Know his history...

José Eduardo Verástegui Córdoba was born the 21th of May 1974 in Cd. Mante, Tamaulipas, son of a family of farmers. He completed his studies in Mexico and the United States. At the age of 17 he left his hometown Xicoténcatl, Tamaulipas Mexico, with a lot of dreams and aspirations to become celebrity in Mexico. He studied at the famous institute CEA, -where the stars of Televisa are born-, he studied acting. A year later, age 18, he participated in an audition to become singer in a music band of youth, called Kairo.

He was singled out without a shred of a doubt, to become one of the three singers. They recorded in Milan, Italy, as well as in Egypt, to tape their first video-clip. They toured through cities, and towns throughout Mexico and the whole Latin American Continent. To promote their music, however the success felt somewhat short related to their huge efforts. The music band ceased to exist, leaving 2 albums.

During the rearrangements his inspirations to continue singing kept very much alive, even more so after leaving Kairo. Despite the fact Eduardo his biggest passion was singing, he opted for an acting career which wich was a tremendous success. He landed roles in as much as 5 Telenovelas (Spanish for Soaps), the first ""Mi querida Isabel"" (My dear Isabel), where he played a singer, the second he was a religious person, seminarist, at ""Una Luz en el Camino"" ( A Light upon the Path), the third was in the telenovela ""Soñadoras"" (Dreamers), where he played a young man, an orphan having problems with drugs and alcohol. At the Telenovela ""Alma Rebelde"" (""Rebellious Soul"") he played both a hero and a villain, a double-role. The 5th Telenovela he starred in was ""Tres Mujeres"" (""Three Woman"") where he played an oncologist.

After his first Telenovela Eduardo left to New York, to pursue studying acting, and tried one more time to land a contract as singer. Attempting to show his acting and singing reel at the large record companies, all he got were just polite letters of rejection. With modelling for famous agencies (Calvin Klein, Versacce and other big names) he got the finances to further develop his career. He returned to Mexico, stronger and better than ever as actor, but unfortunately robbed of his dream to become singer.

As a true hero Eduardo didn't give up his dreams, and with perseverance and determination he kept on pushing, but the music industry kept rejecting him: ""Please don't call, we'll call you when we are interested"" etc.. He tried one more bid at friends, which one was the producer Marco Flores.

After this, he left it all, to go to Miami, at the spring of 2000. While his career blossoming as Telenovela actor, Eduardo now was set for finding new opportunities.

As said before, Eduardo left his hometown Xicoténcatl at the northern part of Mexico, a nice town with 15,000 citizens. Without the persistence and courage Eduardo demonstrated, he would have been stuck just there, working as daytime loaner, like almost all his friends today are doing.

In Miami, the most ""Latin influenced city of the USA"", Eduardo met other young people, all with big dreams, high aspirations, but little success. After more than 550 hours of acting in Telenovelas, Eduardo became the best known face at Miami Beach, where he did impressive physical workout, to strengthen his muscles of steel. Furthermore Eduardo became addicted to the eating of tuna, and the other delicious foods available. However running low on money even without a car, Eduardo kept positive, pumping up the volume of the music at his little studio, nicknamed ""La Vecinidad del Chavo"" by his friends.

While doing a lot of workout, and swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, Eduardo met one day Gloria and Emilio Estafan, and other famous people of the music industry, as well as executives of the press, television. His press packet was soon forwarded to the well known name Fernán Martínez in the music industry, a manager with good credentials, and known for his skills to scoop up young new music talents like Eduardo. After receiving the press packet of Eduardo, just 5 days later Eduardo was at the music studio, grabbing the microphone, and demonstrating his talents. When he left the studio, Eduardo had a manager, songwriter, and a staff of producers, embarking on the same project.

The song Eduardo did was ""Yo No Se Perder"", the song that was selected as the first song on the list of 10. Estefan admitted he had the song Yo no Se Perder ready, but he didn't have a good singer to sing it.. until the fortunate day he found Eduardo!

In the following 5 months, at hours and places least expected , the texts of the other songs were born, Tequilla, Suave, Estoy Aquí por ti, Vivo La Locura, Las Luces de la Ciudad, Baila, A Partir de Hoy. The Cuban songwriter Donato wrote ""Por Ti"", and next, nobody less but the famous Omar Alfanno heard of it, offered with generosity one more song of his own, the song ""Por La Falta de tu Amor"". The whole project was completed by naming the album Eduardo Verástegui. Ten songs, with ten themes of love, ten different rhythms, excellent ""danceble'" music, artistic, authentic, original, and all very very compelling, music that uplifts your soul and melts your heart.

As the project entered the final stages it was presented to the record company Universal Music, the biggest in the world, and the deal was made, it couldn't have been easier!

After reaching this milestone Eduardo went to Rome to enjoy a well deserved vacation!

While the CD-copies rolling off the press, Eduardo called his dad, and three sisters. By phone he demonstrated the songs to his five friends from ""La Vecindad del Chavo"", who nicknamed Eduardo ""Lalo"", which name is widely familiar through his family, friend and countless fans.

Eduardo returned to Mexico just 14 months after he left, back then with a huge dream, right now with the contract under his belt. He returned with the CD, named the ""Tortilla Digital"".

Right now Eduardo has it all, he has become an pop-icon, thanks to his enormous perseverance and dedication, his passion, he succeeded in the way he wanted.

He deserves this wonderful success so very much, since he is such an outstanding artist, he works with a passionate soul. The guardian Angel and his character, a dedicated Taurus, both helped to pave the way towards success.

Currently Eduardo is making it big in Hollywood, on the conquest of the anglo-american public, he learnt himself english in a crash-course of just 3 months!

Eduardo got the opportunity to do a big-budget glossy Hollywood movie, Chasing Papi, where he starred as leading man ""Thomas Fuente"" a handsome executive. The movie was a very entertaining romantic comedy, co-starred by Sofia Vergara (""Sissy""), Rosalyn Sanchez (""Lorena'"), Jaci Velazquez (""Patricia"")

This opened new doors of opportunity for Eduardo, he did incursions in CSI Miami (CBS TV), Charmed (WB), and soon he will be seen in the upcoming movie ""meet me in Miami"", taped by the same crew who did the taping of ""Lord of the Rings"" in new Zealand.

At this moment, 2004/2005 Eduardo is trying to establish himself as producer, he is creating a company named ""Metanoia Films"", and we all have high hopes Eduardo will realize all his dreams! And some more projects are in the pipeline, we'll inform you as soon as possible!

Tall, dark and extremely handsome with his dark hair, chiseled face, deep emerald glowing eyes, the mighty muscular body of an athlete, and enormous charisma, he has the power to crush solid rocks by just looking at them! Obviously this actor, model, singer, is the dream of millions of woman in America, the hispanic world, Europe, and Asia.

Included in the long list of fans nobody less but Jennifer Lopez, who had the privilege of doing the sizzling dance with Eduardo Verástegui, in the video-clip ""Ain't it Funny"", where Eduardo made worldwide headlines by starring as the sizzling hot gipsy, without a doubt, the most sizzling dance ever performed on a MTV video clip!

Studying law for a year, and followed his trip to Mexico City to find his way to fortune. Working a short while as bartender at a pub called " Salamanca ", he quickly found his way towards fame by landing a job as singer at the band Kairo. By modelling, acting in 5 Telenovelas, then launching a big career as singer, and starring with J''lo in 2001 in the mega-hit Ain't It Funny, doing a large Hollywood movie, being elected among the planet 25 hottest bachelors, together with George Clooney, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, and prince William of England, the saga continues! Without a doubt Eduardo is the conquistador of Hollywood, a formidable star, and irresistible heartthrob.