About Fabio Acosta
Fabio Acosta, a music executive with over 25 years of experience in the field of entertainment and music. Acosta begins his career in Bogota (Colombia) as a young entrepreneur with his own production company being responsible for many successful festivals and concerts within the underground rock world of his native Bogota.
Later, Acosta joined BMG Music working in the radio promotions department, developing new, established and up-and-coming talent. His expertise in the dance and electronic genre makes him a real specialist in the region.
He subsequently joined EMI Music as Label Manager and A&R for their Dance division. In 2002 Acosta moved to the US to work with EMI Televisa Music based in Miami, Florida.
Besides being an executive for the label, he was part of the strategy and development of many international releases for the label such as Carlos Vives, Juan Luis Guerra, Obie Bermudez, Tito ‘El Bambino’, Intocable, RBD, Fonseca, Belinda, Aleks Syntek, amongst others.
Since 2007, Acosta has been working as a strategic consultant for many artists and projects through his company Akela Family Music. Today, his exclusive roster stands for new talent in different genres projecting as international stars, not only in their home countries but also in the US and throughout Latin America.
Breaking Records with Balvin: Acosta’s shopper J Balvin, whom he co-manages with Scooter Braun, crossed into famous person territory in 2018. He leads this 12 months’s Latin Grammy nominations with eight, and in June briefly dethroned Drake as Spotify’s most-streamed artist on the earth.
The Colombia-born Acosta, who additionally manages Cazzu and Manuel Medrano, says that Balvin’s potential to transcend style is historic: “Balvin, performing in Spanish, can proudly stand alongside anybody”, together with Beyoncé at Coachella, Cardi B and Bad Bunny on the American Music Awards and Barack Obama throughout a current midterm marketing campaign cease.