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Enrique
José "Ricky" Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971),
better known as 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. He has sold almost 70 million albums around the world,
charting 21 top-ten hits on the U.S. Latin Charts, eight of which
reached number one, and a total of over 30 hit singles. Martin
performed at the 2006 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony in Turin. A
few days later, he announced the second leg of his world tour
(which included Europe and Africa) called One Night Only/Una Noche
Con Ricky Martin World Tour. The second leg started on April 21 in
Manchester, U.K., and ended on June 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel,
including shows that sold-out in two hours (Italy and
Finland).Ricky Martin has also collaborated with the International
Organization for Migration on the "Llama y Vive" (Call
and Live), a campaign which is aimed to facilitate prevention of
human trafficking, protection of the youngest victims of child
trafficking, and prosecution of the traffickers. For his work
against human trafficking, the U.S. State Department named Martin
one of its "Heroes in Ending Modern-Day Slavery" in 2007
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