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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
El Fantasma
Person · male · Mexico · Durango · born 1989
Mexican singer, songwriter and musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography156 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364902148
Biography
Alexander García (born December 2, 1990), known professionally as El Fantasma, is a Mexican singer-songwriter of regional Mexican music, particularly known for his corridos. He was a finalist at the 2019 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Life
García was born in Las Cañas, Durango. He worked as a gardener for six years before becoming a singer.
He performs regional Mexican music; especially corrido songs about hardworking people. On social media, fans nickname him the "King from the Underground."
His nickname began because his friends and family call him El Fanta. He was a finalist at the 2019 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
In 2019, García's single "Encantadora" charted No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay. On August 14, 2021, his single "Soy Buen Amigo" also charted No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay. It also charted 27 on Hot Latin Songs. In October 2023, he appeared in "GDL", a song with Fuerza Regida from their album Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | 9,405,948 | 33.9th |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put El Fantasma head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | 9,405,948 | 33.9th |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
popularity—kworb.net · no licence published · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://kworb.net/spotify/listeners.htmlcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98853525genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98853525seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fantasma_%28singer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fantasma_%28singer%29
Why this artist is in the database
- Spotify monthly listeners (kworb.net) — rank #1408 · 9,405,948
El Fantasma
Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 9,405,948, 2 language versions)
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q98853525 · MusicBrainz: 576c18cd-f18a-4701-baf3-45edc8f85bd9
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