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| Birth Name(s) : Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva |
Date of Birth: September 23, 1943 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Miranda Rinsburger |
| Profession:
Musician |
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Full Julio Iglesias Biography
Julio is the father of Enrique Iglesias, USA-based Spanish pop singer and used to be a goalkeeper for the Real Madrid soccer team.
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Additional Julio Iglesias Biography
Julio is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga from Galicia and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat; his younger brother is Carlos. When Iglesias himself was 61, his 87-year-old father had more children. Half brother Jaime was born 18 May 2004, and half-sister Ruth on 26 July 2006. Julio's half-siblings were born from the second marriage of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Ronna Keitt.
In June 2001 he finished his law degree at Madrid Spain's Complutense University, fulfilling the promise he made to his then 84-year-old father that he would eventually graduate after dropping out 35 years ago to pursue his music career. He received a certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge University .
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.
Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Man Alone"). He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love" from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988.
2003 saw the release of the Spanish album "Divorcio." (Divorce) In its first day of sales, "Divorcio" sold a record 350,000 copies in Spain; and quickly reached the #1 spot on the charts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Russia.
In December of 2004, Miranda and Julio recorded a duet of the Christmas song Silent Night. The song, which was not officially released, also included a voice message from Julio, Miranda, and their 4 young children. The song was released online through the singer's web page, and a CD was included in their Christmas card as a holiday gift from the Iglesias family to their friends and to fans around the world.
Julio has made important investments in the Dominican Republic's eastern town of Punta Cana, a major tourist destination, where he spends most of the year when he is not on tour.
The singer's south Florida mansion on the exclusive, security obsessed, private Indian Creek Island is currently on the market for $28 million dollars 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 '60s, '70s and 80s that I believe will come to be regarded as the new standards," Iglesias says in the album's sleeve notes. The album features the hits "I Want To Know What Love Is", "Careless Whisper", and "Right Here Waiting".
Romantic Classics was Julio's highest debut on the BILLBOARD charts entering at number 31 in the USA, 21 in Canada, 10 in Australia, and top spots across Europe and Asia.
In late September, Julio returned to the studio to record songs in Bahasa Indonesian and in Filipino for the Asian releases of "Romantic Classics"- which helped propel sales in the Asian Markets.
Julio promoted "Romantic Classics" very heavily in the remainder of 2006, and was seen all over the world on popular TV shows, and in the USA, he appeared on Dancing With The Stars where he sang his hit "I Want To know what Love Is," "Good Morning America," "The View," "Fox and Friends," and "Martha Stewart."
On May 5th, two weeks before the start of the European leg of his 2007 world tour, Guillermo, the eighth child of Julio Iglesias (fifth with wife Miranda Rijnsburger) was born at 6:12pm in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, FL.
This list contains all albums of original material plus notable collections.
- La Vida Sigue Igual (1969)
- Yo Canto (1969)
- Gwendolyne (1970)
- Cuando Vuelva a Amanecer (1971) (Argentina)
- O Melhor de Julio Iglesias (1971) (Portugal)
- Por Una Mujer (1972)
- Un Canto a Galicia (1972)
- Asi Nacemos (1973)
- Soy (1973)
- A Flor de Piel (1974)
- A Mexico (1975)
- El Amor (1975)
- America (1976)
- En El Olympia (1976) recorded live at the Paris Olympia
- Se mi lasci, non vale (1976)
- A Mis 33 Anos (1977)
- Sono un pirata, sono un signore (1978)
- The 24 Greatest Songs (1978)
- A Vous Les Femmes (1979)
- Aimer La Vie (1979)
- America (1979)
- Emociones (1979)
- Innamorarsi alla mia età (1979)
- Hey! (1980)
- Sentimental (1980)
- Fidele (1981)
- Zärtlichkeiten (1981)
- From A Child To A Woman (1981)
- Minhas Cancoes Prefidas (1981)
- Moments (1982) also Momento or Momenti
- In Concert (1983)
- Pelo Amor di Uma Mulher (1983)
- Julio (1983)
- 1100 Bel Air Place (1984) Reissued, 2006 Legacy Recordings
- Libra (1985)
- Un Hombre Solo (1987)
- Tutto l'amore che ti manca (1987)
- Non Stop (1988)
- Latinamente (1989)
- Raices (1989)
- Starry Night (1990)
- Ein Weihnachtsabend Mit Julio Iglesias (1992)
- Calor (1992)
- Crazy (1994)
- La Carretera (1995)
- Tango (1996) Reissued, 2006 Legacy Recordings
- My Life: The Greatest Hits (1998)
- Noche de Cuatro Lunas (2000)
- Una Donna Puo Cambiar la Vita (2001)
- Ao Meu Brasil (2001)
- Personalidad: 20 Exitos (2002)
- Divorcio (2003)
- Love Songs (2004)
- L'homme que je suis (2005)
- Romantic Classics (2006)
- Quelque chose de France (2007) |
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