 | | Spanish star Camilo Sesto started his music career while playing in a band called Los Botines, mostly influenced by the Beatles. |
 | | Roberto Carlos initiated a major revolution of customs in Brazil in the '60s. Reaching success in a period coinciding with the youth movement started by the Beatles that was taking over the world, Carlos was the leader of Jovem Guarda. |
 | | Mexican pop star Emmanuel has been popular his native country since the mid-'70s and is noted for his ability to convey subtle emotions with his voice. |
 | | Latin star José José (born José Romulo Sosa Ortíz) started participating in festivals and contests around Mexico City at a young age, teaming up with Paco Ortíz and Alfredo Benítez after taking guitar lessons. |
 | | One of the more important and famous singer/songwriters in the Spanish-speaking world, Leo Dan was born Leopoldo Dante Tevez on March 22, 1942, in a small town in Argentina. |
 | | The Argentine duo of Lucía and Joaquín Galán, collectively known as Pimpinela, have had a long and hit-filled career, growing up together, recording their first album in 1981, and never looking back as their popularity in the Spanish-speaking world snowballed. |
 | | Blessed with good looks, a powerful voice, and a gift for communicating with an audience, Julio Iglesias is one of the most popular and enduring figures in the history of Latin music, a true international superstar who has sold over 300 million albums worldwide and remains a popular concert draw and chart-topping recording artist in a career that has spanned six decades. |
 | | Juan Gabriel is one of Mexico's most successful vocalists. A six-time Grammy nominee, Gabriel has sold 30 million copies of his albums and has performed sold-out concerts throughout the world. |
 | | Actress and singer Maria de los Angeles de las Heras Ortíz, popularly known as Rocío Durcal, was born and raised in Spain in the bosom of a working-class family. |
 | | Comparable to Julio Iglesias and José José, Spanish superstar Dyango has been famous for lush, sentimental, romantic Latin pop since the '70s. |
 | | Among the most popular Latin pop artists to ever emerge from Venezuela, Franco De Vita is a pop/rock singer/songwriter whose career took off in the late '80s with international smash hits such as "Solo Importas Tu," "Te Amo," and "Louis. |
 | | One of Latin pop's steadier and more seasoned artists, Ricardo Montaner specializes primarily in romantic ballads, though over the years he proved himself unafraid to pursue divergent styles of music and write songs of various natures. |
 | | Mexican singer Ana Gabriel reached the stage for the first time at the age of six, singing José Alfredo Jiménez's "Regalo A Dios," a sweet experience the artist hardly forgets. |
 | | Marco Antonio Solís is without question one of the most important figures in the rise of Mexican and Latin music to world prominence during the last two decades of the 20th century. |
 | | Known as the Latin Madonna, Marisela issued her first album at the age of 15. A native of Los Angeles, her sexy outfits and blond hair contributed as much to her fame as her girlish vocal style. |
 | | Guatemalan singer/songwriter Ricardo Arjona is one of the more respected Latin artists, mostly for his social conscience and his integrity in writing and performing songs. |
 | | With their earthy vocal harmonies set to infectious rhythms, Los Terricolas (translated: Earth Dwellers) is one of Venezuela's top dance bands. |
 | | Mexican performer Luis Miguel is an international star who is loved for his well-produced albums and strong live performances. |
 | | Formed by Germaín de la Fuente, Mario Gutiérrez, Cristian Blasser, Federico Blasser, and Sergio Rojas in 1968, los Angeles Negros had the opportunity to make their first record, called "¿Por Qué Te Quiero?," after winning a contest organized by a Chilean radio station. |
 | | The Mexican group Los Bukis, an indigenous word that means "the kids," recorded their debut album in 1975. |
 | | Nelson Ned built a solid career as a singer and composer of sentimental, suffering songs. His recordings have been released in America, Europe, and Africa, and he has received gold records both in Brazil and abroad. |
 | | Venezuelan vocalist/percussionist Jose Luis "El Puma" Rodríguez has recorded with many of Latin music's most prominent talents, including Julio Iglesias, Ed Calle, Emilio Estefan, Jr. |
 | | Mexican trio Pandora made its debut with the release of a self-titled album in 1985, soon, climbing music charts throughout Latin America with a song called "¿Cómo Te Va Mi Amor?," achieving Gold status that same year. |
 | | Beginning in the late '80s, Chayanne, one of Latin pop's premier heartthrobs, sustained a bountiful hitmaking career as a balladeer and even found time to pursue an acting career on the side. |
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 | | Spanish vocal group Mocedades was formed in 1967 by four young students from Bilbao. Inspired by folk music and songs by the Beatles, they started a band called Voces y Guitarras, later named Mocedades. |
 | | Joan Sebastian has been recognized by critics and colleagues for his contribution to the Mexican culture, getting his lyrics performed by prominent Latin artists. |
 | | One of Mexico's biggest international superstars around the turn of the millennium, Alejandro Fernández first established himself in the early '90s as a champion of ranchera music before crossing over to the Latin pop mainstream in 1997 with the chart-topping album Me Estoy Enamorando. |
 | | A perennial chart presence since the early '90s, Latin pop hitmaker Cristian Castro, who often goes by simply Cristian and occasionally Christian Castro, is a Mexican sex symbol, as well known for his charming good looks as his romantic love ballads. |
 | | Raised in the bosom of a working class family, daughter of a male flamenco singer and a female dancer, Isabel Pantoja was strongly influenced by her parents to become an artist, debuting on a stage at the age of seven. |
 | | Owner of one of the most peculiar and intense voices in the Latin music scene, singer/songwriter Leonardo Favio began singing in 1968 while participating in different radio shows. |
 | | Miguel Bosé has been a force in Latin music in a career that has spanned over 20 albums, roles in more than 35 films, his own television show, and work as a theatre director. |
 | | By 2004, roughly a decade after she made her recording debut at the age of 18, Laura Pausini had sold over 25 million albums worldwide, quite an impressive feat for someone who'd never really broken into the lucrative English-language market. |
 | | Chilean singer known troughout Latinamerica for her romantic ballads. Myriam Hernández released her first album in 1988 getting the hit song "El hombre que yo amo. |
 | | Spanish star Rafael Martos was born in May 5, 1943. At the age of nine, Raphael came in first place at a children's festival where contestants from all over Europe were competing. |
 | | An international superstar whose appeal spans not only Western Europe but also Latin America, Eros Ramazzotti is an Italian singer/songwriter with a distinctive voice and a wide-ranging pop/rock style that encompasses everything from adult contemporary to classical crossover. |
 | | More than just the undisputed king of Mexico's traditional ranchera music, Vicente Fernández -- "El Idolo de Mexico" -- is one of that country's most recognizable and influential cultural icons. |
 | | Born in the U.S. but raised in Zacatecas, Mexico, son of recording legends Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, Pepe Aguilar was influenced and supported by his parents to start singing. |
 | | Brothers Víctor Hugo Acuña and Cesar Acuña began playing popular music in a band known as the Jeekstones, later called los Benkers. |
 | | The most commercially successful Spanish singer of all time, Alejandro Sanz earned a reputation as an industrious hitmaker in his native country during the 1990s, and by the decade's end, he'd expanded his fan base internationally as he broadened his style beyond romantic ballads and began collaborating with fellow Latin superstars, most memorably Shakira. |
 | | Los Temerarios' bubblegum ranchera was the romantic soundtrack of millions of Mexican and Mexican-American youths' lives during the '90s. |
 | | Latin rock superstars Maná got their start in the Mexican city of Guadalajara in 1986 when singer Fher Olvero, guitarist Ulises Calleros, brother and bassist Juan Diego Calleros, and Cuban-Colombian drummer Alex González joined together, initially signing with Polygram. |
 | | Born Gabriel Siria Levario, Javier Solis became known as one of the most recognized Mariachi solo artists in Mexico. |
 | | The daughter of a music teacher, Argentinean-born Amanda Miguel decided to pursue a related career after moving to Buenos Aires from her native Chubut, taking piano and singing classes. |
 | | Singer/songwriter Alvaro Torres used to dream about becoming a music star when he was a child in the bosom of a poor family from El Salvador. |
 | | Mexican singer Daniela Romo started singing in a vocal group called los Hermanos Zavala and participated in Eduardo Gorostiza's musical Contigo Pan y Cebolla. |
 | | Argentinean pop balladeer Sandro was born Roberto Sánchez on August 19, 1945. His passion for music came when he was a child, loving to imitate the king of rock, Elvis Presley. |
 | | The incredibly prolific los Yonic's formed in the '80s and have released an album nearly every year since. |
 | | In his native Dominican Republic, merengue superstar Juan Luis Guerra is considered a poet and musician of the people. |
 | | Mexican flautist Pedro Fernandez was a child prodigy who became famous for his performance of the theme song to the movie La Nina de La Mochila Azul, in which he also appeared. |
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