Roberto Tapia heads back to Celebrity Theatre for Valentine's weekend

The regional Mexican singer last played Phoenix at the same room in June 2023; he returns on Saturday, February 13.

When Roberto Tapia last came through Phoenix, on June 17, 2023, he played Celebrity Theatre. More than three and a half years later, he is coming back to the same room — and the calendar has done the promoters a favor. The date is the night before Valentine's Day.

Roberto Tapia plays Celebrity Theatre on Saturday, February 13, 2027. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are sold through the venue's own site, celebritytheatre.com. The date was announced October 26. Celebrity Theatre holds about 2,650 people, which is a sizable crowd for a regional Mexican date in this town and a good measure of where Tapia stands with Phoenix audiences.

For anyone who has only heard the name, Tapia's story runs on both sides of the border. Wikipedia lists his birth name as Carlos Roberto Aguirre Tapia and says he was born in San Diego and is based in Culiacán. His biography describes a musical education that started young: at 9 he entered the Difocur school of music in Culiacán, specializing in clarinet while also learning guitar and percussion, and he played with groups including the Symphony of Sinaloa. His family returned to the US when he was 13, and his professional debut came at 17 in Tijuana, alongside fellow Sinaloan artist El Lobito de Sinaloa.

The early 2000s were his apprenticeship years. In 2001 he worked in a touring trio called Los Trillizos with Gerardo Ortiz and Espinoza Paz — two names that would go on to their own big careers — and his self-titled debut came out on Sony International in 2002, blending norteño with hip-hop and electronica. The albums that followed, including *Los Amigos del M* (2008), *El Niño de la Tuna* (2009), *El Muchacho* (2012) and *Esto Es Sólo El Comienzo* (2017), built a reputation rooted in corridos. Qobuz credits the lasting power of songs like "El Niño de la Tuna" for much of that success. He also became a familiar face on television as one of three coaches on the first two seasons of *La Voz Kids*.

Same room, same city, and this time the night before Valentine's Day.

He hasn't slowed down on the release side. A Boba Records listing on Qobuz shows *El Regreso De Roberto Tapia* dated October 10, 2025, and Qobuz's regional pages list a string of 2026 releases as well, including "Mi Destino Fue Quererte" and "Que Siga La Mata Dando." His touring has kept a steady West Coast rhythm, with fairground and arena-style dates across California earlier this year.

That pattern — big rooms, steady releases, a loyal audience that knows every word — is the context for this return. A repeat booking at the same 2,650-seat theater says the 2023 night went well enough to bring him back.

What to expect: a long night of corridos and romantic songs from a catalog that now stretches across more than two decades, delivered to a crowd that will sing along whether or not anyone asks them to. On a Valentine's weekend Saturday, expect plenty of couples in the seats.

Tickets are through Celebrity Theatre directly. If you're planning a date night around it, plan early.

Sources: Roberto Tapia (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Roberto Tapia (Qobuz) (qobuz.com); Roberto Tapia (Qobuz, releases) (qobuz.com); Roberto Tapia (Qobuz, 2026 releases) (qobuz.com); Biografía de Roberto Tapia (Buscabiografías) (buscabiografias.com); Roberto Tapia biography (AllMusic) (allmusic.com); Celebrity Theatre (celebritytheatre.com); Roberto Tapia at Celebrity Theatre (JamBase) (jambase.com)