A year ago, they were picking fruit with their dad. Today, they're the hottest act in Latin music

A year ago, 15-year-old Yahritza Martinez was playing soccer for A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, Wash. When she wasn’t on the pitch, she and her four brothers and sisters would wake up early in the morning to help their father pick fruit in the Yakima Valley.

“Yeah, it’s crazy, because it was our first song ever,” says 24-year-old Armando Martinez, who plays the 12-string guitar. “Like, we hadn’t released nothing at all.”Mando, as he’s known, began playing 12-string guitar six months ago. His younger brother Jairo Martinez, 17, plays the acoustic bass known as the bajoloche, which he learned last summer after growing frustrated trying to learn guitar. Yahritza first picked up the guitar about a year ago.

Mando was born in Jiquilpan in the Mexican state of Michoacán — the same place their parents were born — while Jairo and Yahritza were born and raised in Yakima. Yakima is known for its agriculture and vineyards, and the siblings are no strangers to the long hours and labor it takes to keep up that reputation. Their father started taking them to the fields when they got a bit older to teach them his fruit-picking secrets and how to make money in the fields.“Once you start getting older, you hit the field with your parents,” Mando said. “Ever since we were like 10 or 11, we’d go help my dad pick apples, cherries, pears.

The band notes lo-fi Mexican singer-songwriters like Kevin Kaarl and Ed Maverick as two of their influences. But it’s clear that Yahritza y Su Esencia has a style all their own. “It was, ‘Oh, you’re not gonna find anybody better than me.’ That’s where I got the idea from,” Yahritza said.Megan Thee Stallion spoke with CBS’ Gayle King about a shooting allegedly involving fellow rapper Tory Lanez, who was charged with assaulting her.

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