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.