David Bustamante

David Bustamante was born in San Vicente de la Barquera, Spain, on May 25, 1982. The singer was in his late teens when he became the third finalist in Spain's Operación Triunfo España contest. Bustamante went on to sign with Vale Music Spain and Universal Music Latino; his debut album, Bustamante, was released in Spain, Latin America, and the United States in 2003 and became a big seller, thanks in part to the single "Ademas de Ti." Another highlight of that album is "Perdóname," a duet with Puerto Rican pop star Luis Fonsi. In 2004, Bustamante followed up his first album with his sophomore outing, Así Soy Yo (That's the Way I Am), which was -- for the most part -- produced by the well-known Emilio Estefan in Miami. It was also in 2004 that Bustamante recorded the intoxicating theme song of Gitanas, a superb, highly thought-provoking telenovela (Latin soap opera) that was filmed in Mexico and ran on the Telemundo network (NBC's contribution to Spanish-language programming) in the United States.