March 2000

Tour dates for Australian Tour

Asphire Music Awards

US concerts (article)

Latin Billboard Awards
Ricky Martin To Receive "Lasting Image" Award
Ricky Martin cookbook is in the works

The Echo Awards 2000

The Brits Awards 2000

The rescheduled Australian Tourdates have now been announced. They are as follows:

Tickets go on sale on April 8th.
 
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:
The awards take place June. 3, 2000.   RICKY AT THE ECHO AWARDS, GERMANY 9 MAY 2000
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
 
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.