The 30-date tour, titled after the band’s famed 1992 ballad, will kick off on Sept. 5, 2025, with back-to-back exhibits in San Antonio.
In the course of the tour, Maná is slated to interrupt the document for essentially the most area exhibits carried out in Los Angeles following 4 scheduled exhibits on the Kia Discussion board in November, in line with a stat by Stay Nation. The band members’ 44 performances will topple Bruce Springsteen’s beforehand held document of 42 concert events in L.A.
“For us, it’s always a pleasure to play in Los Angeles. The Latino community is big and you can feel the warmth,” mentioned Sergio Vallín, the band’s guitarist.
Already this yr, Maná has made historical past as the primary primarily Spanish-language act to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
If inducted, the Mexican band would be part of the brief checklist of Latino artists within the Rock Corridor: Ritchie Valens, Linda Ronstadt, Carlos Santana, Joan Baez and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Towards the Machine.
“The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination is a message that Latinos are an important force in the U.S., hard-working people,” added González.
Tickets for the Vivir Sin Aire tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 14, at 10 a.m. PT.
De Los spoke with the band — Fher Olvera, González, Vallín and Juan Calleros — on the heels of their tour announcement. The next interview has been translated from Spanish to English and edited for readability.
First off, congratulations on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame nomination. How does it really feel to be the primary Spanish act to be nominated?
The nomination additionally demonstrates the trajectory of Maná within the U.S. So we take this recognition and we share it with our Latino group that has at all times supported us since we’ve began enjoying within the U.S. in 1993 once we first went to Los Angeles.
With this new tour, you’re breaking a brand new L.A. document with essentially the most area exhibits. How does it really feel to listen to that?
Sergio Vallín: Los Angeles has at all times been a metropolis that we have now been touring for a few years. It’s going to be 44 concert events in among the most vital venues, together with the Kia Discussion board. For us, it’s at all times a pleasure to play in Los Angeles. The Latino group is huge and you’ll really feel the heat.
Do these milestones ever daybreak on you?
Fher Olvera: Within the story of Maná, it has by no means been to get to a sure level, however fairly to benefit from the course of.
As this new tour comes, for us it’s vital to alter the manufacturing elements. That’s the kind of course of that I’m speaking about. It’s that transformation from one second to the subsequent with a brand new tour, with a brand new sensation, and together with a brand new vibe for Latinos for higher or for worse, there was a sequence of points [in the community]. However music heals. So this new trajectory has made us all completely satisfied. And if we do get inducted [in the Hall of Fame], it’ll be nice. If not, it’ll nonetheless be OK, I’m telling you from the underside of my coronary heart.
For us, an important factor is that we preserve having fun with the concert events, the group singing, how folks overlook all the things round them and such submerge themselves on this atmosphere of Maná. It offers us purpose, it empowers us. Really, Latinos empower us, Los Angeles empowers us.
What’s occurring proper now, politically and socially is historic. We should not have concern. We have now to maintain combating. Latinos are necessaries for the North American group. With out Latinos, and their working energy, this nation will change into paralyzed. And Maná has at all times held up a band of unity, of hope and of not giving up.
What wouldn’t it imply to be inducted within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in gentle of President Trump’s anti-immigrant insurance policies?
González: Properly, the problem right here is that there’s a racial profiling part. In the event that they see you as a sure pores and skin tone, whether or not you’re an American nationwide or not, they arrive for you. That ought to not exist. Like Fher mentioned, that’s the message of Maná.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame nomination is a message that Latinos are an vital drive within the U.S., hard-working folks. We’ve at all times tried to contribute one thing to the Latino group, placing in our grain of sand, whether or not or not it’s in regard to our scholarship, our help of Dreamers and farmworkers. Like Fher mentioned, it will be important that the world contribute one thing to raised society wherever you reside.
So I consider [the nomination] is a message that after the storm, the solar at all times comes out.
A proportion of the ticket gross sales will go to new programming, “Latinas Luchonas.” Fher, inform me extra about that new initiative and why it’s so vital to you.
Olvera: It was an concept that the band needed to honor my mom, Rosario (could she relaxation in peace), who was a widow from an early age and did her finest to help her household. It got here from that idea that there are various single moms who’re widowed or won’t have the assets to help themselves. “Latinas Luchonas” will assist give scholarships to ladies entrepreneurs who need to construct their enterprise. There can be teaching, monetary help.
For me, it’s wonderful as a result of rattling, ladies have to separate themselves in three to have the ability to survive in a sexist society. We’re seeing the tip of an iceberg of ladies contributing enormously.
There are numerous acts that don’t use their platform to speak about social points. What’s your opinion of that?
Vallín: I consider everyone seems to be free to make use of their platforms nonetheless they like, however it might be finest if those that do have that potential to achieve folks accomplish that with , optimistic message. It may very well be good issues referring to well being, music, human rights. A optimistic message is at all times welcomed. Everybody can use their platform for no matter they need, however I consider it’s vital to unfold fact, justice, human rights and values.
