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Who is Luis Miguel?

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, better known as Luis Miguel, is considered the most famous and successful Mexican male singer of all time , even though he is not really Mexican. Luis Miguel was born on April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is also very famous for the dozens of women who have passed through his life and most of whom have been ephemeral relationships for him.

Biography of Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, known professionally as Luis Miguel, is a singer and producer who people know as Mexican, some others Spanish and even Italian but Luis Miguel is actually Puerto Rican by birth . Often referred to as El Sol de México (The Sun of Mexico) and El Sinatra Latino (The Latin Sinatra), Luis Miguel is inarguably one of the most successful musical artists in Latin American history. He has sung in a variety of genres, from pop, ballads, boleros, tangos, and jazz to big band and mariachi. Among popular Latin American singers, he is the only one who has not made music in English during the “Latin Explosion” in the 1990s.

Despite this, he remained the best-selling Latin artist throughout the decade. Born in Puerto Rico, he moved to Mexico and found fame and fortune there. Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Luis Miguel has released 23 studio albums , two live albums, eight compilation albums, nine video albums, 43 music videos, two extended plays, 64 singles, and two banda albums. sonorous. He has won eight Latin Grammys, six Grammys and 11 Lo Nuestro Awards . Luis Miguel has been recognized for being one of the main reasons for the popularity of the bolero genre. He has also earned distinction for his high-grossing live performances and tours. Since 1990, his concerts have generated a staggering total of $278.5 million.

Beginnings in the life of Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel was born on April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Spanish musician and singer Luis Gallego Sánchez and Italian actress Marcela Basteri . He grew up with two brothers, Alejandro and Sergio.
Named after the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, he celebrates his birthday on April 19 instead of 18, since his father registered him in the Puerto Rico Civil Registry one day after his birth.
Luis Miguel was raised in a Catholic family and cites this as one of the reasons why he himself is Catholic. He still visits church when his busy schedule allows.

He had a complicated upbringing, mainly due to his early fame. Her relationship with her father was not ideal. Sánchez served as Luis Miguel’s manager and was a stern man, pushing his son to the limit during relentless trials. However, it was this attitude that played an important role in the success of Luis Miguel. In 1986, her mother suddenly disappeared and it was never known again that he really happened with her, although they tried to talk about her whereabouts in Luis Miguel, the series that Netflix released but in the final chapter they left her whereabouts unknown. . 

In the late 1980s, when facing financial problems due to misrepresentations, Luis Miguel told his father that he no longer wanted him as his manager. After the estrangement between his father and his son, Sánchez suffered a severe depression and committed suicide in 1992. 

Trajectory and history of Luis Miguel

Advised by his father, Luis Miguel began watching videos of Elvis Presley as a child , analyzing all the films, recordings and concert performances of the King of Rock and Roll. He released his first album, ‘Un Sol’, in 1982. In 1982, Luis Miguel embarked on the first tour of his career, following the release of his debut album, ‘Un Sol ‘. Over the years, he has performed in North and South America and in Europe. At that time, he was only 11 years old. Released by the Mexican arm of EMI Records, the album earned him his first gold record. In 1983, Luis Miguel made his acting debut in an episode of the first season of the comedy television series ‘Mesa de noticias’. His first appearance on the big screen as an actor occurred a year later,Never again ‘.

In the 1980s, he subsequently released five more studio albums: ‘Directo al corazón’ (1982), ‘Decídete’ (1983), ‘Palabra de honour’ (1984), ‘Soy como quiero ser’ (1987) and ‘ Look for a woman’ (1988).
The album ‘Soy Como Quiero Ser’ sold around 180,000 copies in Argentina and 1,250,000 copies in Mexico. It was also Luis Miguel’s first album released through the Warner Music record label and his first collaboration with producer Juan Carlos Calderón.

Luis Miguel got his first Grammy Award for the song ‘ Me Gustas Tal Como Eres ‘. A duet with Scottish singer Sheena Easton, the song appeared on Easton’s studio album ‘ Everything Remembers You’ . With the release of his seventh studio album, ’20 Años’ in 1990, Luis Miguel showed that he had finally matured as a performer. He too established himself as a popular showman with this album. Two of his songs, ‘ Tengo Todo Excepto A Ti’ and ‘Entrégate’ , topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks in 1990.

He won back-to-back Grammy Awards for Best Latin Pop Albums in 1994 and 1995 for “Aries” and “Segundo Romance.” He would win the award once more, in 1998 for ‘ Romances ‘. In 1997, he became the first Latino singer and the youngest male singer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year for ‘ Amarte Es Un Placer ‘.

He released ‘México en la piel’, a collection of mainstream Mexican mariachi songs, in 2004. It sold around five million copies worldwide and earned him a diamond record and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album at the Latin Grammy Awards. Latin Grammys. in 2005 and the Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican American Album. In 2005, she released her greatest hits debut album, ‘Greatest Hits’, which interestingly contained two never-released singles: ‘Mysteries Of Love’ and ‘Si Te Perdiera’. He and Spanish composer Manuel Alejandro collaborated on his eighteenth studio album, ‘Cómplices’, which was released in 2008.

During the 2010 Luis Miguel Tour, he did 223 shows around the world in the span of three years. This effectively made the tour the longest-running and highest-grossing tour ever by a Latin artist. Luis Miguel has the distinction of making the most consecutive presentations (30) at the National Auditorium. He is also the record holder for most performances at the same venue with a total of 240 concerts.

His studio album ‘ ¡México Por Siempre! ‘, It was released in November 2017 with great success in sales and radio success.

On May 4, 2017, Luis Miguel and Telemundo reached an agreement allowing the latter the right to make an ” officially authorized television series ” based on Luis Miguel’s life story. On the same day, Netflix announced that they had acquired the broadcast rights to the show in Latin America and Spain. The homonymous series ‘ Luis Miguel: La Serie ‘ began airing on April 22, 2018 and became a tremendous success not only for the streaming network but for the singer, making all his albums return to the tops of the m {as sold. 

In “Luis Miguel: The Series” all the singer’s possible topics were addressed, such as his great loves, his father, a rather toxic character for him and everything he lived through to become the great star of Mexico that he continues to be today. However, the biggest mystery that caused the most curiosity among people was to know the whereabouts of his mother who simply disappeared one day. In the final chapter, what happened to his mother would be revealed, but this did not happen, leaving him unknown for possibly the second season.

At the end of 2019 Luis Miguel began a new relationship with Mollie Gould and according to rumors he was completely distanced from his children, but it turned out that Luis Miguel already wanted to see his little ones, since he had not lived with the little ones for 10 years even when it happened to him. monthly 600 thousand pesos to the mother Araceli Arambula. On the other hand , Luis Miguel celebrated that after 14 years, he won a Grammy again for Best Regional Mexican Album , but he did not attend the ceremony as was usual for him.

In 2020 it was commented that Luis Miguel Warner’s label had demanded from the singer that with the confirmation of the second season of Luis Miguel: La Serie” the singer had to make a new album because his production house had not been very happy with it. the results of his previous album “La Fiesta del mariachi” which, although it had achieved acceptable sales, had not been novel or purposeful, which is why they had recommended him to make a Pop album. It also transpired that Luis Miguel intended to release a live album by one of the concerts he offered in 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada but really his record company was demanding an unpublished album.

In mid-2021, when the premiere of the second season of the Luis Miguel series was announced,  everyone expected that Aracely Arámbula  would appear in it after being an important part of the life of El Sol de México, however, she denied that she would be part of it. the Serie. The actress Aracely Arámbula  shared a statement to inform that her name and her image could not be used within the second season of the Luis Miguel series   “ As was commented from the beginning by my management; as well as, from my legal representative, I never had the intention of authorizing the use and exploitation of my image as part of the biographical, real and/or fictional narrative in the series entitled Luis Miguel” , warned the actress in a statement and went on to say; “My position was clear and forceful in asserting a right that corresponds exclusively to me and I defended firmly.”

Luis Miguel’s girlfriends

Mollie Gould and her relationship with Luis Miguel

Mollie Gould and Luis Miguel met when she was part of his tour “Mexico Forever” where she served as his showgirl, but the sun of Mexico was always watching her because she seemed like a pretty beautiful and attractive woman. In one of her Instagram posts, she dedicated a few words to him before it became known that she was his girlfriend: “I have no words to describe how happy I feel to be part of this great human and work team and to be close to a great talent like Luis Miguel whom I deeply admire” . A few months later, when they were captured in various places together and very romantic, it was confirmed that Mollie Gould was undoubtedly the new conquest of the Mexican singer Luis Miguel.

Aracely Arámbula and Luis Miguel

Aracely Arámbula and Luis Miguel  had a love story that, although at first it seemed like a fairy tale, did not end as expected. The couple was captured for the first time in 2005 while they were passing through Venice, Italy, very much in love, thus starting a wave of rumors that they claimed was dating until finally everything was confirmed.

After a beautiful romance that captured the attention of all the media worldwide, the couple Aracely Arámbula  and Luis Miguel confirmed that they were expecting their first child: Miguel, on January 1, 2007 and a year later their second son Daniel ( although the third of Luis Miguel  because he had previously had Michelle Salas ) born on December 18, 2008.

Aracely Arámbula and Luis Miguel  began to have problems apparently because she wanted to return to acting and “El Sol de México” wanted her to dedicate herself to being just a housewife, which is why it finally led to their final separation in 2011 and generated from from that moment several scandals that to date continue between the two.

Luis Miguel and Stephanie Salas

Stephanie Salas , who was 18 years old at the time, and Luis Miguel , 19, began their brief romance in 1988, although their relationship lasted very little, it was enough for both of them to have their first daughter,  Michelle Salas , who was born on June 13, 1989.

According to Luis Miguel’s series, Stephanie Salas  knew that he had a girlfriend but she insisted that they have something. At first he refused because he was in love, committed to their relationship and did not want to be unfaithful to Mariana but when he found out that she had cheated on him, Luis Miguel  had a jealous outburst and for revenge gave in to Stephanie’s advances.

Because for the singer Luis Miguel , Stephanie Salas was only “apparently” a slip, when she found out that she was expecting a child, she did not want to take care of her daughter so as not to lose popularity in her career, although for years her little Michelle Salas He lived in the shadow of his father because although nobody said anything, all the media speculated that there was a blood relationship.

In 2005, Michelle Salas decided to put an end to the rumors about her father Luis Miguel  and appeared on the cover of the magazine Who, at that time she was only 16 years old and said: “I no longer want to be pitied for being the unrecognized daughter of Luis Miguel when he knows that I exist”, finally father and daughter met again years later although they later distanced themselves again.

Issabela Camil and Luis Miguel

As it was possible to know thanks to the Luis Miguel series , the relationship between Issabela Camil and Luis Miguel began in childhood, they met when he and she were 10 years old, 11 years old and they were like brothers in 1980, their childhood friendship evolved to the youth where they separated because Luis Miguel began to have an abysmal success but on one occasion “El sol de México” went on vacation with Jaime Camil’s family to Aspen and it was right there when he met Issabella Camil, by then both were about 19 years old and no longer saw each other as brothers, so they did not hesitate to go out as a couple.

Not much was known about that relationship at the time, but in 2018 Issabela Camil  confirmed that her romance with Luis Miguel was quite long and shared that “it was very beautiful all that time . ” After sharing almost seven years of relationship, Luis Miguel and Issabela Camil decided to end their romance and courtship, presumably due to the differences between the artists.

In the middle of 2021 Lucía Mirada, widow of Hugo López, who was Luis Miguel ‘s manager , confessed that she advised  Issabela Camil  to end her romance with the singer because she saw that he suffered a lot being by his side; “She suffered a lot because he was very young at the time, she was 18 or 19, and all the girls were behind him and she suffered a lot. Let him rest for five years because he’s very young, do your thing, maybe study’, because she wanted to travel and study, ‘and then look for him’, but then those years passed and it didn’t happen, but I think it was one of the greats loves of Luis Miguel “, told for a television program.

Curiously, it was not until the premiere of the ” Luis Miguel ” series that it was learned that for the singer Issabela Camil it was not just one more in his long list of loves, but one of the most important in his personal life.

Luis Miguel and Myrka Dellanos 

It was in 2003 when the love story between Myrka Dellanos and Luis Miguel  began when she went to interview Sol de México for his program, although they had known each other before, it was on that occasion that they both decided to live a torrid romance.

Although, as was customary in Luis Miguel’s couples, it seems that they were completely prohibited from talking about their relationship, so Myrka Dellanos  wanted to keep a low profile and not talk much about Luis Miguel and less about the love relationship they were living.

But although the relationship was one of the ones that attracted the most attention at that time, it really did not last long and Myrka Dellanos and Luis Miguel  ended their relationship, remaining on good terms, apparently the reasons for their separation were due to the busy schedule of singer’s work and even several decades later, Myrka Dellanos never spoke about her relationship with the singer. 

Pack of Luis Miguel

Although on social networks and the internet people search a lot for the Luis Miguel pack or photos in which he can be seen with little clothing or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Luis Miguel pack other than those photos that the artist has published on his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is Luis Miguel’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask themselves about Luis Miguel and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Luis Miguel within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent he has and what I have done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Luis Miguel will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around him, so we invite you to stay on our page for the next updates that we will have in life, career, history and biography of Luis Miguel.