Enrique Iglesias

At 48 years old, Enrique Iglesias has this physical status:

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (Spanish pronunciation: [enrike milesjas pejzle]; born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He began his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the hottest Spanish-language act of the decade. He made a fruitful switch into the mainstream English-language market by the turn of the millennium. He has signed a multi-album contract with Universal Music Latino, allowing him to debut Spanish albums and Interscope Records in English.

Iglesias parted with Interscope Records in 2010 and announced Republic Records, another Universal Music Group company, to produce bilingual albums. After being there for more than a decade, he resigned from Universal Music Group in 2015. Sony Music Latin and RCA Records in English announced him and his subsequent albums.

Iglesias is one of the top-selling Latin music artists worldwide, with estimated revenues of over 70 million dollars. He has had five Billboard Hot 100 top-five singles, including two number ones. Iglesias currently ranks number one on the Greatest of All-Latin Artists charts as of October 2020. With 27 songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart and 24 songs, Iglesias holds the most number one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, as well as the Latin Pop Airplay chart with 24 songs. On Billboard's Dance charts, Iglesias has 14 number ones, more than any other male artist. He has been dubbed the King of Latin Pop by the Latin Pop Society. Billboard magazine ranked him as the 14th most influential and top male dance club artist of all time in December 2016.

Early life

Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain, as the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite and magazine reporter Isabel Preysler's third child. Julio's father is regarded as the most profitable continental European singer in the world. Iglesias' mother, Chábeli and Julio Jr., was one of his mother's aunts, and grandmother Steven R. McQueen. His father's relatives are from Galicia and Andalusia, and his grandfather has traces of Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry on his mother's side.

Later in life, Iglesias discovered that he was born with a rare congenital disorder called situs inversus, where some of the body's key organs, such as the heart, are located on the opposite side of the body from where they would normally be located.

Iglesias and his two siblings stayed with their mother at first, but Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga, Iglesias, was kidnapped by the armed Basque group ETA in December 1981. Enrique and his mother spent a year in Belgrade, Yugoslav capital, when he was six years old.

Enrique and his brother Julio were sent to live with their father and his girlfriend at the time, Venezuelan model Virginia Sipli in Miami for their security. They were mostly brought up by Elvira Olivares, to whom Enrique later dedicated his first album.

Education

Iglesias attended Gulliver Preparatory School, a private high school in Miami, where he appeared in his first live performance in a school production of Hello Dolly. He continued to attend the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he studied finance but then dropped out after a year.

Iglesias performed his first album in Toronto after dropping out of University of Miami.

Personal life

Iglesias began a friendship with Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova in late 2001. The couple have a son and daughter, who are fraternal twins, who were born on December 16, 2017. They had their third child, a daughter, on January 30, 2020, and they had planned to have them on the 30th of January 2020. They live in Miami, Florida.

Iglesias underwent surgery in 2003 to remove a circular mole from the right side of his face, citing fears that over time it might become cancerous.

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Music career

Iglesias didn't want his father to know about his plans for a career in music, and did not want his common surname to help advance his career. He borrowed money from his family's nanny in Toronto and made a demo cassette tape that featured a Spanish song and two English songs. Fernán Martez, his father's former publicist, performed the songs under the name Enrique Martnez, according to the two performers who had a history of being a Guatemalan singer. Iglesias was signed to Fonovisa Records.

Iglesias unveiled Enrique Iglesias, a series of light rock ballads, on November 21, 1995, with hits including "Si T' Te Vas" and "Experiencia Religiosa." The Mexican label Fonovisa released this album, as well as Iglesias' next two albums. The record sold half a million copies in its first week, much more than for an album released in a different language other than English. Within the first week of its release, Portugal took home gold, and over a million copies in the next three months.

His album "Por Amarte" was included in Televisa's telenovela Marisol, but with a twist: the phrase was Por amarte Marisol morira (To love you, Marisol, I'd die). The CD also came in Italian and Portuguese versions, with the majority of the songs translating into those languages.

Five singles were released from the album, including "Por Amarte," "No Llores Por M," and "Trapecista," all of which appeared on Billboard's Latin charts. The album also holds the most popular singles on Billboard's Hot Latin songs chart. The album went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance at Iglesias.

Iglesias' fame with the introduction of Vivir (To Live), which put him up against other English-language music superstars in sales for the year. The album also included a cover version of the Yazoo song "Only You" in Spanish, which was transcribed into Spanish as "Solo en T" on the record.

Three singles from Vivir were released: "Enamorado Por Primera Vez," "Sólo en Ti," and "Miente," top the Latin singles chart, as well as ones from several Spanish-speaking countries. Iglesias, his father and Luis Miguel, were nominated for an American Music Award in the first-ever category of Favorite Latin Artist. Iglesias lost out on his father, but they did a good job with the song "Lluvia Cae" at the concert.

Insisting on playing stadiums for his first concert tour, Iglesias, backed by sidemen for Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel, performed to sold-out audiences in sixteen countries. The tour continued in Odessa, Texas, to over 20,000 people in two nights at Montery's Plaza de Toros, two nights in a row, as well as 19 arenas in the United States, including two in Odessa, Texas.

Iglesias' third album Cosas del Amor (Things of Love) was released in 1998. The album, which was aided by the hit singles "Esperanza" and "Nunca Te Olvidaré," both of which topped the Latin singles chart, helped cement his place in the Latin music scene, albeit in a more mature musical direction.

To promote the album's launch, Iglesias hosted a short tour of smaller venues, with one of them being televised from Acapulco, Mexico. This was followed by a larger world tour of over eighty shows in even bigger venues. The Cosas del Amor Tour was the first ever concert tour to be sponsored by McDonald's.

Against Ricky Martin and Chayanne, he received the American Music Award in the category of Favorite Latin Artist against Ricky Martin and Chayanne. The song "Nunca te Olvidaré" was also used as the theme music for a Spanish soap opera of the same name, and he performed the song himself on the last episode of the series.

Iglesias began a fruitful crossover career in 1999 with a successful English-language music market. Due to other successful crossover acts, including Ricky Martin, Latino artists and music, mainstream music has seen a big rise in popularity this year. Will Smith, who appeared at one of his concerts in March 1999, begged Iglesias to help with his movie Wild Wild West's soundtrack. His contribution "Bailamos" was announced as a single and became the nation's number one hit.

Many major record labels were eager to sign Iglesias following the success of "Bailamos." Iglesias recorded and released his first full album in English, Enrique, after weeks of discussions with Interscope. The pop album, which had some Latin influences, took two months to complete. It contained the song "Rhythm Divine," a duet with Whitney Houston titled "Could I Have This Kiss Forever," as well as a Bruce Springsteen song "Sad Eyes."

Iglesias appeared on stage with Christina Aguilera, Phil Collins, and Toni Braxton in 2000 at the Super Bowl XXIV halftime show. Howard Stern, a shock jock, appeared on a tape of a supposedly off-key Iglesias on his radio show and accused him of not being able to perform live. Iglesias performed the song live on Stern's show on June 8, 2000, with just a guitar accompanying him. "I admire you for coming in here; you can really sing," Stern said after the performance. The recording may have been him, according to Iglesias, but that it was most likely a recording made during a television taping in which he was expected to lip sync and not sing properly. He'll say that the scandal was the best advertising he could have. "Be With You," the album's second top-one hit on Billboard's Hot 100, became Iglesias' second number-one single.

Iglesias' second English-language album Escape was released in 2001. Although most of the Latin crossover acts of the previous year had trouble matching the album's record sales, Iglesias' first English-language albums' record, went on to sell even more, with the album being designated Diamond for shipments of over ten million copies. "Hero," the album's first single, became a number one hit in the United Kingdom and several other countries. Iglesias co-authored the entire album.

Escape is his best commercial triumph to date. The singles "Escape" and "Don't Turn Off the Lights" became radio hits, with many charts ranking highly or otherwise. A second edition of the album was released around the world, featuring a new version of "Maybe," as well as a Lionel Richie duet "To Love a Woman."

With his "One-Night Stand World Tour," a series of fifty sold-out shows in sixteen countries, Iglesias capitalized on the album's success. The tour ended with a big display at Lia Manoliu Stadium in Bucharest, Romania, with Radio City Music Hall and three nights in a row in London's Royal Albert Hall. The concert aired on MTV Romania, with "Love to See You Cry" being the first to be broadcast on the channel.

Iglesias' fourth Spanish-language album, Quizás, was released in 2002 (Perhaps). The album's title track is a song about the tense relationship Iglesias has with his popular father, which is more polished musical production than his previous Spanish albums and featuring more introspective songs.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number 12, the highest ranking of a Spanish-language album on the chart at the time. Quizás also sold a million copies in a week, making it the country's fastest-selling album in five years. All three singles from the album ended up on the Latin charts, with Iglesias receiving a total of sixteen number ones on the chart. On Billboard's Latin Chart, he currently holds the most number-one singles. Iglesias' album "Para Qué La Vida" made it to a million spins on U.S. radio, becoming the first Latin act to do so. The album's "Quizás" video was the first Spanish-language music video to be included in MTV's Most Popular Show Total Request Live's first category.

He began in 2000 with a tour of the Americas. In the summer of 2002, the "Don't Turn Off the Lights" tour was complete, with two sold-out nights in Madison Square Garden and two others in Mexico's National Auditorium. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the tour came to an end with a single show.

Iglesias' seventh album, which he titled 7, was his second to be co-written by him by 2003. It features "Roamer," which was cowritten with his buddy and longtime guitarist Tony Bruno, among its more 1980s-inspired music. The album also had the song "Be Yourself," a tribute to freedom; the chorus discusses how Iglesias' own parents did not believe he'd ever be a success in his singing career. The first single featured Kelis and was closely followed by a remix of the song "Not in Love."

Iglesias' biggest world tour to date was on this album. Iglesias' appearance at Houston Rodeo brought the much-anticipated tour to a number of countries, the majority of which he'd never visited before, including South Africa, where he began with twelve shows in the United States and ended with twelve shows before concluding his tour in South Africa.

Iglesias' latest album Insomniac was released on June 12, 2007, following a two-year absence. Due to the album's being released mostly at night, it was so named. The album had a more modern pop style than that of his previous albums. Its highlights include rapper Lil Wayne's "Push," "Ring My Bells," and a preview of Ringside's "We're Sorry."

The album's first single, "Do You Know?

In North America, Iglesias performed the ballad "Somebody's Me" which was released as a single. The song appeared on AC radio and peaked on Billboard's Hot AC. The second single in Europe was "Totaliation" and had success in several countries; he released a French singer N'diya's version, which was number one in France for eleven weeks. To the soundtrack of the film Step Up 2 the Streets, a solo version of "Push" was added. The song was released as the album's third single. The film's lead actors appear in a music video. Despite never being introduced to radio, the album has been on sale in a multitude of nations.

Iglesias was the first Western artist to perform a concert in Syria in three decades when he appeared in the capital Damascus for a sold-out audience of ten thousand people, and in the same week, he appeared on Live Earth in Hamburg.

Insomniac World Tour was unveiled at the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa, the same venue where he began his last world tour, and it took him to sold-out arenas around Europe. It was his first arena tour of the United Kingdom, with him appearing in venues such as Manchester's MEN Arena and Wembley Arena. Iglesias performed at the newly opened L.A. Live, bringing the tour to a close conclusion. From Mexico to Argentina, he went on tour of Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina.

The official song of the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament, Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me," was selected. He performed the song live in Vienna, Austria, on June 29, 2008. The song appeared on a re-issue of Insomniac, which was available in several countries.

On March 25, 2008, Iglesias released a Spanish greatest hits album titled 95/08 Éxitos, which featured his seventeen number one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart as well as two new songs. "Dónde Están Corazón" was the first single from the album. "Isco's first book, "Mesto Argentinian Coti," became Iglesias' eighteenth number-one single on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs. The album debuted on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, ranked first on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, and eighth on the overall Billboard 200 albums chart. It was Iglesias' second Spanish album to debut in the top 20 of the Billboard 200 (Quizás debuted at number twelve in 2002). In the United States and several Latin American countries, the album was rated double platinum (Latin field).

"Lloro Por Ti," the album's second single, debuted at number one on the Hot Latin Songs chart and featured Wisin & Yandel in a official remix. To promote the compilation, Iglesias went on tour around the United States. He was on tour with bachata band Aventura, who also performed "Lloro Por Ti" with him at the 2008 Premios Juventud, beginning in La La Pazo, Texas, and ending at the Izod Center in New Jersey.

Iglesias was a surprise performer at the 2008 Lo Nuestro Awards, opening the program with a medley of "Dónde Están Corazón" ("Dónde Están Corazón"). "D"melo" and "D"melo" are two of the songs. He also performed at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, where he was given a special award.

Iglesias unveiled a series of his English-language hits on November 11 after the success of his Spanish greatest hits compilation. The album includes "Can You Hear Me" as well as two new songs. Sean Garrett appears in "Away" and "Takin' Back My Love" featuring Ciara followed him. The album debuted at number three on the official UK Albums Chart and sold over 80,000 copies in its first two weeks of release alone.

At the awards ceremony in Monaco on November 9, 2008, Iglesias was the winner of two World Music Awards in the categories of "Best Selling Latin Artist" and "World's Best Selling Spanish Artist."

Iglesias' ninth studio album Euphoria, his first work to be released under his new name Universal Republic, was released on July 5, 2010. The collection is Iglesias' first bilingual album, with seven original English songs and six original Spanish songs on offer. It was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Album of the Year, the Billboard Latin Awards for Latin Album of the Year, and Latin Pop Album of the Year, and was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Iglesias worked with three designers with whom he had collaborated before: RedOne, Mark Taylor, and Carlos Paucar. DJ Frank E, Pitbull, Ludhi Chauhan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ludacris, Juan Luis Guerra, Juan Luis Guerra, and his third album together with Wisin & Yandel are among the album's collaborations on the album. Iglesias also released different singles in both English and Spanish in a joint venture with Universal Latino, in both English and Spanish, as well as various formats.

On May 3, 2010, the first English single from the album, "I Like It," which stars rapper Pitbull, debuted in the United States and became a hit, peaking at No.. The Billboard Hot 100 is at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also included in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore. "Cuando Me Enamoro" was released as the lead Spanish single from the album and became the main theme song of Televisa's Mexican telenovela of the same name. The album debuted at number eight and top five on the US Latin Pop Songs chart and the United States. According to the Hot Latin Songs chart, respectively. It was his twenty-fifth top ten single on the United States. Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, and after four weeks of its initial launch date, it became his 20th No.1 song on this chart. "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)," the album's third English single, "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" made it to the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2011, debuting at No. 20. 4. The song was not available in the United States for digital download, but it was included on some Euphoria-editions in Europe and other Asian countries. The album debuted on the United States, and Iglesias became Iglesias' first number one. The airplay charts for Pop Songs and Radio Songs are on display. "Dirty Dancer" was his fourth English single and his ninth Hot Dance Club Play chart topper, tying for the male with the most No.. There are 1 dancers on the internet. "Ayer" was the album's third Spanish single and seventh overall, as the album's third Spanish single and seventh single. The Euphoria Tour brought Iglesias from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and several European countries. One of the tour's legs took him to Australia, while fellow artist Pitbull joined him as an opening act. During the tour's second leg around North America, Prince Royce also appeared as the opening act.

To radio, Iglesias introduced the single "I Like How It Feels" in August 2011. Euphoria Reloaded was supposed to be the lead single from the Euphoria album's upcoming re-issue that never came to fruition.

Iglesias' brand new single, "Fiinally Found You," debuted on August 25, 2012, a collaboration with American rapper Sammy Adams. On September 25, 2012, it was announced in the US iTunes Store for the first time. On December 9, 2012, the album was released in the United Kingdom. When asked about his time in the studio, Iglesias said he's performing at the Z100 Jingle Ball in Miami on December 8, 2012, and during the iHeartRadio Festival interview session, "It's kind of like going fishing, you never know when you're going to catch a big one." He's excited to try something new: "I come out with so many albums and I want to make sure it doesn't come out with an album it sounds fresh." "At least to me." For the latest album, it was announced that Iglesias would collaborate with Mark Taylor, The Cataracs, and Carlos Paucar.

During this time, Iglesias remained in India in October 2012 to perform another series of shows branded Tri-City Tour in Pune, Delhi, and Bangalore, playing to sold-out arenas and stadiums. Iglesias performed at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco, on May 31. With more than 120,000 spectators attending the concert, the show tied for the largest attendance record.

Several singles were released prior to the album's launch, the first of which was "Turn the Night Up" and "Heart Attack" were released to top 40 radio stations in the United States. The song "Loco," a smooth bachata duet with urban bachata superstar Romeo Santos, was served at Latin stations. The single became Iglesias' 24th No.. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. India Martinez, a Spanish flamenco singer, appeared on a Spanish version of the song, and it topped the charts in Spain. El Perdedor, a duet with Mexican singer Marco Antonio Solis, was followed by a portion of telenovela Lo que la vida me robó. The album debuted at number 24 on the Latin charts, his 24th top spot on the Latin charts.

Sex and Love will be the title of his tenth studio album, according to Iglesias. The album was released on March 14th, 2014, and Pitbull's I'm a Freak appeared alongside it. "Beautiful" was also a duet with Kylie Minogue, which appears on her twelfth studio album Kiss Me Once. The album also featured guest appearances by Flo Rida, Yandel, Juan Magan, Jennifer Lopez, and Gente de Zona, in addition to the previously announced collaborations.

"Bailando" featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona was the first single to be released from the album. "Bailando" was a hit on Billboard Hot Latin Songs' chart, ranking him 25th. Bailando became the most popular #1 in Billboard's Hot Latin songs chart for 41 weeks in a row, defeating the record set by Shakira's 25 weeks reigning #1. This record was later broken in 2017 when Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, starring Justin Bieber, spent 56 weeks on top of the Hot Latin Songs chart, with "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber, spending 56 weeks on top of the Hot Latin Songs chart. Bailando was also a crossover hit thanks in part to a Spanglish version of the album starring rapper Sean Paul, which saw the song debut at #12 on Billboard's Hot 100 and Top 10 charts, and it became the country's highest charting Spanish song since the Macarena in 1996. The original Spanish music video of the song was also YouTube's second most watched music video of 2014, behind Katy Perry's hit song, "Dark Horse," and was the first Spanish language video to reach a billion viewers on the platform. On YouTube, "Bailando" has over 3 billion views. Song of the Year was nominated for three Latin Grammy awards, including Song of the Year. Iglesias also released two Portuguese versions of the song starring Portuguese singer Mickael Carreira and Brazilian singer Luan Santana in addition to the original Spanish version.

In 2014, Sex and Love became Spotify's 7th most-streamed album worldwide, and "Bailando" became the most watched song in both Mexico and Spain. Because of his tenth album, Sex and Love, and his hit song "Bailando," Iglesias was also named King of 2014. Billboard dubbed him "The Crowd Pleaser" of 2014. Iglesias left the Universal Music label in 2015 and signed Sony Music after more than a decade with Universal Music.

Iglesias' singles have been issuing singles since the debut of Sex and Love. He collaborated with Nicky Jam on "El Perdón," the reggaeton megahit "El Perdón" in 2015, which topped the charts in several countries and has over 1.3 billion views on YouTube. Iglesias' first single under Sony's name "Duele el Corazón" starring Wisin, also hit the charts in several countries, including the US Latin charts, and YouTube has over 1 billion views. "Beme la Radio" by Iglesias in 2017, which also stars Descemer Bueno and Zion & Lennox, was released in 2017. According to YouTube, the song has over 1.3 billion views. Iglesias also released two songs in 2018, one called "El Bao" with Bad Bunny and the other, "Move to Miami" with Pitbull.

During this period, Iglesias will perform on songs by other artists including RedOne's "Don't You Need Somebody," Matoma's "I Don't Dance (Without You)," Jon Z's "Después Que Te Perd" and Anuel AA's "Ftbol y Rumba," along with Matoma's "I Don't Dance (Without You).

Iglesias will embark on a tour with Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in March 2020. The tour was set to begin in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 5th and end in October 2020 in Atlanta, but it was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Farruko's album "Me Pasé" was released on July 20,21, and it became a hit on Latin radio, as well as extending his lead on the Latin Pop Airplay Chart and reclaiming his record for most Top Ranks on the Latin Airplay Chart and reclaiming his record for most top charts on the Latin Airplay Chart.

Iglesias revealed that his next album, titled Final, would be released in two volumes, possibly because it would be his last album. "I'm writing this article for the past few years," Iglesias said, but "I'm never going to stop writing songs because I love writing songs but not necessarily have to be packaged as an album." Iglesias' Finale was announced on September 17th (Vol. 1). 1), along with a new single, "Pendejo," and "Te Fuiste," which features additional vocals by Puerto Rican rapper Myke Towers, follows. Iglesias unveiled the romantic ballad "Espacio en Tu Corazón" on March 28, 2022, which served as the theme tune for the telenovela Corazón war and will be included in the forthcoming Final (Vol. 1). 2).

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