RICKY AT THE ECHO AWARDS, GERMANY 9 MARCH 2000
AUSTRALIA TOUR
Please note that the Sydney date from original postings has changed.
Here are the confirmed Australian tourdates:
Sydney
17th October - Sydney Entertainment Centre
Brisbane
21st October - Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Melbourne
25th October - Colonial Stadium
The tickets will go on sale on Saturday, 15th April.
Male & Female entertainer of the year honors will go to RICKY MARTIN and Jennifer Lopez, while Christina Aguilera will take home New Entertainer of the Year. The awards will be handed out April 16 in Pasadena.
Tickets for the second dates in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain are now on sale.
The rescheduled Australian Tourdates have now been announced. They are as follows:
Ricky Martin is nominated as Best Latin Artist (Male) and Best Pop Album at the Gardel Awards in Argentina. More information can be found under: www.lamusica.com
In February the first annnual Asphire Music Awards have been announced. Ricky is nominated as:
HAIWAII
Ricky's Haiwaii concert at the stadium on the main island has been moved to a smaller venue due to production problems. The show on the 26th March has now been changed to the 26th and 27th March in a smaller venue. Please contact your local ticket agent to exchange the tickets for the day you'd like.
US CONCERTS
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
More Ricky tickets go on sale!
By JOHN KENDLE, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
There's still hope for desperate Ricky Martin fans.
"Several hundred" tickets for the singer's Thursday show at Winnipeg Arena were put on sale late yesterday afternoon by promoter House of Blues Concerts Canada.
They will be available today, for $89.50 and $69.50, at all Select-A-Seat outlets or by calling 780-SEAT, spokesman Paul Haagenson said.
"We decided to hold some seats from the initial on-sale date because we weren't sure just how big his stage was going to be and just where it would be placed exactly."
Tickets sold out in less than two hours when they went on sale in mid-December. That's close to the record set for three Garth Brooks concerts in Winnipeg three years ago.
Martin played the first date of his current Western Canada tour Saturday night at Vancouver's GM Place, so all technical questions have now been answered, Haagenson said.
"It's an amazing show, quite honestly. There are more than 20 people onstage at one point, between the dancers and the bungee jumpers and the horn section and the band -- it gets pretty busy," he said.
"And he just has amazing energy."
Martin's tour continued with a show at the Saddledome in Calgary last night.
He plays in Edmonton tonight before heading to Winnipeg.
Latin Billboard Awards
Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez among leading nominees for "Billboard" Latin Music Awards This year may mark the first time that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has deemed Latin music worthy of its own Grammy Awards, but Billboard has been hosting a separate Latin awards show for nearly a decade now. On April 27, four and a half months before the inaugural Latin Grammy Awards, the biggest stars in modern Latin music will gather in the Jackie Gleason Theatre of Performing Arts in Miami Beach, Fla. for the seventh annual Billboard Latin Music Award. Leading the pack of nominees this year is Marco Antonio Solis, who on top of being inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame garnered six nominations for his Tejano album Trozos De Me Alma. Other multiple nominees included Ricky Martin (five nominations), Enrique Iglesias (four), and Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Olga Tanon, Elvis Crespo (three nominations each). All nominations are based on sales and chart performance as measured on the Billboard Latin Top 50 and Hot Latin Tracks charts. The Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony will not be telecast live, but taped for broadcast on the Spanish-language network Telemundo in May.
Ricky Martin To Receive "Lasting Image" Award
Singer Ricky Martin will be honored for his musical success and for helping
encourage a positive portrayal of Hispanics in the media during the 15th
Annual Imagen Awards, which will be celebrated on April 5 in Beverly Hills,
California.
Martin has been chosen to receive this year's "Lasting Image" award, which
the Imagen Foundation presents to the most visible and outstanding Hispanic
celebrity. Martin's self-titled English-language album has sold some 6.3
million copies since its release, according to SoundScan.
Others slated to receive 2000 Imagen Awards include screenwriter Steven de
Souza, who penned the script for the upcoming "Tomb Raider" flick that will
star Angelina Jolie, and cinematographer Reynaldo Villalobos ("Love And
Basketball").
Past winners of the Imagen Awards include such performers and celebrities as
Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, and Cameron Diaz.
David Basham (MTV)
Ricky Martin cookbook is in the works
San Francisco Chronicle
Linda Denizard, chef at a Miami restaurant owned by Ricky Martin, is trying to find a publisher for a Ricky Martin cookbook, which will include her recipes and his introduction. The New York Daily News says this is expected to get an advance in the $500,000-to-$1 million range. — Leah Garchik
10 March 2000
Ricky has won Best International Artist (male) at yesterday's Echo Awards in Germany. The Echo Awards are the German equivalent to the US Grammy's. Congratulations. (Pic: Ricky at the Echo Awards 2000).
There is a rumour that Ricky will be playing a concert in Warsaw, Poland on 18th May 2000. We do not have any further information yet, but will try and find out more.
Ricky's Argentina concert have been scheduled for May 31 to June 2, 2000.
4 March 2000
What's the difference between RICKY MARTIN and the STEREOPHONICS? Quite a lot, if their BRITSs backstage drinking habits are anything to go by.
A quick glance at the artists' riders, the refreshments and little luxuries afforded them in their Earls Court dressing rooms, reveals that while the Latin heart-throb requested camomile tea and 'lots of' incense, the Welsh trio were more in the market for vodka and Jack Daniels. Also 'lots of'.
Ricky performed an incredible medley on the Brits last night and received excellent feedback from the UK industry.
The new single "Private Emotion" will be out on Sony Music in the UK on 4th April.
The Private Emotion video will premier on both MTV and VH-1 in the USA on Monday.
Ricky is currently rehearsing in London, England for his performance at the Brits tomorrow. He'll be performing a medley of LLVL, Copa De La Vida and Maria. His performance will be "incredible" we were told.
Ricky's promotional activities in Europe have changed slightly. The signing and promotion in Rome, Italy have now been cancelled. We are trying to find out more information on Ricky's changed schedule at the moment.
A final reminder for anyone wishing to purchase tickets for Ricky's forthcoming second part of the US tour. Tickets will be going on sale 3rd to 5th March. Please see below for the full list of tourdates.
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