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Bio
Marc Anthony
Born Marco Antonio Muñiz, the multi-talented performer Marc Anthony is one of the biggest-selling, and most influential, salsa artists of all time.
Anthony first hit the charts in 1993 with his Otra Nota album and reached the #1 slot on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart with Todo A Su Tiempo (1995), Contra La Corriente (1997), which earned him the Tropical Latin Album Grammy in 1998, and Libre (2001).
Driven in part by the crossover success of his smash single, "I Need to Know," Marc Anthony, his English language debut, helped usher in 1999's Latin pop explosion, and has gone on to achieve triple platinum status in the U.S. Mended, 2002's English language successor to Marc Anthony, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 the week of its release in May 2002 and has gone on to sell more than 1.3 million copies worldwide.
Marc Anthony's Spanish-language pop album, Amar Sin Mentiras shared a song set list with its salsa-flavored sister collection, Valió la Pena. Both albums were released in 2004 and each reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. Amar Sin Mentiras won the 2005 Grammy Award for Latin Pop Album of the Year.
In addition to more than a decade's worth of chart-topping salsa successes, Marc Anthony has established a highly credible acting résumé and may be seen in Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999); opposite Selma Hayak in the Showtime original film, "In the Time of the Butterflies" (2001); and appears with Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in director Tony Scott's "Man On Fire" (2004).
A career-spanning Marc Anthony "greatest hits" album titled "Sigo Siendo Yo" was released July 2006.
2007 brought the release of "El Cantante", a film directed by Leon Ichaso where Anthony stars as the Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Héctor Lavoe, with Jennifer Lopez as Puchi. The film was released by PictureHouse August 3, 2007 and the soundtrack for the movie hit the market on Sony Norte July 24th. The album remained on the #1 spot on sales for six consecutive weeks.
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