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Get on your feet and let's get loud with the greatest hits of the '90s and 'OOs Latin pop explosion! La Vida Loca celebrates artists including Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Santana, Ricky Martin and more. Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez, world-renowned vocalists Ender Thomas and Jackie Mendez, and multi-Grammy award winners José Sibaja on trumpet and Luisito Quintero on percussion join your orchestra for a high-octane program featuring all-new symphonic arrangements by Lopez-Yañez and Sibaja.

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Details

La Vida Loca is available as either a full-length show with intermission or as a 75-minute intermission-less production. This program travels with two lead vocalists, trumpet player, percussionist, optional drummer, and conductor. 

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Meet The Cast:

Jackie Mendez -
 Began writing with the music industries top artists and songwriters as well as joining several World Tours throughout the years with artists like Ricky Martin, JLo, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Camila Cabello, and more recently Ricardo Montaner. As an accredited artist with the Latin Grammy Recording Association, you can find her on 5 Latin Grammy Winning albums singing along with Franco de Vita, Ricky Martin, David Bisbal and Alejandro Sanz. Jackie’s voice is a layered sound full of texture, rasp and soul. She captures all the emotions in the world of funk, soul, and pop. 



Ender Thomas - Born in Venezuela Ender's career as a singer hit international stardom when in 2009 he was invited to be a featured singer as part of the Yanni Voices tour by Yanni himself. Since then Thomas has shared the stage as well as produced and co-written songs with some of Latin America's leading artists including Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Farruko, Pedro Capó and many others.



Luisito Quintero - 
This Master Percussionist is not afraid to push the boundaries of his musical expressions and style, inco
rporating a variety of percussion instruments: timbales, congas, bongos, drum sets, the West African djembe, and dundun, and a wide variety of other percussion instruments. He has participated in over 700 musical productions spanning a variety of music genres and between Grammys and Latin Grammys, Quintero has over 60 Grammy Awards to his credit. His most recent Grammys awards were in 2019 with Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band for the Best Latin Jazz Album and in 2018 with Spanish Harlem Orchestra for the Best Tropical Latin Album.


José Sibaja - One of the most highly acclaimed Costa Rican trumpet players of his generation with worldwide audiences and broadcast media in the Classical, Latin, Jazz, and Pop musical genres. His career ranges from international appearances as an orchestral soloist with Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela, and Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Costa Rica, to worldwide tours with Ricky Martin for the Vuelve and Living la Vida Loca tours. Currently, Jose plays lead trumpet with the world renowned Boston Brass. Having recorded with such artists as Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Luis Enrique, Rey Ruiz, Tito Nieves, Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan among others; Jose Sibaja redefines the idea of a concert artist with a rich mix of stylistic genres surpassing the very stereotype of today's classical musician.

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