Luis Miguel - Biography

Last Editor: Deelucy				Luis Miguel Biography -   Name : Luis Miguel Date of birth : 19 April 1970 Place of birth : San Juan, Puerto Rico Birth name : Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri Nickname : Luismi Mickey El Sol de Mexico Height : 5' 10

Luis Miguel Trivia -

Loves jazz. Idols are Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. Favorite instrument is the piano. Has been romantically linked to Mariana Yazbek, a photographer, who was in his video of 1987 "Cuando Calienta el sol". One of his first loves was novela actress Lucía Méndez. First show he sang at was in a cabaret in Ciudad Juarez after the Andres Garcia and Luisito Rey show. His shoe size is 8 and a half. His favorite singers are: the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. Has also been romantically linked to Brigitte Nielsen, Sofía Vergara, tennis superstar Gabriela Sabatini and Princess Stephanie of Monaco (1991). Had a 3 year romance with MTV veejay Daisy Fuentes. Went to the Oscars 1997 with friend actress Salma Hayek. Has two younger brothers, Sergio and Alejandro. Engaged to TV Host Myrka Dellanos (July 2004) He was born in Puerto Rico, mother was Italian and father was famous Spanish musician. Luis Miguel later became naturalized citizen of Mexico.

Luis Miguel Detailed Biography -

Luis Miguel (born Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Mexican singer of Spanish and Italian descent who is one of the most popular celebrities in Spain and Latin America. In Mexico, he is nicknamed El Sol ("The Sun"), Luismi, Micky or Luis mi rey For a long while, he was thought to have been born in Mexico since he grew up in the state of Veracruz. When information was leaked to the press that he had been registered in Puerto Rico as having lived there he acquired Mexican citizenship. Luis Miguel has won some of the most prestigious music awards such as four Grammys and three World Music Awards and has performed at venues around the world. Luis Miguel has sold over 55 million copies worldwide. He was the son of the late Spanish singer Luisito Rey (born Luis Gallego Sánchez) and Italian-born actress Marcella Basteri. He has two younger brothers: Sergio and Alejandro. His career started early. At the age of four, he appeared in public in Costa Rica. It was during this period, and for the next years as he grew from a child into a teenager, that he was exposed by his father, then manager, to watch and analyze practically every movie, recording, and concert performance that Elvis Presley put on tape, as a learning process towards the attainment of a high degree of showmanship. His actual recording career started in 1981, when he recorded his first album, 1+1= 2 Enamorados (1+1 = 2 people in love) with the Mexican branch of EMI. Two years later, he started touring Latin American countries including Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina. In 1985, he took part in the San Remo Music Festival, where he won his first award with his song Noi ragazzi di oggi ("We boys of today"). That same year, he also won the Antorcha de Plata (silver torch) award in the Viña del Mar Music Festival. That led to his recording of a duet with Scottish singer Sheena Easton. The song was called Me Gustas Tal Como Eres ("I like you just as you are"). He had a short acting career between 1984 and 1985. In 1984, Miguel co-starred in the film Ya nunca más and, in 1985, in Fiebre de Amor with singer Lucero as a co-star. In 1987, he signed with WEA, which gave his career a huge push, especially with the backing of producer and composer Juan Carlos Calderón. His relationship with his parents soured soon after, with accusations of mismanagement of his career and bad economic decisions that put his fortune in danger. He made a successful transition from child singer to adult showman extraordinaire, with the album 20 Años in 1990, as well as after a string of sold out shows, first in Mexico, then throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the world, where he established a reputation for hard work, and for delivering some of the most extraordinary vocals to be ever heard in popular music. He is equally adept at singing rancheras, as he is with ballads, or when delivering his own kind of hard driving, rock derived music. Luis Miguel's career soared to even greater heights when he started recording boleros. His first album of boleros was Romance, released in 1991. In 1993, he won the Best Latin Pop Album Grammy Award with Aries (Aries is his sign of the zodiac) and three years later, he got his own star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His career has only gone up from there. For all his fame, Luis Miguel is mostly a loner that hates the label of "heartbreaker". He dated Stephanie Salas in the 80s and was rumored to have a daughter, Michelle Salas, for whom Luis Miguel has never publicly accepted responsibility, although in 2005 Salas recognized before the Spanish press that Luis Miguel is indeed the father of her daughter. Amongst the many women in his life are photographer Mariana Yazbek, singer Sasha Sökol, model and television presenter Sofía Vergara, tennis superstar Gabriela Sabatini, MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes, singer Mariah Carey, and TV Host Myrka Dellanos. Luis Miguel is currently dating Aracely Arámbula.