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John Daniels Showcases Elation Lights on Billboard Latin Music Awards

The annual Billboard Latin Music Awards is the biggest night of the year for Latin American music and this year Lighting Designer John Daniels skillfully employed a selection of Elation lights to create captivating effects and aesthetic looks on the show. Aired live on October 5th from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, FL, Daniels creatively incorporated Elation Proteus Rayzor Blade™, Proteus Excalibur™, and Smarty MAX™ luminaires as some of the most impactful lights on the event.Read More »John Daniels Showcases Elation Lights on Billboard Latin Music Awards

Making the Evening Happen: The Sponsors

The annual Parnelli Awards ceremony is the one night a year we shine the spotlight on those who spend their careers away from it, toiling backstage. And the evening wouldn’t be possible without our forward-thinking, industry-supporting sponsors. Here’s a brief introduction to who they are and what they do for our industry.

CHAUVET Color STRIKE M Sets Mood On Bad Bunny’s Latin American Tour

Featuring hits like “Vete”, “Yo Perreo Sola”, “Safaera,” Bad Bunny’s two-hour show on the recent World’s Hottest Tour delivered all of the power-packed passion that fans have come to expect from this Puerto Rico-born superstar. The Latin American leg of his sold-out tour included stops in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and the Dominican Republic.Read More »CHAUVET Color STRIKE M Sets Mood On Bad Bunny’s Latin American Tour

Karol G $trip Love Tour

The Latin Grammy winning artist, Colombian singer and songwriter Karol G, has been wowing her fans with her “$trip Love Tour” in 2022. PLSN got all the details of the visually stunning show speaking with the tour design team—Creative Director and Show Designer Travis Shirley of Blank Wall Creative, Lighting Designer/Programmer Chris Smith, and Lighting Director Ryan King.

Top Tours of 2022

“Billboard” magazine recently ranked tours around the world by total ticket sales from November 2021 through October 2022. The Showtime section within PLSN’s January 2023 issue focuses on the lighting, staging and video production teams and equipment supporting these tours.

Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH Luminaires Bring Creative Freedom for Bad Bunny Tour

For Bad Bunny’s 36-date El Último Tour Del Mundo 2022, LD Alain Corthout chose Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH luminaires as “a lighting workhorse that would offer the ultimate in creative versatility, while delivering consistent, high output light, even at the more saturated end of the spectrum. I also needed a versatile palette of effects. The VL10 BEAMWASH fixtures gave me all of this and more.”