Cristian Castro was destined to dedicate his life to the public. Cristian was born to the internationally recognized Mexican actress, television star and singer, Veronica Castro. Cristian was born in Mexico City on December 8th, 1974 and made his first professional appearance, in the arms of his actress mother’s arms, in a national television commercial, only a few months after being born. And this was simply the beginning.
At the age of 5 years old, he was cast in a syndicated soap opera El Derecho de Nacer. In the same year, his theatrical development took on form with his casting along side veteran theater actress, Silvia Pinal, in the play “Mame”. At the age of 7, under the guidance of his mother and his aunt Beatriz, they helped him up set up his very own radio show, “ La Hora de Cristian”, hosted by the young entertainer. And all about the same time in his young career, Cristian debutted his first single as a singer, titled “El Gallito Feliz” on the very popular national show Siempre en Domingo. Weeks later, he appeared on the young and vibrant television festival of music, Juguemos A Cantar, created by the highly recognized Mexican host, Raúl Velasco.
At 15, Cristian participated in the national Festival de la Cancion, a young version of our American Idol, with his song “16 de Diciembre.” Cristian continued to develop his singing career, but also focused on his acting career, with a new role casted in the soap opera “Las Secretas Intenciones.”
In 1991, the young teenage singer/actor released his first album titled “Agua Negra”, which includes songs like “No podras” which was quickly converted into an international hit. Two years later, he released his second album, “Un Segundo En El Tiempo”, making him worthy of his first Grammy nomination.
During the mid-90s, Cristian releases “El Camino Del Alma”, this third album to his credit was overwhelmingly popular with a single, “Mañana,” which was composed by Juan Gabriel, the very worldly singer/songwriter Latin music idol.
“Amor,” the single from his fourth album “El Deseo De Oir Tu Voz” maintained a top position, on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks for 11 consecutive weeks. The same occurred with his sentimental anthem single “Amarte a ti” and which earned him a Billboard Awards nomination.
His fifth musical production, “Lo Mejor de Mi”, produced by Ruby Perez broke album sales records, and making Cristian Castro a household name across North America, on both sides of the border and south in Central and South America. Radio stations in the US and Latin America could not keep his songs out of rotation. This album positioned Cristian’s music in every latin category of the Billboard Charts. With songs like “Si ti me amaras”, “Amaneciendo en ti”, “Lloran las rosas”, “Después de ti… Qué?” and “ Lo Mejor De Mi”, inevitably allowing Cristian dominance in all the Billboard Awards catergories that are recognized in the Latin Music industry. Cristian practically claimed all the Latin awards at the Billboards that year. In the same manner, this album was recognized internationally, with records sales skyrocketing, making this album a Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum seller for his record label.
In 1999, Cristian Castro presented a new album, “Mi Vida Sin Tu Amor”, produced by Kike Santander. And in the year 2000, Cristian received international acclaim, after being invited to the internationally recognized “Festival de Viña Mar” in Chile, this year the young Mexican Artist went home with the most coveted award of recognition, “La Gaviota de Plata”.
“Azul”, the second production with the highly acclaimed producer Kike Santander was launched in 2001. With singles like “Yo queria”, “Azul” and “Lloviendo Estrellas” brought high acclaim and won him another Grammy nomination. “Azul” was highly praised that year by “Premios Lo Nuestro”, awarding Cristian, the “Best Artist of the Year” award.
“Cristian Grandes Exitos”, marks a great moment in the career of this singer. Amongst other recognized duets, the single “Fly without the winds” featuring the Irish group, West Life, earned him great success on another continent. The single soon appeared on an album of greatest pop hits, in Europe and North America.
In 2003, “AmarEs” was released and remained on Billboards Top Five Latin Charts for many weeks and the single “No hace falta” was one of dominant singles with radio stations across the U.S. and Latin America, for the year.
In August 2004, Cristian unleashed highly acclaimed international CD, “Hoy Quiero Soña”. And at the beginning of 2005, Cristian introduced the arrival of his collection of new songs under the title “Gallito Feliz”.
His most recent work, “El Indomable” is Cristian’s first ranchero album. Quickly making history in the ranchero genre, “El Indomable” made it to the number one position in the Official Regional Mexican Radio list and in the last quarter out sold Vicente Fernandez and Pepe Aguilar. It’s success placed # 4 on the Billboard Latin Regional chart, # 5 on Discolandia and #10 on Mix Up, all of which follow the success of latin music worldwide.
Cristian has demonstrated with his long list of hits that he is one of the most admired Latin Artist throughout the Americas and Europe. Aside from that, the singer is known for breaking record sales and filling concert halls worldwide. He has sold more than 7.5 million albums, with 29 Platinum albums and 60 Gold albums with multiple Billboard Awards, Lo Nuestro Awards and Grammy Award nominations to name a few.
