Refusing to accept the limits of the corrido style, Jorge Santa Cruz and his Grupo Quinto Elemento Santacruz are among a growing crop of new musicians who are playing “corridos visionarios." Santa Cruz earned his place on the corrido map with his signature style, "norteño tuba," and hit singles like Mas Que Una Diosa, Secuestro Express and Gerencia MZ. His group's latest album La Supermacía (June 2011) features rancheras, romantic ballads, traditional corrido melodies and newer, more experimental styles characteristic of "enfermedad masiva."

Santa Cruz's corridos often touch on the violence that has overrun his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. In fact, the title of his album is actually a reference to a longer song title, "La Supremacía Guzmán," a song, says Santa Cruz, that alludes to the near omnipotent power of drug cartel leaders like Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and one of the richest and most wanted men in the world.

Santa Cruz says he doesn't know to what extent corridos influence narco violence, but says he tries not to sing negatively or positively of the real-life characters that fill his lyrics. In the end, he says he prefers to sing romantic ballads above all else. "...Con el debido respeto a mis colegas que cantan corridos sangrientos, eso no es lo que a mí me gusta, a mí me gusta más cantar canciones románticas." [With respect for my colleagues who sing bloody corridos, that's not what I like to do, I prefer to sing romantic songs.]