Enrique Martín Morales is a Puerto Rican pop singer

Full name : Enrique Martín Morales .
Stage name: Ricky Martin.
Born : December 24, 1971 (age 38).

Enrique Martín Morales is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist after 1991.

During his career he has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. He is the founder of Ricky Martín Foundation (in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin) a non-profit charity organization.

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. His parents divorced when he was two; his father remarried. Martin has two maternal half-brothers, Fernando and Ángel Fernández, and two paternal half-brothers, Eric and Daniel Martín, and a paternal half-sister Vanessa Martín.

Martin grew up in a Catholic home and was an altar boy until he joined Menudo. Martin has Italian and Catalan-Spanish ancestry as his paternal fourth great-grandfathers were born (Rogliano, Cap Corse, Corsica) and Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain.