We asked Peso Pluma about his first hit. Then he hung up on us
LOS ANGELES — The hottest new star in music just hung up on me.
Mexican singer Peso Pluma, 23, has quickly risen from TikTok sensation to the Coachella main stage with Becky G to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart — where last month, his starry-eyed folk ballad with California trio Eslabón Armado, "Ella Baila Sola," or "She Dances Alone," made history as the first regional Mexican song to reach No. 1.
That same month, Peso Pluma became one of the five most-listened-to artists on Spotify, alongside Bad Bunny, Drake, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd.
When we speak over Zoom, he's in Mexico City, shooting one and engulfed by designer jackets, today the MC is simply dressed in black T-shirt and jeans, emphasizing his fair, freckled skin and shaggy brown mullet.
