Julio Iglesias

Genres:	Easy Listening • Foreign Films • Holiday & Seasonal • Latin • Musicals & The Arts • Vocals • World Music
Descriptive "tags":	julio iglesias • latin • spanish • pop • latin pop • romantic • spain
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • IMDb • MusicMoz • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

Biography

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva, 23 September 1943, Madrid, Spain. Iglesias studied law at Madrid University and played football (goalkeeper) for Real Madrid before suffering severe injuries in a 1963 car accident. While recuperating, he learned guitar and began to write songs. After continuing his studies in Cambridge, England, he entered the 1968 Festivalde la Canción in Benidorm. Performing his own composition ‘La Vida Sigue Igual’ (‘Life Continues All The Same’), he won first prize and soon afterwards signed a recording contract with the independent Discos Columbia where Ramon Arcusa became his producer. Iglesias represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest, subsequently recording the song ‘Gwendolyne’ in French, Italian, and English. During the next few years, he toured widely in Europe and Latin America, scoring international hits with ‘Manuela’ (1974) and ‘Hey’ (1979). His global reach was...

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