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Malu Trevejo

2002 - Today

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María Luisa "Malu" Trevejo born on October 15, 2002, she is a Cuban-born Spanish singer based in Miami, Florida. She became famous for her videos on the video sharing app Musical.ly. She's now also an Instagram personality with more than 8 million followers. On September 22, 2017, she released her debut single, "Luna Llena" through Universal Music Latin. It has acquired over 100 million views on her YouTube channel as of November 2019. Not long after, she released another single "En Mi Mente" which has surpassed 10 million views. In April 2018, she was featured in a collaboration with up-and-coming English pop singer HRVY, called "Hasta Luego", which has over 40 million views. Her debut single "Luna Llena", which was produced by The Fliptones, reached 33 million YouTube views within seven weeks of release. Trevejo was recognized as one of Pandora Radio's 2018 Latin Artists to Watch. Trevejo has stated that her upcoming album will be Spanglish, including both English and Spanish-language songs. In June 2017, she signed a recording contract with In-Tu Linea, a division of the Universal Music Latin Entertainment label. "Luna Llena" debuted on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart at 27 and sold over 2,000 downloads at the time, a re-make of the song called "Luna Llena (English Version)" was released for non-Spanish speakers. On August 2, 2019, Trevejo released a four-track EP called Una vez más. Her single Luna Llena reached the Billboard 100 hot Latin position # 1 for 2 consecutive weeks, thus reaching Gold Record and Double Platinum Record in the first 2 weeks. She used her social media fame to kick start a career in music Trevejo became famous after she started posting videos on Musical.ly (now TikTok). She was quite famous on the lip-syncing app, but it was on Instagram that she really blew up. Malu told People; “I posted a video of me dancing and people liked it a lot and they started reposting it. It started getting followers and started doing more music videos and videos of me dancing. ”Malu became famous quickly on social media, and she decided to use her popularity to launch a career in music. She released her first single Luna Llena in 2017, and it received a great reception. Malu is a naturally talented singer, and she made a seamless transition into music. She dropped out of school because of bullying Malu dropped out of school after starting her music career. She told People that her schoolmates started to treat her differently after she achieved success. She said; “I’m homeschooled because I cannot go to school. There are too many people coming up to me and asking dumb questions. I can’t be a normal teen, to be honest. If I want to sing, then I have to live this life.” Trevejo went on to state that despite dropping out of school, she enjoys what she does. She said; “Sometimes I feel pressure because I can’t do the things normal kids do, but I also feel super proud because I have all of these followers that listen to me.”

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