Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias (2007)

Julio Iglesias de la Cueva [ ˈxuljo iˈɣlesjas ] (born September 23, 1943 in Madrid ) is a Spanish singer and former football player. With over 300 million records sold and around 390 gold and platinum record awards, he is considered one of the most successful individual performers. He sings in 14 languages, including Spanish , Italian , German , French , English and Portuguese .

Origin and family

Iglesias was born in Madrid as the first son of the well-known gynecologist Julio Iglesias Puga (1915-2005) and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat (1919-2002). Julio Iglesias has a brother, Carlos (* 1947). His father came from the Galician city ​​of Ourense , his ancestors on his mother's side come from Puerto Rico , Cuba and Andalusia .

From 1971 to 1979 he was married to the Filipino diplomat daughter Isabel Preysler (* 1951). The children from this marriage were Chábeli Iglesias (* 1971), Julio José Iglesias (* 1973) and Enrique Iglesias (* 1975). The two sons are successful musicians themselves. The daughter works as a news journalist in Washington, DC

He has lived with the Dutch ex-model Miranda Johanna Maria Rijnsburger (born October 5, 1965) since 1992 and has been married to her since August 24, 2010. Together they have five children: Miguel Alejandro (* September 7, 1997), Rodrigo (* April 3, 1999), Victoria and Christina (* both May 1, 2001) and Guillermo (* May 5, 2007). The wedding took place at their home in Marbella . The couple still own a property on Indian Creek Island in Florida and a house in Punta Cana , Dominican Republic .

Iglesias made headlines in the rainbow press through his countless affairs. This earned him the reputation of a tireless womanizer and heartbreaker . In October 1992 he was obliged to acknowledge his paternity to the Spaniard Javier Sánchez Santos by court order. However, the judgment was overturned due to a formal error. At the end of 2017, another application for recognition of paternity was submitted to the court.

Due to his great success, his father was kidnapped by Basque separatists in Spain in December 1981 and was only liberated after 19 days.

education

In his youth he was a talented football player and goalkeeper for Real Madrid Castilla , Real Madrid's junior team , with whom he played in the Segunda División . After a traffic accident that ended his football career, he first studied law with the aim of later entering the diplomatic service, but dropped out in 1968. During his 20-month hospital stay, he discovered his love for music and learned to play the guitar. After a break of 33 years, he finished his studies in 2001 at the Complutense University in Madrid, majoring in “International Law”, “for his father's sake ” and is admitted to the bar in Spain.

Act

Julio Iglesias at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970

Sent by his parents to Cambridge in 1968 to recuperate and improve his English skills , he wrote his first song La vida sigue igual ( Life Goes on as Usual ), with which he won the Song Festival in Benidorm and laid the foundation for his career. In 1970 he represented his country with the title Gwendolyne at the Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision and finished fourth.

After the albums Como el álamo al camino (1972), El amor (1975), A mis 33 años (1977) and Emociones (1978), Iglesias decided to switch to the record company CBS and to sign a multi-million dollar contract with his father of Latin-Pop secured a further 85 million DM in five years from 1987. He has not been writing his own songs since 1984.

In the early 1980s, Iglesias conquered the US market. In spring 1984 he recorded the album 1100 Bel Air Place with Diana Ross , Stan Getz , the Beach Boys , the Pointer Sisters and with the country star Willie Nelson .

Julio Iglesias was repeatedly plagued by severe depression, which prevented him from performing his musical activities and, as an obsessive worker, made records, fame and fortune appear as "waste products", as he himself said. Regardless of this, however, he was also noticed by extravagances, such as B. by flying water from Miami to Los Angeles , because he was of the opinion that the Californian water was too calcareous for his hair.

In 1993 Iglesias had to answer in Argentina in a plagiarism lawsuit. The court found it proven that he had copied the song Yolanda by the Argentinian Larry Moreno with his hit Morrinas, recorded in 1982 , and he was thereupon sentenced to pay compensation of 300,000 pesos (approx. € 51,300; as of September 2, 2012 ). He was unwilling to pay the fine, and in early 1996 his Argentine ranch was threatened with an auction.

His album Divorcio was sold over 350,000 times in just a few days in 2003 and dominated the hit lists in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Russia. A ten-month world tour followed with good sales figures. For the Asian market he recorded the successful song Crazy especially in Mandarin , Indonesian and Filipino and replaced Diana Ross, with whom he previously sang the duet All of You , with local artists.

In the almost 40 years of his career, Iglesias has given more than 5,000 concerts and sold over 250 million records in more countries than any other singer. For this he received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

At a ceremony in December 2011 at the Instituto Cervantes , Iglesias announced that it would withdraw from the public.

Life stations

• 1963: A serious car accident ends the football career of the Real Madrid youth team player. Study of law (initially without a degree)
• 1968: Winner of the Song Festival in Benidorm with La Vida Sigue igual
• 1970: Gwendolyne : biggest hit of the year
• 1984: Album 1100 Bel Air Place with the participation of Diana Ross, Stan Getz, the Beach Boys, the Pointer Sisters, Willie Nelson
• 1988: first western star on Chinese television with around 300 million viewers
• 1989: Organization of 30 concerts for the benefit of UNICEF
• 1993: Plagiarism trial in Argentina
• 1994: The album Crazy is released. Joint songs were recorded with Dolly Parton , Art Garfunkel , Stevie Wonder , Nana Mouskouri and Sting, among others .
• 1998: American Music Award in the "Most Popular Latino Artist" category
• 2001: Completion of law studies
• 2003: Start of a world tour
• 2008: Start of a world tour

Awards

• "Diamond Disk Award" of the Guinness Book of Records with more than 250 million records sold
• approx. 390 gold and platinum record awards
• 1985: Star on the Walk of Fame
• 1998: American Music Award for Most Popular Latino Artist
• 2007: "Music Legend Award" for the most popular artist of all time
• 2007: Knight of the French Legion of Honor
• 2011: Honor for his life's work at a ceremony in December at the Instituto Cervantes

Discography

→ Main article : Julio Iglesias / Discography

Spanish-language, English-language and multilingual studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)								Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Latin	IT	IT
1969	Yo canto	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT3 (15 weeks) IT	-	spanish speaking
1970	Gwendolyne Julio Iglesias	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	spanish speaking
1972	Un canto a Galicia Por una mujer Julio Iglesias	DE24 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	spanish speaking
1973	Soy	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT5 (69 weeks) IT	-	spanish speaking
1974	A flor de piel	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT3 (25 weeks) IT	-	spanish speaking
1975	A México	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT3 (33 weeks) IT	-	spanish speaking
	El amor	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT4 (48 weeks) IT	-	spanish speaking
1976	America	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT11 (18 weeks) IT	IT19 (7 weeks) IT	spanish speaking
1977	A mis 33 años	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT8th platinum (43 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1978	Emociones	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT11 × 2 Double platinum (34 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1980	Hey	-	-	-	-	US179 (6 weeks) US	Latin4th × 4 Quadruple platinum (44 weeks)Latin	IT1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (43 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1981	De niña a mujer From a Child to a Woman	-	-	-	UK43 (5 weeks) UK	US181 (6 weeks) US	-	IT1 × 7 Seven times platinum (29 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1982	Cupid momentarily	DE16 (13 weeks) DE	AT12 gold (10 weeks)AT	-	UK14th gold (14 weeks)UK	US191 (4 weeks) US	Latin25th × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)Latin	IT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (32 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1984	1100 Bel Air Place	DE7 (20 weeks) DE	AT12 (16 weeks) AT	CH4 (11 weeks) CH	UK14th silver (14 weeks)UK	US5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (34 weeks)US	-	IT1 × 2 Double platinum (19 weeks)IT	IT8th platinum (22 weeks)IT	English speaking
1985	Libra	DE26 (10 weeks) DE	AT22 (4 weeks) AT	-	UK61 (4 weeks) UK	US92 (12 weeks) US	Latin- × 6 Six-fold platinum Latin	IT1 × 3 Triple platinum (27 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1987	Un hombre solo	-	-	-	-	-	-	IT1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (61 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1988	Non stop	-	-	-	UK33 gold (4 weeks)UK	US52 gold (17 weeks)US	-	IT5 platinum (24 weeks)IT	-	English speaking
1989	Raices	-	-	-	-	-	Latin45 (2 weeks) Latin	IT1 × 11 Eleven times platinum (43 weeks)IT	IT- gold IT	contains six medleys in different languages
1990	Starry Night	-	-	-	UK27 gold (19 weeks)UK	US37 gold (31 weeks)US	-	IT6th platinum (20 weeks)IT	-	English speaking
1992	Calor	DE72 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US186 (2 weeks) US	Latin34 (14 weeks) Latin	IT1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (45 weeks)IT	IT- gold IT	Spanish-language, some region-specific versions contain one to three different language titles (e.g. the German version Calor - Engel der Nacht )
1994	Crazy	DE73 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th platinum (38 weeks)UK	US30th gold (19 weeks)US	-	IT1 × 2 Double platinum (28 weeks)IT	IT14th gold (7 weeks)IT	English speaking
1995	La carretera	-	AT38 (3 weeks) AT	-	UK6 (7 weeks) UK	-	Latin3 (88 weeks) Latin	IT1 × 7 Seven times platinum (66 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
1996	tango	DE35 (10 weeks) DE	AT49 (1 week) AT	CH28 (11 weeks) CH	UK56 silver (6 weeks)UK	US81 (18 weeks) US	Latin1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (72 weeks)Latin	IT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (46 weeks)IT	IT6th platinum (21 weeks)IT	spanish speaking
2000	Noche de cuatro lunas	-	-	CH20 (13 weeks) CH	UK32 (4 weeks) UK	-	Latin3 platinum (20 weeks)Latin	IT1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (28 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
2003	Divorcio	-	-	CH86 (1 week) CH	-	-	Latin9 (30 weeks) Latin	IT2 × 2 Double platinum (29 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
2006	Romantic Classics	DE75 (2 weeks) DE	AT27 (4 weeks) AT	CH57 (5 weeks) CH	UK42 silver (7 weeks)UK	US43 (3 weeks) US	-	IT7th gold (22 weeks)IT	IT75 (1 week) IT	English speaking
2011	1	-	-	CH84 (3 weeks) CH	UK18 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	IT3 platinum (61 weeks)IT	-	New recordings of earlier songs, multilingual
2015	México	-	-	-	-	-	Latin2 (12 weeks) Latin	IT1 gold (39 weeks)IT	-	spanish speaking
2017	México & amigos	-	-	-	-	-	Latin49 (1 week) Latin	IT2 (37 weeks) IT	-	Duet album, in Spanish

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography

• In 1969 Julio Iglesias played himself and the story of his rise in the 91-minute Spanish music film La vida sigue igual ( Life goes on ), starting with his football career, his serious car accident that ended his football career forever towards his music career.

The film is not available in German.

Furthermore, Julio Iglesias played in the following films:

• 1979: Innamorarsi alla mia età (Todos los días, un día)
• 1979: Me olvidé de vivir (Todos los días, un día)
• 1979: Todos los días, un día

Web links

Wikiquote: Julio Iglesias  - Quotes

• Website of Julio Iglesias (including in German)
• Julio Iglesias in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} biography ( memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on MOG.com. Retrieved September 2, 2012  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Julio Iglesias in the Munzinger archive , accessed on September 2, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
3. ^ Iglesias got married on Swiss television on August 27, 2010
4. ↑ Julio Iglesias: Court is examining further possible paternity. kurier.at, December 22, 2017, accessed on June 6, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Album details 1100 Bel Air Place on Discogs.com. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
6. ↑ Album details 1100 Bel Air Place on Allmusic.com. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
7. ↑ FAZ. Magazine. 2nd September 1988.
8. ↑ Crazy album details on Discogs.com.Retrieved September 2, 2012.
9. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US ES from 2005 IT (albums from 2000)
10. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on March 10, 2018 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
11. ↑ Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu, 2013, p. 119 .