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Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Biography
Name : Enrique Iglesias
Profession : Musician
Date of Birth : May 8,
1975
Place of Birth :
Madrid, Spain
At the dawn of the new millennium, Enrique Iglesias was
the best-selling Latin recording artist in the world. The
son of multimillion-selling singer Julio Iglesias, Enrique
was born in Madrid, Spain, where he lived with his mother,
his brother Julio, and his sister Chabeli. In 1982, his
mother sent them to live in Miami with their father.
Iglesias' own career started when he was still attending
Gulliver Private School, a very prestigious school in Miami.
He made his singing debut in a production of Hello, Dolly,
after which he began practicing his singing without his
parents knowing. After a year studying business at the
University of Miami, he decided to follow his passion for
music. In 1995, he sang in person for his soon-to-be
manager, who at Iglesias' insistence of not wanting to use
his family name, first shopped his demos as an unknown
Central American singer named Enrique Martinez. It wasn't
until he earned a record deal with Fonovisa that Enrique
told his father and mother of his aspirations. Then he flew
to Toronto where no one knew him and he could concentrate
just on music, to record for five months.
That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1996), sold more than
a million copies in three months. The second album, Vivir
(1997), enjoyed global sales of more than five million discs
and launched his first world tour. In a mere three years,
Iglesias had sold more than 17 million Spanish-language
albums, more than anyone else during that period.
With 1998's Cosas del Amor, Iglesias moved to more mature
content; his earlier material had been written when he was
17 years old. Then came Enrique, Enrique Iglesias' first
Interscope album and first in English, which achieved gold
or platinum status in 32 countries and brought his global
album sales to a total of more than 23 million. In 2001 he
released the follow-up, Escape. Iglesias alternated Spanish-
and English-language albums during the next two years, first
offering the ballad collection Quizás in 2002, then the
mainstream English record Seven in 2003.
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