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Animal (María Becerra album)

2021 studio album by María Becerra

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ108291551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Animal is the debut studio album by Argentine singer María Becerra. It was released on 26 August 2021 by 300 Entertainment. Animal consists of two parts, with the first half being released as a separate extended play (EP), Animal, Pt. 1 (released in February 2021), consisting of four tracks. The second release coincided with the album, featuring an additional seven songs. The album features collaborations with Cazzu, Tiago PZK, Becky G, and Danny Ocean. Animal was nominated for Best Urban Music Album at the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards.

Background

In September 2020, Becerra confirmed that she had started working on her first studio album, in which collaborations with Argentine artists are coming.

On 25 February 2021, Becerra released Animal, Pt. 1, the extended play preview of what would be her first studio album.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Animal (María Becerra album)” is 2021 studio album by María Becerra. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Animal, María and Becerra, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-08-26. For this dossier, Animal, María and Becerra is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2021 studio album by María Becerra” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108291551. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Animal (María Becerra album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.