Anitta 2016 Guide

2016 was also the year Anitta began her conquest of Latin America, independent of Brazil. The duet with Colombian superstar Maluma was a bilingual explosion. While the song was a moderate hit, the behind-the-scenes narrative was the real story. In interviews in 2016, Anitta revealed she learned Spanish in six months by watching telenovelas and refusing to use translators. This discipline foreshadowed her later success on the Latin Grammy stage.

If you want to understand the global superstar who’d later dominate with “Envolver” and “Downtown,” start here. 2016 was the year Anitta stopped being a Brazilian star and started becoming an architect of her own empire. anitta 2016