Thousands of music fans gathered at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio on Friday, April 3, to see Mexican superstar Peso Pluma take the stage. It came right after the “Dopamina” singer visited an area high school he attended as a teenager.
Videos from the concert went viral over the weekend, including the moment that the artist, whose real name is Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, sat among audience members inside the venue. Others shared a more tense part of the evening, when a surprise guest performer was booed as they came out on stage.
The 26-year-old has been bringing out other musicians for his 30-date U.S. Dinastía by Peso Pluma & Friends Tour. The Alamo City crowd was surprised by “Por Mujeres Como Tú” singer Pepe Aguilar, a four-time Grammy Award winner who was born in the Alamo City. Past attendees at other shows have been Julian Mercado and reggaeton artist Ryan Castro, per the HoustonPress.
Clips on social media show Peso Pluma setting up Aguilar’s appearance. He says it’s an honor for him to be there and that Aguilar is a hallmark of regional Mexican music.
“I respect him with my soul, my life, and my heart,” Peso Pluma says in a video. “He’s an artist I’ve always listened to since I was a kid up to today.”
“You all got so unlucky,” Ana Salcedo wrote. “We got Ryan Castro in HTX.”
Another TikTok user, @Mariela 5613, wrote that they “stopped liking him when he made an unnecessary comment about how Latinos should do things the legal way to come to the U.S. …” adding that “Its really hard to do things the ‘right way.'”
At the 2025 Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Latin Times reports Aguilar saying, “let’s do things legally so there are no f****** excuses, so we can truly be part of this wonderful country that was built on laws and will remain strong because of that.”
It’s also not the first time Aguilar’s star power has flickered. Rodeo Houston attendees were peeved when the San Antonio native was announced as headliner for Tejano Night this January.
Today, Peso Pluma has over 27 million monthly listeners on Spotify. His Frost Bank show sold out, according to a comment left by the venue on the artist’s Instagram.