Mexican Rockers Maná Make Los Angeles Arena History
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.20.07 | 8:19 AM ET
Just another reason why I love multi-culti Los Angeles: This week, the Mexican rock band Maná is playing four consecutive nights at 19,000-seat Staples Center, tying a record set by Neil Diamond in 2005. And it has done that, Agustin Gurza points out in the Los Angeles Times, without recording in English. Gurza’s piece has a great anecdote about the band’s appearance at a private Grammy party a few years ago in New York, among such stars as Bono and the Eagles. “[T]he waiters and bartenders ignored the big-name stars and kept lining up for autographs from the members of Maná,” he writes. Recalled the band’s singer, Fher Olvera: “Everybody was looking at us, like, ‘Who are these guys?’”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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