Maluma

Juan Luis Londoño Arias, better known as Maluma, is a Colombian singer of pop, reggaeton, and Latin trap born in Medellín, Colombia on January 28, 1994. His stage name is the result of the combination of the first two letters of his mother Marlli's name, his father Luis, and his sister Manuela. After dedicating more than 8 years to soccer, a sport he is passionate about and in which his father hoped he would become a successful athlete, he decided in 2010, at the age of 16, to start taking vocal lessons to turn his life around and fully dedicate himself to singing, which has definitely launched him to stardom.

In 2011, he released the single Farandulera, which launched him to fame in Colombia and attracted the attention of Sony Music, with whom he signed a recording agreement in the middle of that same year. Subsequently, other songs followed, such as Loco, Obsesión, and Pasarla bien, which were well received until the release of his first album Magia in 2012, with which he achieved over ten thousand copies sold in his home country.

With the song "La Temperatura," in 2013 it reached the top of the charts in the United States and Latin America and received a nomination for the Latin Grammy in 2013 in the category of Best New Artist.

With a career that was beginning to consolidate and after a second album, Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy (2015), which includes the song Solos recorded with the Cuban El Micha, Maluma released the single Felices los cuatro at the beginning of 2017, which catapulted him to fame and whose music video became the most viewed Latin video worldwide in its first 24 hours, for which the singer received a Vevo certification.

The daring lyrics that discuss the love triangle between Maluma and a married woman, played by Cuban-Croatian model Natalia Barulich, who later became his partner, do not go unnoticed, and in the middle of that same year, Marc Anthony records a salsa version with the artist and appears in the music video for this version filmed a month later.

Both versions are part of their third single, F.A.M.E., which won the Latin Grammy for "Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album" and achieved gold and platinum certifications in various countries around the world due to the number of copies sold.

The friendship between Maluma and Marc Anthony has developed over the years, and it is common to see them sharing stages and projects. In 2019, the Colombian wrote the lyrics for the song Parecen Viernes, a single that is part of the American's thirteenth studio album, Opus.

In 2019, one of the most important collaborations in the singer's life occurred when he became part of Madonna's album Madame X. Medellín, the album's first single, reached the eighteenth position on the Hot Latin Songs chart and became Madonna's 47th number one on the Dance Club Songs chart, extending her record as the artist with the most entries at the top of that list. Two months later, from the same album, the artists teamed up again on the song Bitch I'm loca.

That same year, in 2019, the Colombian's fourth album, 11:11, was released under the Sony Music Latin label. It features collaborations with Ricky Martin, Ozuna, Nicky Jam, Zion & Lennox, Sech, Ty Dolla $ign, Chencho Corleone from Plan B, Farina, and includes another track with Madonna, in which they perform "Soltera."

Among his most notable collaborations is Clandestino, with Shakira in June 2018. Rolling Stone ranked the song number six on its list of the 20 Best Latin Singles of 2018, and it positioned itself at number 14 in Billboard's critics' selection of the 20 Best Latin Songs of 2018.

In 2018, he was chosen by People magazine as the sexiest man in the world.

In 2019, as a guest on the famous show Jimmy Fallon The Tonight Show, he confessed to the host that he would like to have a musical collaboration with Justin Timberlake, who has influenced his musical style.

In 2019, he started filming his first movie, Marry Me, alongside Jennifer Lopez and American actor Owen Wilson, marking the Colombian artist's debut in cinema. In September 2020, Lopez announced through her social media her collaboration on two songs with Maluma, Pa 'ti and Lonely, which will likely be part of the soundtrack of the movie in which both act and which still does not have a release date.