Enrique José Martín Morales (born December 24 1971), better known as 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 almost 48 million albums around the world,Adams, Steve: "Martin's World View", Billboard magazine, November 4, 2006, p. 64-66. charting twenty one top-ten hits on the U.S. Latin Charts, eight of which reached number one, and a total of over thirty hit singles. Early life Martin was born on December 24, 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the only child of Enrique Martín, a psychologist, and Nereida Morales, an accountant, who also had two children from her first marriage. His parents divorced when he was two, and both later remarried, giving Martin three more step-siblings from his father's second marriage. Though no one in his family was connected to show busi