Vive Latino

Vive Latino is an annual rock music festival held in Mexico City. It is one of the most important rock en español music festivals in Latin America, featuring a great variety of Mexican, Latin and Spanish groups of many genres.

The event takes place in Foro Sol usually in between the months of April and May. The duration of the festival has been either 1 or 2 days, depending on the number of live acts. The first edition was in 1998, and has been repeated yearly ever since (except for 1999 and 2002). The number of stages has changed over the time, ranging from 2 to 4.

In the history of the festival there's been a series of important musical performances and appearances from all over the world, mainly from Latin America, Spain and Latin bands from The U.S. such as Tito & Tarantula, Devendra Banhart, Los Abandoned, Ill Niño, The Mars Volta, Los Lobos, Los Straitjackets, the bicycling band Kipchoge and the Ginger Ninjas, and Ozomatli, nevertheless, the festival's line up has had non-Spanish talking bands like The Magic Numbers, Save Ferris, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Reel Big Fish, Urlaub in Polen, Blasted Mechanism, Little Joy and Marky Ramone.

In the festival's line up there is also a strong presence in the ska and reggae acts, having big figures of the genre such as The Wailers, The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Fishbone and Steel Pulse, besides the performances from...
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