Natanael Cano
Natanael Rubén Cano Monge was born in 2001 in Hermosillo, Sonora, and taught himself piano and guitar as a boy before uploading his first song, 'El de los Lentes Gucci,' as a teenager — a track that fused trap phrasing with sierreño corridos into what he would call corridos tumbados. Jimmy Humilde signed him to Rancho Humilde in 2019, and a 'Soy El Diablo' remix with Bad Bunny that year pushed the new hybrid into the mainstream. He is widely credited as the pioneer of corridos tumbados, and his blueprint — regional Mexican strings under a rapper's cadence and swagger — reshaped a generation of Mexican music.
Cano has named Ariel Camacho among his influences, and the sierreño requinto-and-tuba trio format Camacho popularized is the acoustic backbone Cano kept even as he layered trap flows on top of it.
listen forSet Camacho's romantic 'Hablemos' beside Cano's 'Amor Tumbado' — the same tender, requinto-led ballad shape, but Cano loosens the phrasing into a half-sung, half-rapped tumbado cadence.
Cano has cited Bad Bunny as an influence, and Latin trap's blunt, melodic swagger is a core ingredient of corridos tumbados; the two made the link explicit on the 2019 'Soy El Diablo' remix, where Bad Bunny raps over Cano's corrido.
listen forHear Bad Bunny's early trap anthem 'Soy Peor,' then the 'Soy El Diablo' remix where his verse slots over Cano's tuba-and-guitar corrido — the trap cadence Cano absorbed, meeting its source.
Cano has named J Balvin among his influences; Balvin's glossy, melodic reggaeton and urbano crossover ambition inform the more polished, radio-facing side of Cano's later corridos tumbados.
listen forCompare the smooth, hook-forward reggaeton of Balvin's 'Ginza' to the sleek, club-ready swagger of Cano's 'AMG' — both chase an effortless, melodic flex built for maximum replay.