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BIOGRAPHY

NAME: Enrique Martin Morales alias Ricky Martin

DATE OF BIRTH: 24 december 1971

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

ZODIACAL SIGN: Capricornio

HEIGHT: 6,1 feet

EYES COLOR: Dark brown

HAIR: Light brown

FAMILY: MOTHER: Nereida Morales

FATHER: Enrique Martin Negroni

SIBLINGS: Angel, Vanessa, Fernando, Eric, Daniel

FAVE FOOD: Cuban & Italian

WORST FOOD: Seefood

FAVE ACTOR: Robert De Niro

FAVE MOVIE: "The Godfather"

FAVE DESIGNER: Georgio Armani

FAVE SONG: Fragil, Sting

BEST & WORST QUALITY: Sincerity

FEAR: Snakes

Ricky Martin was one of the biggest teen idols in Latin America during the '90s. A lead singer of Menudo, Martin was blessed with good looks and a nice voice, which helped him become a Latin music star.

Ricky (b. December 24, 1971) was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents divorced when he was just 2 years old. As a child, he sang in the choir and performed in school plays. When he was six, he told his parents that he wanted to be in the show business. He began acting in television commercials. Shortly aftereward, he took professional singing and acting lessons, which paved the way for his auditions for Menudo.

It was at the age of 12 when he made his first contact with music, as a member of Menudo. " I didn't want to be a singer. What I wanted was to be Menudo. I wanted to give concerts, to travel, to meet the pretty girls. I had been a fan of the group since it began in 1977. I was always stubbornly determined to be one of them, until the time of the audition arrived. The first two times I auditioned, theu told me no, that I was too little. Ricky Melendez left, and I was one of the ones hoping to replace him. They searched for his replacement for two years, untill finally they gave me a third audition and I turned to be the one they chose." Before Menudo, his life was going along quite normally in his native San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the heart of a middle - class family. " My childhood was very healthy, near to my parents, who were divorced. I did whatever I wanted: I lived with my mother if I wanted to be with her, and with my father in the same way. I had the same affection from both of them. Although they were no longer married, they were very good friends. I always went to Catholic schools, and when I got Menudo, I had tutors from the Departement of Public Instruction of Puerto Rico." He was with Menudo for exactly 5 years , from July 10, 1984, until July 10, 1989.

He also had the opportunity to do theater and soap operas, this discovering what has come to be his second passion: acting. " When I left Menudo, it was my intention to go into acting full time. I disconnected myself from the artistic world for a year, for reflection, catharsis, maturity. It was necessary because my first five years in the business were pure adrenaline, very intense. The experience of Menudo turned out to be wonderful, it gave me more than it took out of me. It taught me what it is to be disciplined, something that I still practice today".

The Puerto Rico of the 70�s: a purer scene, bursting with rhythms, sounds, colors, and light. Those were the years of the television boom, the convergence of cultures, and the birth of �salsa�. Reminiscing about those years, Ricky Martin thinks of paradise, of a dream that recurs within him every time he looks at himself. "That young child is still alive, and he has transformed himself into the judge of the man that I have become."

After five years of continuos work, tours, recordings, and rehearsals, Ricky Martin decided to take some time off to reflect, finish his studies, and gather his strength to continue his conquest of new horizons. New York offered the perfect environment to "do nothing and at the same time be surrounded by everything that is going on around the world". He went to the theater, to the movies, and to concerts. He walked through the streets looking at the people, and his surroundings, knowing that his time to get started all over was not to far off. And so it was. In less than a year, Ricky decided to move to Mexico for a while. Only two weeks after relocating to Mexico, he began working as an actor in musical plays and later on was offered a role in a television soap opera for which he also recorded the musical score. Without a doubt, his destiny was music. So much so that his first solo recording came naturally. The audience's reaction to the recording and his first concerts confirmed that music was to be his future. Without giving up the theater, or any other artistic media, music would prove to satisfy all his needs to grow professionally and personally. It is precisely this desire for development and self-improvement that has made the life of Ricky Martin outstanding.

Few artists, much less from his generation, have the discipline and capacity for work that he shows. As he confesses; this attitude towards life has allowed him to reach the goals he has set for himself. "I�m very intimate and is very hard for me to express my feelings in my private life. I hold everything in; even when I know this could hurt me. I feel I am such an introvert that I need the stage to rid myself of my insecurities, and there I become Superman".

Ricky Martin's first three recordings, "Ricky Martin", "Me Amaras", and "A Medio Vivir", have demonstrated the enormous artistic possibilities of the interpreter. The public�s reaction wherever he went confirmed that a star, whose splendor could only be guessed at, was being born.

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