Eduardo Capetillo (born in April 13, 1970) is a Mexican actor and singer. He was born in Mexico City, México. He belongs to the Capetillo family, who have a long tradition of being bullfighters. Being still very young, he participated in some courses of preparation with the actress Martha Zabaleta and some courses of jazz in the center of qualification of Televisa. His career started when he won the festival Juguemos a Cantar, where he won the second place with the song Mi grupo toca Rock (My band plays rock), later launched by Orfeón Records. He participated in the Spanish theatre version of Grease, Vaselina, and recorded his first telenovela in 1983 called Martín Garatuza. In 1986, Eduardo entered Timbiriche, occupaying the place of Benny Ibarra, the success took shape with the album Rock Shows, launching that corresponds to the album Timbiriche VI, then he recorded more hits in the group with the album Timbiriche VII and the album Timbiriche VIII and Timbiriche lX. There are some songs in which Capetillo had solos and became hits, such as: No seas tan cruel, Todo Cambia, Con todos menos conmigo. He was in a tour in Mexico and some Latin American countries. In 1989, Capetillo left the group and began his career as a single artist. In 1991 he sold more than a million copies of the album of five songs, sound track of the soap opera Alcanzar una estrella. That same year he launched his album, Dame Una Noche. In 1992 he returned as an actor and singer thanks to another telenovela, [[Baila conmigo'', and to his second album, Estoy Aquí. Later he would released a new album, Piel Ajena in (1995), and a career in which the formula is mixed actor-singer in telenovelas, that strengthens him as an idol in the Latin world thanks to titles like Marimar, together with Thalía, that was seen in more than 150 countries, or Canción De Amor, Camila or El secreto, in which he and Yadhira Carrillo are the only Mexican actors of a Spanish cast. Indeed thanks to the soap opera El secreto, seeing through the Spanish television (the TVE), good looking Eduardo Capetillo has returned to record a new album, with Horus-Muxxic, registered in diverse studios of Mexico and Spain, with a production directed and made by his brother-in-law Chacho Gaytán. In 2003 he also interpreted one of the songs of the telenovela Bajo la misma piel. In 2004 he appeared inAmy, la niña de la mochila azúl. His most recent telenovela is Peregrina, a story of an 18-year old circus girl who discovers her real family. Capetillo is married to actress and singer Bibi Gaytán, his ex-companion of Timbiriche, they both have three children.
