Raymix (musician)


Edmundo Gómez Moreno, better known by his stage name Raymix, is a Mexican musician and aerospace engineer. Nicknamed El Rey de la Electrocumbia, Raymix started his music career in the early 2010s, when he joined a trance project called Light & Wave with two other Mexican musicians. Their song "Feeling the City" was featured on the Armin van Buuren radio show A State of Trance. In 2013, Raymix was invited to work in a NASA educative internship, where he helped to develop a satellite.
Around 2015, Raymix gained popularity thanks to the song "Oye Mujer", a well-known track among tianguis sellers, sonideros, and illegal music distributors. Raymix signed with Universal Music Latin Entertainment and in 2018 he released his debut album Oye Mujer. During the same year, "Oye Mujer" was re-released as single and also was remixed and released as a duet with Colombian singer Juanes. The song topped the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. Additionally, it reached number 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, and has been certified 14× Multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and Diamond + 2× Platinum by the Mexican Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas.

Early life and career

Edmundo Gómez Moreno was born on 17 February 1991, in San José El Vidrio, a community located in Nicolás Romero, State of Mexico. Multiple members of his family are musicians, including his grandfather, his cousin, and his father is a grupero musician. When he was a child, Gómez learned to play the keyboard, and his father taught him Los Tigres del Norte songs. Additionally, he learned singing and to play the drum kit, the guitar and the organ at church.
On his 18th birthday, Gómez was given a MIDI controller, with which he started to compose trance songs. Between 2011 and 2012, Gómez joined two other Mexican musicians and they created Light & Wave. Their song "Feeling the City" was featured on two episodes of the Armin van Buuren radio show A State of Trance. Around this time, Gómez was studying aerospace engineering at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, in Mexico City, for a space systems degree. In 2013, Gómez joined a NASA education internship, where he helped to develop an education satellite. During his time there, he listened to cumbias and, in 2014, he composed "Oye Mujer". According to Raymix, Alberto Pedraza borrowed him his loudspeakers, and with two cellphones and 3,000 pesos he recorded a music video for the song. In 2015, Gómez was unable to get a job in the US despite his academic formation and qualifications.

2015–2019: Breakthrough and ''Oye Mujer''

"Oye Mujer" became popular among sonideros and was illegally distributed in tianguis markets. In 2016, Raymix went on his debut tour in the United States. While Sony Music Latin, Warner Music Latina and Universal Music Latin Entertainment contacted him, Raymix ended up signing with Universal Music. His debut album, Oye Mujer, was released on 16 February 2018. The album peaked at 3 on the Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart, 7 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, and at 9 on the Tropical Albums chart. On 25 February 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America certified Oye Mujer 2× Multi-Platinum. In Mexico, the album was certified Platinum by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas.
In April 2018, a remixed version of "Oye Mujer" was released as duet with Colombian singer Juanes. In the United States, "Oyer Mujer" topped the Billboard Tropical Songs chart, where it stayed for 11 consecutive weeks. It also charted at 7 on the Hot Latin Songs, and 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100. In Mexico, the song topped the Mexico Top 20 chart, and it reached number 9 on the Mexico Airplay chart, and topped the Regional Mexican Airplay. On 25 February 2020, the RIAA certified "Oye Mujer" 14× Multi-Platinum.
"Dónde Estarás" was released as single. It charted at 3 on the Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay, and at 28 on the Hot Latin Songs. On 25 February 2020, the RIAA certified "Dónde Estarás" 2× Multi-Platinum. Other releases off Oye Mujer include "Perdóname", "Ángel Malvado", and "Primer Beso".
"Oye Mujer" became the 99th most listened song of 2017 in Mexico. The remix of "Oye Mujer" and "Dónde Estarás" became the 12nd and 33th most played song of 2018 in Mexico, respectively.

2019–present: ''Fake Lover''

In 2019, Raymix released his extended play Fake Lover. "Tú Eres La Razón ", a remix of the La Arrolladora Banda El Limón song, was released as single. It was followed by "Te Fuiste" on 30 October. In March 2020, Raymix released "Tú y Yo" with Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio, In the US, it reached number 5 on the Tropical Songs chart, 16 on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart, and number 41 on the Latin Airplay chart. In Mexico, it topped the Mexico Top 20 chart and the Mexico Popular Airplay chart, and reached number 4 on the Mexico Airplay chart.
In May 2020 Raymix released the song "Olvídame Tú" with Mexican sonidero ICC.

Music style and stage name

Raymix defines his music style as a mixture of electronic music subgenres with cumbia, which he calls "electrocumbia". His stage name is a combination of a nickname, "Ray", and "Mix" because of his interest in electronic music. A friend of his coined it while at college. Raymix is also known as "El Rey de la Electrocumbia".

Personal life

On 5 June 2020, Raymix released a video where he came out as gay, saying "Today I am freer, happier than ever because now I know that I can express myself as I really am", and added that some acquaintances advised him to not do so because they consider that people are not prepared for a gay regional or cumbia musician.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

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Awards

In 2018, Raymix was nominated at the 4th Annual Latin American Music Awards for New Artist of the Year and Favorite Regional Mexican Song for "Oye Mujer".
In 2019, Raymix was nominated at the 31st Lo Nuestro Awards for Revelation Artist of the Year, Regional Mexican Male Artist of the Year and Regional Mexican Song of the Year for "Oye Mujer". He was nominated at the 6th iHeartRadio Music Awards for Best New Latin Artist. At the 26th Billboard Latin Music Awards Raymix won Regional Mexican Song of the Year, and was nominated to New Artist of the Year, Regional Mexican Artist of the Year and Regional Mexican Album of the Year for Oye Mujer. He won Favorite Regional Mexican Album at the 5th Annual Latin American Music Awards for Oye Mujer.
In 2020, Raymix was nominated at the 32nd Lo Nuestro Awards for Regional Mexican Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for "Tú Eres La Razón ".