Neton Vega
Luis Ernesto Vega Carvajal, who performs as Neton Vega, is a singer-songwriter from La Paz, Baja California Sur, who first made his name behind the scenes, co-writing corridos tumbados for Peso Pluma's 2023 album 'Genesis' (including 'Rubicon' and 'La People') before stepping out as a performer in his own right. Breaking through across 2024-25 with hits like 'Si No Quieres No' and the Peso Pluma collaboration 'Morena,' he pairs the requinto-driven storytelling of regional Mexican music with reggaeton and urban production, reflecting a generation raised on both corridos and rap. His 2025 debut album 'Mi Vida, Mi Muerte' reached the upper tier of the Billboard 200.
Vega came up inside Peso Pluma's orbit, co-writing songs for Peso's breakthrough 2023 album 'Genesis' before the two recorded together; the fusion of traditional corrido storytelling with trap-era swagger and glossy, chart-facing production that Peso Pluma rode to global fame is the template Vega both helped build and now works in.
listen forPut Peso Pluma's 'Ella Baila Sola' next to their joint single 'Morena' and listen to the same laid-back, half-sung and half-rapped delivery riding a requinto figure, with a hook engineered to travel from a cantina to a streaming playlist.
Vega belongs to the wave of young artists who followed Natanael Cano, the musician widely credited with launching corridos tumbados by grafting trap and hip-hop attitude onto regional Mexican guitars; Cano's genre-blurring, and his later embrace of reggaeton and urbano, maps directly onto Vega's own movement between corridos and urban tracks.
listen forPlay Cano's crossover smash 'AMG' before Vega's reggaeton-leaning 'Que Motor' and hear the same trap-schooled cadence and hook-first instinct carried into musica mexicana, treating genre lines as something to slide across rather than respect.
Vega has named Ariel Camacho among the musica mexicana pioneers he grew up on; Camacho's spare, requinto-led sierreno, built on a nimble twelve-string guitar and upright bass, is the acoustic tradition Vega leans on whenever he sets the urban production aside for a straight romantic corrido.
listen forCue Camacho's 'El Karma' and then Vega's 'Sin Ti' and follow the twelve-string requinto doing the emotional work, with the same unhurried, conversational phrasing letting a heartbreak lyric land plainly.