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Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva aka Julio Iglesias (born September 23, 1943) in Madrid is Spain's best selling singer in history and one of the best selling Hispanic singers of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold 250 million records and released nearly 80 records. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career


Early career to 1978

He was a professional soccer player with Real Madrid, where he played as goalkeeper. During this time, he also enrolled in law school. He had an accident that dashed his hopes of becoming a great soccer player, but during his period in bed, he started to compose songs. He received a certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge University a little later.

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 entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 for Spain finishing fourth behind Irish singer Dana and Mary Hopkin of the United Kingdom. He sang the song "Gwendolyne" which as his first recording. During the 1970s he married the Spanish-mestiza Philippine socialite Isabel Preysler with whom he had three children: Chabeli Iglesias, who has been a show host and is now a news reporter in Washington D.C., Enrique Iglesias, now a world-famous singer who followed in his father's steps, and Julio José Iglesias, 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 on the covers of various international magazines many times.

Peak of success 1978-1990

In 1978, he signed a contract for CBS International, adding English, French and Italian to his language repertoire. He had his first hit in English with a cover of "Begin the Beguine" and released a collection Julio in 1983 building his reputation.

In 1984, he released the smash hit album 1100 Bel Air Place, which gave him considerable fame in English-language markets. The album sold three million albums in the US alone, with the first single "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", a duet with Willie Nelson reaching the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also featured "All of You", a hit duet with Diana Ross.

In 1985, his father was kidnapped but found well and alive after two agonizing weeks. This prompted Julio, who had already divorced from Preysler, to move his family to Miami, where they settled in a mansion at 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. Julio feels there is a deep connection between him and Puerto Rico because one of his grandmothers was Puerto Rican.

Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Single Man"). He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love" from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988.

Stories of Julio's expensive private jets, boats, and houses became legendary during that decade, and his world tours took him to such places as Indonesia and Malaysia.

Career 1990-today

In the 1990s, Julio went back to his Spanish music roots, and in 1996, he released a CD nicknamed Tango. He is slowly stepping out of the limelight now and enjoying his son Enrique's popularity, together with his long-time companion Miranda and their baby daughter.

Julio is very amenable to sign autographs, although he can be a little difficult to reach sometimes, due to his and his family's security detail, which they have had since the 1985 kidnapping of Julio's father.

Iglesias returned to the headlines in October, 2003, when he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Gimenez three times during a live telecast of her show.

Discography

This list contains all albums of original material plus notable collections.

  • Gwendolyne (1970)
  • Julio Iglesias (1972)
  • Un Canto a Galicia (1973)
  • A Flor de Piel (1974)
  • A Mexico (1974)
  • El Amor (1975)
  • En El Olympia (1976) recorded live at the Paris Olympia
  • Si Mi Lasci (1976)
  • Yo Canto (1977)
  • A Mis 33 Anos (1977)
  • Sono Un Pirata, Sono Un Signore (1978)
  • Soy (1978)
  • The 24 Greatest Songs (1978)
  • A Vous Les Femmes (1979)
  • Aimer La Vie (1979)
  • America (1979)
  • Emociones (1979)
  • Innamorarsi Alla Mia Eta (1979)
  • Hey! (1980)
  • Sentimental (1980)
  • Fidele (1981)
  • Zartlichkeiten (1981)
  • From A Child To A Woman (1981)
  • Minhas Cancoes Prefidas (1981)
  • Moments (1982) also Momento or Momenti
  • Por Una Mujer (1982)
  • In Concert (1983)
  • Pelo Amor di Uma Mulher (1983)
  • Julio (1983)
  • 1100 Bel Air Place (1984)
  • Libra (1985)
  • Un Hombre Solo (1987)
  • Tutto L'Amore Che Ti Manca (1987)
  • Non Stop (1988)
  • Latinamente (1989)
  • Raices (1989)
  • Starry Night (1990)
  • Ein Weinachtsabend Mit Julio Iglesias (1992)
  • Calor (1992)
  • Crazy (1994)
  • La Carretera (1995)
  • Tango (1996)
  • My Life: The Greatest Hits (1998)
  • Noche de Cuatro Luanas (2000)
  • Una Donna Puo Cambiar la Vita (2001)
  • Ao Meu Brasil (2001)
  • Personalidad: 20 Exitos (2002)
  • Divorcio (2003)
  • Love Songs (2004)

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In the 1990s, Julio went back to his Spanish music roots, and in 1996, he released a CD nicknamed Tango. Gert has one big theme: losing the one you love. Stories of Julio's expensive private jets, boats, and houses became legendary during that decade, and his world tours took him to such places as Indonesia and Malaysia. Sarah mainly tries to express ideas in her songs and has a hand in writing silly and tongue-in-cheeks songs. He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love" from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988. Sarah and Gert write most of the music and lyrics. Most of it is written separately. Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Single Man"). In the seven years between The Great Subconscious Club and Almost Happy the music changed from raw and guitar-based to a more subtle and delicate sound.

Julio feels there is a deep connection between him and Puerto Rico because one of his grandmothers was Puerto Rican. Sarah's smokey, enigmatic voice is the bands best known characteristic. 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. It ranges from very delicate and intimate singer-songwriter songs to songs that are stronger, more active and louder. That year he also recorded duets with Diana Ross and Willie Nelson. Their music can be described as guitar-based singer-songwriter rock or folk-rock. In 1985, his father was kidnapped but found well and alive after two agonizing weeks. This prompted Julio, who had already divorced from Preysler, to move his family to Miami, where they settled in a mansion at Miami Beach. Except for four full albums, a live album and a best of they also produced four limited edition and fan club CDs: Extra Cocoon, 2000 Seconds Live, Home and Running Backwards.

The album also featured "All of You", a hit duet with Diana Ross. Gert and Sarah both want to try out some solo work. Gert produces an album (for a Belgian band, Venus in Flames) and Sarah records a solo mini-CD Go and appears on several movie soundtracks now with songs of her own (All of This Past for Underworld and Someone to say Hi to for the Zus and Zo). The album sold three million albums in the US alone, with the first single "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", a duet with Willie Nelson reaching the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2003 the band decides to take a year off. In 1984, he released the smash hit album 1100 Bel Air Place, which gave him considerable fame in English-language markets. In 2001 Live (a 2-CD collection of live recordings) is in stores, and in 2003 Ten (a collection of ten years of singles and songs that didn't appear on their albums) is too, it is accompanied by a DVD with the same name. He had his first hit in English with a cover of "Begin the Beguine" and released a collection Julio in 1983 building his reputation. Koen Liekens has returned as drummer.

In 1978, he signed a contract for CBS International, adding English, French and Italian to his language repertoire. In 2000 their last studio-album Almost Happy is finished. It was during the 1970s that the Iglesias family's private life became very public, with Julio and the rest of the family on the covers of various international magazines many times. Meanwhile American Eric Grosman has become the permanent bass player. During the 1970s he married the Spanish-mestiza Philippine socialite Isabel Preysler with whom he had three children: Chabeli Iglesias, who has been a show host and is now a news reporter in Washington D.C., Enrique Iglesias, now a world-famous singer who followed in his father's steps, and Julio José Iglesias, a model who has released two CDs. In 1998 Cocoon Crash, their third album is finished. He sang the song "Gwendolyne" which as his first recording. For the next year (1996-1997) they tour supporting Alanis Morissette, who heard the band playing on European festivals.

He entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 for Spain finishing fourth behind Irish singer Dana and Mary Hopkin of the United Kingdom. At that point Bart van der Zeeuw has replaced Koen Liekens on drums and bass players continually change. 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. Not an Addict, a single taken from this album was very successful and brings international fame. He received a certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge University a little later. In 1995 they record Paradise in Me. He had an accident that dashed his hopes of becoming a great soccer player, but during his period in bed, he started to compose songs. has no choices, so the name is meant ironically, as a strange, incomprehensible impossibility, like many of their songs.

During this time, he also enrolled in law school. In the book Joseph K. He was a professional soccer player with Real Madrid, where he played as goalkeeper. from Kafka's the Trial.
. K refers to Joseph K. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career. When they came to the US another group with the name The Choice, forced the band to change their name; they decided that K's Choice would capture the spirit of the band.

Julio Iglesias has sold 250 million records and released nearly 80 records. These five toured Germany and the US, supporting the Indigo Girls, an American Folk-Rock band. Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva aka Julio Iglesias (born September 23, 1943) in Madrid is Spain's best selling singer in history and one of the best selling Hispanic singers of all time. In 1994 the band has five more or less permanent members: Sarah and Gert, Jan van Sichem Jr (guitar), Koen Liekens (drums) and Erik Verheyden (Bass). Love Songs (2004). The band was named The Choice and in 1993 they recorded their debut album The Great Subconscious Club. Divorcio (2003). She was offered a contract and formed a band with her brother Gert.

Personalidad: 20 Exitos (2002). Under a more English name, Sarah Beth, she appeared on several movie soundtracks with covers including I'm so lonesome I could cry (originally by Hank Williams) for the movie Vrouwen Willen Trouwen (Women Want To Marry) and a duet with Frankie Miller Why don't you try me, (originally by Ry Cooder) for the movie Ad Fundum. Ao Meu Brasil (2001). This lead to the discovery of Sarah, who was offered a chance by a label; mainly because of her smokey, enigmatic voice. Una Donna Puo Cambiar la Vita (2001). In the beginning of the nineties Sarah and Gert played in an amateur band, the Basement Plugs. Noche de Cuatro Luanas (2000). (guitar) and Koen Liekens (Drums).

My Life: The Greatest Hits (1998). They are joined by Eric Grossman (Bass), Jan van Sichem Jr. Tango (1996). The band centers around siblings Sarah (lead vocals, guitar) and Gert Bettens (guitar, keyboard, vocals). La Carretera (1995). K's Choice is the name of Belgian rock band from Antwerp, Belgium. Crazy (1994). Running Backwards (2003).

Calor (1992). Home (2001). Ein Weinachtsabend Mit Julio Iglesias (1992). 2000 Seconds Live (1998). Starry Night (1990). Extra Cocoon (1998). Raices (1989). 10 (2003).

Latinamente (1989). Live (2001). Non Stop (1988). Almost Happy (2000). Tutto L'Amore Che Ti Manca (1987). Cocoon Crash (1998). Un Hombre Solo (1987). Paradise in Me (1995).

Libra (1985). The Great Subconscious Club (1993). 1100 Bel Air Place (1984). Julio (1983). Pelo Amor di Uma Mulher (1983).

In Concert (1983). Por Una Mujer (1982). Moments (1982) also Momento or Momenti. Minhas Cancoes Prefidas (1981).

From A Child To A Woman (1981). Zartlichkeiten (1981). Fidele (1981). Sentimental (1980).

Hey! (1980). Innamorarsi Alla Mia Eta (1979). Emociones (1979). America (1979).

Aimer La Vie (1979). A Vous Les Femmes (1979). The 24 Greatest Songs (1978). Soy (1978).

Sono Un Pirata, Sono Un Signore (1978). A Mis 33 Anos (1977). Yo Canto (1977). Si Mi Lasci (1976).

En El Olympia (1976) recorded live at the Paris Olympia. El Amor (1975). A Mexico (1974). A Flor de Piel (1974).

Un Canto a Galicia (1973). Julio Iglesias (1972). Gwendolyne (1970).