Re: FSC #60 - February 2014: The Show (DDL: February 25th, 23:59 CET)
About the Ricky Martin issue. He has Spanish citizenship. It's not even that he got authomatic citizenship for some reason. He asked Spain the nationality and he was given. Spain gave him the citizenship because of his Spanish origin and he has a house in Madrid where he's been living some periods of his life. Then, Ricky got married here.
And it's not that Ricky has double nationality as every Latin American with Spanish origins can have. He rejected his US-Puerto Rican nationality and now he is legally 100% Spanish.
On the other hand, I don't usually like when foreign artists are representing another country for some reason. I decided to send Ricky for these reasons:
1- He was my idol when I was a little child. I wanted to be like him (now I want him :twisted
. I learnt all his coreographies, all his lyrics, everything. I'm not such a fan anymore, but still Ricky is so special for me and only for this the exception was worthy.
2- He is quite familiar for the Spanish public. Especially in his first years, he was quite often on Spanish TV shows, spent long time here and had the biggest tours here. He used to perform everywhere, even in little towns, as well as Spanish artists/bands and unlike all the foreigners, even the Latin American ones. Now he's an international artist, but before it he has most of his career here. So he's quite connected to us.