Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin (2013)

Ricky Martin (* 24. December 1971 as Enrique Martin Morales in Hato Rey , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor . He is also a citizen of Spain .

Life

childhood

Ricky Martin's father Enrique III was a psychologist , his mother Nereida Morales an accountant . His parents divorced when he was two years old. He attended Sagrado Corazón Elementary School, participated in school performances and sang in the school choir. He began taking singing lessons and auditioning for television commercials. In 1984 he was accepted into the Latino boy band Menudo. The numerous tours , learning with a private tutor and the incessant interaction with fans tired him. He left the group in 1989, returned to Puerto Rico, and finished high school . After graduation, he decided to move to New York .

Career

Ricky Martin, 2007

He moved to Mexico City for stage appearances . In addition to various roles on television, he got the lead role in the musical Mamá Ama El Rock . The following year he signed a record deal with Sony Music . In Mexico Martin met his former band friend Robi Rosa again, with whom he has worked since then. Together they wrote the first album Ricky Martin (released in 1991), which was a huge success in the Latin American charts. Two years later, the even more successful album Me Amarás was released and made him a superstar in Latin America . Both albums achieved gold status in numerous countries , but Martin's success at that time was still limited to the Latin American region.

That was the reason why he moved to Los Angeles in 1994 . While playing the role of a bartender on the General Hospital series , he was working on his third album, A Medio Vivir , which was released in 1995. The mix of Latin music and rock influences explains his Latin music childhood and enthusiasm for singers like David Bowie and Cheap Trick . The album sold more than half a million times within half a year and achieved gold status. His role in General Hospital led him to the role of Marius in the Broadway musical Les Misérables . In addition, he was hired to dub the Spanish version of Walt Disney's Hercules .

He also conquered the Portuguese-speaking market, especially in Latin America, in 1996 with the title song for the telenovela Salsa e Merengue by the station Rede Globo - the piece is another version of his hit from the album A Medio Vivir . His fourth album Vuelve , which was released in 1998, sold well internationally. The single La Copa De La Vida became the anthem of the 1998 World Cup and made Martin known worldwide. He performed at the 1999 Grammy Awards, where Vuelve was named Best Latin Pop Album . After the award ceremony, album sales increased sixfold.

In the same year, Martin released his fifth and first English-language album Ricky Martin (title identical to the first album). He sang Livin 'La Vida Loca , which became the number-one best-selling single on Columbia Records , on the NBC Today Show , which achieved high ratings as a result. The song won the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Dance Video and Best Pop Video . Martin has received awards such as MTV North Latin Viewer's Choice , MTV South Latin Viewer's Choice , MTV Russia Viewer's Choice and World's Best Selling Latin Male ( World Music Awards ) . At the same time he had one of the best-selling albums of the year and more than 250 sold-out concerts on his world tour.

In 2000 he released the sixth album Sound Loaded , which was again in English. He was able to continue his success, also through the single release She Bangs and the duet with the singer Christina Aguilera Nobody Wants To Be Lonely . With the following studio albums Almas del silencio (2003) and Life (2005) Martin could no longer build on the previous successes in Europe. However, it continues to be very successful in Latin America and the USA.

To date, Martin has sold 55 million albums and eight million singles worldwide. For many years he has been involved in charitable institutions such as the "Pediatric AIDS Foundation", "Carousel of Hope" and "Rainforest Foundation". In 2001 he appeared as part of the "Tribute to Brian Wilson" and sang the songs California Girls and Help Me, Rhonda . The performances were released on DVD. On July 9th, 2011 he will play his only concert in Germany as part of his Música + Alma + Sexo World Tour in the Arena of Pop in Mannheim . In February 2012, she made a guest appearance on the television series Glee . Martin has been a jury member and coach on the Australian singing talent show The Voice , which airs on Nine Network , since the second season in 2013 . In the second season of the American Crime Story television series , he played Antonio D'Amico, Gianni Versace's partner .

Private life

Ricky Martin fathered twins in 2008 with the help of a surrogate mother . The Spanish magazine ¡ Hola ! pictured Martin and his sons for the first time on December 12, 2008. In an exclusive interview with the magazine, Martin stated that he chose surrogacy because adoption is so long and complicated.

In 2010, Martin announced that he was proud to be able to say that he was a happy homosexual man after years of hiding his sexual orientation on the advice of his advisors so as not to lose female followers.

In 2011 he was granted Spanish citizenship by the Spanish government by pardon so that he could marry his partner Carlos González. The couple separated in January 2014. In November 2016, Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef announced their engagement. The couple has been married since January 2018.

Trivia

With the song María , Ricky Martin promoted the caffeinated lemonade from the company PepsiCo in Latin America from the mid-1990s . In the commercial the refrain is : Un, dos, tres! Nada como una Pepsi, María.

Discography

→ Main article : Ricky Martin / discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Latin	IT
1991	Ricky Martin	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 6, 1991
1993	Me amarás	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 25, 1993
1995	A Medio Vivir	DE20 (11 weeks) DE	AT22 (10 weeks) AT	CH12 gold (20 weeks)CH	-	US- gold US	Latin11 (96 weeks) Latin	IT7th × 4 Quadruple platinum (61 weeks)IT	First published: September 19, 1995 Sales: + 1,800,000
1998	Vuelve	DE15 (19 weeks) DE	AT22 (12 weeks) AT	CH4th platinum (34 weeks)CH	-	US40 platinum (41 weeks)US	Latin1 (102 weeks) Latin	IT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (38 weeks)IT	First published: February 10, 1998 Sales: +2,400,000
1999	Ricky Martin [1999]	DE2 gold (62 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (23 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (52 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (63 weeks)UK	US1 × 7 Seven times platinum (67 weeks)US	-	IT1 × 3 Triple platinum (23 weeks)IT	First published: May 11, 1999 Sales: +11,600,000
2000	Sound Loaded	DE17th gold (20 weeks)DE	AT23 (14 weeks) AT	CH4th gold (24 weeks)CH	UK14th platinum (28 weeks)UK	US4th × 2 Double platinum (31 weeks)US	-	IT3 × 2 Double platinum (19 weeks)IT	First published: November 14th, 2000 Sales: + 3,700,000
2003	Almas Del Silencio	DE17 (10 weeks) DE	AT28 (7 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (19 weeks)CH	-	US12 (9 weeks) US	Latin1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (45 weeks)Latin	IT2 gold (19 weeks)IT	First published: May 20, 2003 Sales: + 585,000
2005	Life	DE57 (4 weeks) DE	AT60 (2 weeks) AT	CH17 (6 weeks) CH	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	US6 (9 weeks) US	-	IT8 (10 weeks) IT	First published: October 11, 2005 Sales: + 70,000
2011	Música + alma + sexo	-	-	CH49 (6 weeks) CH	-	US3 (8 weeks) US	Latin1 platinum (32 weeks)Latin	IT3 (32 weeks) IT	First published: February 1, 2011 Sales: + 180,000
2015	A Quien Quiera Escuchar	-	-	CH49 (1 week) CH	-	US20 (3 weeks) US	Latin1 platinum (54 weeks)Latin	IT3 (37 weeks) IT	First published: February 10, 2015 Sales: + 205,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography

• 2012: Glee , (TV series) season 3, episode 12
• 2018: American Crime Story (TV series), season 2 The Murder of Gianni Versace - as Antonio D'Amico, Italian model and partner of Gianni Versace

Television shows

• since 2013: The Voice (juror)
• 2014: Keep Your Light Shining (guest judge)

Works

• I . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2011, ISBN 978-3-85445-346-8 (original edition: Me )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus: Latinostar is the father of twins
2. ↑ Time: Celebrity Children: Latino star Ricky Martin is the father of twins
3. ↑ Ricky Martin: En los últimos meses me di a la tarea de escribir mis memorias. (No longer available online.) March 29, 2010, archived from the original on April 1, 2010 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English, official statement). 
4. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de:
5. ↑ https://www.bunte.de/stars/star-news/musik/ricky-martin-ueberraschung-er-ist-verlobt.html
6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article213078427/Ricky-Martin-hat-seinen-Lebensgefaehrten-geheierter.html
7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US ES

Web links

Commons : Ricky Martin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ricky Martin at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Ricky Martin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ricky Martin (Sony Music)
• Ricky Martin Music
• Ricky Martin Foundation