Iglesias' song won first prize, and he was offered a recording contract with the Spanish branch of Columbia Records. While Iglesias would return to his legal studies in Great Britain, he was still interested in music, and in 1968, he entered a song he'd composed, "La Vida Sigue Igual" (Life Goes On) in the Benidorm International Song Festival, an annual Spanish songwriting competition. As Iglesias recovered, he taught himself to play guitar, and began writing songs as he discovered his passion for music. However, Iglesias' athletic career was cut short in 1962 by an auto accident that left him with a spinal injury that kept him in bed for nearly two years. Young Iglesias was also a gifted football player, and as a teenager he achieved one of his great dreams when he was recruited to play goaltender with his favorite team, Real Madrid. Julio's father was a successful physician, and his son's initial career ambition was to become a lawyer and a diplomat. Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva was born in Madrid, Spain on September 23, 1943. I hope it will be very late.Blessed with good looks, a powerful voice, and a gift for communicating with an audience, Julio Iglesias is one of the most popular and enduring figures in the history of Latin music, a true international superstar who has sold over 300 million albums worldwide and remains a popular concert draw and chart-topping recording artist in a career that has spanned six decades. "I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. The singer pushes himself as hard as he did when he first began. Iglesias is constantly on tour all over the world - pouring his heart into each song. Iglesias is also developing golf courses and hotels in several other countries.Īnd, of course, there's his musical career. He's part owner of the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic. He is also become something of a business mogul. "I think we will get married this year."īut Iglesias has more than marriage on his mind these days. "I think the only problem she has, she has to give me half the money," laughs Iglesias.
And that has apparently happened, because Julio told Sunday Morning something, he's says, he's never made public before - that Rijnsburger has finally accepted his proposal in marriage. And it's better every year."īut, Rijnsburger has been the one putting off marriage, waiting, she jokes, for their twin daughters to get old enough to bridesmaids. "But, you know, I fell madly in love with him, and I think he did with me too.
Rijnsburger admits to have been intimidated by Iglesias' "lady lover" reputation. These days, Iglesias spends plenty of time with the four young children he has with Miranda Rijnsburger, a Dutch woman he met 14 years ago. You know, they are my kids and it will be a time that we will have time to get together." And the love for my kids that I have for them is impossible to replace. "With Enrique, I talk with him last time four months ago. "I talk with Julio yesterday," says Iglesias. Some say Iglesias wasn't close to his sons, but the father says that is not true. His sons Julio and, especially, Enrique have prospered in the family business. Iglesias passed his love of music down to his three children, from his first and only marriage, which ended in divorce. "What you try to do is the best you can, because you love the song so much." "When you record something historical like Patsy Klein and "Crazy," you know that you asked permission to them in heaven first," says Iglesias. He soon became known as one of the most romantic singers in the world, for several reasons.Īnd then there was "Crazy," his hit version of Patsy Klein's trademark song.
That led to a recording contract, which led to an album that was a No. Ln 1968, Iglesias entered an important singing and song writing contest in Spain, which he won. Iglesias eventually started to write little melodies and lyrics, which, he says, his mother and father used to love. And to increase dexterity in his hands, he began to play the guitar. my spinal cord, and I was very, very ill for three years."ĭoctors thought the young man would never walk again. It's a compression in the cord, in the sense of the neck. I had what they call paraparexia, which is not a paraplegic. "I had a car accident, very, very strong car accident," remembers Iglesias.
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Iglesias played soccer in college and then as a goalkeeper on the famous professional team Real Madrid.īut, something happened that made Iglesias stop playing. And sports in Europe, translates into football, a sport known as soccer in the U.S.
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