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Julio Iglesias (born September 23, 1943-) in Madrid is Spain’s best selling singer in history and one of
the best selling hispanic singers of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold 250 million records and released
nearly 80 records. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career
He was a professional soccer player with Real Madrid, where he played as goalie. During this time, he
also enrolled in law school. He had an accident that dashed his hopes of becoming a great soccer
player, but during his period in bed, he started to compose songs. He received a certificate as a lawyer
from Cambridge University a little later. In 1968, he won a songwriter’s contest in Spain and signed a
contract with an Columbia Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia. He entered the Eurovision
Song Contest in 1970 for Spain finishing fourth behind Irish singer Dana and Mary Hopkins of
England. He sand the song “Gwendolyne” which as the name of his first record. During the 1970s, he
married the half Spanish-half Filipino girl Isabel Preysler and they had three children: Chabeli Iglesias,
nowadays a former show host who is a news reporter in Washington D.C., Enrique Iglesias, now a
world-famous singer who followed his father’s steps, and Julio José Iglesias, a model who has
released 2 CDs. It was during the 1970s that the Iglesias family’s private life became of public
knowledge, with Julio and the rest of the family on the covers of various international magazines many
times.
In 1978, he signed a contract for CBS International, propelling him to add English, French and Italian
to his language repertoire, because he recorded in those languages also under his new management.
He achieved his first hit in English with a cover of “Begin The Beguine” and a compilation album Julio
in 1983 building his reputation. In 1984, he released the smash hit album 1100 Bel Air Place, which
gave him considerable fame in Engkish language markets. The album sold three million albums in the
US alone with the first single “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before”, a duet with Willie Nelson reaching
top five on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also featured “All Of You”, a hit duet with Diana Ross.
In 1985, his father was kidnapped but found well and alive after two agonizing weeks. This prompted
Julio, who had already divorced from Preysler, to move his family to Miami, where they settled in a
mansion at Miami Beach. That year he also made duets with Diana Ross and Willie Nelson. It was
rumored in 1986 that Julio, perhaps seeking to get away from all the fame and hoopla for one week,
was found walking around the streets of Cayey, Puerto Rico after disappearing for seven days. Julio
feels there is a deep connection between him and Puerto Rico because one of his grandmothers was
from there. Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for
the album Un Hombre Solo or “A Single Man”. He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on “My
Love” from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988. Stories of Julio’s
expensive private jets, boats and houses became legendary during that decade, and his world tours
took him to such places like Indonesia and Malaysia.
In the 1990s, Julio went back to his Spanish music roots and in 1996, he released the CD nicknamed
Tango. He is slowly stepping out of the limelight now and enjoying his son Enrique’s popularity,
together with his long time companion Miranda and their baby daughter. Julio is very amenable to sign
autographs, although he can be a little difficult to reach sometimes, due to his and his family’s security
detail, which they have had since the 1985 kidnapping of Julio’s father.
Iglesias returned to the headlines in October, 2003, when he went to Argentina and kissed show host
Susana Gimenez three times on her mouth during a live telecast of her show.