Maybe if they weren’t my songs, there wouldn’t be an issue.

But that didn’t fit into Calibre 50’s style or concept, which was very much hard-core norteño and banda. For example, if it was a ballad, perhaps it could have been more minimal in terms of production, add a little guitar to make it pop or just have a simple piano tune power it. Sometimes during production or post-production I would make suggestions that weren’t taken into consideration. “I realized that as a group, we were a concept, but we weren’t the type of artists who give concept to a song. “The first time I noticed something was off was back in 2015,” Muñoz says during a phone call interview with Billboard, two days after announcing he was going solo and had signed a record and management deal with indie label Lizos Music (Banda MS, Natalia Jiménez).

But this decision was something that the 31-year-old Mexican singer-songwriter and producer meditated on carefully and for quite some time, he explains.

The band ate breakfast together, joked on the bus, and went onstage to sing their norteño anthems, just like they had for the past 12 years.Įxcept it wasn’t like any other show: It would be the last time Edén Muñoz, the band’s frontman and accordionist, would perform with his longtime bandmates (Armando Ramos, Alejandro Gaxiola, and Erick García) before officially announcing and launching his solo career.įor many, the announcement seemed out of the blue - rash even. Calibre 50‘s concert in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday seemed like any other show.

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