One of Música Mexicana’s most popular bands will headline Sueños Music Festival in Grant Park next spring.
Sueños organizers C3 Presents announced Tuesday that Fuerza Regida, a 5-member band from San Bernardino, Calif., will headline the fifth year of the city’s largest annual Latin music festival, taking place over Memorial Day weekend 2026.
Fuerza Regida performed an afternoon set at the inaugural Sueños in 2022. The group is best known for writing norteño and regional Mexican tunes with a modern twist, particularly leaning into the corridos tumbados (known also as trap corridos) subgenre. The band has also blended its sound with other genres such as hip-hop, electronic/dance and elements of Latin American and U.S. urban music.
Their collaboration with fellow Mexican singer Gabito Ballesteros, “CHROME HEARTS,” is trending on Apple Music this week.
The band formed in 2015, originally as a cover band. Since then, the group has garnered millions of fans and its records have placed high on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums and Top Latin Albums charts.
The rest of the Sueños lineup, “featuring global heavyweights, breakthrough artists, and the diverse voices driving the future of Latin music,” will arrive early 2026, festival organizers said. The festival will take place on May 23 and 24.
Next year’s lineup is up at least 10 acts from this year, with more than 40 different artists.
Pre-sale tickets for the two-day festival in Downtown Chicago will become available at noon on Thursday. Prospective attendees can register for early access to pre-sale passes at suenosmusicfestival.com.
Shakira, Peso Pluma and Don Omar headlined the 2025 festival. Mexican regional band Grupo Frontera also headlined, despite controversy surrounding the group’s alleged support for President Donald Trump and a petition that circulated among fans to remove them from the lineup.