Manu Chao Live Special Airs This Weekend

Manu, that's who! Promises to be way more interesting than that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25^th anniversary concert airing the 29^th on HBO...

By Blurt Staff

Latin/worldbeat alt-rocker Manu Chao's Baionarena will make its U.S. television premiere on Friday, November 27th at NBC's bilingual youth network mun2. The one-hour "mun2 Presents: Manu Chao" special will air Friday, November 27th at 12am midnight ET/PT, and will repeat on Sunday November 29th at 11pm ET/PT (as well as additional dates throughout December). Holamun2.com is also streaming an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour diary over the next week at holamun2.com/manuchao.

"Manu represents what's great about music: it transcends language, class and politics," said Flavio Morales (VP Programming for mun2) in a statement.  "Offering his music to our mun2 audience really speaks to the duality we as Latinos live everyday."

The  Baionarena double live album/DVD set will be released nationally on December 1^st via the Nacional label. The album was recorded last year in Bayonne, France. Highlights among the 33 tracks include Chao classics like "Clandestino," "La Vida Tombola," "Mala Vida," "La Primavera" and "Welcome to Tijuana." (Baionarena will be released in both standard and limited edition deluxe formats, the latter available on January 12th).

 
Baionarena is the follow-up to the Latin Grammy-winning studio album, La Radiolina, which has been certified Gold and has now sold over a million copies worldwide.

 
In other recent news, Chao has released a "La Colifata" benefit project, now available for a "pay what you want" donation at http://VivalaColifata.org, about which we previously brought you details - read more of our coverage here.