“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 audience present at the Guayaquil Convention Center on the evening of last Saturday, February 11 .

In addition to Manzi, the Chilean group consists of Bárbara Sepúlveda, Pablo Holman and Nicole Natalino. They were presented on Friday, February 10 in the agora of the Casa de la Cultura in Quito. show meaning he returned to the Ecuadorian stages after fifteen years.

The tickets for the concert in Guayaquil were sold out, for which Holman dared to say that they would have to come back soon to play in the Main Port. “We would of course like to thank Guayaquil in particular for this out of stock. You know what that means, right? We’ll have to go back,” Holman teased toward 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 Kudai’s music. For Jorge and Gustavo, residents of Cuenca, seeing Kudai live means a temporary journey into their adolescence; they listened to the Chilean quartet when they were 12 and 14 years old respectively.

Now, at age 30, seeing Kudai for the first time represents something they “had to” experience, having been unable to attend the band’s concert 15 years ago. “We’re living a teenage dream,” they said.

Laura, a 29-year-old fan, also got the chance to hear Kudai live for the first time. “It reminds me of my childhood…when we bought the tickets it was a mixture of feelings, nostalgia,” he said. Like Gustavo and Jorge, Laura didn’t have the chance to see Kudai live the last time he sang in Ecuador.

The atmosphere was already buzzing long before the band took the stage: the audience was moved by singing songs from North American groups such as Sum 41, Blink-182 and Paramore. However, the songs that most moved the people in the preview of the concert were from Latin American bands such as Pxndx and Moderatto.

The fans’ excitement in the recital’s prologue translated into a warm welcome for Kudai, whose members took to the stage with the song Costume and Natalino’s introductory vocal intervention. Managing a singing quartet is not easy and the performers shared vocal duties during the concert’s development.

The band loved the start of their set list with songs like maybe far from here And I don’t want to go back, infected with the energy emitted by the Guayaquil public. “What energy!” praised Manzi; Sepúlveda and Natalino, for their part, joked that the concert was practically a karaoke, because people didn’t stop singing. One fan even attended the concert on crutches, which was acknowledged by Sepúlveda.

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They ended the first set of songs with There is nothing; after a short break and changing clothes they came back come to open the encore, the last part of the concerto. They tried to fool the crowd by leaving after the game Nothing is the samebut they returned to the stage to close with their two most famous songs, in a row: Escape And without waking up.

A shower of colored paper chased the Chilean performers off the stage at the Guayaquil Convention Center as they performed their latest song, Let me scream. The Chilean quartet returned to producing music in 2016 after seven years. Ecuadorian Gabriela Villalba, a member of the band from 2006 to 2009, was not part of Kudai’s new stage.