Julio Iglesias is one of the famous latin singer. Hs is also called the king of the Latin. He was born September 23, 1943 in Madrid) is a Spanish singer who has sold over 250 million albums[1] in 14 languages and released 77 albums. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career.
Julio is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga from Galicia and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat.
While attending law school in Madrid in the early sixties, he was, for a short period, a goalkeeper for one of Real Madrid's youth soccer teams. In 1963, his career as a football athlete was cut short after a car accident. If not for a car accident, on 22nd September 1963, he may have never had a music career:"I had a car accident, very, very strange car accident," remembers Iglesias. "I lost control of the car and rolled it, resulting in what they call paraparexia, which is not a paraplegic. It's a compression in the cord, in the sense of the neck… my spinal cord, and I was very, very ill for three years.
In 1978, he signed a contract for CBS International, adding English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian to his language repertoire. Iglesias released the album De Niña a Mujer in 1981, from which he had his first hit in the English market with a Spanish cover of "Begin the Beguine" (a No.1 hit in the United Kingdom). He also released a collection, Julio, in 1983 building his reputation.
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.
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