This Thursday, September 8, Ricardo Montaner turns 65. A man of multiple nationalities – besides being Argentine, he is Venezuelan, Colombian and Dominican – and despite having settled in Miami two decades ago, Montaner is still that Valentín Alsina boy who dreamed of being successful in music.

He did it, he did it. And also on TV, if we take, not to exaggerate, his leading role The Argentine voice. A life “for which I am grateful every day,” he says. A life with indelible moments …

Childhood in Valentín Alsina

“When I was little and I lived in via Portela 2230, Valentin Alsina, there was a bakery on the corner. I always had the fantasy that my parents had a bakery … We were going through a difficult period. We lived in a council house where five families lived, one of which was mine. My sister, my father, my mother and I lived in a room with wooden walls. It was a room with a bathroom shared with the rest of the families, ”he recalled.

the first guitar

In that room’s bed was where He received his first guitar when he was six. It was a gift from the Three Kings. With emotion, he recounted the details of that moment: “I’ve always dreamed of a guitar. I thought there was no need to learn, but I could play it from day one. So I started strumming anything, while I was singing a song by Palito Ortega, who was one of my great idols ”.