64 Facts About Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican label Fonovisa where he released three Spanish albums Enrique Iglesias, Vivir and Cosas del Amor becoming the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade.

Enrique Iglesias signed a multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for US$68 million with Interscope Records releasing a string of hit English albums such as Enrique, Escape, 7 and Insomniac.

Enrique Iglesias is one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 100 million albums worldwide.

Enrique Iglesias has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones.

Enrique Iglesias holds the record for the most number-one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart with 27 songs and the Latin Pop Airplay chart with 24 songs.

Enrique Iglesias holds the number-one position on the Greatest of All-Latin Artists charts and in October 2022 he was honored with the Top Latin Artist of All Time at the Latin Billboard Awards.

Enrique Iglesias has 14 number-ones on Billboards Dance charts, more than any other male artist.

Enrique Iglesias has earned the honorific title King of Latin Pop.

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler was born in Madrid, the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite and magazine journalist Isabel Preysler.

Enrique Iglesias was raised with two older siblings, Chabeli and Julio Jr.

Enrique Iglesias found out later in life that he was born with a rare congenital condition known as situs inversus, where some of the body's major organs, such as the heart, are situated on the opposite side of the body from where they would normally be located.

When Enrique Iglesias was six years old he lived for a year in the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade with his mother.

Enrique Iglesias attended Gulliver Preparatory School, a private high school in Miami, where he developed an interest in writing songs.

Enrique Iglesias participated in his first live performance in a school production of Hello Dolly.

Enrique Iglesias did not want his father to know about his plans for a music career and did not want his famous surname to help advance his career.

Enrique Iglesias was signed by Mexican record label Fonovisa and temporarily moved to Canada to record his first album.

The record was released by label Fonovisa, along with Enrique Iglesias's following two albums.

In 1997, Enrique Iglesias's stardom continued to rise with the release of Vivir, which elevated him to the levels of popular English-language musicians that year.

Enrique Iglesias lost out to his father, but performed the song "Lluvia Cae" at the event.

Insistent on playing large stadiums for his first concert tour that summer, Enrique Iglesias, backed by sidemen for Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel, played to sold-out audiences in sixteen countries.

Additionally, Enrique Iglesias toured to 19 large indoor arenas in the US In 1998, Enrique Iglesias released his third album Cosas del Amor.

Enrique Iglesias did a shorter tour of smaller venues to accompany the release of the album, with one show being televised from Acapulco, Mexico.

Enrique Iglesias won the American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist for a second time, this time winning against Ricky Martin and Chayanne.

The song "Nunca te Olvidare" was used as the theme song for a Spanish soap opera of the same name and Enrique Iglesias guest-starred and sang the song live on the finale episode of the series.

In 1999, Enrique Iglesias began a successful crossover career into the English-language pop music market.

On 8 June 2000, Enrique Iglesias came to New York and sang the song, live and unplugged, on Stern's show with just an accompanying guitarist.

Enrique Iglesias capitalized on the album's success with his "One-Night Stand World Tour" consisting of fifty sold-out shows in sixteen countries.

In 2002, Enrique Iglesias decided to release a fourth Spanish-language album titled Quizas.

Enrique Iglesias currently holds the record for the most number-one singles on Billboards Latin Chart.

The album features the song "Roamer", which he wrote with his friend and longtime guitarist Tony Bruno and featured an appearance from Kara DioGuardi, it contains "Be Yourself", a song about independence; the chorus talks about how Enrique Iglesias's parents did not believe he'd ever succeed in his singing career.

The Seven World Tour was sponsored by Pepsi with Enrique Iglesias featuring in an commercial alongside Britney Spears, Beyonce and Pink and a second ad which featured Not In Love.

Enrique Iglesias followed up with the ballad "Somebody's Me", which was released as a single in North America.

On 4 July 2007, Enrique Iglesias became the first Western artist to play a concert in Syria in three decades when he performed for a sold-out crowd of ten thousand in the capital Damascus and in the same week, he performed on Live Earth in Hamburg.

Enrique Iglesias performed the song live at the 29 June 2008 final in Vienna, Austria.

Enrique Iglesias did a tour of the US to promote the compilation.

Enrique Iglesias was the winner of two World Music Awards in the categories of "World's Best Selling Latin Performer" and "World's Best Selling Spanish Artist" at the ceremony held in Monaco on 9 November 2008.

On 5 July 2010, Enrique Iglesias released his ninth studio album Euphoria, his first work to be released under his new label Universal Republic.

Enrique Iglesias worked with three producers whom he had collaborated with before: RedOne, Mark Taylor, and Carlos Paucar.

Enrique Iglesias would perform the track alongside Tonight and I Like It and the 2011 American Music Awards and the Dallas Cowboys vs Miami Dolphins Thanksgiving halftime show along Ludacris and Pitbull.

On 25 August 2012, Enrique Iglesias unveiled his brand new single, "Finally Found You", a collaboration with American rapper Sammy Adams.

On 8 December 2012, Enrique Iglesias performed at the second annual iHeartRadio Festival where he confirmed he was working on a new album.

On 31 May 2013, Enrique Iglesias performed at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco.

Enrique Iglesias released a number of singles prior to the album release, the first of which was "Turn the Night Up" followed by "Heart Attack" which was released to US Top 40 radio stations.

In 2016 Enrique Iglesias released his first single under Sony: "Duele el Corazon" featuring Wisin, which topped the charts in several countries including the US Latin charts and has over 1 billion views on YouTube.

In 2018, Enrique Iglesias released two songs, one called "El Bano" with Bad Bunny and the other called "Move to Miami" with Pitbull.

Enrique Iglesias announced his next album would be released in two volumes and be called Final, as they would be his last albums.

Enrique Iglesias claimed, "it's something that I have been thinking about for the past few years" but insisted, "I'm never going to stop writing songs because I love writing songs, but I'm going to do it in a different way, meaning they don't necessarily have to be packaged as an album, so this project to me is important".

On 29 September 2023, Enrique Iglesias returned to Latin and Spanish radio stations with the song "Asi Es La Vida" the first single from Final Vol.

Enrique Iglesias has collaborated with songwriter Guy Chambers to write "Un Nuovo Giorno", the lead single from Andrea Bocelli's first pop album Andrea.

Enrique Iglesias co-wrote the single "The Way" for American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken.

Four songs co-written by Enrique Iglesias appear on the UK band The Hollies' 2006 album Staying Power.

Enrique Iglesias co-wrote Jennifer Lopez's song "Dance Again", which was released in 2012, and reached the number one position in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.

In 2000, Enrique Iglesias co-produced an off-Broadway musical called Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria.

Enrique Iglesias starred alongside Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Johnny Depp in the Robert Rodriguez film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, in which he played the well-spoken gun-wielding Lorenzo.

Enrique Iglesias played the part of an evil Roman emperor in a Pepsi ad in 2004, as well as appearing in commercials for Tommy Hilfiger, Doritos, and Viceroy watches.

Since 2001, Enrique Iglesias has been in a relationship with Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova.

In 2003, Enrique Iglesias had surgery to remove a circular mole from the right side of his face, citing concerns that over time it could become cancerous.

In 2010, Enrique Iglesias was included in the project Download to Donate, run by Music for Relief, an organization started by American rock band Linkin Park.

Enrique Iglesias co-produced Download to Donate for Haiti, a charity album for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with the co-vocalist of the band Mike Shinoda.

In 2013, Enrique Iglesias urged his followers to donate money through the American Red Cross to help the victims of the deadly Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Enrique Iglesias has supported City of Hope, Habitat for Humanity, Help for Heroes, Live Earth, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Special Olympics, Save the Children, The Salvation Army, and charitable causes like Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and hunger relief.

Enrique Iglesias has won more than 200 awards from various ceremonies including 23 Billboard Music Awards and 36 Billboard Latin Music Awards, as well as 8 American Music Awards, 1 Grammy, 5 Latin Grammy Awards, 10 World Music Awards, 6 MTV awards, 19 Premios Lo Nuestro Awards and 15 Premios Juventud Awards etc.

Enrique Iglesias has been nominated over 465 times for various awards.

Enrique Iglesias won an award for Best International Pop Act at the MTV India Awards, as well as being named "King of Latin Pop".