Ricky Martin shared an Instagram Stories photo from Belgrade showing his seven-year-old daughter Lucía in a black outfit, tennis shoes and a Hello Kitty backpack, captioning the image, "¡Oh Belgrado! ¡Eres hermosa!" The picture landed the day he was due to perform in the Serbian capital, a rare public glimpse of the singer combining a stop on his European tour with an ordinary, private moment.
The image is specific in a way social posts rarely are: Lucía, 7 years old, is clearly at her father’s side in the frame, and Martin’s caption made plain that the visit was both personal and immediate. The post followed a brief handover — Jwan Yosef, the children’s other parent, had the children in his care until a few days earlier — and it came as Martin was preparing for shows in Pula, Croatia, on June 19 and San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, on June 21.
That timing is the story’s weight: this was not a throwback or a staged family portrait. It was a present-tense moment on the road. Martin has written about his children before — "Mi hijo es magia 🫶😊" is one of the short, affectionate lines he’s used publicly — but the Belgrade photo puts one child physically with him between scheduled concerts, a concrete detail that answers where he was seen and when.
Context matters here. Martin and Yosef separated in July 2023, and both men have been visible in discussions about their family life since. In 2024 Martin told Ventaneando: "Nunca es fácil, tú sabes que toda separación es difícil, pero yo creo que es algo que tenía que suceder y el día de hoy mi exesposo y yo tenemos una relación maravillosa, estamos criando dos hijos…" That comment — and other public notes that their co-parenting is warm — sits beside the plain timeline that Yosef had the children days before the Belgrade post.
The friction is the friction of modern celebrity parenting: the public line of a "maravillosa" relationship between exes — a phrase Martin used this year — exists alongside a clear separation in mid-2023 and the logistical reality of who is caring for the children on any given day. The Instagram photo resolves nothing about legal arrangements or long-term travel plans; it does, however, show Martin making room in a touring schedule for an ordinary moment with a child who, by the image, was ready to explore a new city with him.
Martin is scheduled to perform in Belgrade the night of the post, then move on to Pula on June 19 and San Benedetto del Tronto on June 21. Given the short distances and tight timetable of this leg, and the fact that the children had just been with Yosef a few days earlier, the immediate inference is that Lucía will remain with Martin at least through the next stops on his itinerary. Whether his two youngest and the twins, Valentino and Mateo, will travel the entire European run with him is not public, but the Belgrade photo makes one thing clear: for now Martin is keeping parenting and performance close together, bringing a fragment of ordinary family life onto a concert road that otherwise demands separation.
