Ricky Martin
Martin in 2011, photo by s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Enrique Martín Morales
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date of Birth: December 24, 1971
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [Basque, Spanish, Catalan, Corsican, possibly other]
Ricky Martin is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and actor. He is one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time. He began as a member of boy band pop group Menudo. His acting roles include the film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey and the series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. He has been called “Latin Pop God,” “King of Latin Pop,” and “Latin Music King.”
He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Nereida Morales and Enrique Martín Negroni, a psychologist. He has Basque, Spanish, Catalan, Corsican, and possibly other, ancestry. Ricky also has Spanish citizenship. He has roots in Puerto Rico going back to the 1600s.
Ricky is married to painter and artist Jwan Yosef, with whom he has four children. Jwan was born in Ras al-Ayn, Al-Hasakah, Syria, of Kurdish and Armenian descent, and was raised in Sweden.
Ricky’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his third great-grandfather, Ramón Martín y Hernández, of San Juan.
Ricky’s paternal grandfather was Enrique Martín y Millán (the son of Enrique Martín y Pabón and Rosaura Millán y Casas). Ricky’s grandfather Enrique was born in Río Piedras, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ricky’s great-grandfather Enrique was the son of Eugenio Martín y Piera and Zoila Socorro Pabón y Rivera. Rosaura was the daughter of Clemente Millán y Rodríguez and Juana Margarita Casas.
Ricky’s paternal grandmother was Iraida Negroni y Arizmendi/Arizmendo (the daughter of Antonio Francisco Negroni y Rodríguez and Estrella Arizmendi y Quinta). Iraida was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico. Francisco was the son of Andrés Rutilio/Rutillo Negroni y Lluberas and Dolores Rodríguez y Rodríguez. Estrella was the daughter of Julio Luis Arizmendi y Rodríguez, whose mother was Spanish, from Valladolid, Castilla y León; and of Lorenza Quinta/Quinto y García.
Ricky’s Negroni line traces back to his great-great-great-great-grandfather, Antonio Francisco Negroni Mattei, from San Colombano, Corsica, who was a sugar and coffee plantation owner, and was of aristocratic background. Through that line, Ricky is related to Air Force officer and historian Héctor Andrés Negroni.
Ricky’s maternal grandfather was named Angel Morales.
Sources: Genealogies of Ricky Martin (focusing on his father’s side) – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com
https://www.geni.com
Marriage record of Ricky’s paternal grandparents, Enrique Martín y Millán and Iraida Negroni y Arizmendi/Arizmendo – https://familysearch.org
Ricky’s paternal grandfather, Enrique Martín y Millán, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Ricky’s paternal great-grandparents, Enrique Martín y Pabón and Rosaura Millán y Casas – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Ricky’s paternal great-grandparents, Antonio Francisco Negroni y Rodríguez and Estrella Arizmendi y Quinta – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Ricky’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Andrés Rutilio/Rutillo Negroni y Lluberas – http://blueflower.tripod.com
History of Ricky’s Negroni ancestry – https://www.caribbeangenweb.org
Ricky Martin is racially white. Puerto Rican is his nationality, and Hispanic/Latino is his culture.
Spaniards are not white. So Ricky is not white, whether he is mestizo or not.
Yes, Spaniards are white. They are in EUROPE for God’s sake.
Spaniards are white.. I’m from Europe and I can assure you they’re white. Only in the imaginations of some ignorant Americans they’re not white. VISIT EUROPE.
As a Puerto Rican, who lived on the island for many years and who has studied the culture, I can tell you that we are mixture of many etnicities, mostly Taino Indian, White European(mostly Spain) and African (from the slave trade). Furthermore, due to the slave trade people also came from Lebannon, Portugal, Italy and a plethora of other places. With time some of these individuals mixed with the natives. Basically, we are known as “mestizos” people of many mixed ethnic backgrounds, who are unified by a common language and culture. As are most Hispanic/Latino cultures who are also based on a mixture of different ethnicities. Also, the word “hispanic” was coined during the Nixon administration to label people who had established themselves in the U.S. from places colonized by Spain and who spoke Spanish. The “hisp” portion of the word was supposedly chosen because Colombus first stepped foot on the island of Hispanola. Go figure!
Hispanic comes from Hispania, the Latin word/root for Spain.
Since when the hell is Puerto Rico white! Some Italians look hispanic & there language sounds just like Spanish! Guess what there latino NOOOOOO! So why are you saying Puerto Ricans are White? there not its like saying Mexicoes white?
Puerto Rican and Mexican are nationalities. There are black Puerto Ricans and Mexicans! Why do you keep spreading this ignorant shit? Hispanic/Latino is not a race. It actually deals more with language than it does with race.
why dont you change your name to selens the ignorant
How am I ignorant? Because I know that Hispanic/Latino is not a race? It’s not. Want to try to prove that it is? Go ahead. You’ll fail.
sorry selene.your right i meant to call out selena
It’s okay.
selena puerto rico has been white since about 1815,look up what happened on the island that year,if you dont know that then shuush!!!
If Puerto Rico is entirely white, then I guess that large Afro and Taino-mixed population mustn’t count as Puerto Ricans (making PRs a rather small population then). You’re just as ignorant as Selene is. Neither of you should be speaking on topics you know nothing about. No country is really fully “white”, let alone one of most multi-generational mixed islands in the world.
Also, what happened in “1815” may have increased PR’s white population (which had been very small up until then), but it did NOT eradicate the non-white population. It may have “lightened” the population, but as much as you wish it did, it did not WHITEN Puerto Rico. You’ll plug your ears and continue convincing yourself otherwise, though.
So he’s basically white, right? Corsican Puerto Rican, does this mean he’s just Corsican whose ancestors migrated to Puerto Rico? Then if Corsicans are white + Spanish (white) = white?
@ Max
Well if his family came from those places from that long ago,it’s no telling what his mixture truly is.See the Spanish of Old are not like the Spanish of today.Alot of mixed bloods left Europe for new opportunities