Singer Alicia Villarreal, a leading figure in the grupero and regional Mexican genre, presented this Monday her upcoming tour ‘Bendita locura’, a “brave” project -which she herself produces- to surprise the public with new guests and songs that will recall her more than 30 years of career.
“It will be an incredible night in which you are only going to hear the hits that the public has achieved with me,” he explained in a media conference about his upcoming concert on May 14 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City.
After months of rehearsals and a hard selection of her classics and the production of new versions, Villarreal (1970, Nuevo León) lands again on the stages of Mexico to prove that she is capable of pushing herself in a complex industry for women.
“The industry, the truth, has been a difficult thing for me, a fight, a war, -because I am a woman- in which I have had to let go,” laments the artist, who began singing professionally at the age of 17 and is now a symbol of regional Mexican classics with songs like ‘Vete’ (1995).
In addition to producing ‘Bendita locura’, the composer said that this year she will release two albums with different versions of her songs, since the genre she represents is now listened to “even in Europe”.
“I am very happy that we can realize that regional Mexican music has transcended in recent times, that artists in Europe and even in other languages are singing it,” said the singer known to the public as ‘La Jefa’.
Villarreal was in the spotlight last year, when at a concert in the state of Michoacán (western Mexico) she made the internationally recognized gesture as a sign of help in cases of gender violence, denouncing the aggressions of her then husband and leader of the band Kumbia Kings, Cruz Martínez.
Regarding the legal process she is pursuing against Martinez, she said she hopes for justice for her and the rest of the women who suffer violence in Mexico, a country where an average of ten women are murdered every day.
“I really believe in the laws, they are clear, only people do not execute them as they should be and it is very desperate, not only for me, but also as a woman, because I have had many cases that have approached me and I don’t know how to help them because I don’t know how to help myself,” she delved.
“It’s been more than a year and I’m still there,” he sentenced about this complaint that Villarreal filed on February 16, 2025.
Before going solo in 2001, reported Agencia EFE, the two-time Latin Grammy winner was part of Grupo Límite, which she accompanied on stage for six years as its lead singer.
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