RICKY MARTIN

Ricky Martin is a singer from Puerto Rico. He was born in 1971 and his real name is Enrique Martín Morales. He started his career like an artist when he was a child, but he became famous because of the music group Menudo. After five years of work with this group he left it and went to New York and then to Mexico where he started his career like actor in the soap opera "Alcanzar una estrella II". It succed so much that Ricky Martin launched a Cd called "Muñecos de papel" where he was one of the principle figures, and he started a tour with Sasha Sokol. The first time he appeared in the cinema was with the film "Más que alcanzar una estrella" where he met his ex girlfriend Paloma, with whom he was two years.

He recorded his first album alone in 1991 for Sony Music Entertainment, and he became famous in Ámerica Latina. In 1993 he recorded his second album "Me amarás" and he took a breath with the music. He came back to the series of the tv in the popular serie General Hospital. In 1995, with his third album "A medio vivir" Ricky Martin sold more than 600.000 copies in 6 months. With this album he became famous around the world with the song "Maria". Since then he was requiered in a lot of international events. He was one of the latin singers who sang in the Cd of The Olympic Games of Atlanta in 1996. He sang for the film of Disney Hércules too.

In 1998 he launched his album "Vuelve" where appears the popular song "La copa de la vida", which is the oficial song of the Football Champion of France in 1998. The next year, Ricky Martin won a Grammy with the song "Vuelve". After this success he records a new album with songs in English and Spanish and he appeared in the Billboard magazine in the number one of the list of the 200 albums.

In 2001 he launched his album in Spanish "La historia" which was number one of the Latin Chart during five weeks. This same year he published in English "The Best of Ricky Martin" that sold a milion of copies. In 2006 he recorded the Cd "Ricky Martin: Unplugged" with a DVD whose first single was "Tu recuerdo" which he sang with La Mari of the group Chambao. This year he sang "Bambú" with Miguel Bosé for the Cd of this last one "Papito". In 2007 he won the prizes "Antorcha de plata", "Antorcha de oro" y doble "Gaviota de plata". This year Ricky Martin started his Tour Blanco y Negro in the United States but he had to cancel some concerts because of some healthy problems. He reboot the tour in Europe.

At the end of this year he recorded the song "No estamos solos" with the italian singer Eros Ramazzotti. To Ricky it is a dream make real. After this he recorded his first live album in Puerto Rico called "Ricky Martin Live- Black and White Tour". In the DVD were unpublished images in the backstage and the full concerts of the year 2007. He won two Grammys for this album.

Ricky Martin was appointed person of the year 2006 for the Latin Academy of recording. He was chosen for being an acclaimed artist, a passionate humanitarian and a mundial figure of entertainment. The ceremony was in New York and he received a tribute where artists like Miguel Bosé, Sin Bandera and Juanes among other artists sang songs of him.

Apart from his prizes for his music, he is ambassador of Unicef and he has won two Grammys for the Ricky Martin Foundation of Puerto Rico, which was created to protect the children.

Now Ricky Martin has declared that he is homosexual. He hid it because he was afraid of losing fans and his advisorys told him that it was the best he could do. He has explained that in Twitter where he has received the support of the people and artists like Juanes who has told him "Todo mi respeto y cariño para ti, Ricky, sos un caballero". His ex girlfriends has show him their support too and one of them says that she wishes that people respect him. In my opinion it is a good thing that he said that because now the next singers won't be so afraid to say it like was Ricky Martin.