers of the singer of ‘lying corridos’who has become a very popular musician on Spotify and Tik Tok in Mexico.
Featherweight is on a trip to the Netherlands and took the opportunity to visit the soccer player from the Mexican team at the Ajax stadium, who gave him a shirt with his alias and the number 77 – alluding to the song ‘Playera 77’, one of his hits on Spotify.
“My brother pulled with a gift and everything, my brother invited me to Johan Cruyff”the singer shared in his Instagram stories with the photograph of both.
Who is Featherweight?
His name is Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija and he is a musician of the urban genre and corridos tumbados or ‘belicones’, a fusion of regional Mexican music with urban genres, such as rap and trap. He is originally from Guadalajara and is currently 23 years old.
Featherweight has gained fame thanks to social networks, mainly Tik Tok, for his songs and collaborations with other singers and fashion groups, such as Natanael Cano, Junior H and Eduin Caz, vocalist of Grupo Firme.
He has also stood out for the theme of his songs, which advocate drugs and drug trafficking.
At the moment has more than 18 million monthly listeners on Spotifyand some of his songs exceed 100 million views, such as ‘AMG’, ‘PRC’, ‘El belicón’ and ‘Siempre pendientes’.
Featherweight wanted to be a soccer player and played for Chivas
The Jalisco singer of lying down corridos confessed in an interview that when he was in high school played in the basic forces of the Chivas de Guadalajarabut sometimes he did not attend training sessions because he was on a ‘party’.
“My dream was always to be a footballer and we fell here by the work of fate. I always wanted to be a footballer, but yes I played in Chivas basics, there in Verde Valle. I trained with José Juan Macias, ask him ”, he recounted in the podcast ‘Enjoy the trip’ by Jesús Ricardo Angulo.
