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In new film ‘Clika,’ singer-actor Jay Dee brings corridos to Hollywood

In new film ‘Clika,’ singer-actor Jay Dee brings corridos to Hollywood

For the trap corrido singer Jay Dee, there were never any shortcuts in life. Growing up in Yuba City, he would spend hours harvesting peaches in the Northern California orchards, stacking heavy buckets of the stone fruits while enduring high temperatures and pollen-induced allergies. But this arduous, back-breaking task instilled discipline in Jay Dee, whose real name is Jesús Diego Orejel — and eventually motivated him to launch a music career as the frontman of Herencia de Patrones, one of the first corrido tumbado bands in the late 2010s. “For me [harvesting peaches is] what pieced everything together to not want to continue that lifestyle. I wanted to do something different,” says Jay Dee on a Zoom call. Now, the singer is returning to his days working in the fields to fulfill a different purpose: this time as the star of a major motion picture loosely inspired by his own life. In “Clika,” aspiring musician Chito (Jay Dee) dreams of making it big with fresh corrido tumbados, a blend of traditional Mexican ballads that contain …