Luis Miguel Biography

This Luis Miguel biography page is about the popular Latin artist often referred to as "El Sol de Mexico" (The Sun of Mexico) and his journey from child star to superstar.

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Mexico. He is from Spanish and Italian descent. His father was a Spanish singer and his mother an Italian actress.

When Luis was young his father encouraged him to watch every move and concert performance of Elvis Presley. It paid off.

In 1981, at the age of 11, Luis Miguel released his first album, Un Sol, and two years later he started touring Latin American countries including Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina.

Watch this well produced video of Luis as a teenager and then I'll continue with the Luis Miguel biography below. This song was off his 1987 album titled "Soy Como Quiero Ser." 

You must know that this is my favorite Spanish song. I have four other covers of the song on this website so please see and read about all of them. The links are at the bottom of this page and/or on the column to your right. Simply click on photo's for access to beautiful music and the story behind the music.

If You don't speak Spanish, it doesn't matter; beautiful music is beautiful music in any language.

Luis Miguel released his fifth studio album, Aries, in 1993 and was awarded that year's Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album.

That same year, Luis Miguel was personally invited by Frank Sinatra to join him on his Duets II album and to perform live in a nationally televised special in honor of Sinatra's 80th birthday.

A sequel to his Romance album, Segundo Romance, featuring timeless Latin classics such as "Solamente Una Vez" and "Sin Ti", went on to earn a Grammy Award.

In the United States, he was the first Latino artist to have two Spanish-language albums, Romance and Segundo Romance, go platinum.