Must-see Latino acts at Coachella 2025: Junior H, The Marías and more

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is known for elevating immoderate of the champion up-and-coming Latin acts successful the manufacture — and this twelvemonth volition beryllium nary different.

Despite the downsize from past year’s historical 21 Latino performers, the divers lineup, from música Mexicana stars to experimental popular singers, volition battalion a punch astatine the Empire Polo Club successful Indio for the adjacent 2 consecutive weekends. Most of the billed acts volition beryllium making their Coachella debut.

Here are immoderate Latin artists we’re astir excited to spot astatine this year’s Coachella.

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Rawayana

Coachella amended crank up the festival cornetas for Venezuela’s Rawayana. The Grammy-winning tropical popular set gained planetary popularity pursuing the merchandise of its 2023 workplace album, “¿Quién Trae las Cornetas?” — oregon “Who Brought the Speakers?” — arsenic good arsenic an electrifying 2023 “Tiny Desk” performance, which has garnered much than 8 cardinal views to date. “We had to permission our state and commencement from zero, and I deliberation it’s chaotic that present we are recognized by the Recording Academy,” said vocalist Alberto Montenegro earlier this year, conscionable earlier his set won the Grammy for Latin stone oregon alternate album.

Rawayana volition execute connected Saturday, April 12 and April 19, astatine 11 p.m. connected the Gobi stage.

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The Marías

The L.A.-based indie-pop quartet, led by Puerto Rican vocalist María Zardoya, volition instrumentality to the godforsaken signifier for a 3rd time, pursuing appearances successful 2018 and 2022. This twelvemonth they’re touring their sophomore medium “Submarine,” a heart-wrenching ode to the breakup of founding members Zardoya and drummer-producer Josh Conway. As Zardoya told The Times successful 2024, these are “crying successful the club” songs.

While heartbreak would people acceptable immoderate set off-course, the affectional fallout has lone propelled the Marías — which includes guitarist Jesse Perlman and keyboardist Edward James — to greater success. The medium peaked astatine No. 17 connected the Billboard 200, a caller grounds for the set since its enactment successful 2016. “It was specified a beauteous infinitesimal due to the fact that we overcame truthful overmuch unneurotic and it feels similar a household now,” said Zardoya. “We’re stronger than ever.”

The Marías volition execute connected Friday, April 11 and April 18, astatine 8:20 p.m. astatine the Outdoor theater.

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Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso

Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso are bound to amp up the Coachella assemblage with their captivating kooky vigor and … pumped-up pecs?

Following the viral occurrence of their “Tiny Desk” appearance, Catriel “Ca7riel” Guerreiro and Ulises “Paco Amoroso” Guerriero released a nine-track EP, “Papota,” titled aft the Argentine word for anabolic steroids. Their Coachella debut comes astatine an breathtaking clip for the longtime friends, who astir precocious performed a riotous acceptable connected “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “We’re going to usage each our artillery,” Ca7riel told De Los of their Coachella performance. “All the magic tricks are going to beryllium there, conscionable similar the assemblage likes it, truthful it should not beryllium missed!”

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso volition execute connected Friday, April 11 and April 18, astatine 9:30 p.m. connected the Gobi stage.

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Judeline

Soon to enchant the assemblage with her honeyed vocals is Judeline, the Spanish Venezuelan vocalist known for her heavenly physics popular lullabies. She’s gotten praise from chap Spanish prima Rosalia, who boosted Judeline’s 2024 debut album, “Bodhiria,” connected her socials, arsenic good arsenic J Balvin, who invited her to unfastened his Que Bueno Volver a Verte circuit successful Europe. “If you request a small of Andalusia astatine Coachella, travel to my acceptable and unwind for a bit,” she precocious told Teen Vogue. “It’s going to beryllium fun.”

Judeline volition marque her U.S. debut astatine Coachella connected Saturday, April 12 and April 19, astatine 3:50 p.m. connected the Sonora stage.

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El Malilla

With reggaeton Mexa connected the rise, it’s lone just for the genre’s starring artist, El Malilla, to present the question connected the planetary Coachella stage. While drafting inspiration from Puerto Rican singers similar Arcangel and eventual collaborators Jowell & Randy, the Mexico City atrocious lad besides incorporated acquainted elements of his ain upbringing into the music, helium told Rolling Stone.

“[Our sound] is antithetic from Puerto Rico and Colombia due to the fact that we usage our ain slang,” said El Malilla. “Using our ñerismo [cadence] and codes of our barrios.”

El Malilla volition execute connected Saturday, April 12 and April 19, astatine 9:50 p.m. astatine the Sonora stage.

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Arca

The experimental Venezuelan music-maker Arca has antecedently worked arsenic a shaper and collaborator with specified philharmonic powerhouses arsenic Kanye West, Björk, FKA twigs, Rosalia and Frank Ocean. This spring, Arca is taking her frenetic euphony to Coachella for the archetypal time, astir 4 years aft the merchandise of her astir caller album, “Kick IIIII” — though she has precocious cooked up remixes for Addison Rae and influential Japanese creator Hikaru Utada.

In a performance reappraisal from 2015, The Times’ August Brown noted Arca’s undeniably entrancing signifier beingness and energy. “Arca worked to propulsion the boundaries of what creation and beingness tin consciousness like. ... When she climbed offstage and half-rapped, half-shouted implicit a bone-snapping footwear drum, the assemblage took her successful arsenic 1 of their own.”

Arca volition execute connected Sunday, April 13 and April 20, astatine 8:35 p.m. connected the Gobi stage.

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Junior H

A rising prima from the corridos tumbados movement, Junior H is taking the main signifier astatine Coachella this year, conscionable 1 twelvemonth aft helium appeared arsenic a peculiar impermanent during Peso Pluma’s 2024 set. The Mexican vocalist has collaborated with galore of the heavyweights of the corridos tumbados, Latin trap and reggaeton world, including collaborations with Rauw Alejandro, Natanael Cano, El Alfa, Grupo Frontera and Peso Pluma.

Junior H’s meteoric emergence was made evident done 2024’s streaming data. He finished the twelvemonth astatine No. 5 connected Spotify’s Top 10 Global Latin Artists list, down lone Peso Pluma for the rubric of most-streamed música Mexicana artist.

Junior H volition execute connected Sunday, April 13 and April 20, astatine 7 p.m. connected the Coachella main stage.

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Alok

According to DJ Mag, the Brazilian bass creator has been ranked arsenic a Top 5 DJ worldwide consistently since 2020. Well-regarded successful his location country, Alok had a breakthrough deed successful the U.S. with his 2016 way “Hear Me Now,” which reached No. 20 connected the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. He has worked with acts crossed the philharmonic world, including Steve Aoki, Tove Lo, Seu Jorge, Kylie Minogue and Luis Fonsi.

Alok volition execute connected Saturday, April 12 and April 19, astatine 4:10 p.m. connected the Sahara stage.

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Ivan Cornejo

A autochthonal of Riverside, Ivan Cornejo got his archetypal sensation of fame aft his opus “Esta Dañada” went viral connected TikTok successful 2021. Whereas different música Mexicana acts person built monolithic audiences by singing astir their much bellicose escapades, Cornejo has made a sanction for himself by focusing connected matters of the heart.

“I consciousness similar america Mexicans person ever been romantic,” Cornejo told The Times successful 2024. “I deliberation the astir romanticist songs are successful Spanish.”

Cornejo volition execute connected Saturday, April 12 and April 19, astatine 7:15 p.m. connected the Mojave stage.