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Luis Miguel (born Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Mexican singer of Spanish and Italian descent has been the most popular singer in Latin America since the late 1980's. 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 nine Grammys (5 Grammys, 4 Latin Grammys) and three World Music Awards and has performed at venues around the world. Luis Miguel has sold over 60 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. wich still at the best latin album of all time with more than 10 millions copies sold worldwide.

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.

in 1997 the mexican singer release Romances, the third album of the bolero series and became the second best selling latin album of all time with 7 milliones copies sold in 12 month.

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. In February 2006 Luis Miguels "Mexico en la Piel" won The Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album.

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