Marco Antonio Muñiz, the full name of Marc Anthony, is a singer, actor, music producer, and television producer from the United States of Puerto Rican descent, born in New York on September 16, 1968.
He began his career in 1991 as a hip hop singer with the duo Little Louie & Marc Anthony. Soon after, he signed with the record label RMM Records, with whom he recorded his debut studio album Otra Nota in 1993. This album, his first salsa record, reached second place on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart and peaked at 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 appeared on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.
Since then, the singer has built a prolific career spanning over 35 years, still reaping success and sharing the stage with prominent Latin musicians, while remaining true to salsa, the genre in which he feels most comfortable and for which he is globally renowned. He has recorded more than 20 albums, and many of his singles have consistently ranked 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 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 portrayed.
In 2013, he covered the song "Flor pálida" by the Cuban artist Polo Montañés on his album "3.0." Polo had composed it for his second and final studio album "Guitarra mía" (2002).
Marc Anthony's version was arranged and produced by American musician Sergio George. Héctor Avilés of Latino Music Cafe described Anthony's rendition as "a great tribute to Polo's original version with his performance."
In 2015, he launched the entertainment company Magnus Media in partnership with Michel Vega, based in Miami. This company includes a record label, management, publishing, marketing, distribution divisions, as well as a talent agency. The Cuban group Gente de Zona had already been working with this record label since 2016, and in September 2021 they renewed their contract for another four years, a fact announced by Marc himself on his social media. In 2016, Gente de Zona confessed that it was Marc Anthony himself who proposed they create La Macarena with the original authors, leading them to record the version with Los del Río.
Not only the duo Gente de Zona, who recorded successful songs like La Gozadera in 2015 and Traidora in 2016, maintain a professional relationship with the singer, but also Leoni Torres, the author of Traidora, who signed with Magnus in 2016. In 2019, the popular Cuban singer Erik Alejandro Iglesias, known as Cimafunk, and the controversial reggaeton artist Chocolate MC also signed with the company, claiming to have signed for a CD of 10 songs with Motiff, produced by Magnus.
On their part, Magnus Sport's first signing was the Cuban player Aroldis Chapman, and their roster also includes the 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 been added to this list.
In September 2020, Anthony confirmed through his social media that he was preparing new music.
