Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo i

Julio Iglesias
ˈɣlesjas]; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer,
songwriter and former professional footballer
.

In 1983, he was celebrated as having recorded songs in the

most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the Latin
artist with the most records sold in history. Iglesias is
recognized as the most commercially successful Continental
European singer in the world and one of the top ten record
sellers in music history, having sold more than 250 million
records worldwide in 14 languages. It is estimated that during
his career he has offered more than 5000 concerts, having
performed for over 60 million people on five continents. In
April 2013 he was awarded in Beijing as the most popular
international artist in China. In Brazil, France, Romania, Italy,
and others, Iglesias is the most successful foreign record seller,
while in his home country, Spain, he has sold the most records
Born Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva
in history, with 23 million records.
23 September 1943
During his career, Iglesias has won many awards in the music Madrid, Spain
industry, including the Grammy, Latin Grammy, World Music Residence Marbella, Andalusia, Spain
Award, Billboard Music Award, American Music Award and
Years active 1968–present
Lo Nuestro Award. He has been awarded the Gold Medal for
Spouse(s) Isabel Preysler
Merit in the Fine Arts of Spain and the Legion of Honour of (m. 1971; div. 1979)
France. UNICEF named him Special Ambassador for the Miranda Rijnsburger (m. 2010)
Performing Arts in 1989. He has been a star on the Hollywood
Children 8, including:
Walk of Fame since 1985. In April 2013, Iglesias was inducted
Chabeli Iglesias
into the Hall of Fame of Latin Composers.
Julio Iglesias Jr.
Enrique Iglesias
Musical career
Contents Genres Latin · Latin pop · dance-pop · adult
Early life contemporary
Entertainment career Labels Columbia · Sony
Personal life
Honours and Awards
Honours Association football career
Spanish National Honours
Foreign Honours
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Discography
Years Team Apps (Gls)
References
196?–196? Real Madrid Castilla
External links
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the
domestic league only
Website www.julioiglesias.com
Early life
Iglesias was born in Madrid to Julio Iglesias Sr., a medical doctor from Ourense who became one of the youngestgynecologists in the
country, and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. Iglesias's paternal ancestry comes from Galicia,[1] his paternal grandparents
were named Manuela Puga Noguerol and Ulpiano Iglesias Sarria. His maternal grandparents were José de la Cueva y Orejuela
(1887–1955),[2] and Dolores de Perignat y Ruiz de Benavides,[3] who was a native of Guayama, Puerto Rico.[4] The name "Iglesias"
translates as "churches;" likewise, Iglesias is of Jewish ancestry from his maternal side, having mentioned that his mother's family
name, "de la Cueva y Perignat," meaning literally "of the cave," referring to Jewish people in hiding, is a very common Jewish
name.[5][6] He alternated playing professional football with studying law at the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. In the earliest
years of his young adulthood, he was a goalkeeper for Real Madrid Castilla in the Segunda División. His professional football career
was ruined when he was involved in a serious automobile accident, due to which he was unable to walk for two years.[7] Afterwards,
he said of those years, "I had more courage and attitude than talent." These were sorely tested when he was involved in that car crash
—it smashed his lower spine; his legs were permanently weakened as a direct result, and they still required therapy several years
later. During his hospitalization after the accident, a nurse named Eladio Magdaleno gave him a guitar so that he could recover the
dexterity of his hands.[8] In learning to play, he discovered his musical talent.[9][10] After his rehabilitation, Iglesias studied for three
months at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge, UK. After that, he went back to obtain his law degree at
Complutense University of Madrid.[11]

Entertainment career
In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's
event in Spain, with the song "La vida sigue igual" (meaning "Life Goes On
The Same") which was used in the filmLa vida sigue igual, about his own life.
After this event he signed a deal with Discos Columbia, the Spanish branch of
the Columbia Records company, and released his first studio album, titled Yo
Canto, or I Sing. The album spent 15 weeks in the Spanish charts, and peaked
at #3.[10] He represented Spain in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing
in fourth place[12] behind Ireland's winning entry, performed by Dana.[13] His
entry was the song "Gwendolyne." Shortly after, he had a number one hit in
many European countries with "Un Canto A Galicia," sung in Galician, in
honour of his father, who hailed from Galicia. That single sold 1 million copies
in Germany. In 1975, he found success in the Italian market by recording a
song exclusively in Italian, called "Se mi lasci non vale," or "If You Leave Me,
It Can't Be." Notable albums from this decade areA flor de piel (1974, with the
European hit "Manuela"), El amor (1975), and Soy (1973). He also sang in
French; one of his popular songs in this language became "Je n'ai pas changé."

In 1979, he moved to Miami, Florida, in the United States, signed a deal with
CBS International, and started singing in different languages such as English,
French, Portuguese, German and other languages to his music. Two years later, Julio Iglesias at the Eurovision Song
in 1981, he released the album De niña a mujer, which he dedicated to his Contest 1970.
daughter. (She shared the cover photo with him.) From it came the first
English-language hit of his career, a Spanish cover of "Begin the Beguine"
which became number 1 in the United Kingdom; he also released a collection, Julio (1983). In 1984, he released 1100 Bel Air Place,
the hit album which established him as a star in the English-speaking entertainment industry. It sold over three million albums in the
United States alone.[9] The first single, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a duet with Willie Nelson, hit #1 on the Country charts
and went Top Five in the Billboard Hot 100.[14] It also featured "All of You," in vocal duet with Diana Ross, a Top Twenty Pop hit,
[15]
that climbed to #2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart with the help of a popular video.
In 1984, he had recorded and released the previously mentioned duets with Diana Ross and Willie Nelson. Iglesias won a Grammy
Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un hombre solo ("A Man Alone"). He recorded a duet
with Stevie Wonder, "My Love", in his Non Stop album, a crossover success in 1988. In the 1990s, Iglesias returned to his original
Spanish melody in Tango (1996), nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards, losing to the Romances album
by Mexican singer, Luis Miguel.[16]

Iglesias made a cameo appearance as himself on The Golden Girls as Sophia Petrillo's date on St. Valentine's Day 1989. In 2001,
Iglesias was recognized as the Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy.[17] A year later, Iglesias was inducted into the
International Latin Music Hall of Fame.[18]

In 2003, Julio released his album Divorcio ("Divorce"). In its first day of sales, Divorcio sold a record 350,000 albums in Spain, and
reached the number 1 spot on the charts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Russia. In 2003 and 2004, aided by the success of his
Divorcio album, Iglesias went on a ten-month world tour which took him from Europe to Asia and then on to North America, South
America and Africa. More than half the shows on that tour sold out within days of going on sale. In December 2004, his Dutch
girlfriend Miranda Rijnsburger and Iglesias himself recorded a duet of the Christmas song "Silent Night". The song, which was not
officially released, also included a voice message from Iglesias, Rijnsburger, and their 4 young children of that time. The song was
released online through the singer's official website and a CD was included on their Christmas card as a holiday gift from the Iglesias
family to their friends and fans around the world.

In 2008, Iglesias recorded another song as a gift to his fans. The family recorded "The Little Drummer Boy" in Spanish and English
and included it in the family's Christmas card. Iglesias also made investments in the Dominican Republic's eastern town of Punta
Cana, a major tourist destination, where he took to spending most of the year. Indeed, Iglesias became a Dominican citizen in
2005.[19]

In September 2006, Iglesias released a new English-language album, which he titled Romantic Classics. "I've chosen songs from the
1960s, 1970s and 1980s that I believe will come to be regarded as the new standards," Iglesias stated in the album's sleeve notes. The
album featured his interpretations of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is," the Wham! selection "Careless Whisper," and
Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting." Romantic Classics was Iglesias's highest debut on the Billboard charts, entering at number 31
in the United States, 21 in Canada, 10 in Australia, and top spots across Europe and Asia. He returned to the studio to record songs in
Filipino and Indonesian for his Asian releases of Romantic Classics which helped propel record sales in the Asian entertainment
industry. Iglesias promoted Romantic Classics in 2006; it was seen all over the world on television shows. In the United States, for
example, he appeared on Dancing With The Stars, where he sang his version of "I Want To Know What Love Is," Good Morning
America, The View, Fox and Friends, and Martha Stewart.

In 2008, Iglesias made a music video withGulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek dictatorIslam Karimov.[20]

In March 2011, the artist launched a new studio album called 1 (or Numero 1).

Iglesias's performance of the song "La Mer" ("The Sea") is featured in the soundtrack of the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
The performance comes from a live album, which had gone out of print by the last days of December 2015, that he recorded live at
the Olympia theater in Paris in 1976. At the beginning and the end of the recording, Iglesias introduces the song, and his backing
musicians, in fluent French.

In October 2012, Iglesias performed a concert inEquatorial Guinea, where tickets were reportedly $1,000 each.[20]

On 1 April 2013, in Beijing, he received two historic awards: First & Most Popular International Artist of All Time in China, an
award given by Sony Music China and which was presented to Julio by the world-renowned Chinese artist Lang Lang, and the
Guinness World Records for the Best-selling Male Latin Artist.[21] As Iglesias is a composer and lyricist, some of his songs being of
his own authorship and composition, on 23 April 2013, he was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, alongside Armando
Manzanero and José Feliciano.[22][23]

In 2015, as was announced, Iglesias was slated to perform a concert (complete show) for the first time with his son Julio Iglesias Jr.
in a tour in Romania, on 22 May atSala Polivalentă in Cluj-Napoca and 2 July at Sala Palatului in the capital city, Bucharest.[24]
Berklee College of Music, the most important private university of music in the world, named Julio Iglesias Honorary Doctor, in
Boston, on May 9, 2015, in recognition of his achievements and influence in music, and for his enduring contribution to American
and international culture.[25]

Personal life
On 29 January 1971, Iglesias married Isabel Preysler, a Filipina journalist and television host. Preysler, a Filipino of Spanish
ancestry, was also a member of the wealthy and aristocratic Perez de Tagle family. The couple had three children: Chabeli (born 3
September 1971), a socialite; Julio Jr. (born 25 February 1973), a singer; and Enrique (born 8 May 1975), an internationally
successful singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer. In the 1970s, Iglesias and his family were extensively depicted on the front
pages of international newspapers and magazines. The marriage of Iglesias and Preysler ended in divorce in 1979.

Whenever Iglesias was not on tour, he spent his time at his Miami residence, purchased in 1978 for $650,000. The mansion on the
private Indian Creek Island, whose interior design was made by his true love Virginia Sipl "LA FLACA", was placed on the market
in 2006 for a quoted $28 million, making it one of "Ten Most Expensive Homes in the South" in 2006 according to Forbes
magazine.[26]

After his divorce, Iglesias lived with Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger (b. 1965), 22 years his junior, whom he married on 26
August 2010 in a small church in Marbella, Spain. They had five children: Miguel Alejandro Iglesias (born 7 September 1997),
Rodrigo Iglesias (born 3 April 1999), twins Cristina and Victoria Iglesias (born 1 May 2001), and Guillermo Iglesias (born 5 May
2007). They took up residence in the Dominican Republic, where Iglesias had acquired several hotel complexes, as well as the Punta
Cana International Airport, which he acquired jointly with other investors, including fashion designerOscar de la Renta.[7][27]

On 19 December 2005, Iglesias's father, Julio Iglesias Sr., died of a heart attack at the age of 90. A week before his death, it became
known that the 42-year-old wife of Julio Iglesias Sr., Ronna Keith, was pregnant with their second child. Their first child, Jaime, was
born on 18 May 2004. The second child, Ruth, was born on 26 July 2006.

In 2008, after his house in Indian Creek did not sell at his asking price, he ordered it razed and said he planned to build another on the
lot.[28] In 2012, he purchased the property next door for $15 million and announced that he planned to build a new home on the
combined properties.[29][30]

Honours and Awards

Honours

Spanish National Honours

Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts

Gold Medal of the Community of Madrid

Foreign Honours

France

Knight of the Legion of Honor

Medal of the City of Paris

Discography
Selected albums 1983: Julio
 1969: Yo canto 1984: 1100 Bel Air Place
1970: Gwendolyne 1985: Libra
1972: Un canto a Galicia 1987: Un hombre solo
1973: Soy 1987: Tutto l'amore che ti manca
1974: A flor de piel 1988: Non Stop
1974: Viens m'embrasser 1989: Raíces
1975: A México 1990: Starry Night
1975: El amor 1992: Calor
1976: America 1994: Crazy
1977: A mis 33 años 1995: La carretera
1978: Aimer la vie 1996: Tango
1978: Emociones 2000: Noche de cuatro lunas
1978: Sono un pirata, sono un signore 2001: Ao Meu Brasil
1979: À vous les femmes 2003: Divorcio
1980: Hey! 2006: Romantic Classics
1981: De niña a mujer 2007: Quelque chose de France
1982: Et l'amour crea la femme 2011: 1
1982: Momentos 2015: México
1982: Momenti 2017: México y Amigos
2017: Dois Corações

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External links
Official website
Musicadelrecuerdo.com Musica de Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias on IMDb

Succeeded by
Preceded by Spain in the Eurovision Song
Karina
Salomé Contest
with "En un mundo
with "Vivo cantando" 1970
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