[2] Amaya was born in Hermosillo, Mexico, but when he was five years old, his family moved to Tecate, Baja California where he grew up.

Amaya decided to enroll in the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa,[3] attempting to enter the world of music with another group, Garibaldi, with which he recorded two albums.

[5] In that same year, he returns to the cinema co-starring with Ana de la Reguera and Gabriela Platas in the controversial film Así del precipicio.

[1] The frantic activity continued in 2010 playing Julián García Correa, a doctor with a mental disorder, in the telenovela of Telemundo Alguien te mira.

[10] In that same year, he traveled to Spain to participate in two series Hospital Central and Doctor Mateo and in the film La piel azul.

[12] In that same year, he was selected by Telemundo to play Aurelio Casillas a famous drug trafficker in the super series El Señor de los Cielos, which is based on the life of Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

Since first taking on this career-making role, he has won the prize three times consecutively in all the awards galas of Premios Tu Mundo.

[18] In 2016 he also had a guest role (and cameo appearance) in the American series Queen of the South,[19] which was an adaptation of the telenovela La Reina del Sur,[19] where he also played Aurelio Casillas.