Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (Madrid, 23 september 1943) is a Spanish singer, the best selling Spanish artist, and internationally one of the most famous Spanish singers. He is the father of singer Enrique Iglesias.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Julio Iglesias during the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 in AmsterdamHe was professional footballer at Real Madrid, where he was in the goal. In the same time he also began studying law. After an accident that his football career ended, he started writing songs during his rehabilitation. Short time later, he received his law degree at the University of Cambridge.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000

In 1968, he won the Benidorm Song festival in Spain with one of his songs, and got a contract with an independent label, Discos Columbia. In the 1970s he married the half-Spanish, half-Filipino Isabel Preysler, and they had three children: Dolores Iglesiasborn on 1 August 1971, Julio José Iglesias born on 25 February 1973 and Enrique Iglesias born on May 8, 1975. Julio and his family were expanded at this time pictured on the front pages of various international newspapers and magazines.

On behalf of Spain took Iglesias in 1970 participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. He finished fourth with the song Wendell.

In 1972, he scored one of his biggest hits with Un canto a Galicia, a song in Galician. It is true that he himself born in Madrid, but his father was of Ourense in Galicia.

In 1978, he signed a new contract with CBS International, and expanded its Spanish-language repertoire with songs in English,French and Italian.

In 1979 he had a big hit with Quiereme mucho.

In 1984 he released the hit album 1100 Bel Air Place out, there were three million copies sold.. He also recorded a duet with Diana Ross and the duet To all girls I've loved before with Willie Nelson was a great success.

In december 1981 was his father, gynecologist Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga, kidnapped by the Basque separatist movement ETA. After three exciting weeks in January 1982, he was alive and well in Trasmoz near Zaragoza. Because of this, and also because he was divorced from Preysler, Julio moved with his family to Miami. Since then, more and more expensive doom stories on around private planes, yachts and homes.

Iglesias Preysler lived after the separation of years with the 23 years younger Dutch model Miranda rijnsburger. They have five children: Miguel Alejandro born on 7 september 1997, Rodrigo born on 3 april 1999, the twin Cristina and Victoria born on 1 may 2001 and Guillermo born on 5 may 2007. On August 26, 2010 Julio stepped and Miranda still in marriage. The ceremony took place in Marbella. They live in the Dominican Republic, where Julio owns several hotel complexes. Among his possessions is the Punta Canaairport, which he along with Oscar de la Renta fashion King property.

In the 1990s, Julio went back to the roots of his Spanish music, and brought in a CD from 1996 with the nickname Tango. Of the approximately 80 released over 300 albums Julio million copies sold. After public interest shifted more and more to his son Enrique and Julio disappeared from the spotlight.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On 19 december 2005 the age his father died on ninety to a heart attack. A week before his death was known that the 42-year-old wife of Julio Iglesias SR., Ronna Keith, was expecting their second child. Their first child, Jaime, was born on 18 may 2004 . The second child, a daughter, Ruth, was born on 26 July 2006. The children of the singer and footballer Julio Iglesias, among whom Enrique, have remarkably ' uncle ' and ' aunt ' say to children who are decades younger than themselves. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===