Lali

Mariana Espósito, whose stage name is Lali Esposito, is an award-winning, best-selling Argentine actress turned pop singer.

Lali was born in 1991 in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of Buenos Aires to María José Riera and Carlos Esposito. She began her career at age 12 in the children's TV series Rincón de Luz, created by producer Cris Morena. Between 2004 and 2005, she played the role of Roberta in the children's telenovela Floricienta, and a year later, played Agustina Ross in the children's series Chiquititas Sin Fin, which was broadcast on the Telefe channel. She also participated in the theatrical adaptations of her previous series.

In the year 2007 she played the role of Marianella "Mar" Rinaldi in Casi Angeles, a juvenile series that was aired until 2010 on Telefe and was broadcast in several countries. The actress also participated in the theatrical adaptations of the same program. Lali's first try at music was as part of the Teen Angels, a band that originated in the Casi Ángeles series. The group toured Latin America, Spain, and Israel and issued five full-length albums between 2007 and 2012, as well as two compilations -- all were certified gold or platinum.

While pursuing music she continued to act. In 2011, Lali performed in the telenovela Cuando Me Sonreís by Tomás Yankelevich. A year later, while still in Teen Angels, she made her film debut in La Fega de Mi Vida. She also expanded her portfolio to include the theater: She played Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Witches of Salem. In January 2013, she began acting in the television comedy Solamente Vos and released her debut solo album, La Bailar, the same year. While it didn't attain the same sales success as her recordings with Teen Angels, it charted in the upper rungs at home and won several airplay awards across Latin America. She followed it with the 2014 EP Asesina, produced by Pablo Akselrad, Luis Burgio, and Gustavo Novello. It wove together radio-friendly pop, dance music, and hip-hop and again landed on the upper rungs of the pop charts in Argentina and throughout South America