Marc Anthony UK Tour 2026 — Dates, Venues & Tickets

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About Marc Anthony

Marco Antonio Muñiz grew up in a fifth-floor walk-up on East 110th Street in Spanish Harlem, the youngest of eight children in a Puerto Rican household where his father Felipe — a hospital cafeteria worker by day and a self-taught guitarist by night — kept a working knowledge of every Tito Rodríguez, Héctor Lavoe, Felipe Rodríguez, and Daniel Santos record in circulation. He was named Marco Antonio in honor of the Mexican balladeer Marco Antonio Muñiz and picked up the stage name Marc Anthony to avoid confusion with the namesake when he started recording professionally as a teenager. He started singing backup at New York City freestyle and Latin house sessions in the late 1980s — credits on records by the Latin Rascals, Little Louie Vega, and the Masters at Work productions of the era — and recorded a 1991 English-language freestyle solo album, When the Night Is Over, before he pivoted decisively into Spanish-language salsa romántica with Otra Nota in 1993 at the urging of producer Sergio George and Soho Latino head Ralph Mercado. Todo a Su Tiempo in 1995 was the cultural breakthrough — Hasta Que Te Conocí, Te Conozco Bien, the original Te Amaré, and the Sergio George arrangements that pushed the salsa romántica template into harder horns and tighter conga work landed at a scale the genre had not seen since the late-1970s Fania peak. He hosted Saturday Night Live in 2000, played opposite Salma Hayek in the Héctor Lavoe biopic El Cantante in 2007 with then-wife Jennifer Lopez producing and co-starring, recorded the English-language crossover Marc Anthony album in 1999 with You Sang to Me, I Need to Know, and My Baby You turning him into a mainstream US pop name, and continued anchoring the salsa catalogue with Libre in 2001, Amar Sin Mentiras and the salsa-version companion Valió la Pena in 2004, Iconos in 2010 as a covers tribute to the Latin standards canon, 3.0 in 2013 — the Vivir Mi Vida cycle — and the more recent Opus in 2019 and Pa'lla Voy in 2022. Vivir Mi Vida hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs for thirty weeks and turned into a generational Latin anthem; Opus won the Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Album and the Latin Grammy for Best Salsa Album; Pa'lla Voy continued the streak with additional Latin Grammy recognition and singles like Mala that pulled new generations of streaming-era listeners into the salsa catalogue. He has been honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in 2009, has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and remains the only salsa artist to maintain consecutive arena and stadium headliner status across more than thirty years of touring. He has been married four times — to Dayanara Torres, Jennifer Lopez, Shannon de Lima, and Nadia Ferreira — and the marriage to Jennifer Lopez produced the joint Skyline Sessions touring run and a UNICEF benefit but never overshadowed his independent stadium-tour cadence on the salsa catalogue. Magnus Media — the entertainment and management company he co-founded — sits behind the operation alongside Sony Music Latin on the recording side.

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