Mexican rock legends Maná will play seven shows at the Forum in L.A. next year, breaking a record held by Kanye West and the Eagles. 'We were really craving getting back onstage,' says their frontman. 'It’s like a bull being released into a bullring'
“We’ll be here until people ask us to stop. So, it could two months, four months, one year, who knows?” he says on the phone from Puerto Vallarta, where the band’s studio is located. The singer-songwriter is endlessly warm and upbeat, laughing as he’s briefly interrupted by a chorus of boats passing through the beachside town where he spent much of the pandemic. After months of lockdown, the band can’t wait to get back onstage: “It’s like a bull being released into a bullring,” he adds.
Los Angeles is like our second home. It’s a city that to Maná — and to a big part of the Latino cultural world — is very important. Los Angeles has so much that’s special. It has a huge Latino community. It’s a place wherehave a lot of history, where we played at a small venue called the Los Angeles Palladium almost 30 years ago. When we played there, it was almost like the rise of this monster effect, because I remember all the tickets to that show sold out.
Throughout our career, we’ve released some 10, 11 albums — which is actually not that much compared to rock bands who have released, like, 40. We’ve always released a lot of songs — like on ¿?, there were, like, six singles, and on others, there were five or six. That’s all to say that we have a lot of songs that people are hoping to hear. The set lists will always be different, so this is the good news: Every show will be different.
That’s exactly the issue. We didn’t know what to do with so much adrenaline! After 30 years of getting up onstage and experiencing everything — all the emotions that come with it — it’s not easy to just stop. We’ve played from the bakeries in Guadalajara to stadiums in Spain with thousands. There’s been everything. But then it all freezes up and you go, “ay, güey!” We were really craving getting back onstage. It’s like a bull being released into a bullring.
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