This Friday, August 4, they are presented in Bogota, Marc Anthony and Silvestre Dangond. A meeting that is given after five years that the Puerto Rican will not visit the capital of the country. The concert brings together two of the most important Latin artists of the moment. Here a count of the figures of both artists.
Marco Antonio Muñiz Rivera (Marc Anthony)
48 years.
As a child I was stutterer and preferred to sing than to speak in public. Thus was born his respect for music.
15 studio albums and more than 40 awards throughout his musical career.
Marc Anthony has been a two-time Grammy Award winner and five times for the Latin Grammy Award for themes such as "Amar sin mentiras" and "Contra la corriente"
A Marc Anthony concert can cost close to a million dollars.
Since 2011, when he created his account on Twitter, until today, Puerto Rico has more than 9 million followers. In Instagram it has 6.2 million.
In 1992, Tito Puente took him as the opening act for a concert at Madison Square Garden, although the real launch of his career came the following year, with the recording of Hasta Gabriel , a song by Juan Gabriel in salsera version.
In 1998 he released a third salsa record, Contra la corriente , for many the best of his career, which received that year's Grammy for best Latin-Tropical album.
In the year 2000 a compilation with its best salsa songs, called From the beginning, was released to the market .
Marc Anthony is one of the Spanish-speaking artists who has sold more albums. The sum exceeds 12 million.
In January of 2006 begins the filming of the film El Cantante based on the life of the Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe, and that he interprets.
When the twins were born with Jennifer Lopez, People magazine paid them $ 6 million for having exclusive photos of their children.
Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales
10 albums and five Latin Grammy nominations.
A show by Silvestre Dangond can cost more than $ 100 million.
Since 2009, when he created his Twitter account, until today he has more than 2 million followers. In Instagram it has 2.8 million.
In 2002, he signed with Sony Music and released his debut album Tanto para ti , which produced three singles: Who Told Me, I Need to See You and the Porcelain Doll .
His first national success came in 2004 with the song La Collegiate , written by himself.
In 2005 already had managed to accumulate a faithful fan base known like "Silvestristas".
In 2008, he released El Original one of his most meticulously crafted albums. Two years later, Bartender , he was certified Platinum Quadruple Disc for sales that exceeded 80,000 units.
More than 100,000 units sold gave to the album No Me Compares With Nadie (2011) a certification of Disc of Diamond in Colombia.
The album La 9ª Batalla (2012) reached # 1 on the Latin album list of iTunes in the United States, making Silvestre Dangond the first artist of vallenato to reach the top of this highly competitive ranking.
More than 55 thousand people attended the concert to launch this album that took place in Valledupar.
The historic parranda took 15 days of work to mount and included a show of sound, lights and special effects that turned it into the largest production ever seen to present an album in the country.
In 2002 Silvestre recorded his first album called Tanto para ti . With him he began to penetrate the radio and gain recognition among the people.
But only until 2013 began its vertiginous growth with the release of the album The best for the two that recorded with the accordionist Juancho Of the Espriella.
On September 2, 2013, Sylvester Dangond announces that his new formula on the accordion is the vallenato junior king of 2009 and also his blood cousin Lucas Dangond.
On November 19, 2015 at the 16th Latin Grammy Celebration Silvester was the artist who closed the gala evening with the theme "Materialist" next to reggaetonero Nicky Jam. Being the first vallenato artist to have this space.
