The presentation takes place this Tuesday, in Florianópolis. The band has announced that they will stop touring at the end of this year
This Tuesday, April 25, Brazil will participate in what will probably be the The last performance of an American rock band kiss on Brazilian soil. The show will take place in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina at the Hard Rock Live Florianópolis venue.
the round of kisses End of the Road World Tourwhich will mark the retirement of Kiss from the scene after 50 years of activity, was announced by the group in 2018, in a statement on its official website, and took fans of the time by surprise.
As usual on farewell tours, the final farewell ended up being drawn out. In the case of Kiss, for the past five years – and had to be temporarily halted due to the pandemic.
The postponement of the end of the tour has generated doubts in the followers of the band formed by the musicians Paul Stanley (voice), Gene Simmons (Bass), Tommy Thayer (guitars) e Eric Singer (drums). This is already the second time the tour Kiss End of the Road World Tour comes to Brazil – in 2022 rockers with painted faces were here.
However, in an interview in February 2023, the band’s manager, Doc McGhee, in an interview on the podcast rock cityhas confirmed that Kiss will stop at the end of 2023. The date and venue of the last show, however, have not yet been announced.
The band kiss he was in Brazil for the first time in 1983, when he performed in stadiums such as Maracanã, Morumbi and Mineirão and inaugurated, here in Brazil, a new and favorable stage for the arrival of great international shows. Subsequently, the group returned to the country in 1994, 1999, 2009, 2012 and 2022.
In this second step of Kiss End of the Road World TourTraveling through Brazil, the band has performed in Manaus (04/12), Brasilia (04/18), Belo Horizonte (04/20), São Paulo (04/22) and, this Tuesday, ends its passage through the country with the exhibition in Florianópolis.
At the presentation in Manaus, bassist Gene Simmons, 73, fell ill during the presentation. First, he asked for a chair to play while he sat on stage. The show was stopped for a few minutes so that the musician could be attended. On the day of the show, it was nearly 30 degrees in the city.
Relevance to rock and the entertainment market
Four rockers who perform with painted faces, costumes that recall metal and boots with huge wedges. There is nothing more propitious for the band born in New York in 1973 to become one of the most important and emblematic figures of international show business.
Kiss, right from the start, through the personas its members assumed on stage – Paul Stanley (The Starchild), Gene Simmons (The Demon), Tommy Thayer (The Spaceman) and Eric Singer (Catman), led to shows more than just music – such as the guitar smoking and then “flying” or Simmons spitting blood from his mouth, becoming a novelty.
Commercial success began in 1975 when the band released their third album Dressed to killin which Rock and Roll all nightby Simmons and Stanley, the first Kiss to reach the top of the music charts.
That same year, the band released live!, record recorded live in four performances in the United States. The album has sold 22 million copies worldwide, making Kiss a worldwide hit.
Kiss alternated between periods of major and minor prestige from the late 1970s onwards as the members released solo works. It also had different lineups – and many fights between the members – and even an era where they performed without the famous gimmick.
The band’s latest album, monsterthe twentieth of their career, it was released in 2012. Recorded in the studio, the Stanley-produced album carried references to the band’s early years, with a simpler and more direct sound.
In 2021, the Universal Music label released a 45th anniversary commemorative edition of the album Destroyer, the first Kiss to sell 1 million copies and which contains songs such as Detroit Rock City, Shout It Out Loud and God Of Thunder. The audio has been remastered using Dolby Atmos technology – the most modern today, which gives the sound a three-dimensional quality.
Source: Terra
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