How Ricky found his love of life

He's the latin sensation with all the moves, but is Ricky Martin still seducing viewers as a coach on The Voice Australia?

RICKY Martin is a man in love with life.

At the heart of who he is are sons, Valentino and Matteo, the reason he gets up in the morning, the meaning he's found after years of searching.

The Voice coach, who warms hearts each episode with his stage chivalry and Latin passion, has been looking for this kind of love and balance and joy for as long as he can remember.

As a child performer, he found an adulation that confused as much as comforted this lonely boy chasing his musical dreams.

For Martin, fame only magnified an inner turmoil, a search for acceptance, only resolved when he came out to fans on March 29, 2010.

As he tells Insider, the new Swisse ambassador says the journey to "love the man in the mirror" was painfully long, but ultimately rewarding.

"It was years and years of searching for something, a search to be well, well mentally, spiritually. It was a lot about acceptance, feeling comfortable in my skin."

In a TV interview on Larry King Live, Martin said: "everything about saying that I am gay feels right ... if I'd known how good it was going to feels, I would have done it years ago."

The search to find that personal peace, he says "took me around the world. I went to India and studied yoga. After that I did capoeira. Before that I became a strict Catholic, I was even an altar boy. I've always been searching and once again it's all about being well with yourself. Looking yourself in the mirror and being happy with who you are."

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Comfortable in his skin ... The Voice coach Ricky Martin. He has signed with vitamins company Swisse to become an ambassador for the brand. Picture: Toby Zerna Source: News Corp Australia

Then, in August 2008, his greatest joy arrived with the surrogate birth of his sons.

Keeping them balanced, in the seeming chaos of his frenetic and increasingly in-demand international career, is as much for their wellbeing as it is in sustaining Martin.

"You have to have some sort of regime in this business if you are to survive, but I'm wearing two hats at the same time. The most important one is being a father. A single father of twin boys is not an easy task so you need to know the importance of time management. In all of that, rest is extremely important and that hour a day, call it meditation, be it a walk or you go to the gym or you do capoeira, or some time in the steam room where you can just liberate stress ... I believe it's important, it's the only way."

An islander by nature ... Ricky Martin poses with his sons Valentino and Matteo back in 2009 in Miami, Florida. Picture: Pablo Alfaro/Ricky Martin via Getty Images Source: Getty Images

At the moment, his career in music and on television (he has a TV series in development with US network, NBC), demands all the discipline and stamina he can muster.

Since prerecording the blind auditions and battles on his second season of The Voice, Martin has crisscrossed the globe — recording, performing and promoting new music, including a 2014 World Cup track, Vida (chosen after a worldwide songwriting contest organised by FIFA and Sony Music).

Latino superstar Ricky Martin talks to 60 Minutes journalist Liz Hayes about his decision to come at and tell the world he was gay. Courtesy 60 Minutes/Channel Nine

There was also the March release of Pure Victory, a collaboration with reggaeton star Wisin and fellow Latin superstar Jennifer Lopez.

Last week he appeared on The Voice Italy, his reputation as a passionate and dynamic coach on the Australian series making him hot property for other Shine/Talpa franchises around the world.

For the Puerto Rican, his family's Australian adventure has been as close to home as they come.

"My kids were born on the road. We spend most of out time in New York. We are from Puerto Rico but they don't ask when are we going back to NY ... they just wanna go back to Australia. They have the Aussie slang down but the thing is I come here, I live at the beach and I feel like I have the same life we have back home. Those walks on the beach, those sunsets, the bike rides. I'm an islander and I don't want to change that. I've spent years living in Paris, years living in New York City, years in Buenos Aires, chaotic cities, we love that ... but at the end of the day I need the ocean. I'm an islander but I get that in Sydney, in Australia and it's beautiful."

Globetrotters ... Ricky Martin and his children Valentino and Matteo. Picture: Instagram Source: Instagram

They have a happy routine that involves regular home schooling, play dates with local children and the best part of every day spent with their father, or Papi as they call him.

"We're at out happiest when we wake up in the morning. I wake them up with either a massage or just (sings) 'hey, hey, hey'. I start with silly jokes and silly voices. They find it hilarious and we all wake up laughing. It is a beautiful moment."

The family look set for more happy times in Australia, with Martin signed to do a private performance at the Palms, Crown Casino in Melbourne for 500 Swisse competition winners and 100 VIP guests next April — the best indication yet he will return for a third season of the top-rating Channel 9 series.

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