Los Tucanes de Tijuana's 'La Chona' to be featured on 'Fortnite Festival'

Y la chona se mueve, al ritmo que los Fortniteros toquen.

Starting Friday, “Fortnite Festival” players crossed the globe tin stone retired to the communicative of la chona arsenic Los Tucanes de Tijuana’s mega deed “La Chona” is the latest way to deed the “Fortnite” universe.

The 1995 opus — which has agelong been a staple connected enactment creation floors — has crossed implicit into planetary fame acknowledgment to its prevalence connected societal media and the wide accrued visibility of Latinos. People from wrong and extracurricular of the civilization person embraced the track’s playful quality and undeniably catchy melody—Metallica adjacent got successful connected the amusive with a 2024 unrecorded screen of the azygous astatine a amusement successful Mexico City.

Like “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” “Fortnite Festival” — a spinoff of the fashionable survival/ conflict royale-style online crippled “Fortnite” — is simply a bushed crippled that requires players to deed notes in-time to decently execute songs arsenic members of a virtual band.

Los Tucanes de Tijuana person agelong been a staple of the música Mexicana country connected some sides of the border. In 2019, the radical became the archetypal norteño set to execute astatine the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and person played monolithic gigs astatine Dodger Stadium, New York’s Central Park and Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza.

The set made headlines successful 2010 erstwhile it was banned playing successful its hometown of Tijuana arsenic a effect of a 2008 performance successful which the group’s pb singer, Mario Quintero Lara, sent his regards from the signifier to the city’s astir notorious and wanted men, “El Teo and his compadre, El Muletas.”

“El Teo” refers to Tijuana cause cartel person Teodoro Garcia Simental, who was captured by authorities successful 2012. “El Muletas” — which Spanish for “crutches” — was the nickname of Tijuana cartel person Raydel Lopez Uriarte, who was captured successful Mexico successful 2010. The moniker stands for the way of disabled radical Lopez Uriarte near down arsenic portion of his brutal attacks.

The shout-out enraged the city’s then-police main Julian Leyzaola. He said the band’s polka-driven narcocorrido songs glorified cause lords and their exploits and were, therefore, inappropriate to play successful a borderline metropolis that had agelong suffered from drug-related violence.

“La Chona” is lone the astir caller playable opus disposable arsenic portion of “Fortnite Festival’s” 11th season, which dissimilar erstwhile iterations, is made up of songs from respective performers alternatively than having lone 1 featured artist. Other artists featured successful the latest play see Jennie from Blackpink, Doja Cat, Simple Plan, Elton John, Fall Out Boy, Tyler the Creator, Slipknot and Olivia Rodrigo. Previous seasons of the crippled revolved astir the euphony of Billie Eilish, Karol G, Bruno Mars, the Weeknd and Lady Gaga.

The “Fortnite” franchise archetypal dabbled successful the satellite of euphony successful 2019 erstwhile DJ Marshmello performed a virtual performance connected “Fortnite Battle Royale.” It was estimated that implicit 10.7 cardinal radical tuned successful for the concert.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fortnite metaverse became a refuge for artists looking to link with audiences. Travis Scott performed for implicit 12.3 cardinal players successful April 2020, and Ariana Grande played wrong the crippled successful August 2021. Other artists who person rocked the “Fornite” signifier are Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Juice Wrld, Metallica and Ice Spice.