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Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943 in Madrid)
is Spain's best selling singer and the best-selling Spanish singer of all time.
Julio Iglesias has sold over 250 million records in different languages and
released 77 records. He thus far has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during
his career and recorded albums in fourteen different languages.
Julio is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Maria del Rosario de la
Cueva y Perignat; his younger brother is Carlos. At age 61, his 87 year old dad had
more children. Half brother Jaime was born 18 May 2004, and half-sister Ruth on 26
July 2006. Julio's half-siblings were born from the second marriage of Dr. Julio
Iglesias Puga and Ronna Keitt.
If not for a car accident, on 22nd September 1963, he may have never had a music
career:"I had a car accident, very, very strong car accident," remembers Iglesias.
I had what they call paraparexia, which is not a paraplegic. It's a compression in
the cord, in the sense of the neck … my spinal cord, and I was very, very ill for
three years." Doctors thought the young man would never walk again. But slowly, he
started to recover. And to increase dexterity in his hands, he began to play the
guitar. Once he recovered, he resumed his studies and he travelled to England to
study English, first in Ramsgate and then at Bell Educational Trust's Language
School in Cambridge.
In June 2001 he finished his law degree at Madrid Spain's Complutense University,
fulfilling the promise he made to his then 84-year-old father that he would
eventually graduate after dropping out 35 years ago to pursue his music career.
During the 1970s he met the Filipina socialite and Hola! magazine journalist Isabel
Preysler, and just 7 months later they married.
Together they have 3 children:
Daughter: Isabel Iglesias known as Chabeli Iglesias (born September 3 1971, in
Madrid).
Son: Julio José Iglesias Jr. (born February 25 1973, in Madrid).
Son: Enrique Iglesias (singer, born May 8 1975, in Madrid).
Chabeli Iglesias is now a news reporter in Washington DC. Enrique Iglesias followed
in his father's footsteps and is a world-famous singer. Julio José Iglesias is a
model who has released two CDs. It was during the 1970s that the Iglesias family's
private life became very public, with Julio and the rest of the family frequently
featured on the covers of various international magazines. The couple divorced in
1978.
Since 1990 Iglesias has been with Dutch former model Miranda Rijnsburger. He
revealed that Miranda accepted his marriage proposal and they will marry in the
future so that their twin daughters will be bridemaids.
Together they have 5 children:
Son: Miguel Alejandro (born September 7 1997)
Son: Rodrigo (born April 3 1999)
Twin daughters: Victoria and Cristina (born May 1, 2001).
Guillermo the fifth child of Julio Iglesias and Miranda Rijnsburger was born on May
5th 2007.
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