There’s not a particular sound to it, there’s a variety of sounds that you can incorporate.” The trio believes that by combining sierreño, corridos tumbados and other styles with psychological candor, young performers are helping birth a vital new musical idiom. “Right now there’s a lot of different instruments being added onto the music. “I think our genre is in its prime right now,” says Trujillo, the band’s lead singer.

native who’d been posting soulful covers of Ivan Cornejo and Los Dareyes de la Sierra on TikTok, and met up when Calixto and Valenzuela took a seven-hour Greyhound bus ride to L.A., where all three now dwell. Then one day online they spotted Liz Trujillo, 18, a South L.A. After Calixto moved to Arizona, they started jamming after wrapping up their day jobs at Walmart and Subway. Ashleee Valenzuela, 23, its Arizona-bred requinto guitar player and principal songwriter, first connected online with bajo guitarist Sandra Calixto, a 20-year-old Texan who learned to play from YouTube videos.

Conexión’s name alludes to the Vicente Fernández song “Mujeres Divinas” and also to how theīand merged forces via social media.

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