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Mexican performer Luis Miguel is an international star who is loved for both his well-produced albums and his strong live performances. Since 1990, he has been the most popular performer in Latin America. In the United States, he has become the only Latino artist to have two Spanish language albums, Romance and Segundo Romance go platinum. Both are comprised of tender South American romantic songs. In the U.S., Miguel has earned three Grammys. Segundo Romance won him one of them.
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A crooner in the tradition of Frank Sinatra, but with more pop leanings, Luis Miguel is Latin America's most successful performer. Known as "El Rey" (the king), he's won more Latin Grammy's than anyone else and even has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He'll be touring exhaustively all over the world in support of 2006's Mexico En La Piel.
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Luis Miguel has an unusual sense of humor and enjoys acting a little bit crazy or outlandish sometimes. Basteri craves excitement and emotional freedom and he likes to break the rules and take risks. Anything new or untried appeals to Basteri and he has little patience for restrictive customs. Luis Miguel is attracted to unusual, creative, or offbeat people and nontraditional lifestyles and relationships.
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri was born 19 April 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ROMANCES has sold in excess of four and a half million copies to date, (becoming the fastest selling LUIS MIGUEL album). It has ... garnered over 50 platinum discs: 11 in Argentina, 9 in the US and Puerto Rico, 8 in Chile, 6 in Venezuela, 5 in Spain, 4 in Mexico and Central America, 2 in Colombia, Bolivia and Paraguay, 1 in Peru and Ecuador, and gold in Brazil.
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In 2006, Luis Miguel's Mexico en la Piel 30-show engagement Jan. 18-Feb. 27 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. It is believed to be the biggest gross in the history of Mexico and one of the top global indoor grosses of all time. It ... broke Luis Miguel's 26-show run at the venue in 2004. The 101-date tour started last September (2005) in Mexico and then played Argentina, Chile and Uruguay through the end of the year before beginning the Mexican run in January. The tour's total gross was north of $95,000,000 which broke his own record (Amarte es un Placer in 1999) as the top-grossing tour ever by a Latin artist.
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The details of Luis Miguel's early life are somewhat unclear. Luis Miguel was originally thought to have been born in Mexico, as he grew up in the state of Veracruz. However, in the early 1980s it was reported in the press that he had actually been born in Puerto Rico during a very brief stay in the island by his parents. After it became public knowledge that he was born in Puerto Rico, the Mexican government granted him citizenship. When asked about it he recognizes that he was born in Puerto Rico, and goes on to say he still considers himself 100% Mexican.
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