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About Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler was born May 8, 1975, in Madrid to the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipino-Spanish socialite and journalist Isabel Preysler. The parents separated when Enrique was three; after an ETA threat against the family in 1982, Julio relocated his children to Miami, and Enrique was raised in the Coral Gables and South Beach corners of the city by a nanny and his maternal grandparents while his father toured. He attended Gulliver Preparatory School and enrolled at the University of Miami as a business student in the early nineties before dropping out to pursue music full-time, against his father's explicit wishes. The pseudonym Enrique Martinez covered the demo-tape stage of the project; Guillermo Santiso at Fonovisa signed him in 1995 on a multi-album Latin-market deal and the debut Enrique Iglesias arrived in November of that year with the lead single Si Tu Te Vas. The record spent more than a year on the Billboard Latin charts and won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance in 1997, the year Enrique was twenty-two. Vivir followed in 1997 and Cosas del Amor in 1998 — both produced through the Fonovisa Latin-pop machine, both anchored on the romantic-balladeer template the early catalogue is built on. The English-language pivot came in 1999 with the move to Interscope and the self-titled Enrique album, anchored on Bailamos (the Wild Wild West single) and Be With You — both number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, both produced in the broader Ricky Martin-Marc Anthony Latin-crossover wave that defined late-90s American pop radio. Escape in 2001 produced Hero — the bilingual ballad that became the post-9/11 American radio anthem, certified Diamond in the US Latin field years later and arguably the single song the broader American audience most identifies with the Iglesias name. The catalogue continued with 7 (2003), Seven (the international edition the same year), Insomniac (2007 — with Do You Know? and Tired of Being Sorry), Euphoria (2010 — the bilingual album that produced I Like It, Tonight (I'm Lovin' You), and Heartbeat with Nicole Scherzinger), Sex and Love (2014 — with Bailando alongside Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona, which won three Latin Grammys including Song of the Year and was certified Diamond in the US Latin field), and the two-part Final Vol 1 (2021) and Final Vol 2 (2024) framing his eleventh and twelfth studio efforts as the closing pair of the studio cycle. Subeme la Radio with Descemer Bueno, Zion & Lennox arrived in 2017 as a non-album single and became one of the cycle's defining Latin radio hits. He has been in a long-term relationship with the tennis champion Anna Kournikova since 2001 and the couple have three children. He remains signed to Sony Music Latin in the working partnership that has held since the Sex and Love cycle.

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