Profile
Julio Iglesias
Musician
Male
Born
Sep 23, 1943
Age
69
Hometown
Madrid
Genres
Dance + Latin Ame...
Record Label
Columbia Records
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva, better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling… Read More
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Miranda RijnsburgerDated 1990
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Small Town Mayor's Millions As Exhibit A On Graft In SpainHuffington Post - May 05, 2013
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Julio Iglesias: I'm Not A Natural Born SingerNPR - Apr 09, 2013
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Thalía And Prince Royce DuetHuffington Post - Feb 11, 2013
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Listen: The Cult To 'Morena' Women In Latin MusicHuffington Post - Feb 06, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1943
Birth
Born on September 23, 1943.
TEENAGE
1963
19 Years Old
On September 22, 1963, he was involved in a car crash, resulting in an injury to his spinal cord.
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TWENTIES
1968
24 Years Old
In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's event in Spain, with the song "La vida sigue igual" (meaning "Life Goes On The Same") which was used in the film La vida sigue igual, about his own life.
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1970
26 Years Old
He represented Spain in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, earning fourth place, after Northern Irish singer Dana and the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin.
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1971
27 Years Old
In 1971, he married Spanish Filipino journalist Isabel Preysler and had three children, Chabeli Iglesias, Julio Iglesias, Jr. and Enrique Iglesias. Their marriage was annulled in 1979.
THIRTIES
1975
31 Years Old
In 1975 he found success in the Italian market by recording a song exclusively in Italian called "Se mi lasci non vale" ("If You Leave Me, It Can't Be").
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1979
35 Years Old
Following the annulment of his marriage to Preysler in 1979, he moved to Miami, Florida, in the United States and signed a deal with CBS International, and started singing in different languages such as English, French, Portuguese, German and other languages to his music.
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1981
37 Years Old
In 1981 his father, Julio Iglesias Puga, Sr, was kidnapped by Basque terrorists but found alive two weeks later, prompting Julio Iglesias to move his children to Miami, Florida.
FORTIES
In 1984, he released 1100 Bel Air Place, the hit album which gave him publicity in the English-speaking entertainment industry.
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Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo (A Man Alone).
FIFTIES
1995
51 Years Old
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In 1995, he appeared as a guest star in the videoclip of Thalía's song "Amandote"; she had starred in the video clip of Iglesias's hit "Baila Morena".
1998
54 Years Old
In the 1990s, Iglesias returned to his original Spanish melody in Tango (1996), nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards, losing to the Romances album by Mexican singer, Luis Miguel.
Iglesias returned to the headlines in October 2003, when he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Giménez three times during a live telecast of her show.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2004
60 Years Old
In December 2004, his Dutch girlfriend Miranda Rijnsburger and Iglesias himself recorded a duet of the Christmas song "Silent Night".
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Iglesias's south Florida mansion on the exclusive private Indian Creek Island property was placed on the market in 2006 for a quoted $28 million, making it one of "Ten Most Expensive Homes in the South" in 2006 according to Forbes Magazine. In September 2006, a new English album titled Romantic Classics was released. "I've chosen songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that I believe will come to be regarded as the new standards", Iglesias stated in the album's sleeve notes.
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In 2008, Iglesias promoted his Romantic Classics album worldwide and in 2009-2010, he planned a world tour as a celebration of forty years in the music industry.
On August 24, 2010, Julio Iglesias and Miranda Rijnsburger got married after a 20-year relationship.
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2011
67 Years Old
Iglesias' performance of the song La Mer ("The Sea") is featured in the soundtrack of the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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