Raymix

Edmundo Gómez Moreno (born 17 February 1991), better known by his stage name Raymix, is a Mexican musician and aerospace engineer.

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 a church.

Nicknamed El Rey de la Electrocumbia ("The King of 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.

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 Armin van Buuren's 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, Raymix was invited to work in a NASA educative internship, where he helped to develop a satellite.

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 (composer of "Guaracha sabrosona") borrowed him his loudspeakers, and with two cellphones and 3,000 pesos he recorded a music video for the song.

Around 2015, Raymix gained popularity thanks to the song "Oye Mujer", a well-known track among tianguis sellers, sonideros, and illegal music distributors.

In 2015, Gómez was unable to get a job in the US despite his academic accomplishments and qualifications.

"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.

"Oye Mujer" became the 99th most-listened song of 2017 in Mexico.

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 a single and also was remixed and launched as a duet with Colombian singer Juanes.

The song topped the Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay and Tropical Airplay charts.

Additionally, it reached number 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and has been certified 14× multi-platinum (Latin) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Diamond + 2× Platinum by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON).

On his 18th birthday, Gómez was given a MIDI controller, with which he started to compose trance songs.

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.

In April 2018, a remixed version of "Oye Mujer" was released as duet with Colombian singer Juanes.

In the United States, "Oye Mujer" topped the Billboard Tropical Airplay and the Regional Mexican Airplay charts, where it stayed for 11 consecutive weeks on the former chart.

"Oye Mujer" ended the year as the most-performed song on both charts.

It also charted at 7 on the Hot Latin Songs, and 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.

In Mexico, the song it peaked atop the Top 20 chart, and it reached number 9 on the Airplay chart.

"Dónde Estarás" was released as the follow-up single in March 2018.

It charted at 3 on the Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay, and at 28 on the Hot Latin Songs.

The remix of "Oye Mujer" and "Dónde Estarás" became the 12nd and 33rd most-played songs of 2018 in Mexico, respectively.

On 25 February 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Oye Mujer 2× multi-platinum (Latin).

In Mexico, the album was certified Platinum by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON).

On 25 February 2020, the RIAA certified "Oye Mujer" 14× multi-platinum (Latin).

On 25 February 2020, the RIAA certified "Dónde Estarás" 2× multi-platinum (Latin).

Other releases off Oye Mujer include "Perdóname", "Ángel Malvado", and "Primer Beso"; all of them received an AMPROFON certification.