I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

Música + Alma + Sexo also represents the highest ever chart debut on the Billboard 200 for a Sony Music Latin release. In 2008 Puerto Rico declared August 31 to be International Ricky Martin Day. Acting and first two solo albums: 1991–1994
While he was performing in onstage in Mama Ama el Rock a producer in the audience took notice of Martin's acting and offered him a role in the Mexican telenovela Alcanzar una estrella after the show.

In 1994 he starred on the American TV soap opera General Hospital playing a Puerto Rican singer. Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales (born December 24 1971) is a Puerto Rican pop singer musician songwriter actor and author who achieved prominence first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo and as a solo artist since 1991. He also acted on stage and on TV in Mexico becoming a modest star in the country.