Marcos Da Costa is a Uruguayan singer who emerged from Montevideo’s carnival and
murga tradition to become one of the key voices of contemporary plena and
tropical urban music. Born in Uruguay in 1993 into an artistic family headed by
murguista Orlando “Mono” Da Costa, he began singing at age five in Carnaval de
las Promesas with the murga Suertempila and spent more than a decade performing
in children’s murgas and revue groups before debuting at 17 with the historic
murga Falta y Resto at Buenos Aires’ Luna Park. In the mid-2010s he left the
murga circuit to pursue a solo career...