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MANU is back…After more than a decade of waiting (a long decade), Manu Chao’s visit to our country is without a doubt one of the most anticipated in the music scene. In 2006, when he was on the “Tómbola Tour” his visit to the country could not be made a reality, this time Ecuador will be part of his Latin American tour called “La Ventura 2012” which also includes Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Brazil among others.
Manu will arrive in Ecuador immediately after his performances in the neighboring country of Peru, where he will share the stage with Colombian singer Totó la Momposina. Tickets for his two performances: Quito (March 20) and Cuenca (March 21) are about to sell out in all locations.
Manu Chao, whose real name is Jose Manuel Arturo Tomás Chao, formed his first band called Joint de Culasse with his brother, then came “Mano Negra”, a group he formed in 1987 with the musician Santiago Casariego and with which he rose to fame due to several songs that began to have a strong social content.
His humility and sense of humanity, despite the success, money and fame he has achieved, are undoubtedly some of the attributes that have earned him a special place among his followers who number in the millions around the world. According to Pablo Valero, a former immigrant in Spain, "it was very common to find him staying out late at night in one of the parties on La Rambla (Barcelona) and then chatting happily until dawn with people in the street."
LA VENTURA 2012 is Manu Chao's new quest to find a song that sums up the current state of the world combined with the dance of the neighborhood. This time, his artistic strength will also accompany the resistance of the indigenous peoples against the mega extractive industries.
LA VENTURA 2012 is Manu Chao's new quest to find a song that sums up the current state of the world combined with the dance of the neighborhood. This time, his artistic strength will also accompany the resistance of the indigenous peoples against the mega extractive industries.
Manu Chao, an artist committed to social causes, arrives in our country at a key moment, since the days in which he will be performing coincide with the arrival in the capital of the March "For Life, for Water and for the Dignity of the Peoples". Even in the official website In addition to this march, an open letter is announced to both Manu and the members of Calle 13, where they are asked: “We want your songs to echo our struggle, we want you to be part of our Plurinational Resistance March, and just as you have shown your solidarity with the Mapuche people in Chile, the Peruvian people in Cajamarca, the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé people in Panama, in Argentina, in Mexico… and many other peoples who resist just like us, the ancestral peoples of Ecuador.”, referring to the resistance against the announced entry of the country into a stage of open-pit mega-mining, the first contract for which was signed last Monday, March 5. Manu, in what is perceived as a show of support, has already published in its official page information concerning the March.
Manu Chao has recorded more than a dozen albums that could be classified in the era with Mano Negra and as a soloist. With Mano Negra some of his albums were: Patchanka, Puta's fever, King of Bongo, Amerika Perdida, In the Hell of Patchinko, Casa Babylon and as a soloist: Clandestino, Próxima estación: Esperanza, Radio Bemba Sound System, Sibérie M'Était Contée, La Radiolina, and Baionarena.
In this new project LA VENTURA Manu uses his new "formula 4" together with Madjid, Gambeat and Philippe.
In the city of Quito it has already been confirmed that the group Papa Changó will open the concert, but it has yet to be confirmed who will do so in Cuenca.
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