Profile
Ricky Martin
Singer + Actor
Male
Born
Dec 24, 1971
Age
41
Hometown
San Juan, Puerto ...
Genres
Latin pop + Pop m...
Performed With
Menudo + Menudo (...
Record Label
Sony Music Entert...
Other Names
Morales, Enrique ...
Enrique "Ricky" Mart%C3%ADn Morales, better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991. Throughout his career, he has sold… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Ines MisanDated 2000 - 2002
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Maital SabanDated 2000
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Adriana BiegaDated 1998 - 1999
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Lilly MelgarDated 1994
Family
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Ricky Martin
Age 41
parents
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Enrique Martín NegroniFather
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Nereida MoralesMother
siblings
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Eric MartinBrother
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Vanessa MartínSister
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Daniel MartínBrother
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Fernando MoralesBrother
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Ángel Fernández MoralesBrother
children
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Matteo MoralesSon, Age 5
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Valentino MoralesSon, Age 5
News + Updates
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Vieques Ponders Future 10 Years After Navy LeftFox News - May 01, 2013
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Peta Latino Vs. Chorizo: Who Will Win?Huffington Post - Apr 26, 2013
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It's Seal V Ricky On The VoiceByron Shire News - Apr 14, 2013 -
Mark Chesnut: Gian Kevin: Romantic Latin Music Debut, With Puerto Rican FlairHuffington Post - Apr 10, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1971
Birth
Martin was born on December 24, 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Nereida Morales, an accountant, and Enrique Martín Negroni, a psychologist.
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TEENAGE
1984
12 Years Old
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By the third audition, his persistence impressed executives and in 1984, thirteen-year-old Martin became a member.
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1989
17 Years Old
After recording eleven albums with the group, Martin left Menudo in July 1989 at age seventeen, hoping to rest and evaluate his career path.
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1990
18 Years Old
In 1990, Martin was signed to Sony Discos, the Sony Music Entertainment's Latin imprint.
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1991
19 Years Old
After working "around the clock" to finish filming Alcanzar una estrella II and recording music, Martin released his debut solo album, the Spanish-language Ricky Martin, in November 1991.
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TWENTIES
1994
22 Years Old
In 1994, Martin's agent encouraged him to move to Los Angeles to act in an American sitcom called Getting By.
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1995
23 Years Old
In 1995, Martin refocused on his music career, and began work on his third album, A Medio Vivir.
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1996
24 Years Old
In a 1996 interview with the Miami Herald, Martin expressed an interest in performing on Broadway.
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In 1997, Martin was invited to the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in Sanremo, Italy.
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As he was finishing the record, the singer was contacted by FIFA to write a song for the 1998 World Cup; Martin subsequently wrote "La Copa de la Vida" with K. C. Porter and Draco Rosa.
On the edge of the new millennium, Martin—almost by himself—gave Latino music an international face. An acclaimed performance at the 1999 Grammy Awards launched Martin into worldwide super-stardom.
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In February 2001, Martin released a Spanish greatest hits album entitled La Historia, which went to number one for five weeks on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and debuted at number eighty-three on the Billboard 200.
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THIRTIES
On February 19, 2007, Martin began his worldwide Black and White Tour which started with a performance at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico and concluded with a presentation at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 14, 2007.
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2008
36 Years Old
At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008, MTV Unplugged received Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album and for Best Long Form Music Video.
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Ricky Martin's autobiography, Me, was published on November 2, 2010.
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Martin announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was in a relationship. In 2011, during his acceptance speech of the Vito Russo Award at the 22nd GLAAD Media Awards, Martin publicly thanked his boyfriend, Carlos González Abella, an economist.
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FORTIES
Ricky Martin guest-starred as a Spanish teacher on the FOX TV show Glee episode "The Spanish Teacher" on February 7, 2012.
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