He has the world at his feet, but insists on keeping them (his feet) steady on the ground. Inteligent and acute, Ricky knows well that fame can be ephemerous. Like someone once said "It's not dificult to reach the top, dificult is to stay there for a long time". For that and much more, Ricky has been planning carefully his career. First he conquered South America, then Europe with Maria and La Copa de La Vida, now it's America, surrended to his Vida Loca.
Just think, how many times have you imagined to see Ricky Martin receiving prizes at the MTV Awards?
Those who had condemned him to a minor star of soap generics are now slaping their mouth.
Ricky's been in this for a long time. At the age of 12 he was the star in the group Menudo, a Latin boyband, then he tried the theatre, the television, to launch himself with all the strength in the end of this millenium. The future belongs to him.

All goes well in his life. He has Madonna and Glória Estefan as two of his best friends, the luxurious Beverly Hills shops open up their doors out of hours specially for him, he has opened a restaurant in Miami that has as much success as his songs, famous designers draw clothes specially for him and Pepsi has offered him a millionare contract for a new campaign. After all, what else can a pop singer ask for?
Ricky's happy as an artist, but his life also has to have space for other things. His family, specially his mother, Nereida, who helps him organize his finance, his friends, Puerto Rico, his hometown, and God.
Ricky ia a catholic and recognizes that without God he wouldn't have got that far. "I always pray before I make a decision", he confesses. When standing before a new situation, he asks God for help. "I like to feel He is with me".

But after all, how did he conquered the world? In the first place, his looks.
In an universe such as music, where the immediate asks for a bigger care with the image, the boy knows well what the girls want.
He is gorgeous, healthy, has simpathy and he's one hell of a dancer.
The hearts of teenagers, the mothers of teenagers as well as the grandmothers of teeagers beat strongly. Ricky is now some kind of a world-wide approval to exemplify masculine beauty.
His songs are dancable or romantic, they're good for all occasions. And so, as he doesn't confess for whom his heart beats, he has that look of available guy, so much appetizing or more than that of the footballers to start a family (the mothers think...).
His most known girlfriend is Rebecca de Alba, a tv hostess that, as much as they say, is still his compagnion, though there are rumours that she didn't like the fact that he had to be locked up in a studio with the caliente Madonna.
Truth or not, Madonna or Rebecca, Rebecca or Madonna, the fact is that Ricky Martin has been able to keep his private life PRIVATE. he doesn't talk about those things because he doesn't want to, and because it helps to keep an image of sex-symbol... wich he already is.