Latin Artist on the Rise – Billboard

When Lili Zetina was a toddler, she used to fake that the sheep she was feeding in her household’s humble ranch had been an viewers, and he or she’d placed on a present for them. Her earliest reminiscences of feeling that need to sing was when she was 3 rising up within the state of Michoacán in Mexico.

“My childhood was troublesome as a result of we had been very poor,” shares Zetina. “However residing in poverty marked my life and it now makes me worth what God provides me each single day.” Music grew to become an escapism out of that world. And it was additionally what actually fed her soul. “For me music was and can at all times be my consolation and a form of launch of pleasure or grief.”

Though music was a part of her day by day life, with Chalino Sánchez and different corrido artists soundtracking her life, pursuing a profession in music appeared unimaginable. So she put aside these desires. She married younger and emigrated to the U.S. looking for the so-called Sueño Americano, or American Dream. Since, she’s been hustling, going from waitress to singing at eating places (the identical she was waitressing in) and now a promising corridos profession, making a reputation for herself in a male-dominated house. Her songs comparable to “Te Cobraron Caro Los Años” and “El Grande De U,” like all corridos at their core, inform tales of hardships.

“My type of writing songs I don’t suppose I ever realized the way to write a track, really, I didn’t even know I might write,” she says. “However from the dangerous, one thing good at all times comes out. So, my first track was born out of a betrayal. From then on, I simply wrote about stuff that occurred to me as a result of different persons are going via these things too.”

Zetina, who launched her personal recording label, Zetina Information, to launch her personal music, says that whereas there’s nonetheless inequality within the style, sharing success tales like hers will encourage a brand new era of regional Mexican artists. “I feel it would at all times be onerous,” she begins. “However I’ve at all times mentioned, folks will begin believing in you while you show to them that you simply imply enterprise.”

For now, Zetina needs to proceed being an impartial artist and continue to grow her model on her personal. “I’ve my very own label and I don’t say this to brag. As a lady, nobody will actually help you. And we’ve to point out males to worth and respect us on this style.”

Zetina is about to be a part of the Ladies on the Rise panel at this yr’s Billboard Latin Music Week, which will likely be moderated by singer/songwriter Elena Rose. She’ll be joined by fellow rising acts comparable to Tini, Emilia Mernes, Tokischa and Mariah Angeliq. The dialog will happen Tuesday, Sept. 27, on the Faena in Miami.

The thirty second version of Latin Music Week, the longest-running Latin music business gathering on the planet, will likely be filled with back-to-back appearances by artists comparable to Chiquis, Ivy Queen, Camilo, Romeo Santos, Maluma, Grupo Firme and Chayanne, to call just a few, all through the week in Miami.

Beneath, get to know this month’s Latin Artist on the Rise:

Identify: Lilia Zetina Marin

Really helpful Music: It’s robust to choose however “Hola Papá” might be the track that defines me. I by no means thought I’d be a songwriter; I simply write what I really feel. However this one notably, each time I really feel disappointment in my coronary heart, I keep in mind about it. I wrote it for my father.