Mexican rock band Mana will hit the road this spring for a U.S. leg of the highly popular Drama y Luz tour it began last year. The band will start out with four dates in four Texas cities, and then will hit various American cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver and Miami. The 17-date leg of the tour will begin in Hidalgo, Texas on April 3 and continue through May 11, when the group performs at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. The tour includes an April 10 gig at Madison Square Gardens in New York.

The Grammy winning band is supporting Drama y Luz, its eighth studio album with the tour that began in June of last year. The album was released in April of 2011 and hit number one on the charts in Spain and Mexico. In the U.S., the album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 albums charts, and peaked at the number one spot on both the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart. Drama y Luz has won two Latin Grammy awards already (Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album), and is nominated for a 2012 Grammy award for Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album.

The band formed in 1978 under the name Sombrero Verde, and released its first album under the name Mana in 1987. The U.S. leg of the Drama y Luz tour will be the sixth leg of the tour, and is the final announced leg to date, though the band is scheduled to play the Rock in Rio Madrid festival in June of this year. Before the U.S. leg gets underway, the band will play six dates in South America that span from late February to early March, before heading north to Texas.

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