On Tuesday, Sept. 9, Eladio Carrión arrived at Coca-Cola Roxy to deliver an awe-inspiring performance. Eladio’s DON KBRN USA Tour honors his 2025 album of the same name, and it’s a first for the artist in many ways: he just became father to twins and released his ARCHIVOS project, delivering music to select fans through his website.
The show opened with a performance by Danny Towers, a rising trap artist from Orlando, Fla. Towers sang nearly his entire EP “Sinners Club,” released just weeks before the concert. The EP is Carrión’s first time being an executive producer on a project, and he collaborated on two of the eight songs. Towers also brought out another rising artist, Midnvght, to sing “Satoshi.”
Carrión leaned into the Japanese inspiration on the “DON KBRN” album in his tour: the show began with him arriving in traditional Japanese attire, and he started a fight with the four dancers on-stage while singing “H.I.M.,” inevitably winning the battle.
The tour didn’t just highlight his current success; he performed everything from collaborations with Bad Bunny to freestyles released in 2020, with styles ranging from reggaeton to trap and from sad break-up songs and “Paz Mental” (Mental Peace) to him asking fans to create a mosh pit.
The entire show was an emotional rollercoaster. In his performance of “Hey Lil Mama,” he left the stage to let the dancers take the lead during Rauw Alejandro’s verse. During the main show, he brought back Danny Towers and Midvnght, promoting the new artists and showing his commitment to supporting them.
Carrión finished the concert by asking fans to turn their phones off, and he sang “Mbappé” twice. Hats, shoes and shirts flew around the venue while people jumped around singing and dancing. The moment felt incredibly special since Carrión got to meet Mbappé at Bad Bunny’s “Yo No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” residency.
More than the show itself, the most impressive part of the performance was Carrión’s respectfulness and care for his fans. During one song, he gave the microphone to a fan and sat down while the fan shouted out the entire song word-for-word. During another moment, he stopped to ask how many of the crowd came to his first-ever show in Atlanta. He later received a Squirtle Pokémon toy from a fan, asked the audience to shout what countries they were from and frequently stopped the show to personally hand out water bottles and make sure everyone was alright.
Even with the venue feeling filled to the brim with 3,600 people, the event felt like an intimate look into Carrión’s feelings, ambition and career. He’s come a long way since he was the opening act for J Balvin’s 2019 Arcoiris Tour.
The show highlighted Carrión’s motto of having faith, patience and bravery. As he puts it in his DON KBRN song “Vetements”: “Si el miedo va en la gaveta, tengo gaveteros como IKEA” (If fear goes in the drawer, I’ve got drawers like IKEA).