Norberto Juan Ortiz y Osborne, 9th Count of Donadío de Casasola (born 7 December 1954), better known as Bertín Osborne, is a Spanish singer.
Biography
He was born in
Madrid
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from an aristocrat father, Enrique Ortiz López-Valdemoro (1928-2024), but raised in
Puerto de Santa María
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and later in
Jerez de la Frontera
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. His maternal surname comes from a great-great-great grandfather who immigrated from
Exeter
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, England to Puerto de Santa María, Spain during the late 18th century and founded the Osborne Group wine company.
Career
Osborne's first musical performance was in 1971 at the Song Festival at
El Escorial
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, but he had to wait until 1980 to sign his first contract to record an album.
Bertín is also an occasional actor. His acting is credited in several TV-novels and fiction TV-series, some of them were South American TV-productions. He has barely participated in film acting, but he is more of an actor when it comes to television series.
Personal life
Osborne was married to Alejandra "Sandra" Domecq Williams, from 1977 until their divorce in 1991. She died in 2004. The couple had three daughters: Alejandra (b. 1978), Eugenia (b. 1986) and Claudia (b. 1989), as well as a son (Cristian; 1977–1977), who died at less than one year of age.
He remarried, on 10 June 2006, Fabiola Martínez Benavides, from
Maracaibo
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, Venezuela; the couple has two children, Norberto Enrique and Carlos Alberto. Norberto was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which led Bertin to create the Fundación Bertín Osborne, a non-profit organization devoted to helping children with this diagnosis. Bertin has brought his son to
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential
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(IAHP) for treatment, and has used his foundation to spread the word in Spain about IAHP's work.
In June 2025 he succeeded his father as the 9th Count of Donadío de Casasola.
Discography
Notes
*A. ''Motivation'' is an English-language album that was not released in Spain but appeared in other European territories. The Iperspazio pressing is from Italy.
*B. ''Va Por Ellos'' is a fund-raising disc with proceeds benefiting Fundación Padre Garralda. In Spain, the disc was sold exclusively through
El Corte Inglés
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locations.
Television
* ''Mi casa es la tuya'' (Bertín as a host and interviewer)
References
External links
*
BiographyBertin OsborneEl drama familiar de Bertín OsborneBertín Osborne: "Desde que le hemos quitado la medicación a mi hijo Kike, es otro niño"Spanishcharts.comDía de la Madre: rancheras de Bertín Osborne a beneficio de los niños desfavorecidos
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1954 births
Living people
Spanish people of English descent
Spanish male singers
People from Jerez de la Frontera
Singers from Andalusia
People named in the Panama Papers
Counts of Spain