(Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, Madrid, 1975) Spanish pop singer, son of singer Julio Iglesias. Enrique Iglesias moved to Miami at the age of seven years for family reasons. He grew up in Florida, and so he learned to speak English, their second language, which has composed and sung part of his repertoire. Due to the fame of his parents, both Henry and his brothers soon got used to the flashes of photographers, television cameras and microphones. However, he was a teenager and completed his studies without giving clues about their future commitment.
It is said that Enrique Iglesias had begun preparing his first album at age sixteen, but nobody, not even his family, then became aware of the intentions of the young, so his announcement that he would dedicate to the world of song was a big surprise to friends and strangers. This occurred when the Spaniard was twenty in 1995.
Enrique Iglesias always made it clear he did not want to take advantage of his name, and he even consider a name change that had eluded the artistic use. Either way, it seems clear that this last name helped him at first, but later the work of Henry and his colleagues deserved success in his own right in the second half of the nineties. Proof of this is the experience by his brother Joseph, who also tried his luck in the world of the song, although with considerably less success than his father and brother.
Enrique Iglesias got a contract with Discos Bat, a modest Spanish record company that released his first album, Enrique Iglesias, who was born on September 25, 1995. Singles such as “If you go”, “For love,” “religious experience”, “Trapeze” and “Do not Cry for Me” album catapulted to unimaginable heights in a debutante. In a few weeks got to be gold in Portugal, and eventually went on to sell nearly six million copies worldwide. The start could not be better, and earned the artist a Grammy Award for Best Latin Performance.
On January 29, 1997 Life was released, the second long-playing record of the singer, not to be outdone sold nearly five million copies and fully confirmed the incipient stardom Enrique.
In 1997, Enrique Iglesias made his first world tour, Live, which toured thirteen countries, nearly eighty gave concerts and played to almost 750,000 people in total. The machinery of his career was not even a break before he released his third LP, which was launched on September 1, 1998 under the title Things of love, this time within the catalog of Polydor Records. In his new label found the potential to commercially exploit its products, especially considering that his fame was already widespread internationally.
The singer ended the decade with Enrique, a new record that placed him in the highest places in the charts of half the world, the album was released on November 23, 1999. Earlier he had edited Bailamos, a compilation including the title track, an extraordinary international success.
Enrique Iglesias has achieved a good number of number one in the U.S. charts, conquered much of the Asian market, is a regular winner of Grammy awards, recorded in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Over two hundred more gold and platinum hundred adorn its impressive track record over a career that, in his own words, has only just begun.
In the first year of the new century, Henry was presented to their fans with Escape, a new job less melodic than the previous. Also completed the filming of Once Upon a Time in Mexico, his film debut under the command of Robert Rodriguez.