“Today I feel the same energy that we played 14 years ago”: this is how Tomás Manzi, one of the four members of the Chilean band Kudai, recognized the energy of the public present at the Guayaquil Convention Center on the night of last Saturday, February 11 .
In addition to Manzi, the Chilean group is made up of Bárbara Sepúlveda, Pablo Holman and Nicole Natalino. They were presented in the agora of the Casa de la Cultura in Quito on Friday, February 10, Show which meant his return to Ecuadorian stages after fifteen years.
The tickets for the concert in Guayaquil were sold out, for which Holman ventured to say that they would have to return soon to play in the Main Port. “We want to especially thank Guayaquil of course for this sold out. You know what that means, right? We’re going to have to go back,” Holman teased near the end of the concert.
Kudai feels connected to Ecuador “It is an important country for us, because it is also part of the history with Gaby (Villalba)”
Many of the attendees saw their adolescence marked by the music of Kudai. For Jorge and Gustavo, natives of Cuenca, seeing Kudai live means a momentary trip to their adolescence; they listened to the Chilean quartet when they were 12 and 14 years old, respectively.
Now, at 30, seeing Kudai for the first time represents something they “needed” to experience, having been unable to attend the band’s concert fifteen years ago. “We are living a teenage dream”, they expressed.
Laura, a 29-year-old fan, also had the chance to hear Kudai live for the first time. “It reminds me of my youth … when we bought the tickets it was a mixture of feelings, nostalgia,” she said. Like Gustavo and Jorge, Laura did not have the opportunity to see Kudai live the last time she sang in Ecuador.
The atmosphere was already effervescent long before the band took the stage: the public was moved singing songs by North American groups such as Sum 41, Blink-182 and Paramore. However, the songs that most moved people in the preview of the concert belonged to Latin bands like Pxndx and Moderatto.
The excitement of the fans in the prologue of the recital translated into a warm welcome for Kudai, whose members jumped on stage with the song Costume and the introductory vocal intervention by Natalino. Managing a voice quartet is not easy and the artists shared the vocal tasks throughout the development of the concert.
Kudai’s concert is incredible, a true throwback to adolescence. 🤘🏻
— Jely 💜 (@jely_tm) February 12, 2023
The band held the start of their set list with songs like maybe far from here and I do not want to go back, infected with the energy transmitted by the Guayaquil public. “What energy!” praised Manzi; Sepúlveda and Natalino, for their part, joked that the concert was practically a karaoke, because people did not stop chanting. One fan even attended the concert on crutches, which was acknowledged by Sepúlveda.
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They closed the first set of songs with There is nothing; after a brief pause and a change of clothes, they returned with Come to open the encore, the final part of the concert. They tried to fool the audience by leaving after playing Nothing is the samebut they returned to the stage to finish off with their two most famous songs, in a row: Escape and without waking up.
A shower of colored papers fired the Chilean artists from the stage of the Guayaquil Convention Center while they played their latest song, Let me shout. The Chilean quartet returned to producing music in 2016 after seven years apart. The Ecuadorian Gabriela Villalba, a member of the band from 2006 to 2009, has not been part of the new stage of Kudai. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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