Ayrton Supports This Is Our Dream Stadium Tour 2026 for Fuerza Regida The musica mexicana band Fuerza Regida is currently in the middle of its inaugural stadium tour of the US. From San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle in the West through Phoenix, Houston, and Arlington, Texas, to finish at Citi Field in New York, the band is in the top eight of most-streamed artists on Spotify, bringing their unique Mexican-American mix sound to a global audience. Lighting designer Alain Corthout of Showplus selected over 285 Ayrton fixtures as part of his lighting rig for the band's This Is Our Dream Stadium Tour 2026. Corthout brings more than 30 years of experience to the team, starting his career in his native Belgium. He has worked with Italian and Latin artists such as Alejandro Fernandez and Miguel Bose in both the US and across South America. "An all-stadium tour gives the designer a very broad canvas to work with," Corthout says. "The inspiration was to create a very dynamic visual show, with seven moving lighting pods and to play with the transparency of the screen, which is why we rigged a lot of fixtures behind the screens." Corthout is very familiar with Ayrton lighting fixtures: "Since we were working with Rent All Pro USA, which is the USA division of Procolor Mexico, they have a lot of Ayrton fixtures, and I was very happy to implement as many as they had available. "To realize Fuerza Regida's Dream Stadium Tour concept, we selected 44 Domino LT fixtures to use as fillers and key lights, 63 Rivale Profiles rigged in the moving pods, 112 Veloce Profiles behind the screens, and 66 Zonda 9 Wash fixtures above the screens. All the Ayrton fixtures were chosen for their ability to combine theatrical drama with stadium-scale clarity. The fixtures provided strong, sculpted beams for architectural and aerial moments, rich, consistent color for intimate storytelling, and versatile effects for dynamic song-driven moments -- all of which supported the band's cinematic, high-energy style while maintaining detail at distance." The rigors of a stadium tour require reliability and resilience from touring hardware, and, Corthout says, "With the amount of movement in the rig and the outdoor environment of a stadium it was especially important that our fixtures did not let us down; I always have faith in Ayrton's manufacturing excellence. "Since Rent All Pro USA also had a few other tours out when we sent in our requests, I ended up with a mixture of different fixture types. I usually tend to use the same types, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well they performed together. Thanks to the brightness, color fidelity, and precision required for a stadium-scale production, these fixtures were perfect to create the bold looks we were looking for." 
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