 |
From Wikipedia,
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born
September 23, 1943 in Madrid) is the
best-selling Spanish singer of all time,
having sold over 250 million albums in 14
languages and released 77 albums. While
Iglesias rose to international prominence in
the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of
romantic ballads and as an iconically suave
Latin gentleman, his success has continued as
he crossed musical and linguistic barriers.
Thus far, he has performed approximately
5,000 concerts.
Julio is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias
Puga from Galicia and Maria del Rosario de la
Cueva y Perignat; his younger brother is
Carlos. When Iglesias himself was 61, his
87-year-old father had more children. Half
brother Jaime was born 18 May 2004, and
half-sister Ruth on 26 July 2006. Julio's
half-siblings were born from the second
marriage of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Ronna
Keitt.
If not for a car accident, on 22nd September
1963, he may have never had a music career:"I
had a car accident, very, very strange car
accident," remembers Iglesias. "I lost
control of the car and rolled it, resulting
in what they call paraparexia, which is not a
paraplegic. It's a compression in the cord,
in the sense of the neck ... my spinal cord,
and I was very, very ill for three years."
Doctors thought the young man would never
walk again. But slowly, he started to
recover. And to increase dexterity in his
hands, he began to play the guitar. Once he
recovered, he resumed his studies and he
travelled to England to study English, first
in Ramsgate and then at Bell Educational
Trust's Language School in Cambridge.
In June 2001 he finished his law degree at
Madrid Spain's Complutense University,
fulfilling the promise he made to his then
84-year-old father that he would eventually
graduate after dropping out 35 years ago to
pursue his music career. He received a
certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge
University.
During the 1970s he met the Filipina
socialite and Hola! magazine journalist
Isabel Preysler, and just 7 months later they
married. Together they have 3 children:
Daughter: Isabel Iglesias known as Chabeli
Iglesias (born September 3, 1971, in Madrid).
Son: Julio José Iglesias Jr. (born February
25, 1973, in Madrid).
Son: Enrique Iglesias (singer, born May 8,
1975, in Madrid).
Chabeli Iglesias is now a news reporter in
Washington DC. Enrique Iglesias followed in
his father's footsteps and is a world-famous
singer. Julio José Iglesias is a model who
has released two CDs. It was during the 1970s
that the Iglesias family's private life
became very public, with Julio and the rest
of the family frequently featured on the
covers of various international magazines.
The couple divorced in 1978.
Since 1990 Iglesias has been with Dutch
former model Miranda Johanna Maria
Rijnsburger born on October 5, 1965. He
revealed that Miranda accepted his marriage
proposal and they will marry in the future so
that their twin daughters will be bridemaids.
Together they have 5 children.
In 1968, he won the Benidorm International
Song Festival, a songwriter's contest in
Spain, and signed a contract with a Columbia
Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia.
He represented Spain at the Eurovision Song
Contest in 1970, finishing fourth behind
Northern Irish singer Dana Scallon, and the
Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. His entry was the
song "Gwendolyne" which was his first
recording. Notable albums from this decade
include A Flor de Piel (1974, which spawned
the big European hit Manuela), El Amor (1975)
and Soy (1978). he has a lot of family in
England, with the surname Iglesias.
In 1985, his father was kidnapped but found
well and alive after two agonizing weeks.
This prompted Julio (divorced from Preysler),
to move his family to Miami, Florida, where
they settled in a mansion on Miami Beach.
That year he also recorded 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. After visiting the island of the
Dominican Republic he fell so in love with it
that in late 2005 he adopted legally
Dominican citizenship.
Julio has made important investments in the
Dominican Republic's eastern town of Punta
Cana, a major tourist destination, where he
spends most of the year when he is not on
tour.
The singer's south Florida mansion on the
exclusive, security obsessed, private Indian
Creek Island is currently on the market for
$28 million dollars making it one of "Ten
Most Expensive Homes in the South" in 2006
according to Forbes Magazine
Tags : Julio Iglesias Para volver empezar Begin the beguine christian flete |
