Personal Life and Controversy
Rivera sported an afro then, and he became one of the first male public figures in Puerto Rico to wear an earring. The hair and the one earring became the trademark of Danny Rivera for many years. During the 1980s, he relocated to Cayey. In 1988, he married model Alexandra Malagon, whom he later divorced.
In 2001, Rivera spent 30 days incarcerated in a federal prison and charge with one count for trespassing on the military campgrounds at Vieques. He was one of the most outspoken and recognizable anti-military protesters at the height of national protests. His prison diary and poems were published in a book titled "Enamorado de la Paz" ("In Love with Peace") in 2002.
He has shared the stage with Julio Iglesias, Will Smith, Jean Jaques Perrey and Plácido Domingo, and he has headlined at the Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall in New York and the Caribe Hilton hotel in San Juan. He received the citizenship of the Dominican Republic in a ceremony in Santo Domingo on March 13, 2008.
On September 2009 he performed at the Paz Sin Fronteras Concert in Havana Cuba before an estimated audience of over 1.1 million people.
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