The 30-date tour, titled after the band’s famed 1992 ballad, will kick off on Sept. 5, 2025, with back-to-back reveals in San Antonio.
Through the tour, Maná is slated to interrupt the document for probably the most area reveals carried out in Los Angeles following 4 scheduled reveals on the Kia Discussion board in November, based on a stat by Dwell 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 record 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 all the time supported us since we’ve began enjoying within the U.S. in 1993 after we first went to Los Angeles.
With this new tour, you’re breaking a brand new L.A. document with probably the most area reveals. How does it really feel to listen to that?
Sergio Vallín: Los Angeles has all the time been a metropolis that we’ve got 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 all the time a pleasure to play in Los Angeles. The Latino group is massive 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 facets. That’s the kind of course of that I’m speaking about. It’s that transformation from one second to the following 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 comfortable. 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, a very powerful factor is that we maintain having fun with the concert events, the gang singing, how individuals neglect every little thing round them and such submerge themselves on this setting of Maná. It offers us motive, it empowers us. Really, Latinos empower us, Los Angeles empowers us.
What’s taking place proper now, politically and socially is historic. We should not have worry. We now have to maintain preventing. Latinos are necessaries for the North American group. With out Latinos, and their working energy, this nation will develop into paralyzed. And Maná has all the time 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 mild of President Trump’s anti-immigrant insurance policies?
González: Nicely, the difficulty 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 pressure within the U.S., hard-working individuals. We’ve all the time 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 is vital that the world contribute one thing to raised society wherever you reside.
So I imagine [the nomination] is a message that after the storm, the solar all the time comes out.
A share 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 lots of single moms who’re widowed or may not have the sources to help themselves. “Latinas Luchonas” will assist give scholarships to girls entrepreneurs who wish to construct their enterprise. There can be teaching, monetary help.
For me, it’s superb as a result of rattling, girls 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 girls contributing enormously.
There are a lot of acts that don’t use their platform to speak about social points. What’s your opinion of that?
Vallín: I imagine everyone seems to be free to make use of their platforms nevertheless they like, however it will be finest if those that do have that capability to succeed in individuals achieve this with a great, constructive message. It might be good issues regarding well being, music, human rights. A constructive message is all the time welcomed. Everybody can use their platform for no matter they need, however I imagine it’s vital to unfold reality, justice, human rights and values.
