Music Reviews
Concert Review: RBD - Latin pop idols blast into Universal City
By Igor Bosnic
Feb 5, 2007, 12:50 GMT

Latin music flooded the air as the hot Mexican pop group RBD played to a sold out crowd on Saturday, February 3rd, at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Pop sensation Rocco opened for the band to great appeal. However, the audience was just getting warmed up. During the intervening empty stage fans madly screamed and called for RBD.
 
To the fans’ dismay, after running about half an hour late, the show finally started at around 9:10 on Saturday evening to the dropping of a white semi-transparent curtain. The second the curtain hit the floor the six performers began with one of their hot singles as machines blasted light, fog and confetti into the air. 
 
The six-singer-strong RBD strutted their singing stuff for 2 hours to an intrigued audience. Dancing like a Spice Girls/N*SYNC mesh, the sextuplet also made several solo appearances on stage to talk to the audience about global issues and offer inspiring advice. 

Moving from one single to the next, the show changed pace after the first hour to slower songs and clearer vocals. The results of the faster paced, disco-reminiscent songs that followed, sporadically involved a drowning of the artists’ voices by common crescendos the guitarists and drummers performed. Nonetheless, as a whole RBD put on a great show - everyone in the audience stood and cheered for practically the full 2 hours. 
 
Speaking of grand finales, RBD did a faux culmination with one of their more popular songs and then thanked the audience and left backstage. During the interim absence of the vocalists, the other band members continued to hype up the crowd until finally RBD exploded once again into song for a great ending. Climaxing with their opening song, “Rebelde”, these Latin “rebels” shook up the audience one last time before taking their bow.

Currently, the band, which originated out of a Latin soap opera, is continuing their world tour and promotion of their third album ‘Celestial’ and their first English language album ‘Rebels’. They have received much commercial success from Latin America, especially Brazil, and also from the United States. With their innovative and fresh style, RBD is here to stay.

‘Rebels’ is now available at Amazon. Visit the music database for more information and a complete track listing.