Ricky Martin Similar Artists

Luis Fonsi - 100% match to Ricky Martin

Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, 15 April 1978, San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a very small child Fonsi sang in the Children’s Choir of San Juan and began studying singing and music theory. His family moved to the USA when he was aged 10 and he was then raised in Orlando, Florida. There, he sang in a vocal group, the Big Guys, while still in high school. (A Read more

Alejandro Sanz - 97% match to Ricky Martin

Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, 18 December 1968, Madrid, Spain. Balladeer and pop singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz began his long, successful recording career with WEA Latina in 1991 with Viviendo De Prisa. The album established the blueprint which Sanz would mine to highly successful effect in the 90s and into the new millennium. His fourth album, 1997’s Más, Read more

Chayanne - 92% match to Ricky Martin

Elmer Figueroa-Arce, 28 June 1968, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Chayanne is one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin music, receiving numerous gold and platinum awards and selling millions of records around the world. He first started singing in school bands in the mid-70s, before receiving his first big break at the tender age of 10 when he was selected to join the Lat Read more

Enrique Iglesias - 92% match to Ricky Martin

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, 8 May 1975, Madrid, Spain. The son of global superstar Julio Iglesias, Enrique recorded his self-titled debut album of Latin-influenced pop in 1995. The album’s release saw him catapulted to superstar status in the Spanish-speaking music world. Assured of media exposure of similar intensity to the elder Iglesias, certain sections of the Read more

Alejandro Fernández - 85% match to Ricky Martin

Christian Castro - 82% match to Ricky Martin

Thalia - 80% match to Ricky Martin

Thalía Ariadna Sodi Miranda, 26 August 1971, Mexico City, Mexico. One of Mexico’s most popular singers and actresses, Thalia first started performing at the age of nine with the children’s act Din-Din, appearing with the group at festivals and on four studio albums. She moved on to the teen pop group Timbiriche in 1984, singing on three of their albums and a Read more

Juanes - 77% match to Ricky Martin

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, 9 August 1972, Carolina de Príncipe, Antioquia, Colombia. Latin pop singer-songwriter and guitarist Juanes is the biggest star in the history of his native Colombia and arguably the most successful artist to emerge from the Latin crossover scene of the late 90s and early 00s. His idealistic songwriting is informed by the Read more

Marc Anthony - 70% match to Ricky Martin

Marco Antonio Muñiz, 16 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA. One of the leading salsa stars of the late 90s and early 00s, Anthony began his career as a session vocalist for pop and dance acts. His Puerto Rican parents boasted a strong Latin music heritage and named their son after a Mexican singer. Under his new name, Anthony worked as a songwriter and backi Read more

Jennifer Lopez - 65% match to Ricky Martin

Jennifer Lynn Lopez, 24 July 1970 (1969 is also cited), the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Of Puerto Rican descent, Lopez enjoyed great success as an actress before emerging in the late 90s as one of the new wave of Latin pop stars, alongside leading male singers Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias. Read more

Gloria Estefan - 58% match to Ricky Martin

Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo, 1 September 1957, Havana, Cuba. Estefan, the most popular Latin American singer of the 80s and 90s, originally rose to prominence in the 70s by joining soon-to-be husband Emilio Estefan in Miami Sound Machine. Educated at Catholic high school in Miami after moving there from Cuba at the age of two, she first learned to play guitar and sing dur Read more

Ricardo Arjona - 58% match to Ricky Martin

19 January 1964, Antigua, Guatemala. This singer-songwriter broke into the upper regions of the Latin American charts in the late 90s with a series of well-received and often controversial albums. Arjona was born and raised in rural Guatemala, and he stayed close to his roots when, after attending college, he chose to become a teacher in a remote region of the country. In ma Read more

Ricardo Montaner - 58% match to Ricky Martin

Hector Eduardo Reglero Montaner, 8 September 1957, Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the most enduring Latin pop stars of the late twentieth century, Ricardo Montaner has been rewarded for holding true to the highly commercial romantic ballad style throughout his career. Montaner was raised in Venezuela from the age of seven. He began performing in chur Read more

Maná - 57% match to Ricky Martin

Shakira - 55% match to Ricky Martin

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, 2 February 1977, Barranquilla, Colombia. This Colombian singer first broke into the Latin Music charts in 1995, and has since established herself as a crossover star with a groundbreaking blend of pop and rock styles. The daughter of a Colombian mother and a Lebanese father, her name means ‘woman full of grace’ in Arabic. Shakira left Read more