La Mákina was a Puerto Rican merengue band formed in the 1990s. The group was organized by Fernando Colon and Orlando Santana. Several of the group's songs have ranked on the Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. The band received a nomination for Tropical New Artist of the Year at the 1997 Lo Nuestro Awards. The band was led by its lead singer Anthony Maldonado who left the group in 2000 to pursue his own solo career.