Listen to El Amarre

Breaking with the Costa Rican garage and ambient waves of the past decade, singer-songwriter Fauricio Alfaro, better known as F.A.V., has emerged as a colorful weirdo melding cumbia, hip-hop, and glitch to create his own brand of brain-rot sonidero. Sometimes introspective (“Amigos Imaginarios”) and others staunchly political (“No Hablo con Fachos”), we’re keeping our sights on F.A.V. as tropical music resurges worldwide in the wake of Bad Bunny. ~ Rolling Stone, 25 Spanish-Language Artists We’re Rooting For in 2025.