Who’s Maná? First Spanish-language rock group nominated for Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame – NBC New York

Maná is taken into account by many to be one in all — if not the — best Spanish-language rock band of all time, profitable numerous awards and promoting out stadiums worldwide.

This Wednesday, information broke of the Mexican rock band’s newest historic achievement — turning into the primary Spanish-language rock band to be nominated for the celebrated Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.

The information of their nomination lists them amongst 13 different nominees: Unhealthy Firm, The Black Crowes, Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Pleasure Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Oasis, Outkast, Phish, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.

Artists or bands are eligible for nomination 25 years after releasing their first industrial recording. Amongst this 12 months’s 14 nominees, eight are on the poll for the very first time: Unhealthy Firm, The Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Manna, Outkast and Phish.

“These exceptional Nominees have every created their very own musical fashion and perspective, impacting generations of music lovers and contributing to the ever-evolving sounds and continued development of rock & roll”, mentioned John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Basis, in a press release. 

Nominee ballots can be distributed to a global voting panel comprised of greater than 1,200 artists, historians and music trade professionals. Standards for choice embody the influence of a 12 months’s work within the music trade.

The factors for induction embody an artist’s influence on musical tradition, affect on different musicians who adopted, in addition to the scope and longevity of his or her profession and physique of labor.

Maná: record-breaking Mexican rock band and life-long activists

All through their profitable profession, the Mexican group has offered tens of millions of albums and singles, incomes greater than 130 gold information and greater than 250 platinum information.

The group, fashioned by singer/songwriter Fher Olvera, drummer Alex González, lead guitarist Sergio Vallín, and bassist Juan Calleros, started as “Sombrero Verde” within the 80s. Within the early 90s, with a reputation change, they exploded onto the music scene the place they’ve been a fixture since.

Through the years the group has carried out in stadiums and on levels all around the world, together with on stage at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. They even headlined a residency on the Kia Discussion board in 2022, the primary enviornment residency to happen within the metropolis of Los Angeles.

The group has carried out quite a few occasions for Barack Obama, together with on the White Home, when he was nonetheless president of the U.S. They had been additionally honored with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.

By the years they’ve gained numerous award, together with 4 Grammys and 6 Latin Grammys. (The band additionally obtained a seventh Latin Grammy once they had been honored because the Latin Grammy Particular person of the Yr Award in 2018. In the meantime in August 2021, Billboard and our sister station Telemundo introduced that Maná can be honored with the icon award on the 2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards.

In relation to the fashionable world by which artists with essentially the most views and most followers are thought of essentially the most influential, Maná is just not far behind. Their music movies have amassed greater than 7 billion views on YouTube and their followers throughout social media totals tens of millions.

It is very important be aware that Maná’s affect transcends music. By the years they’ve been very vocal in opposition to violence in the direction of girls. The group additionally based the Selva Negra Basis (Fundación Ecológica Selva Negra), which has change into one in all Latin America’s main voices for environmental safety.

In recent times, particularly when present President Donald Trump launched into his first marketing campaign for the presidency, the band set out once more as activists by constantly voicing their help for immigrants. Their pro-immigrant and pro-tolerance stance has by no means wavered, prompting them to tug the remix collaboration they did with Nicky Jam of their traditional tune “De pies a cabeza” from all their streaming platforms after the reggaeton artist got here out on stage at a pro-Trump rally throughout his marketing campaign for reelection in 2024.