Maná will play a residency at The Forum in Los Angeles

MEXICO CITY – Maná volition play a performance residency adjacent twelvemonth astatine The Forum successful Los Angeles, a metropolis they see their 2nd location and successful which they person breached assemblage records.

For the Mexican popular stone group, the existent situation volition beryllium to support preforming unsocial shows and they committedness that they volition not halt scheduling dates if the nationalist asks for more.

“We’re precise excited, precise blessed to beryllium back, it’s much than 2 years since we played our past show,” said drummer Alex Gonzalez via videocall from the band’s hometown of Guadalajara, México.

The residency announced connected Monday volition statesman adjacent twelvemonth with the archetypal dates scheduled for March 18 and 19 and April 22 and 23. Tickets volition spell connected merchantability Friday via Ticketmaster.

“Los Angeles is similar our 2nd location aft Guadalajara, and that’s fundamentally wherever our vocation started erstwhile the full ‘rock en español’ question took off," helium said. “Our archetypal amusement was astatine the Hollywood Palladium backmost successful 1993 erstwhile we were touring with ‘¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños?’ and from determination it exploded and took disconnected to the remainder of the state successful the United States.”

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Los Angeles’ emotion for the band, which has won 4 Grammys and 7 Latin Grammys, hasn't abated. In 2019 Maná broke a grounds astatine The Forum with 7 concerts successful a year, beating Kanye West and The Eagles.

“It’s going to beryllium amusive and breathtaking and affectional due to the fact that we don’t cognize what the result is going to be. We’re not reasoning astir breaking records, we’re reasoning astir ‘let´s spell and play and play arsenic agelong arsenic radical privation to spot america there,’” said González.

The residence volition person 2 monthly concerts, with much dates added to acceptable demand.

“We’re readying connected a batch of antithetic things, the setlist, we’re readying connected inviting guests,” said González, who added that the accumulation volition beryllium wholly antithetic from their latest Rayando el Sol Tour.

“We wanted to springiness the fans a really, truly awesome experience. We privation this to beryllium thing that they volition remember, that they volition cherish," helium said. “It’s thing that we won’t bash again. This is simply a erstwhile successful a beingness thing.”

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Maná has intimately watched the reemergence of concerts aft the pandemic shutdown and preferred to hold until adjacent twelvemonth successful hunt of much stableness wrong and extracurricular the industry.

“We wanted to hold and conscionable fto things settee successful truthful radical tin recoup economically,” said González. “We’ve been ever really, truly disquieted astir our fans and we privation them ever to beryllium happy.”

After 35 years of releasing hits specified arsenic “Rayando el Sol,” “Oye Mi Amor,” “De Pies a Cabeza,” “Labios Compartidos,” “Bendita Tu Luz” and “Mi Verdad,” they person nary plans to halt performing.

“I anticipation that Maná tin beryllium a set that tin travel the footsteps of different celebrated and important bands similar Aerosmith, that they’ve doing it each their life, oregon U2, oregon the Stones,” said González. “We’ve been practicing aft a agelong clip of not playing unneurotic and the unthinkable happening was that erstwhile we got into the rehearsal country the vigor was conscionable truthful amazing... It’s similar you enactment the intermission button, and past you took the intermission fastener disconnected and it was similar thing had happened.”

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Being capable to execute successful a azygous metropolis without having to spell connected an planetary circuit volition let the set to proceed moving connected caller releases, including 1 of duets of their hits. Their adjacent workplace medium volition beryllium released successful 2023, and the set is anxious to contiguous caller euphony aft their “Cama Incendiada” of 2015.

On Thursday they volition merchandise a precise Mexican mentation of their “Mariposa Traicionera” with Alejandro Fernández, which volition beryllium portion of their duets album.

“It’s been amusive to bash this project,” said González. “It’s a mode to bash versions of songs that were hits, oregon radical like, but with different artists that besides similar Maná.”

Speaking of different celebrities who similar Maná, precocious the band’s vocalist, Fher, had a peculiar show interpreting the classical Mexican determination euphony opus “El Rey” during the combat betwixt Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Caleb Plant that ended with the Mexican boxer becoming the undisputed ace middleweight champion.

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“I loved it,” said González astir the presumption that helium watched portion celebrating his wife’s birthday. “I deliberation it was a large combat and helium is simply a idiosyncratic that is giving it each to enactment the sanction of Mexico precise high.”

González said helium was blessed to enactment a person who is besides from Guadalajara: “As you cognize we played astatine his wedding. There’s a beauteous relationship of galore years and it was a large dainty that Fher was with Canelo supporting him."

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