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June 29, 2003 - WENN reports Ricky Martin has hit out at reports he's planning to marry and have kids with Mexican TV star Rebecca De Alba. Martin said, "I will continue defending the relationship I have had for many years with Rebecca. I insist that she is a marvelous woman, and I want to have her in my life forever, and that will be. Whether Rebecca and I decide to be parents is something that's nobody's business."

June 23, 2003 - popdirt.com's latest poll asks who is the best dressed male pop star. Vote for Ricky Martin here.

June 23, 2003 - Ricky Martin performs on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday.

June 23, 2003 - The New York Daily News reports Ricky Martin recently told an interviewer in Norway that he and the Mexican TV presenter Rebecca De Alba are "ready to start a family. ... I can definitely see myself as a father. It will probably happen soon."

June 14, 2003 - Lauren McMenemy of the Advertiser reviewed Ricky Martin's latest effort 'Almas Del Silencio' and wasn't impressed. McMenemy said the album is "not particularly good. It's full of soulless ballads and bad flamenco pop." She added, "This is the real Ricky Martin, back to his roots. But have music fans passed him by, said adios and moved on to the Enriques of this world? He'll still be huge in South America, and maybe that's all he's asking for these days." Read more.

June 14, 2003 - When asked if he would ask a woman out, Ricky Martin tells German FHM: "Absolutely not. I'm much too shy for that - I could never approach a woman." But he added: "I usually don't have to make the first move." Martin revealed he likes women to have nice eyes and hands.

June 12, 2003 - The Sun reports Ricky Martin has some challenging orders for his barber. "It is very confusing for the hairdresser," he revealed. "I tell him 'I want it short, but also long.' We then cut it short at the back and simply left it as it was at the front."

June 9, 2003 - bsnews writes "This is an excerpt from an article about Ricky Martin from People en Español: And when it came to revealing the best vocal cords in the business? Grammy winner Christina Aguilera gets Martin's vote hands down. "

June 9, 2003 - An inside source tells the New York Daily News that poor sales on Ricky Martin's last English album 'Sound Loaded' have meant his label Sony isn't cutting the singer any slack. His next English album was pushed from July to perhaps March 2004. "[After] Tommy Mottola was fired, [new Sony CEO] Andy Lack went through the books to see who was selling and who wasn't," the insider revealed. "The brass at Columbia wasn't feeling some of the [English] songs he wrote on the new album. They told him they were going to hold off on that CD, but they needed something to put out to keep him topical." That's the reason the insider claims his Spanish album 'Almas del Silencio' was bumped up, not Martin's claim that he "changed his mind." Read more.

June 8, 2003 - Ricky Martin's seventh solo album 'Almas del Silencio' maintains his musical roots but fuses them with international rhythms to create a new and original sound. "It's the only way. I needed to do it this way," he tells Entertainment Tonight. "And people were really afraid, but I said, 'You know what, I have a lot of friends.'" Read more.

June 6, 2003 - Thicke, Robbie Williams, Tom Jones, Ricky Martin, and Craig David performed at the Milan Festivalbar 2003 in Milan on Friday (May 30). Check out pictures from GlobePhotos.

June 5, 2003 - Mehrunisa writes "Ricky had a blast appearing on the German TV show TV Total on Tuesday (June 3). In an unusually fun and carefree interview, Ricky performed 'Livin' La Vida Loca' in German, and has fun with a great Elvis impersonation and much more. Watch the clip here."

June 3, 2003 - Craig David and Ricky Martin performed at the Festivalbar at Arena di Milano in Milan, Italy on Satuday (May 31). Check out pictures from GettyImages.

June 3, 2003 - Ricky Martin tells Billboard his new album 'Almas del Silencio' was released instead of an English language album when the singer changed his mind. "I woke up five months ago, and I said, 'We're doing an album in Spanish,"' Martin recalled. "Everyone went nuts. They said, 'You don't have time; you have to release an album in English because of timing issues with your career.' And that's fine. But I told them, 'In five months, you'll have a kick-ass album'." Now, the new English album is on hold until March 2004. Read more.

June 1, 2003 - Ricky Martin recently chatted with Cosmopolitan en espanol magazine and was asked why he thought so many people were interested in his private life. "Because there's nothing bad to talk about and they want to look for something that doesn't exists," Martin explained. "They say: 'he has to fail in some aspect... anywhere'. But they don't know how bothering is that. You feel violated, because the intimacy, the sexuality, must be untouchable. The sexuality is the most vulnerable point of each human being. Because of that, when a magazine says who's with who, gossip sells and the picture of the paparazzi... (Laughters) In my case, there's not even that pic or anything to be said, good or bad, from my personal life, neither with who I am. Maybe that's why they hold too much on this. Sometimes, some of them don't have a life and they want to live mine, or even worse, inventing mine!" Read the entire translated interview here.

June 1, 2003 - Mehrunisa writes "Ricky Martin performed at the Pavarotti & Friends benefit concert in Modena, Italy on Tuesday (May 27). It was the second time Ricky was invited by Pavarotti to participate in this wonderful event. First time was in 1999. Watch his great performance of the song 'Vento' with Pavarotti here and his performance of his hit single 'Jaleo' here. For pictures, check out Yahoo."

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