Marc Anthony leads triple-threat tour
By Ray Waddell and Courtney Lear Sat Jun 10, 7:08 AM ET
The 20-city tour begins July 14 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., and will play large major-market venues this summer. Tickets range from $30 to $150, although some radio station promotions will offer tickets for as low as $9.90, according to Kate Ramos, senior VP of Latin Music for Live Nation, which is promoting the tour.
While Anthony is best-known to the mainstream U.S. audience, Solis and Pausini have considerable followings. Solis has been one of the most popular and enduring artists in Mexico for more than 30 years. Italian Pausini began recording in her native language as a young girl, but has achieved her greatest success through her Spanish-language projects.
Last year's debut Juntos en Concierto tour, featuring Anthony, Alejandro Fernandez and Chayanne, grossed $13,629,094 and drew 200,238 to 17 shows.
Anthony says the new tour is an opportunity to showcase the quality of music available to this audience. "If someone else was doing it, I would go, 'Wow, these three amazing artists are coming together. I want to go see, to just surround myself with the best that they have to offer."'
Each artist will have an hour onstage, "so of course it's going to be like a greatest hits," Anthony explains. "Not only my greatest hits, but Laura is going to do the same, and Marco is going to do the same -- a big bang for your buck."
Anthony says he wanted to surround himself with tourmates who represented the best of their genres -- Anthony's music is tropical, Pausini is pop, and Solis is pop and regional Mexican. "That's how I want to share my evening, because I (usually) don't," he says. "I'm in a very fortunate position where I've done tours in America alone."
He says he has not determined what will be in his set, or whether it will include material from his English-language albums. "I write my set list five minutes before I go onstage and sometimes, on the fly, I'll change it in the middle," he says.
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