Ricky Martin reveals how his twin sons, 15, finally realized he was famous — and why they ‘hated’ him for months

Ricky Martin has been a world phenomenon for greater than 4 many years, from his debut with Menudo in his teenagers to his solo stardom and his new endeavors in appearing.

But it surely appears the 52-year-old star's 4 kids realised his fame a lot later. He’s father to 15-year-old twin sons Valentino and Matteo.And along with her ex-husband Jwan Yosef, she has son Ren Martin-Yosef, 4, and daughter Lucia Martin-Yosef, 5,

Throughout his look on The Kelly Clarkson Present, he advised the host when his two eldest kids realized he was Ricky Martin, and fondly recalled their early days of touring collectively.

“He has all the time travelled with me, he has been home-schooled,” he stated. “And once they had been 5 – 6 years outdated, I allowed them to go to the entrance of the stage,” [before] It was all the time an excessive amount of of a activate, so I known as them backstage.”

Together with her lovable response when she put the items collectively, she added: “So he went to the entrance of the stage, and when he got here again he stated, 'Oh, I acquired it, Dad. You're Ricky Martin.'”

“It was so stunning!” he enthused, although he remarked that the sentiment has modified significantly over time. “However now, it’s like, ‘No matter Dad, you probably did this flawed, it’s important to do it once more.’ Now it’s a unique story.”

Ricky lately starred within the Apple TV+ collection Palm RoyalHis twins additionally joined him for the premiere in March, and he additional advised Kelly how making ready to movie the collection was inflicting lots of misery to his 4 youngsters at one level.

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The 'She Bangs' singer talked about Studying to play the trumpet in your functionHe stated he has “huge respect” for trumpet gamers, as a result of he discovered how troublesome it’s to grasp trumpet gamers.

That doesn’t imply it was an uninterrupted observe session, although, particularly for his or her youngsters. “My youngsters hated me for 3 months,” he laughs, as a result of he “was taking part in all of the flawed notes. If I hit two notes, I used to be joyful!”

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In a current dialog Los Angeles TimesHe spoke about his troublesome yr following his separation from Jwan after six years of marriage and residing life as a single father.

“I've been by way of quite a bit within the final yr. I went by way of a divorce, I modified managers, I went by way of household issues. Proper now I'm in a very good place and I simply need to maintain it easy and have enjoyable with my youngsters, get pleasure from being alone and all these good issues,” he stated.

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Rickly commented that he used this as inspiration to return into the studio and discover the fitting materials to create new music, he final launched a full-length studio album in 2015.

“I believe the whole lot now comes right down to the enter so I can go into the studio and work on the output.”