Alejandro Martínez (born December 22, 1966 in Bogotá, Colombia
) is a
Colombian actor and singer. As a child he had always shown an interest in acting and singing, and at the age of 12 he enrolled in the Conservatory of the
National University
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where he learned to play several instruments.
He graduated from university in 1985 with a degree in social communications, specializing in television production, but he had already started acting and singing while at university, forming a group called Café Stress before launching his solo career.
Martínez' acting breakthrough came with a lead role in the 1993 Colombian ''telenovela'' ''La maldición del paraiso'', for which he was nominated in the Best Actor category in both the Símon Bolívar Television Awards and the
TVyNovelas Awards Colombia
The TVyNovelas Awards was a Colombian award given annually to national and international actors and productions. The ceremony is broadcast annually by the television channel RCN Televisión, the prize goes in general to telenovelas and Colombian ...
, winning the former.
He was nominated three more times for TVyNovelas Awards, for ''Eternamente Manuela'' (1996), ''
Pobre Pablo
''Pobre Pablo'', is a Colombian telenovela created by Juan Carlos Pérez for RCN Televisión. Starring by Roberto Cano and Carolina Acevedo. It was the most-watched telenovela of Colombia during the two years that lasted into the air.
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'' (2001) and ''
Escobar: El patron de mal'' (2013).
Martínez also briefly gained fame in 2008 in Hungary, when he appeared in a Hungarian reality television show following his then-girlfriend, former
Playboy
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model Hargetai Bea. The program was criticized back in Colombia for only showing the worst aspects of Bogotá and Colombia.
As a singer Martínez has made three albums, ''Alejandro Martínez'' (1995), ''Mi Único Amor'' (1998) and ''Canción del Alma'' (2010).
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Colombian male actors
21st-century Colombian male singers
Colombian pop singers
Living people
1966 births
20th-century Colombian male singers
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