Luis Miguel | Notable Biographies

(1970/04/19 - Unknown)

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri
Mexican singer

He was born on April 19, 1970 in San Jorge Hospital in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico district.
Son of Luis Rey, singer and composer Spanish and Marcela Basteri, Italian actress. With Spanish, Italian nationality and port Rico-USA, later, the President of Mexico was granted the Mexican nationality. Luis Miguel is named as a tribute to the Spanish Bullfighter who idolised his father.
Along with his father playing guitar through radio and television stations Mexican trying to get to appear on Televisa. Luis Miguel acted after Bebu Silvetti Orchestra at the wedding of the daughter of the President. A month later, he kept the first meetings with company EMI.
Their first album was called A Sol, at the end of 1982, he saw the light of his second work, direct to the heart. In 1983, he visited Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela, among others. In the same year was published his third album entitled to decide, away from the markedly child style of the previous two. In 1984, it appears his fourth work, Word of honor, recorded in Spain.
In February 1985, the San Remo Festival was held and he was selected to compete with the likes of José Luis Rodríguez 'The Cougar', Eros Rammzotti or Gigliola Cinquetti. He got the second prize, after Rechie e Poveri. His return to Mexico coincided with the promotion of the album word of Honor. Her father negotiates with the production company Warner Music (WEA) and proposes a relaunch with an album that would produce the Spanish Juan Carlos Calderón and which would be based on versions of classics of Pop as: Reach out I'll be there, I only want to be with you, When the Sun heats up, All by myself, Sunny, etc... all of them adapted to the Spanish, including the version of you, the classic that own Juan Carlos Calderón had written for Mocedades. The album was titled Soy como quiero ser (Luis Miguel ' 87).
A year later, the disk appears looking for a woman that are songs by Luis Gómez Escolar and Tito Duarte, emphasizing songs as The unconditional, one of the basic pieces of the Repertoire of the interpreter and that would mark a record of permanence on the radio Mexican staying for 7 months in the first place, and for more than one year on the charts. Likewise, the video clip of the unconditional would be considered by critics as the best video in the history of music Latin up to that time.
In 1989, during his stay at a luxury hotel in Madrid, he informs his father is fired. Continued his career throwing: 20 years, produced entirely in Hollywood. It included an adaptation of the theme of the Jackson Five, Blicks it on the Boogie, renamed will be that not me Amas, and have everything except a you, which remained in almost all Latin America several weeks at number one.
In November 1991 launches his album Romance, an album of boleros , which achieved sales of nearly eight million copies world-wide. In 1993 he started the recording of Aries; attended by musicians and composers, like David Foster. Visit United States acting in the largest and most important national auditoriums. In 1994 it produces Second Romance, a new album of boleros. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, California. In 1995 starts received the Grammy Award for the album second Romance, for the third time in the category of Best Latin Pop Performance. Gets gold disc in Spain by sales.
Together with Kiko Cibrián produces the album The concert, recording of his concerts made live on the 1994 tour. In 1996 he recorded the ballad dreams, in which belongs to the soundtrack of the film The Hunchback of Notre Dame produced by the DisneyStudios. Nothing is the same was recorded between February and March at the Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles. In September of this year, he inaugurated his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Romances album goes on sale on 12 August 1997, resulting a Grammy winner in the Best Latin Pop Albumcategory, awarded by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences record. In 1998 leaving a triple CD "all the Romances" with your three discs of Boleros and "Pop Box Set" with its 4 pop albums for WEA "Looking for a woman", "20 years", "Aries", "Nada es Igual". In 1999 it brings together Armando Manzanero and Juan Carlos Calderón to compose and record new songs "love is a pleasure" Luis Miguel not only produces it but that first he dares to write some of the songs. In the 2000 takes off to the "Live" sale. Recorded live during their concerts. In 2003 he published his first album with original songs in four years. He titled it 33, alluding to his age. In 2004 he presented his first production with mariachi which he called Mexico in the skin. In 2008 launched accomplices with unreleased tracks from composer Manuel Alejandro.
He has received 10 Grammy Awards and 6 Latin Grammy Awards.
In 1997, he came out with the singer Mariah Carey. Father of three children: Michelle (1989) as a result of his relationship with Stephanie Salas; Miguel (2007) and Daniel (2008), had with the actress Aracely Arámbula.