At only 32 years old,
Mariana “Lali” Espósito
is one of the most multifaceted and recognized young artists in national entertainment.
At the age of 10, her life took an unexpected turn when she appeared at a Cris Morena casting by mistake and, since then, her undeniable talent on stage catapulted her to fame until she became one of the contemporary references. of Argentine Pop.
Her career as an actress covers 11 television projects, including the unforgettable youth strips: “Rincón de Luz”, “Floricienta” and “Casi Ángeles”, international series and films of different genres.
In 2013 she made a great leap in music that made her the owner of successful collaborations with renowned artists such as David Bisbal, Thalía, Pabllo Vittar, Ricky Martín and Cazzu, as well as a musical repertoire of five successful albums that earned her numerous certifications. gold, and platinum, as well as six world tours and important recognitions at international awards.
Lali: how were her beginnings in art?
Lali was born on October 10, 1991 in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, in a middle class family made up of the medical visitor María José Riera and the soccer coach Carlos Espósito, in addition to her two brothers, Ana Laura and Patrick.
The artist showed her interest in acting at an early age.
In 1998 she had her first television participation in the children's program “Caramelito y vos” hosted by Cecilia Carrizo.
That opportunity gave way to her acting debut in the children's series “Rincón de Luz” (2003) by Cris Morena, a project for which she auditioned by mistake.
Initially, the artist had planned to attend another casting but without realizing it she entered the one organized by the renowned production company, since both auditions were held simultaneously two blocks away.
"I went with my sister, who was fifteen years old and my mother didn't know.
We got off the bus badly, we saw the line of kids, and I got in, but I wasn't going to Cris's casting
," Lali said recently in an interview at the OLGA streaming channel.
“They asked me where I came from.
I answered: 'From my house.'
And they tell me: 'No, no.
From what agency?
Who is your manager?
Why are you here?'.
For me, they were speaking to me in Chinese but a week later they called me and there, my mother found out," she recalled.
From that moment on, the actress worked side by side with Cris Morena throughout her adolescence.
In “Floricienta” (2004), the youth strip starring Flor Bertotti, Lali played Roberta.
Lali Espósito, in "Floricienta".
And a year later, she played Agustina Ross in the children's series “Chiquititas Sin Fin.”
However,
the role that changed her life came with “Casi Ángeles”
when she stepped into the shoes of Marianella "Mar" Talarico Rinaldi for four seasons (579 total episodes) alongside Peter Lanzani, Gaston Dalmau, La China Suárez and Nicolás Riera as protagonists.
The series aired on Telefe for the first time on March 21, 2007 and said goodbye to the small screen on November 29, 2010.
The starring cast of "Casi Ángeles".
Fiction gave way to Espósito's first musical project: the pop band
“Teen Angels”
, which released six studio albums and two live albums.
In addition, the musical group performed numerous presentations in Argentina, Europe and Latin America until 2012.
Lali, multifaceted: how success came to her in music and acting
Once that stage was completed, Lali navigated cinematography by working on the film “The Fight of My Life” (2012) under the direction of Jorge Nisco.
That same year, the actress joined the play “The Witches of Salem” where she played Abigail Williams, and whose cast was made up of actors Juan Gil Navarro, Roberto Carnaghi, Carlos Belloso, Rita Cortese and Julia Calvo.
However, in 2013,
Espósito took the plunge by launching herself as an independent solo singer
without abandoning the acting career that she built throughout her childhood and adolescence.
In this way, it was proposed that both projects could coexist in their work agenda.
Lali, in one of her first shows as a soloist, at La Trastienda.
(Graphpress) File.
On March 4, 2014, the artist released her debut album “A Bailar” whose pop, hip-hop and R&B sound earned her a gold record as well as a Gardel Award in the “Best Pop Female Artist Album” category.
To promote it, Lali led her first musical tour “A Bailar Tour”, which began at the Ópera theater and
culminated at the Luna Park Stadium
after touring Argentina, Peru, Spain, Italy and Israel.
A year later, the artist acted in the soap opera “Esperanza Mia” (El Trece) in which she played Julia Albarracín, a 21-year-old girl who seeks to execute the death of her adoptive mother and finds her mother in the Santa Convent. Rosa where she also meets the priest Tomas Ortiz (Mariano Martínez), with whom she establishes a special sentimental bond that is affected by his religious vocation and her supposed role as a novice.
For her participation in the soundtrack of the fiction - in which she sang nine of the eleven songs, including the opening curtain “I have hope” -, Lali received a platinum record from the Argentine Chamber of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (CAPIF).
Lali with Mariano Martínez in the theatrical version of "Esperanza Mía".
In May 2016,
Lali released her second album “Soy” under the Sony Music record label.
This musical project mixed dance pop, reggae, R&B, Dubstep, electro and funk genres in its 13 songs that included the singles “Boomerang” and “Ego”.
After its release, the singer achieved gold certification in Argentina and Uruguay, and announced her second international tour “Soy Tour” of 40 dates.
Six months later, on August 4, the romantic comedy “Permitidos” by Ariel Winograd was released in which she starred alongside Martín Piroyansky and
grossed 1.9 million dollars.
His third album “Brava” was released in August 2018 and a week later it was recognized with a gold certification in Argentina for having sold ten thousand copies.
His promotional tour “Brava Tour” added 32 dates in the American continent, 2 in Europe and 1 in Asia that began with two sold-out shows at Luna Park.
In November of that same year, Espósito received the MTV Europe Music Awards for “Best South American Artist” for the third consecutive year.
Regarding her acting commitments, Lali participated in the series “Sandro de América” (Telefe) that reviewed the life of the interpreter Roberto Sánchez and in September of that year she starred in the film by Gonzalo Tobal, “Acusada” in the role of Dolores Dreier , a girl accused of killing her best friend.
In 2019, the actress settled in Madrid to film the Spanish series
“Sky Rojo”
and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, filming was interrupted until May 2020.
Lali, in her role in "Sky Rojo" (Netflix).
Once it premiered on Netflix on March 19, 2021, the project garnered so much attention from audiences and international critics that it acquired another two seasons.
In the last months of 2019, Espósito took his “Brava Tour” to Spain, Israel, the United States and performed at Rock in Rio in Brazil.
His fourth album “Libra” went on sale on November 12, 2020 and among the 11 reggaeton, trap, R&B and pop songs, there were collaborations with Mau and Ricky, Cazzu.
CNCO and Noriel.
On this project, Espósito worked with a wide variety of producers and co-writers such as Tainy, Camilo and Fito Páez, among other names.
In June 2022, the singer took to the stage with her fifth tour “Disciplina Tour”, a name inspired by one of the singles from “Lali” (her most recent album that she released in 2023) which had 38 dates in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Five months later, the artist returned to the small screen in the series “The End of Love” that premiered on the Prime Video digital platform where Lali played Tamara, a philosopher from an Orthodox Jewish family who decides to break with family tradition. to investigate his own convictions.
Lali on her "Disciplina Tour".
Photo: Martín Bonetto.
In December 2022, to close a successful year, the artist performed the Argentine anthem before the final of the World Cup in Qatar in which the Argentine National Team became champion.
“I couldn't be more excited about my own story.
Because I was born in a very humble neighborhood and my family had a very bad time for a long time, so I thought about my father while he sang and what it meant to him that his daughter, in that social context from which we come, got there and represented with his voice to a lot of children who come from backgrounds similar to mine,” said Lali about his presentation at the Lusail stadium.
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The singer expressed all her emotion in "Por el Mundo", Telefe.
With the arrival of 2023, so did the successes because in March, Espósito became the first Argentine female artist to sell out tickets at the Vélez Sarsfield stadium with “Disciplina Tour” where she gave an electrifying concert that included Ale Sergio and Juliana Gattas de Miranda!
and the Spanish rapper Rels B.
Finally, in April, Lali published her fifth self-titled studio album made up of thirteen songs with a pop, electropop, hip hop and R&B sound.
The unexpected controversy with Javier Milei
On August 13, 2023, Lali Espósito used social networks to express herself about the results of the PASO in which
Javier Milei
as a candidate for La Libertad Avanza came in second place behind Sergio Massa.
“How dangerous.
“How sad
,” the singer wrote about the setback that the economist gave.
Since then, the interpreter and the president - who was elected President on October 19, 2023 - gave a series of statements that sparked controversy in the public eye.
After assuming power, Milei used his official La Chaya.
“If you have a problem in how you allocate resources, that is, if you spend money hiring Lali Espósito and then do not pay the police, it is not our problem,” Javier launched in dialogue with Radio Miter.
For her part, the artist picked up the gauntlet and defended herself with a photo doing “fuck you” in front of the camera.
“To hate, lies, use and fake news,” she stated.
On the other hand, Lali defined as “necessary foam for some” the accusations against him for the alleged million-dollar sum that he would have charged to sing in the province.
“It shouldn't exist because in the world of culture it is very easy to find out how things are.
They got involved with the hiring of municipal shows and created this image of the artist going with stolen bags and the town's money.
"It's absolute delirium
," he expressed in dialogue with LAM (America).
Later, Espósito remarked that the questions surrounding the municipal concerts that he led during his career do not keep him up at night:
“I have the peace of mind from my years of work because I know who I am and how I move.”
The new confrontation between the President and the artist occurred after Lali's presentation at the Cosquín Rock 2024 festival in Córdoba.
On stage, Lali referred to the words that the president had towards her and for that, he changed the lyrics of her song “Who are they?”
and instead of singing "that if I smoke, that I live, that I say. That if I drink, that I have kissed so many", Espósito launched: "That if I smoke, that I live, that I drink, that I live of the State".
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The singer sent an encrypted message to Milei after a repost on the President's networks for her performance at Cosquín Rock.
The singer also took advantage of her presence at the festival to support national culture after the debate that arose around her over the Omnibus Law that ultimately did not prosper in the National Congress: "Everything that happens to the artist is a collective issue and not "It depends only on the artist, it is purely on the public. It is not demagoguery."
"This party that we Argentines are, this union that generates art, music, culture, no one is ever going to take it away from us. This depends on us, who are up here with certain responsibilities, and on you too," he added before. to continue with the show to perform “KO” and dedicate it to the “anti-patriarch”:
“This song is for the liars, the stupid, the bad people, the ones who don't value, the anti-patriarch... Everyone.”
The singer's reflection at Cosquín Rock 2024 did not go unnoticed by the president, as he was in charge of making a forceful defense and referring to the artist as
“Lali Depósito.”
“When Córdoba makes Cosquín Rock, which is private, it happens that it gives them a billion pesos in subsidies,” Javier Milei stressed.
In addition, the economist criticized the artists who participated in the festival and in doing so, did not forget the “anti-patriarch” that Espósito fired on stage.
“Like Lali Depósito, who collected the State fee,” the President replied.
“Lali Depósito received money from several governments,” insisted the head of state, who maintained that “in one of the recitals he received 350 thousand dollars” when he was consulted about the accusations he made against the administration of Governor Ricardo Quintela in La Rioja.
The statements of the President of the Nation led dozens of artists from the national scene to defend Lali on social networks.
Some of the national rock musicians who expressed their support were: Marilina Bertoldi, Andrés Ciro Martínez (vocalist of Ciro y los Persas), Ricardo Mollo and Catriel Ciavarella (vocalist and guitarist of Divididos) and Emiliano Brancciari (vocalist of the band No Te Va Gustar) as well as the singers Emmanuel Horvilleur and María Becerra.
The actors Benjamín Rojas, Dolores Fonzi, Jimena Barón, Candela Vetrano, Rochi Igarzabal and Ángela Torres and even the comedian and host Agustín Radagast also joined the initiative.
The recent controversy had an impact on national entertainment in such a way that Lali used her official Instagram account to publish an open letter addressed to the President of the Nation.
Espósito indicated that “he does not know anything other than working” and emphasized that he participated “in several municipal shows with ALL governments like most artists” since “culture not only generates a lot of work but also builds and narrates the identity of a town and, above all, it generates joy and emotion.”
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The singer thanked her colleagues and followers for the support she received.
"I respect, although I do not share, that your plan does not prioritize culture, but I believe that the demonization of an industry and the people who make it up is not the way, I feel that the asymmetry of power between you and those you attack for thinking different and false information returns to its unfair and violent discourse! From respect I want to have the freedom to be able to think differently. I
do not believe that the path is lack of respect and meaningless disqualification
," he explained.
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