C. Tangana is a musician and style icon from Madrid. Born in Madrid in 1990 under the name Antón Álvarez, his father is a businessman of Galician origin and his mother, a teacher who was born in Ifni, a former Spanish overseas province located in the southwest of Morocco. Antón grew up in an apartment near Puerta del Ángel and studied Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He started in the world of music doing rap and under the name Crema. In 2011 he debuted as C. Tangana. Commercial success would come shortly after thanks to the song Before I Die, a duet with the then almost unknown Rosalía, whom he presented in his concerts as “the next big star of Spanish music.”

He would then publish the album Ídolo (2017), which included songs like Mala mujer and for whose promotion he dressed in Loewe, and the song Un poison (2018), a hit in which he mixed genres typical of Spanish folklore and that would be the breaking point. departure for his greatest success to date; the album El madrileño (2021), a work with which the musician sought to cross the limits of urban music and which included collaborations with Andrés Calamaro or Kiko Veneno His albums include songs and collaborations with artists such as Albany, Becky G, Paula Cendejas, with whom he sang a bolero, or Nathy Peluso. The Argentine and the Madrid native set social networks on fire thanks to the Ateo bachata (2021).