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  Somos Leyenda Album ∙ Música Mexicana ∙ 2025 Grupo Maximo Grado “In 2012, when world-ending theories were circulating, I got so stuck that I said to myself, ‘If this happens, I don’t want to be anywhere else but home with my children and wife,’” Christian Félix—leader, composer, and vocalist of Grupo Maximo Grado—tells Apple Music. “And if it doesn’t end, then brace yourselves, because I’m going to give my all.” Thirteen years later, the bet that the Baja Californian made with his future—leaving other people’s projects to focus on his own—seems to have paid off. Grupo Maximo Grado has established itself as the very definition of contemporary corrido, with a special composition style that’s key to the development of the genre. Félix celebrates that mystical anniversary by recording new duets with the cream of the crop from corrido’s last decade. Together they reinterpret Grupo Maximo Grado’s most iconic songs, the ones that soundtracked nights of partying while also laying a found...