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Akela Family Music
Akela Family Music is an independent entertainment company dedicated to consulting services for artists, labels, companies, and brands in US and Latin American.
Akela Family Music in the US has been responsible for radio success in the US Hispanic Market of Top Latin Artists like J Balvin, Black Eyed Peas, Daddy Yankee, Cardi B, Reik, Zion & Lennox, Jesse & Joy, Fonseca, Maná, Ricardo Arjona, Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Vives, Juanes among many others.
¿What Means Akela?
Akela is a symbol of wisdom, authority, and leadership. Akela is anyone who acts as a leader
About Fabio Acosta
This brings us to what is perhaps the crowning achievement of Acosta’s career: his work with Latin superstar J Balvin, a co-management with Scooter Braun. Nothing highlights his journey through the industry better than the fact By 2007, Acosta had started to work as a strategic consultant for many artists and projects. This led to his next venture: the founding of his independent entertainment company Akela Family Music. Dedicated to helping artists, labels, and various other enterprises navigate the music industry, the company is effective by honing in on innovative techniques in radio promotion and artist consulting services. Akela has been responsible for radio success in the US Hispanic Market of Top Latin Artists like J Balvin, Mana, Alejandro Sanz, Jesse & Joy, Reik, Laura Pausini, Juanes, Black Eyed Peas, Daddy Yankee, and many more. Today, the company’s roster shows that Acosta still has a finger on the pulse of what is new in Latin music and is a beacon for new talent in different genres.
This brings us to what is perhaps the crowning achievement of Acosta’s career: his work with Latin superstar J Balvin, a co-management with Scooter Braun. Nothing highlights his journey through the industry better than the fact that his client J Balvin concluded 2019 as one of the global artists to exceed 10 billion YouTube views within the year.
This brings us to what is perhaps the crowning achievement of Acosta’s career: his work with Latin superstar J Balvin, a co-management with Scooter Braun. Nothing highlights his journey through the industry better than the fact Crossing into the global mainstream in 2018, Balvin became the biggest Latin artist on Youtube in 2019 by spending 14 consecutive weeks in the #1 position on YouTube Music’s Global Artist chart. As Balvin’s unadulterated technicolor talent has burst onto the global scene, Acosta’s managerial skills and ample experience have steered the artist to unprecedented heights, not only within the industry, but also with fans and press. The Colombian singer has become one of the top 5 streaming artists in the world on Spotify, the #1 male Latin artist on TikTok, Music Choice’s “Latin Artist of the Decade” and a Billboard Magazine cover star plus, he leads the Latin Grammys with eight nominations, and in June briefly dethroned Drake as Spotify’s most-streamed artist on the earth. These achievements, in tandem with the world’s fascination with Balvin, have led Acosta, and Balvin’s co-manager Scooter Braun, to ink one momentous deal after another. In 2019 alone, they managed to close a lucrative new label deal with Universal Music, renegotiate Balvin’s Buchanan’s Whiskey deal in the US, Canada and Mexico, and secure a headlining slot at Lollapalooza, making Balvin the festival’s first Latin music headliner. Acosta says that Balvin’s potential to transcend style is historic: “Balvin, performing in Spanish, can proudly stand alongside anybody.” Recently Balvin was named one of Time’s most influential people of 2020.
This brings us to what is perhaps the crowning achievement of Acosta’s career: his work with Latin superstar J Balvin, a co-management with Scooter Braun. Nothing highlights his journey through the industry better than the fact While constantly reaching higher for his clients, Fabio maintains a diverse roster of clients as a manager on VibrasLab that includes Colombian singer Manuel Medrano, Yeison Jimenez, Jiggy Drama, Mario Puglia, Agudelo888, Cornetto, La Gabi, Matt Paris and Cazzu, who is the first Latin female artist with a US/regional campaign on Spotify in celebration of her album Una Niña Inútil, he and his clients make it clear that Latin music is not a niche market. Acosta’s career knows no bounds and the only safe prediction for his future is constant reinvention.