2026 Coachella will make history as the first year to feature a Latina headliner — but it will also be the first edition in eight years without a música mexicana act on the bill. The absence is a surprising shift given the genre’s rapid rise in recent years, and seems to stem partially from increasing challenges in booking Mexican artists under the Trump administration.

Just last year, Junior H and Iván Cornejo carried the torch in the desert. In 2024, Peso Pluma and Carín León delivered some of the festival’s most talked-about sets. The year prior, Becky G and DannyLux took the stage, while 2022 featured Banda MS, Natanael Cano, and Grupo Firme. Back in 2019, even 2026 headliner Justin Bieber was spotted dancing along to Los Tucanes de Tijuana, a year after Los Ángeles Azules made hi

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