Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943) in Madrid, Spain is Spain's best selling singer and one of the best-selling Spanish singers of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold 250,000,000 records in different languages and released 77 records. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career.

Early career to 1978

He was a professional soccer player with Real Madrid, where he played as goalkeeper. During this time, he also enrolled in law school. He had an accident that dashed his hopes of becoming a great soccer player, but during his period in bed, he started to compose songs. He received a certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge University a little later.

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Soccer - Real Madrid - Goalkeeper - Cambridge University

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In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's contest in Spain, and signed a contract with a Columbia Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia. He represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970, finishing fourth behind Northern Irish singer Dana Scallon, and the Welsh singer (and Cymraeg speaker) Mary Hopkin. His entry was the song "Gwendolyne" which was his first recording. During the 1970s he married the Spanish-mestiza Philippine socialite Isabel Preysler with whom he had three children: Chabeli Iglesias, who has been a show host and is now a news reporter in Washington D.C., Enrique Iglesias, now a world-famous singer who followed in his father's footsteps, and Julio José Iglesias, 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.

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1968 - Benidorm International Song Festival - Columbia Records - Discos Columbia - Eurovision Song Contest - Northern Irish - Dana - Cymraeg - Mary Hopkin - Spanish-mestiza - Isabel Preysler - Chabeli Iglesias - Washington D.C. - Enrique Iglesias - Julio José Iglesias

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