Latin Mafia Made It to the Top By Feeling It All

Rolling Stone en Español Latin Mafia Made It to the Top By Feeling It All The brothers poured their most vulnerable thoughts into a wildly successful debut LP. After tons of rest and therapy, they're ready for more By Pablo Monroy Pablo Monroy View all posts by Pablo Monroy PHOTOGRAPHS by @directony April 5, 2026 B efore our interview begins, Milton de la Rosa — one of the vocalists in the Mexican band Latin Mafia — is busy playing the harmonica. “It’s crazy. It’s relatively simple until it isn’t. Playing clean notes is hard. We’re working on that right now,” he says as his twin brother Emilio and his older brother Mike arrive. Latin Mafia, made up of the trio of brothers, just arrived from a trip to Paris, capping off an intense year that shot them to the top of the Latin music scene. During a rare break, they speak with Rolling Stone en Español about their latest project — and how they’re working on their mental health, learning new things, reflecting on success, and taking their career to the next level. The guys have known how to step out of their comfort zone and evolve when necessary, breaking rules, and understanding that music is felt deeply. With that approach, they have connected with an increasingly large audiences, going from 200-person crowds to 200,000-capacity venues. Clearly, their closeness as brothers came long before they became a band. They shared bunk beds since they were little — the kind with a mattress that slides out from the bottom. “We’ve always been very close. We played football, went to music lessons together. We’ve always been a very close-knit family. We slept in one room, in a three-tier bunk bed,” Emilio says. “Even after we’d been able to make a living from music for quite some time, when things were going relatively well for us, we still lived at our parents’ house… Closeness isn’t something new for us; it’s something we’re very, very used to,” Milton adds. “I think that’s been pretty key to our dynamic as a project, not just as b...