
Īt first, Iglesias and his two siblings stayed with their mother, but in 1986, Iglesias' grandfather, Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga, was kidnapped by the armed Basque terrorist group ETA. His father has also claimed Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry on his mother's side. His mother is Filipino with (half) Spanish ancestry and his father is Spanish with family from Galicia and Andalusia. He was raised with two older siblings: Chabeli and Julio. Isabel Preysler's aunt is Neile Adams, first wife of Steve McQueen, making Iglesias second cousins withSteven R. Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain, and is the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and socialite and magazine journalist Isabel Preysler. 4 Advertisements and product endorsements.2.7 2012–present: Sex and Love (Sexo Y Amor).
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3.7 2012–present: Sex and Love (Sexo Y Amor). In 2014, he holds the record for having the best charting Spanish song on the Billboard charts, which has sold 1 million copies since its release. Iglesias also won an award for Most Successful Spanish Artist of the Decade in 2002. In 2001, he received awards for Best-Selling Pop Male Artist and European Male Artist at the World Music Awards. Named "King of Latin Pop", he has won 15 Premios Lo Nuestro awards. Billboard has called him The King of Latin Pop and "The King of Dance"Įnrique is acclaimed by the public not only because of his musical qualities, but also because of the variety of genres and languages, and the ability to successfully create numerous successful songs in all his albums, even after 20 years since he started his career.Įnrique Iglesias has won 16 Billboard Music Awards and 26 Billboard Latin Music Awards, as well as 6 American Music Awards, 1 Grammy Award, 4 Latin Grammy and 10 World Music Awards. Altogether, Iglesias has amassed more than 70 number-one rankings on the various Billboard charts. He has also had 14 number-one songs on Billboard's Dance charts, more than any other single male artist. Iglesias has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones, and holds the record for producing 25 number-one Spanish-language singles on the Billboard 's Hot Latin Tracks. In 2010, he parted with Interscope and signed with another Universal Music Group labelRepublic Records to release bilingual albums.Įnrique has totally sold over 120 million records world wide, and is the second best-selling Latino artist, taking after his father, Julio Iglesias which has sold over 300 million records and 80 albums world wide, throughout his career. By the turn of the millennium, he had made a successful crossover into the mainstream market and signed a multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for US $68,000,000 with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums andInterscope to release English albums. Iglesias started his career in the mid-1990s on an American Spanish Language record label Fonovisa which helped turn him into one of the biggest stars in Latin America and the Hispanic Market in the United States becoming the biggest seller of Spanish-language albums of that decade. Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler ( English /ɛnˈriːkeɪ ɪˈɡlɛsiəs/ Spanish pronunciation: ) (born May 8, 1975), simply known as Enrique Iglesias or King Of Latin Pop, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.