For Californians, this year has been marked by loss: over 14 wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area in January, upending lives and neighborhoods. By the time the summer rolled around, devastation hit immigrant communities as ICE raids resulted in the arrest of hundreds across Southern California and the Central Coast . When their home base needed help most, the San Bernardino-based Mexican-American group Fuerza Regida stepped up to turn urgency into action, earning the title of Variety Hitmakers Humanitarians of the Year.

“When the fires happened in the city, it was crazy — everything unfolded so fast,” explains frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz. “As a band, and along with the Street Mob [Records] family, we knew we had to go out there and help. We wanted to directly reach the familie

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