Genre: Pop
Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991. He has sold more than 61 million albums around the world, charting 21 top-ten hits on the U.S. Latin Charts, ten of which reached number one, and a total of over 30 hit singles.
Martin was born an only child on December 24, 1971, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to his mother, Nereida Morales, who was an accountant and his father Enrique Martín Negroni who was a psychologist. His parents divorced when he was two. Both remarried.
After completing high school, Martin left San Juan and moved to New York. Later, Martin moved to Cancún where he started acting, first in theater productions, and then in a soap opera ("telenovela") titled Alcanzar Una Estrella II (Reach for a Star). A film based on the series was produced in which Martin played "Pablo," earning a Heraldo Award in 1993.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_martin