The opening horn stab of 'Livin' la Vida Loca' still hijacks a room the second it hits, and that is the whole case for a Ricky Martin night. Twenty-five years after he kicked the door down for Latin pop on American radio, the man remains a genuine force of stage presence -- the hips, the voice, the sheer wattage of a crowd that has been waiting to lose its mind. Pechanga puts him in the valley on a November Sunday, close enough that most of Temecula and Murrieta can be home before midnight and still hoarse from screaming. This is not a polite sit-down concert; it is a party that happens to have a superstar at the front of it. Wear the shoes you can actually move in. Some nights are for behaving. This is emphatically not one of them.
The opening horn stab of 'Livin' la Vida Loca' still hijacks a room the second it hits, and that is the whole case for a Ricky Martin night. Twenty-five years after he kicked the door down for Latin pop on American radio, the man remains a genuine force of stage presence -- the hips, the voice, the sheer wattage of a crowd that has been waiting to lose its mind. Pechanga puts him in the valley on a November Sunday, close enough that most of Temecula and Murrieta can be home before midnight and still hoarse from screaming. This is not a polite sit-down concert; it is a party that happens to have a superstar at the front of it. Wear the shoes you can actually move in. Some nights are for behaving. This is emphatically not one of them.
The opening horn stab of 'Livin' la Vida Loca' still hijacks a room the second it hits, and that is the whole case for a Ricky Martin night. Twenty-five years after he kicked the door down for Latin pop on American radio, the man remains a genuine force of stage presence -- the hips, the voice, the sheer wattage of a crowd that has been waiting to lose its mind. Pechanga puts him in the valley on a November Sunday, close enough that most of Temecula and Murrieta can be home before midnight and still hoarse from screaming. This is not a polite sit-down concert; it is a party that happens to have a superstar at the front of it. Wear the shoes you can actually move in. Some nights are for behaving. This is emphatically not one of them.