Grupera
Grupera is a Mexican pop style played by groups with electric guitars, keyboards and drums, mixing romantic ballads with cumbia, norteño and ranchera.
It started in the 1960s and 1970s with bands inspired by rock and roll groups, and was at its most popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Songs are usually sentimental and easy to dance to, with synthesizers taking the role that brass or accordion plays in other regional styles. That electric, keyboard-heavy band sound is what marks it off from banda and norteño.
Artists it is known for: Los Bukis, Los Temerarios, Bronco.
- Family
- Regional Mexican
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Mexico, 1970s
- Also called
- grupero, onda grupera
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have grupera among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Grupera artists
Grupo Frontera
Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga
Selena
Christian Nodal
Los Tigres Del Norte
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón De Rene Camacho
Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda
Joan Sebastian
Calibre 50
Cardenales De Nuevo León
The grupera artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.