Do we like Ricky Martin?
Our score: 8 out of 10. Decades of visibility, a record of owning his past mistakes, and no harmful words or company found, held back only by the thin sourcing on his advocacy.
Enrique Martín Morales is the kid from San Juan who joined the boy band Menudo and then became a worldwide pop star. He's still selling out stadiums decades on. The 2026 Ricky Martin Live tour took in Turkey, Croatia, Serbia, Germany, Poland and Spain before he turned to the Americas.
The new album is the main news. It would be his first since 2015's A Quien Quiera Escuchar, and he has talked up a project that gives his classic songs new life. In his own words, the past is being celebrated and the future is being built. He's also lined up US, Mexican, Peruvian and Colombian dates.
The messy chapter is a 2022 court fight in Puerto Rico. A person accused him of a relationship and obtained a temporary protection order. At a July 2022 hearing that person withdrew the case and the judge declined to extend the order. Martin denied everything and sued for no less than $20 million.
That litigation went nowhere publicly after that. In April 2025 a San Juan judge dismissed Martin's lawsuit and the $10 million counterclaim, after both sides asked for everything to be dropped with prejudice. No court found against him. The allegations were never tested at trial, and he has called them “completely false”.
On the harm test, nothing nasty turned up. In a 2016 GQ Australia interview he admitted he used to bully gay people while in denial about his own sexuality. He told the magazine he had “internalized homophobia”. Owning that is a point in his favour. In the 2024 US election he reposted a clip of a rally joke about Puerto Rico and shared graphics on Kamala Harris's plans for the island.
The record we could verify on the good he does is thinner than we'd like. He is known for his foundation's work on child protection and trafficking and for his visibility as an openly gay Latin superstar, but we couldn't pin down dated reporting we could cite here. That's an honest gap, not a hidden mark.