Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Grammy Award- and Latin Grammy Award- winning, Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.

His career has spanned over three decades and has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide. He is the founder of Ricky Martín Foundation (in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin, a non-profit charity organization.

Martin was born an only child on December 24, 1971, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to his mother, Nereida Morales, who was an accountant and his father Enrique Martín Negroni who was a psychologist. His parents divorced when he was two; his father remarried. Martin grew up in a Catholic home, was an altar boy and went to Catholic school until he joined Menudo.