Juanes Tickets

Juanes is the stage name of a rock musician from Colombia whose real full name is Juan Esteban Aristizabal Vasquez. As a solo performer, Juanes has received critical acclaim since his debut album entitled Fijate Bien was able to snare three of the Latin Grammy Awards (even though it was not considered a commercial hit.)

The next album from Juanes (entitled Un Dia Normal) did get platinum status among the Hispanic community of the world, while the lead single on that album (entitled A Dios le Pido) was at the top of the singles hit lists of twelve countries. If you were lucky enough to get at least one ticket on his 200-performance promotional tour of his third album (entitled Mi Sangre), then you would be familiar with his controversial single La Camisa Negra which was criticized for allegedly espousing Italian-style neo-fascism.

Despite the neo-fasicsm link, Juanes is considered a civic-minded musician who publicly does humanitarian work. One group he has been known to help is made up of Colombians who became injured due to anti-personnel mines, for whom he set up the Mi Sangre Foundation (or My Blood Foundation.) At the same time, Juanes has been able to harvest commercial success since he has garnered a total of twelve Latin Grammy Awards to date, as well as reaped sales of over 10 million albums, for his songs. Songs by Juanes are categorized as being Latin pop and Latin rock while his instrument of choice is the guitar (aside from his voice.)

One recent concert Juanes participated in was called the Nobel Peace Prize Concert on December 11, 2007. If you were not able to get a ticket for that concert, you can probably find a copy of the concert broadcast itself because the show was on live broadcast to more than 100 countries that day. If you are planning to get a ticket for a future concert, be forewarned that Juanes has deliberately chosen to sing songs only in Spanish, as part of his advocacy to promote the Spanish language. Some ticket buyers might wind up expecting that Juanes will perform at least part of his repertoire in English but Juanes never does that (though he can also speak English.) If you really want to hear Hispanics sing in English, better get a ticket for other Hispanic singers then – Juanes is not who you want to listen to.

People who have just been introduced to the music of Juanes might be wondering why Juanes is chose to be a solo artist rather than belong to a band, as other performers do. Actually, people who have been following the career of Juanes know he started out with the band Ekhymosis but found that with a band his progress was slow and limited to the Colombian market only. Since Juanes wanted to break into the global Hispanic market, Juanes was confident enough to disband Ekhymosis and become a solo artist instead. And the rest of the story sounds like the dream of every ticket broker throughout music history – huge sales of his albums and multiple awards. All these only prove that Juanes has hit a nerve in the Hispanic psyche and will probably be able to churn out more music to satisfy the tastes of Hispanics throughout the world in the distant future.