Gerardo Ortiz

Gerardo Ortiz is an American singer, songwriter and record producer in the Regional Mexican genre.

Even before his voice changed, Gerardo Ortiz knew he wanted to be a musician. While performing at a baptism party in Sinaloa, Mexico, at the age of 8, a label executive asked if he wanted to record his first album. Since then, he has helped transform the regional Mexican genre by creating a musical fusion of provocative corridos and emotional ranchera ballads with bachata, urbano and drug ballads known as narcocorridos.

Over his 10-year career, the Mexican American artist, now 31, has earned six No. 1s on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart and eight No. 1s on the regional Mexican albums list. His most recent LP, Más Caro Que Ayer, released in 2020 through BadSin/Sony Music Latin, debuted and peaked at No. 7. By the end of 2010, Ortiz was the top-selling regional Mexican act, and he won six honors at the inaugural Billboard Mexican Music Awards the following year, including artist and new artist of the year. The two-time Grammy Award nominee has earned 2.1 billion career on-demand streams, according to MRC Data.