Marc Anthony

Marco Antonio Muñiz, full name of Marc Anthony is an American singer, actor, musical producer, and television producer of Puerto Rican descent born in New York on September 16, 1968.

He started in 1991 as a hip hop singer with the duo Little Louie & Marc Anthony. He then signed with the record label RMM Records, with whom he recorded his debut studio album Otra Nota in 1993. The album, besides being his first salsa album, reached the second position on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart and 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 of over 35 years, which continues to be successful and has led him to record and share stages with prominent Latin musicians without giving up making salsa, a genre in which he feels most comfortable and for which he is globally known. He has recorded more than 20 albums, and many of his singles have remained at the top of charts worldwide. He is a winner of several Lo Nuestro Awards and was recognized in 2014 with the Excellence Award for his trajectory 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 controversial Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe, a role he plays.

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 last studio album "Guitarra mía" (2002).

Marc Anthony's version was arranged and produced by the 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 alongside Michel Vega the entertainment company Magnus Media, based in Miami, which 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 Marc Anthony himself who proposed to them to do "La Macarena" with the original authors, so 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 or "Traidora" in 2016, have 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, and the controversial reggaeton artist Chocolate MC, who claimed to have signed with the company with a 10-song CD produced by Motiff and Magnus, also did so.

On the other hand, the first signing of Magnus Sport was the Cuban baseball player Aroldis Chapman, and in their roster, they also have the brothers Lourdes Jr. and Yulieski Gurriel, and Víctor Jr. and Víctor Víctor Mesa. Recently, the Cuban prospects Dyan Yamel Jorge and Yoelkis Céspedes have been added to this list.

In September 2020, Anthony confirmed through his social media that he was in the process of preparing new music.