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A colour illustrated unofficial biography of the Latin American singer and performer, Ricky Martin. ... Read more

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This book is a must have for every Ricky Martin fan.The book is entertaining and well written;it provides even the most devoted fan with new information and the inside look at Ricky Martin, the man who is living"La Vida Loca."I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Ricky Martin went from being a lead singer for the boy group Menudo to a Grammy-winning, chart-topping, heart-throbbing solo performer and international celebrity! This collection gathers 14 of his very best: Amor * Be Careful (Cuidado Con Mi Corazon) * Besos De Fuego * The Cup of Life * Juramento * Livin' La Vida Loca * Maria * Nadie Mas Que Tu * Nobody Wants to Be Lonely * Perdido Sin Ti * Shake Your Bon Bon * She Bangs * She's All I Ever Had * Tal Vez. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio, Shakira, Thalía, Marco Moré, Magos Herrera, Bebel Gilberto, Celia Mara, Tahis, Maía, Donato Y Estefano, Michael Biggs, Francesca Cezan, Paulina Aguirre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced , Spanish: or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged as a musical prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese. After commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success. Since then she has gained many fans in semi-Hispanophone countries, and many non-Spanish-speaking countries, especially the United States. In 2001, and aided by heavy rotation of the music video, "Whenever, Wherever", she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Both reinforced her success, particularly with one of the most successful song in the 21st century to date, "Hips Don't Lie". From October-November 2...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6479315 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Ricky Martin, Miguel Arteta, Wilson Cruz, Holly Woodlawn, Rose Troche, Sylvia Rivera. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes est un écrivain, professeur et acteur portoricain gay né le 10 avril 1968 à San Juan (Porto Rico). Il est plus connu sous le nom de Larry La Fountain. Il a reçu plusieurs récompenses pour son écriture aussi bien que pour son travail avec les étudiants Hispaniques et Latino-Américains et LGBT (« lesbiennes, gays, bisexuels et transsexuels »). Il réside actuellement à Ann Arbor (Michigan), aux États-Unis. La Fountain-Stokes est né à San Juan, Porto Rico, précisément à Miramar, un quartier traditionnel situé dans la zone centrale de Santurce. Il a été adopté à la naissance par Donald et Ramona La Fountain, et il est le frère de la journaliste de télévision de la chaîne ESPN Michele La Fountain. Il a écrit au sujet de son expérience d'enfant dans un essai appelé « Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas » (« Les garçons avec les garçons, et les filles avec les filles »), où il décrit sa maison d'enfance comme bilingue et biculturelle. Son essai « Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile » (« Diasporas étranges, vies portoricaines : Une méditation sur le sexile » ) analyse également certaines de ces premières expériences. La Fountain-Stokes a suivi toute sa scolarité primaire et secondaire dans l'Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, une école bilingue d'élite tenue par les Sœurs Scholastiques de Notre-Dame (SSND). Il a reçu un diplôme du lycée en 1986. Il a alors étudié à l'université Harvard à Cambridge au Massachusetts, où il a reçu sa licence d'arts dans les études hispaniques en 1991. Durant ses études un...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Mtv Unplugged, Ricky Martin 17, La Historia, the Ricky Martin Video Collection, Ricky Martin - One Night Only. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Ricky Martin MTV Unplugged" is a live album by Ricky Martin released on November 7, 2006 in CD and DVD formats by Sony BMG Norte. It was re-released as a CD and DVD combo-package in May 2007. An exclusive Wal-Mart packaging was made available with the original CD purchase and a DVD titled "Making of Ricky Martin MTV Unplugged", which includes a 40 minute behind the scenes documentary and the music video to "Tu Recuerdo". (The music video for "Tu Recuerdo" is just an extracted live performance of the song from MTV Unplugged.) This 12 track live album has sold 138,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan as of February/March, 2007 and has been certified Gold in the Latin charts. Three new tracks were included: "Tu Recuerdo" featuring La Mari and producer Tommy Torres which topped Billboard Latin airplay charts and spent also one week on the Billboard Hot 100 at #89 and peaked at #10 on the Billboard Latin Hot Latin Tracks charts; "Pegate" (second single that peaked at #11 on the Hot Latin Tracks and #6 in the Hot Dance Club Play charts ) and "Con Tu Nombre" (which so far has peaked at #47 on the Latin Charts ) ...http://booksllc.net/?id=7459982 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Self Control, Livin' La Vida Loca, the Cup of Life, Nobody Wants to Be Lonely, She Bangs, María, Go the Distance, I Don't Care, It's Alright, She's All I Ever Had, Shake Your Bon-Bon, Jaleo, Private Emotion, Drop It on Me, Loaded, Tal Vez, Pégate, La Bomba. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, as well as the album on which it appears. The song was recorded that same year with the same English lyrics by Italian singer Raf, who co-wrote the song with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo. Branigan's version first hit #1 in Germany on June 15, 1984. Raf's version first hit #1 in Italy on June 23, 1984. Branigan's version was the most popular song across Europe during much of the summer of 1984 and was the song of the year in Switzerland. Branigan's version peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song has been recorded by dozens of artists around the world in the years since, notably including Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in 1993, a hit dance remake by Branigan in 2004 and two 2006 versions that hit the Top 5 in various European enclaves, by Danish dance group Infernal and Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas. The song has become something of a dance classic, with a number of remakes recorded each year. Branigan's first major hit had also been co-written by Bigazzi. "Gloria" (1982) was an English-language song written over a 1979 Italian song recorded by Umberto Tozzi. The following year Branigan recorded another new English song written over a Tozzi and Bigazzi song, "Mama", which was an album track on 1983's Branigan 2. Branigan chose two more Italian songs for her third album: one, "Ti Amo", featured new...http://booksllc.net/?id=7014975 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on September 18, 1997. The length of the article is 332 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Persiguiendo el sonido. (noticias breves sobre el mundo de la música que incluyen la vida sentimental del cantante Ricky Martin y el hijo recien nacido de Julio Iglesias; 18 de septiembre de 1997)(TT: Following the sound) (TA: brief news about the world of music which includes singer Ricky Martin's love life and Julio Iglesias' newborn son; September 18, 1997)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 18, 1997
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v4Issue: n239Page: p16(1)

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Titles are: She Bangs
* Saint Tropez
* Come to Me
* Loaded
* Nobody Wants to Be Lonely
* Amor
* The Touch
* One Night Man
* She Bangs (Español)
* Are You in It for Love
* Ven a Mi (Come to Me / Spanish)
* Dame Mas. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ricky Martin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, 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. Ricky Martin rose to fame as a member of the Latin American boy band Menudo, after which he became a solo artist in 1990. He is considered a major star in the world of Latin pop and is considered to have opened the doors for some of his fellow Latin American singers. Martin has been nominated one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine and its sister magazine People en Español in 2000 and 2006. After completing high school, Martin left San Juan and moved to New York City. Later, Martin moved to Mexico city where he started acting. He first in a musical-theater in 1989 named Mis Tennis Rojos (My red tennis shoes) next to Angelica...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=84065 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ricky Martin, Charlie Masso, Xavier Serbia, Ricky Meléndez, Johnny Lozada, Edgardo Díaz, Miguel Cancel, Ray Reyes, Rene Farrait, Roy Rosselló, Fernando and Nefty Sallaberry, Jonathan Montenegro, Abel Talamantez, Sergio Blass, Rawy Torres, Robert Avellanet, La Pandilla, Troy El Romantico, Didier Hernández, Troy Kurtis, List of Menudo Members, Caleb Avilés, Edward Aguilera, Carlos Meléndez, Ricky López, Raymond Acevedo, Ralphy Rodríguez, Pablo Portillo. Excerpt:Abel Talamantez Abel Talamantez Mendoza (born October 16, 1978 in Pecos, Texas ), is a Mexican American singer . He is currently a singer for the band Cruz Martínez Y Los Super Reyes . He used to be in the bands Menudo , MDO , and A.B. Quintanilla Y Los Kumbia Kings . Biography Abel Talamantez, who grew up playing basketball with his brother (who would join La Sombra ) with Cruz Martínez owner and founder of international groups Kumbia Kings and Los Super Reyes and three sisters (who would form Esmi Talamantez Y Viento Loco) in Pecos, became a member of the famous Puerto Rican music group, Menudo , in 1992, after several group members had left the group in the middle of a sexual scandal that had threatened to break up the band. Edgardo Diaz held auditions and Talamantez, together with Alexis Grullon, among others, were chosen as the new members of Menudo. At Menudo, Talamantez got to share the stage with the only member of the group who stayed through the scandal, Adrian Olivares , who also was the first non-Puerto Rican member of Menudo. For a short period, Talamantez moved to Puerto Rico with the rest of the band. Although the often called golden era of Menudo (basically from 1980 to 1985) had already passed by, the group still had fame across Latin America and among Hispanic communities in the United States, and Talama... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on November 17, 1999. The length of the article is 1122 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ALE... ALE... ALE...(Ricky Martin, cantante; concierto; reseña; Houston, Tejas)(TT: Alé, alé, alé...)(TA: Ricky Martin, singer; concert; review; Houston, Texas)(Reseña)
Author: Zandra Rojas
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 17, 1999
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6Issue: 350Page: 4

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This songbook from the Latin singer Ricky Martin features hits for piano, vocal and guitar, including "Livin' La Vida Loca", "Shake Your Bon-Bon" and the World Cup theme, "The Cup of Life". It also contains a double-sided poster showing pictures of Ricky throughout his career. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Patrice Martin, Ricky Mccormick, Jean-Marie Muller, Sammy Duvall, Nicolas le Forestier, Chris Parrish. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Patrice Martin, né le 24 mai 1964 à Nantes, est un skieur nautique français. Il fut champion d'Europe à 13 ans et champion du monde à 14 ans. Il possède l'un des plus beaux palmarès du sport français, avec 12 titres de champion du monde, 34 titres de champion d'Europe et 25 records du monde. Seule la cycliste Jeannie Longo avec ses 13 titres de championne du monde et son titre olympique peut revendiquer un palmarès plus imposant. Il occupe désormais le poste de président de la Fédération française de ski nautique et a été élu au Comité national olympique et sportif français. C'est par l'intermédiaire de son père, Joël, qu'il découvre le ski nautique, dont il commence la pratique à quatre ans. A 10 ans, il remporte sa première compétition internationale en Espagne. Puis en 1974, il remporte un premier titre de champion d'Europe, en figure, à Temple-sur-Lot. C'est dans cette dernière discipline qu'il se fait tout d'abord connaître. Il y remporte quatre titre mondiaux (le titre est décerné tous les deux ans), et trois médailles d'argent. Son principal adversaire sur la discipline pour occuper la première place au classement mondial est l'Américain Cory Pickos. Il progresse ensuite dans les autres disciplines, en particulier sur le slalom, dont il obtient une médaille d'argent et une médaille de bronze mondiale, ce qui lui permet de pouvoir rivaliser pour la première place du classement mondial au combiné. Il remporte ainsi son premier titre dans cette discipline en 1989, pour une série ininterrompue de six titres mondiaux jusqu'en 1999. De 1991 à 1999, il occupe le...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, 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. Ricky Martin rose to fame as a member of the Latin American boy band Menudo, after which he became a solo artist in 1990. He is considered a major star in the world of Latin pop and is considered to have opened the doors for some of his fellow Latin American singers. Martin has been nominated one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine and its sister magazine People en Español in 2000 and 2006. After completing high school, Martin left San Juan and moved to New York City. Later, Martin moved to Mexico city where he started acting. He first in a musical-theater in 1989 named Mis Tennis Rojos (My red tennis shoes) next to Angelica Vale and then followed another theater productions Mam... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=84065 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on January 29, 2006. The length of the article is 695 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ricky se lució: todavía vive: si pensaba que el cantante boricua Ricky Martin pasó por nuestra ciudad sólo a presentar el concierto, se equivoca. Semana le cuenta qué otro pendiente tenía que hacer el cantante. Especial.
Author: Sindy M. Ortega
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 29, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 674Page: 23(1)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ricky Martin is the fifth album by the Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin released on Columbia Records subsidiary C2 Records on May 11, 1999 (see 1999 in music). The album has worldwide sales of over 17 million copies. This album is Martin's third which marketed in the United States and is his first album in English. Ricky Martin includes Ricky's first #1 hit "Livin' la Vida Loca", and "Be Careful (Cuidado Con Mi Corazón)", a duet with Madonna. When Ricky Martin hit the record stores, it sold over 660,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #1. This album became one of the top-selling albums of 1999, and was certified 7 times platinum. Some editions of the album include two bonus tracks: "I'm On My Way" and a Spanish version of "Spanish Eyes" titled "La Diosa del Carnaval". ... Read more