Luis Miguel Biography

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, better known as Luis Miguel, made his professional debut on the music stage when he was only eleven years old. By the time he was only fifteen, the Mexican-born star had received his first Grammy, for his performance with Sheena Easton on the single “Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" (I Like You Just The Way You Are.)

Luis Miguel’s successes are innumerous. His album Segundo Romance (1995), however, is among his greatest achievements, earning him a Grammy award and bringing Miguel’s achievement to thirty-four platinum records throughout the Americas. His follow-up albums include Musipistas (1996), Nada Es Igual (1996), and Amarte Es un Place (1999.) In 2000, he won the Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Album at the Latin Grammies, and then three years later, an American Music Award nomination for Favorite Latin Artist.

México el la Piel, a collection of traditional mariachi selections, followed in 2004 and, in addition to selling three million copies, launched a worldwide tour for Luis Miguel. The greatest hits album Grandes Exitos followed in 2005, featuring “Si Te Perdiera” and “Misterios Del Amor,” two previously unreleased singles. Miguel’s Christmas album, also released in 2005, Navidades, hit the Latin charts at number one in its first week, and Complices followed in 2008, also to enormous success, selling a staggering 350,000 copies in its first day of sale. The album features the chart-topping singles “Te Desean” and “Si Tu Te Atreves.”

Thus far in his career, Luis Miguel has won four Latin Grammies and five Grammies, and is the only Latin artist to have two Spanish-language albums both reach platinum status in the United States (Romance and Segundo Romance.) Miguel continues to tour and perform, and record original material. In recent years, he has performed at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival and t the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival. In 2017, Telemundo announced that the station had acquired the rights to Luis Miguel’s life story, in preparation for a television series on his life scheduled to air in 2018.