Diego González

Date of Birth
29 November 1990, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Birth Name
Diego Andrés González Boneta

Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography
Born in Mexico City in 1990, Diego began his career at the age of 12 through his participation in a children's singing reality show in Mexico. When passing to the finals, he was chosen to be a part of his first television production as Ricardo in Alegrijes y Rebujos which also had a musical group attached to the project. The musical group was nominated for the Best Children's Group in the Latin Grammys in 2004. For his next project, he was chosen as the lead for Mision SOS where he played Chrisitian. Here too he formed part of the musical group. Immediately finishing this series in 2005, he joined the famed Mexican teen series - Rebelde. He launched his first solo album through EMI Music and toured with Rebelde's musical group, RBD, throughout Latin America, Europe and the U.S.A. as a solo artist. Thanks to his popularity, he was asked to record the CD in Portuguese and sold over 100,000 copies in Brazil alone. His first musical production won him MTV Latin America Best New Artist Nomination in 2006. In 2008 he was the executive producer of his second musical production - Diego Indigo. Diego wrote 9 of the 11 songs in this album and it received gold status within the month of its release. He was nominated as the Best Solo Singer at the Latin MTV Awards in 2008.