Marco Antonio Muñiz, whose full name is Marc Anthony, is an American singer, actor, music producer, and television producer 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. He then signed with the record label RMM Records, with which he released his debut studio album Otra Nota in 1993. This was not only his first salsa album but also reached second place on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart and climbed to 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 forged a prolific career spanning over 35 years, continuing to achieve success and sharing the stage with prominent Latin musicians while remaining dedicated 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 consistently topped charts around the world. He has won several Lo Nuestro awards and was also honored 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 in "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 from Latino Music Cafe praised Anthony's rendition as "a great tribute to Polo's original version with his performance."
In 2015, he launched the entertainment company Magnus Media, based in Miami, together with Michel Vega. This company includes a record label, management, publishing, marketing, distribution divisions, as well as a talent agency. The Cuban group Gente de Zona had been working with this record label since 2016, and in September 2021, they renewed their contract for four more years, a fact announced by Marc himself on his social media. In 2016, Gente de Zona confessed that it was Marc Anthony who proposed they do "La Macarena" with the original authors, leading them to record the version with Los del Río.
Not only the duo Gente de Zona, which has recorded successful songs with the singer such as 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, who stated that he signed with this company for an album of 10 songs produced by Motiff and Magnus, also joined this collaboration.
On its part, the first signing of Magnus Sport was Cuban baseball 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 joined this list.
In September 2020, Anthony confirmed through his social media that he was preparing new music.
