Maná will return to Spain after six years of absence and will perform for the first time in London – Hola News

Los Angeles (USA), Nov 29 (EFE).- Maná continues to fulfill dreams after almost 40 years of experience with a performance in London in 2024 and her return to Spain after six years of absence, a country where, according to the vocalist Fher Olvera, “the people give themselves with an overflowing passion.”

“Spain is ‘sui generis’, its people like to have fun and the part that the public plays in concerts is as if it were a fifth of Maná,” Olvera says in an interview with EFE in Los Angeles.

The group originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, will tour nine Spanish cities in 2024, starting with Barcelona on June 9 and passing through Valencia (June 13), Murcia (June 15), Fuengirola (June 22), La Coruña (June 27). June), Bilbao (June 29), Madrid (July 3), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (July 6) and the municipality of Chiclana (July 11). His time in Europe will culminate on July 13 in London.

“It is the same production that we took to Mexico and the US, a concert that lasts more than two hours where we play many songs from the ‘hits’ of our history, but also other songs and surprises,” says drummer Alejandro González.

In 2023, Maná gave 38 concerts in Mexico and the US as part of her ‘México Lindo y Dear’ tour, a tour that, according to Olvera, broke all her “expectations” with a residency in Los Angeles and sold-out venues. iconic like the Foro Sol in Mexico.

“It has been a strange but comforting phenomenon,” says Olvera. González agrees: “It is something we cannot believe. We believe it because we are living it, but we ask ourselves, how is this happening to us?

The quartet responsible for songs like ‘Rayando el sol’ or ‘Mariposa treicionera’ became the first rock band to have 16 full houses at The KIA Forum, in Los Angeles, and will now face the British public for the first time with a concert in London, an opportunity they had not had until then.

“For us, England is the mecca of rock, it is a dream and since Sombrero Verde, the first band that Juan and I had, very young, about 12 years old, we dreamed of going to touch the Big Ben tower and meeting the Beatles in the street walking,” says the vocalist.

Part of US history

While they wait for their arrival in Europe, the band also made up of Sergio Vallín on guitar and Juan Calleros on bass confesses that one of the greatest gratifications that this tour has given them, which has taken place for the most part in the United States. , has been seeing the growth not only of their music, but of Latin power in those territories.

“The Latino community was not as powerful in the US 30 years ago when we started. We saw her grow and we grew with them to the point that Maná went to play at the White House with Obama (in 2016),” Olvera remembers.

“Latinos have managed to change the presidential elections, we are living part of the history of what is happening in the United States and we are the bohemians, the narrators who are talking and putting these events to music,” he adds.

The band donated part of the profits from their last two concerts in Los Angeles to Latin street vendors in the Californian city, now they seek to support foundations that support migrants without opportunities in the United States and do not rule out finding a social or social cause in Spain. environment to support.

“Where we can we are going to do our bit. We need a campaign to remove the ‘Singing is prohibited’ from the bars of Spain,” González jokes.

Before their European tour, Maná will perform in Latin America from February to April, a place they have not returned to in eight years and where they have shows scheduled in Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Guatemala, plus two more dates at festivals in Mexico.

Tickets for the ‘Mexico Lindo y Dear’ tour through Spain and England will be available this Friday starting at 12:00 local time in Spain.

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