Marco Antonio Muñiz, the full name of Marc Anthony, is a singer, actor, music producer, and television producer of Puerto Rican descent, born in New York on September 16, 1968.
He began in 1991 as a hip hop singer with the duo Little Louie & Marc Anthony. He subsequently signed with RMM Records, with whom he recorded his debut studio album, Otra Nota, in 1993. This album, which was not only his first salsa record, reached second place on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart and hit number 30 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. The album produced three singles: "Hasta que te conocí," "Palabras del alma," and "Si tú no te fueras," all of which charted on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs list.
Since then, the singer has built a prolific career spanning over 35 years, which continues to reap success and has led him to record and share stages with prominent Latin musicians, all while remaining true to salsa, the genre in which he feels most comfortable and for which he is globally recognized. He has recorded more than 20 albums, and many of his singles have stayed at the top of charts around the world. He is a winner of several Lo Nuestro Awards and was also recognized in 2014 with the Excellence Award for his career as one of the most successful artists in Latin music
In 2006, he made his film debut with "El cantante," based on the life of the controversial Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe, a role he played.
In 2013, he covered the song "Flor pálida" by the Cuban Polo Montañés on his album "3.0". Polo had composed it for his second and final studio album "Guitarra mía" (2002).
The version by Marc Anthony was arranged and produced by American musician Sergio George. Héctor Avilés from Latino Music Cafe described Anthony's version as "a great tribute to Polo's original version with his performance."
In 2015, he launched the entertainment company Magnus Media, based in Miami, alongside Michel Vega. It includes a record label, management, publishing, marketing, and distribution divisions, as well as a talent agency. With this record label, the Cuban group Gente de Zona had already been working since 2016, and in September 2021, they renewed their contract for another 4 years, which was announced by Marc himself on his social media. In 2016, Gente de Zona confessed that it was none other than "Marc Anthony who proposed they do La Macarena with the original authors, which is why they recorded the version with Los del Río."
Not only the duo Gente de Zona, who have recorded successful songs with the singer such as La Gozadera in 2015 and Traidora in 2016, maintain a professional relationship with the singer. Leoni Torres, the author of Traidora, signed with Magnus in 2016, and in 2019, the popular Cuban singer Erik Alejandro Iglesias, known as Cimafunk, as well as the controversial reggaeton artist Chocolate MC, who claimed to have signed with the company for a CD of 10 songs produced by Motiff and Magnus, also joined him.
On their part, the first signing of Magnus Sport was the Cuban player Aroldis Chapman, and their roster also includes brothers Lourdes Jr. and Yulieski Gurriel, as well as Víctor Jr. and Víctor Víctor Mesa. Recently, Cuban prospects Dyan Yamel Jorge and Yoelkis Céspedes have also joined this list.
In September 2020, Anthony confirmed through his social media that he was working on new music.
