{"id":9431,"date":"2026-03-15T01:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/superstar-qa-with-junior-h-breaking-regional-mexican-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:12:40","slug":"superstar-qa-with-junior-h-breaking-regional-mexican-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/superstar-qa-with-junior-h-breaking-regional-mexican-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar Q&amp;A With Junior H: Breaking Regional Mexican Music Rules | SXSW\u00a02026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-not-a-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJunior H sits down with Billboard\u2019s Co-Chief Content Officer, Leila Cobo, for the Superstar Q&amp;A at SXSW 2026 to chat about\u00a0 his chart-topping album \u2018DEPR&lt;\/3$$ED MFKZ,\u2019 his journey from recording music secretly in a closet to becoming the \u201cgodfather of the sad kids,\u201d and revolutionizing regional Mexican music with vulnerability and emotion. He reflects on what it means to be a \u201csad boy,\u201d how fans shaped his identity, and how Mexico\u2019s corrido ban impacted his music, leading him to shelve multiple albums. He discusses launching Sad Boy Records, signing his first artist Gael Valenzuela, his upcoming Latin America tour with plans to expand to Europe, and breaking traditional machismo stereotypes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior H sits down with Billboard\u2019s Co-Chief Content Officer, Leila Cobo, for the Superstar Q&amp;A at SXSW 2026 to chat about\u00a0 his chart-topping album \u2018DEPR&lt;\/3$$ED MFKZ,\u2019 his journey from recording&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,105,100,94,1249,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billboard","category-genre-latin","category-media","category-music-news","category-sxsw","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}