During a career than spans over four decades, Grammy-winning Mexican rockers Maná have toured the world, yet for some reason never played London. That all changes next July when the foursome plays the OVO Arena Wembley, and drummer Alex González says the band is “freaking out.”
“We grew up influenced by so many English bands that it was always a dream for us to play in London,” González said. He hopes that bringing Mexican rock to England leads to a long relationship with fans.
Started in 1982, the Mexican rock quartet from Sombrero Verde has been compared to The Police, and Gonzalez says they’re big fans of Sting and Co.
And keeping in mind that crowds can hope to hear exemplary tunes, for example, “Rayando el Sol” and “Oye Mi Love,” there won’t be any new music right now. The band hasn’t added a lot of in that frame of mind since their last studio collection, “Cama Incendiada” in 2015. In any case, that will change when they get once more into the studio late one year from now.
In a new meeting with The Related Press, González shared a plan on the band’s next collection, talked on the condition of territorial Mexican music and called Beatles drummer Ringo Starr a motivation.
For what reason did it take such a long time to play London?
González: It may be the case that we never got into the right hands of an advertiser or an organization or someone that needed to take us to London. In any case, I think significantly, we’re going and what an honor. I trust it’s the start of an involved acquaintance with doing many shows and shows in London and perhaps in different pieces of Britain.
We’re seeing a ton of incredible pop and rock specialists coming out Mexico nowadays. Do you feel like you folks helped lead the way?
González: No, I don’t think we’ve driven the way. Music in Spanish has been around until the end of time. For instance, Los Panchos — they were an immense threesome. Furthermore, they even wound up playing in Japan. Then, at that point, you take a gander at Carlos Santana — I mean, there’s been a ton of notable individuals in Latin music. I think the fascinating thing is around the ’70s, during the 80s, that is the point at which an entire stone blast got taking going with musical gangs coming from Spain… I don’t question that perhaps affected a many individuals, as well. However, coolly, we’ve been we’ve kept on doing it in Spanish.
You’ve reliably kept in Spanish. What’s it like to play live in different nations?
González: We believe it’s cool that when you go to another country that doesn’t communicate in Spanish and there’s kin standing by listening to your music and afterward they begin deciphering the verses and they begin figuring out what the tunes are about. I believe that is cool. It’s a cool approach to sharing your way of life. What’s more, for us here in the US, wrapping up of 38 shows, we did 16 sold-out shows at the Kia Gathering — that simply demonstrates how tremendous the Latin people group has filled in the US, and not to mention, California.
What’s your contemplations on the expanded worldwide ubiquity of territorial music, particularly emerging from Mexico?
González: In the beyond 10 or 15 years we’ve been besieged by metropolitan reggaeton music, which is fine. However, when everything is 24-hours-a-day reggaeton, you got to share with yourself, ‘Hello, stand by a moment, there’s different styles of music, there’s different specialists. Also, I think those individuals merit a similar openness as being besieged every minute of every day.’ I’m happy that there’s different examples, of provincial and Mexican music. What’s more, it’s perfect. It’s important for the way of life.
Who roused you to be a performer?
González: Everything began with me with The Beatles. I turned into a drummer because of Ringo Starr. He was the main drummer that I saw, and the Beatles were the primary band that I saw (on TV) in a high contrast show. They were totally wearing their suits. And afterward Ringo was thumping the (interjection) out of the drums. He resembled the primary troublemaker elective stone drummer. He was hitting those drums so hard. Also, say thanks to God there’s recording of that that you can see.
Who else was a motivation?
González: I really had the option to begin singing, or attempt to sing, due to Phil Collins. Phil Collins was one of my prior impacts. He was one of the primary drummers that I saw that he could play the drums and sing lead vocals.
What might be said about additional conventional craftsmen like Los Tigres Del Norte?
González: They are old buddies of our own. Incredible folks. At the point when we were kids, they would come and play in Mexico and they would sell out bullrings and they would sell out arenas. They would occupy these gigantic spaces for 30,000 or 40,000 individuals. Thus, we generally considered them to be a band, despite the fact that they were playing Norteño music. We generally saw that there was a group of people that was keen on it.
What can fans anticipate in 2024 with regards to new music?
González: It’s required a long investment attempting to get everyone’s timetable together to put down and account it. This collection has taken more time than it ought to have. Be that as it may, the uplifting news is, around the finish of 2024, we will begin dealing with a spic and span studio collection. The thought is to deliver this collection in 2025. Our last studio collection was in 2015, so it’s been quite a while and we’re super-amped up for beginning to cooperate again once we get into the studio. Well, that is where the wizardry occurs.
