Since then, he has played in front of 100,000 people in Santiago, Chile performed songs with Diana Ross, Paul Anka, and Sting won a Grammy and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He landed his first recording contract and hit No. During his recovery, Iglesias wrote poems and set them to song, and the erstwhile soccer player who was rejected by the chorus in his Madrid high school fell in love with music. However, his short-lived futbol career ended when a serious car accident left him unable to walk for two years. As a young man, not only did he get a law degree, but he also pursued a dream of playing soccer for Real Madrid as a goalkeeper. Reaching the heights of Latin music wasn't always on Iglesias's mind. "In the American market, he's been taken seriously since the beginning," she said.
Iglesias's ability to sing in English set him apart, opening doors for him among American listeners, Lioutikoff said. Iglesias's popularity peaked in the 1980s with the album "Julio" and the hit duet with Willie Nelson "To All the Girls I've Loved Before." "You have an artist whose first language is Spanish, but he's good and he reaches the people, and it doesn't matter in which language he's singing." The master of crossover plans to record songs from the album in French, Italian, and English, as he has done previously to expand his international appeal.Īlexandra Lioutikoff, senior vice president of Latin American membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, said the worldwide market for Iglesias is "guaranteed." "He is like the flag for us," Lioutikoff said. "Divorcia" sold 200,000 copies in Spain the day it was released, adding to Iglesias's career total of more than 250 million albums sold.
JULIO IGLESIAS ALBUM NOCHE DE CUATRO LUNAS PLUS
The title might seem strange for a lover, but the album's songs - Iglesias's trademark ballads plus lively cumbia and Caribbean rhythms - refer to divorce from worldly possessions, old acquaintances, and bad memories. is on a world tour for his album "Divorcio," his first since "Noche de Cuatro Lunas" in 2001. The father of seven - including singing sons Enrique and Julio Jr. "When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you," Iglesias said in an interview at his waterfront mansion on an island north of Miami Beach. But he says it's his fans' love that drove him to record a new album. Passion, emotion, a smooth voice, and sex-symbol status have made Iglesias the best-selling Latin male recording artist ever. At 60, Julio Iglesias is still pining for love. Lisa Dyas, Nicola Coddington and Donna Coddington pictured in The Central Bar over the weekend.SURFSIDE, Fla. While James Brown is considered to be the hardest working man in show business surely Julio Iglesias cannot be far behind as he has played nearly 4,600 shows on five different continents. Spain’s most famous singer has earned an astounding 2,650 gold and platinum records. Over the course of his 77-album career, Julio Iglesias has sold more than 250 million units – the most by any artist according to the Guinness Book of Records. Musically, the album sports a blend of appetising grooves from the Hispanic Caribbean, Spain and the US. Julio’s latest album ‘Noche de Cuatro Lunas’, his 77th to date is said to be the most significant disc in his career.
The man who wrote his first hit thirty years ago has gone on to earn over 2,600 platinum and gold records, having now recorded 76 albums and sold over 250 million. In addition to these honours Julio was appointed Special Representative for the Performing Arts by UNICEF in 1989, a title he holds dearly to this date. In 1985, a Star with his name was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His first English release in 1984, 1100 Bel Air Place immediately went multi-platinum and formed an all-important bridge between European and American music. In 1983, Julio received the first and only Diamond Record Award ever given to a performer by the Guinness Book of World Records, for selling more records in more languages than any other musical artist in history. Julio Iglesias has enjoyed an extraordinary career with a list of achievements that will likely never be matched.
Tickets on sale now and are priced from e35. With a new album, his 77th released recently, Julio promises an unforgettable night in Ireland. He will play at The Point this Friday, July 18. JULIO Iglesias returns to Ireland for one spectacular night only this July.
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