Professional Life

He released his first debut album at the age of nineteen but was not able to have any commercial success. His success journey began after his second release of Viviendo Deprisa. The next two albums, Si Tú Me Miras released in the year 1993 and the other one called 3 released in the year 1995, were a major breakthrough for Alejandro Sanz to garner international commercial success. His album Alma al Aire in 2000 became his first album which sold more than a million copies. He was the first artist from Spain to get an album recorded on MTV Unplugged. He broadened his style in romantic ballads and collaborated with peer fellow Latin stars, most successfully with Shakira for the single ‘La Tortura’ in 2005 reaching on top of several charts internationally. His first English song was ‘Blowfish’ made for the album Vivendo Deprisa. Further diversifying his style of music, Alejandro experimented with the albums No Es Io Mismo in 2003 and El Tren de los Momentos in 2006.

Personal Life

In the year 1999, on December 20th, Alejandro got married to Jaydy Michel, an actress and fashion model as well. However, the marriage was not recognized legal. Alejandro never felt the need to have the marriage recognized legally, he said “My wife is my wife and I am her husband. For me that was enough for validity.” They had a daughter called Manuela Sanchez born in the year 2001. Later the marriage broke up in 2005. Sanz then married the fashion designer Puerto Rican and had a son with her. In 2007 Alejandro faced a mental break down due to several tragic incidents occurred in his personal life, like his divorce with Jaydy Mitchel, the death of his father and the public rumor of having a child outside the marriage. He later then spent time with doctors for therapy and came out more powerful.

Career achievements

After giving back to back hits with his fifteen studio albums from the year 1990 to 2015, he became one of the highest commercially successful singer and musician of Spain. Being a successful singer and song writer, he achieved worldwide acclaim with the fifth album he released in 1997, selling five million copies. Alejandro became the most popular musicians of all time winning three ‘Grammy Awards’ and fifteen ‘ Latin Grammy Awards’ and having a net worth of $5 million. He won the ‘Latin Grammy’ for having his album chosen as the ‘Album of the year’ three times as compared to any other fellow artists. He has sold all around 22 million copies in his life time, and all his albums acclaimed the Platinum status in Latin America, Spain and America. With a total of ten worldwide tours, and fifteen albums, Alejandro was awarded by the government of Spain with the medal of Merit in Fine arts.