VENEZUELA: CHILEAN BAND "LA LEY" PROMOTES ITS NEW ALBUM WITH LATIN AMERICAN "PEACE TOUR"

Record ID: 392234

  • Title: VENEZUELA: CHILEAN BAND "LA LEY" PROMOTES ITS NEW ALBUM WITH LATIN AMERICAN "PEACE TOUR"
  • Date: 25th November 2001
  • Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) VARIOUS, JOURNALIST GREETING THE BAND AS THEY ARRIVE, MAURICIO CLAVIRA (DRUMS) BETO CUEVAS (SINGER) PEDRO FURGONE (GUITAR) SMV PHOTOGRAPHERS SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) BETO CUEVAS, SINGER, SAYING, "For the last month we've been on tour mostly in Mexico but we will travel throughout Latin America, we call the tour 'Peace To
  • Embargoed: 10th December 2001 12:00
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  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Reuters ID: LVADP2AH15IKM6TY0YZ28QVI2IS8
  • Story Text: Latin Grammy-winning group "La Ley" has been promoting a new album with its "Peace Tour" throughout Latin America.
    The Chilean band "La Ley" has been touring in Caracas on their "Peace Tour" to promote their latest live album, an MTV Unplugged Special.
    "For the last month we've been on tour mostly in Mexico but we'll travel throughout Latin America. We call the tour 'Peace Tour" because of what happened on September 11 and in concert we talk a little bit about the concept of peace, but in a practical way, not an altruistic peace because one can't really participate in that," said lead singer, Beto Cuevas.
    "La Ley" is no overnight success. They won the Grammy for their seventh album, Uno, after a career spanning more than a dozen years. They have been stars in Chile for nearly a decade, reaching the rest of Latin America after signing a wider recording contract with Warner Music Mexico in 1994.
    The group has made themselves known to North American audiences by playing 15 dates of the "Watcha" tour and releasing their first single in English,
    "Every Time" which is featured on the soundtrack for the movie "Crazy-Beautiful".
    Their latest album for "MTV Unplugged" was recorded live and is more acoustic than their earlier albums.
    "We've always worked as secuencers, like, with more technology on stage but I think in gerneral we've also chosen this road because MTV asked us to do this album," said Mauricio Claveria, the band's drummer.
    "Logically we had the idea to do the album live and maybe do it more unplugged. I think we've always taken the best from each album, so logically this will be a fusion again of all that we've done," he added.
    "La Ley's" singer, Beto Cuevas, who spent 11 years in Canada and is fluent in four languages writes lyrics in English, Spanish and French.
    "We've always included songs in French and in English on our albums," said Beto Cuevas, "Although mostly it's in Spanish because logically we are developing in our Latin American continent. But we have plans to do an album in French and in English without feeling obliged to stop doing music in Spanish."
    In March of 2002 the band plans to begin recording a new album.
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