Kinky: 25 years of partying
Their new song "Hac la de pedo" marks a new stage in the life of the band
Kinky has already completed 25 years of career, but that does not mean that the desire to party for this group from Monterrey has diminished.
Quite the opposite. What's more, their new song, titled “Hacélla de pedo”, marks a new stage in the life of the band, a stage in which celebration and partying continue to be the common thread. The music composed by the fusion quintet of electronic music, rock, funk and Latin rhythms is impregnated with that.
“Each album for Kinky always represents new beginnings, new adventures,” said Ulises “El Licensed” Lozano, keyboardist, accordionist and producer of the combo originally from Monterrey, Mexico.
The song is part of “Cruzando”, the album that Kinky plans to release in the second half of the year and which represents the first time since the pandemic that the group meets in person to record material. The album, which was produced by Money Mark, contains ten unreleased tracks in which the quintet explores new sounds.
At the same time, the boys are preparing “Kinky Cumbia Hits,” a remake project that they hope to release alongside “Cruzando.” There will be eight songs that are included in the debut album, “Kinky”, which was released in 2000, but whose new versions will have different and contemporary rhythms and arrangements.
“Armanla de pedo”, for its part, is inspired by the relationship that Gil Cerezo, the group's vocalist, has with a friend who, as Gil himself describes, complains about absolutely everything. So in honor of that experience, they wrote that song, although in reality the song—like many from this band—consists of repeating that phrase over and over again.
“That's where the inspiration came from,” said Ulysses. “He [Gil] said, 'I have a phrase for that song that I think will go very well,' because the song is very energetic, very passionate, it invites you to party, to chaos.”
And since Kinky has always had that vision within his music; That is, the party and the merriment, said the interviewee, “Armanla pedo” represents all that.
Kinky—who begins his Primera Vuelta 2026 tour this weekend in Southern California—gave a mambo touch to the aforementioned cut that stands out for the inclusion of certain metal instruments, as heard in the songs of Dámaso Pérez Prado, the absolute king of mambo.
“We were a little inspired by Pérez Prado with the rhythms and the mambo he has,” he said. “Obviously brought into the world Kinky, which is like electronica, a little bit of Brazilian rhythm and funk.”
What will the purists say? Well, it's something that doesn't keep Kinky up at night because “they always make fun of us [complain about our mergers],” said Ulises. “That's why we made it, so that people finally have something to say, just to make them mad.”
For their 25th anniversary tour, the boys will carry under their arms their remakes of all of “Kinky,” the album that launched them to stardom a quarter of a century ago. And what their fans can expect is a lot of rhythms, a lot of fusion, and of course, a lot of partying.