Saturday, January 28, 2012

Mana

By Octavio Mercas


If you want pop rock melodies, then you should be a fan of Mana. Hailing from the beautiful country of Mexico, Mana has gotten several awards such as the Grammy's. Their audio was explained by many music experts as pop rock with a bit of reggae and ska. With the band's ability to do well in a big crowd, it's no surprise that they're popular in Australia as well as Spain. Also, they have gained a fan base on Asia, Europe and in the us. Their worldwide accomplishment has bought them to the record busting twenty five million albums being sold up to date .

The band's singer known as "Jose Fernando "Fher" Olvera formed the band with the guitar performer Gustavo Orozco . They created the band with three brothers known as Juan Calleros on the bass guitar , UlisesCallerosand AbrahanCalleros practicing the guitar and the drums, respectively. They started singing covers and fortunately in 1989; they were able to launch their very first studio album entitled Sombrero Verde within the record label Ariola . They were able to release four effective singles namely "Long Time", Despiertate", Vampiro" and "Professor".

To make things far more exciting, the group has released a next album with various partnerships from diverse musicians including Cisne Raff . The singles entitled "Laura" and "Hechos Nada Mas" became world-wide hits.They released their third studio album titled Falta Amore under a new label, Warner Music. Rayando el Sol was their album's first single that strike the chart tops . In that same year, they toured the different locations such as Peru, Ecuador and also their hometown , Mexico.

UlisesCalleros, who was their guitarist, stopped executing with the band and began handling them. They added Ivan Gonzales to the team to undertake the keyboards as well as Cesar Lopez to change Calleros in his duties. Without UlisesCalleros as their guitar performer, they released DondeJugarian Los Ninos and have become the bands first ever worldwide acclaimed album with the hits that include Vivir Sin Aire as well as Como TeDeseo. Mainly because of the success of this album , they're able to do more than 200 live shows in many different places. That was their biggest accomplishment in regards to undertaking live to date .

But unfortunately after the bands accomplishment, the two freshly added band members particularly Cesar Lopez and also Ivan Gonzalez left Mana. And abruptly , the remaining members FherOldera, Alex Gonzales and also Juan Calleros continuing on by their career as a trio . With only the three of them remaining , they launched their first live album titled Mana en Vivo that they collaborated with the guitar performer Gustavo and also Sheila Rios. Having only 3 of them in the team, it didn't stop them through receiving awards and also acknowledgement. In 1997, they received their first ever Grammy Award in the Greatest Latin Rock/Alternative Album . Being an internationally known band , they did a live show for the international music television MTV Unplugged titled Mana MTV Unplugged. Their overall performance in that said show can now be purchased on DVD. Nowadays, they're placed to launch their latest album on 2012 entitled ,Drama y Luz.




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