He has sold more than 180 million albums worldwide, released 10 studio albums and 3 greatest hits compilations. After a Spanish compilation in 2008, Enrique released Euphoria in 2010, which gained attention on the strength of the singles "I Like It" and "Heartbeat" Ed Nimmervoll, Rovi.The multi-platinum pop icon, Enrique Iglesias is a global superstar recognized for his musical versatility across pop and urban genres in Spanish and English. Four years later the single "Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)" announced the coming of his 2007 album Insomniac. Iglesias alternated Spanish- and English-language albums during the next two years, first offering the ballad collection Quizás in 2002, then the mainstream English record Seven in 2003. In 2001 he released the follow-up, Escape.
Then came Enrique, Enrique Iglesias' first Interscope album and first in English, which achieved gold or platinum status in 32 countries and brought his global album sales to a total of more than 23 million. With 1998's Cosas del Amor, Iglesias moved to more mature content his earlier material had been written when he was 17 years old. was his biggest market.) He also won the 1996 Grammy for Best Latin Performer, 1996's Billboard Artist of the Year, Billboard's Album of the Year for Vivir, two American Music Awards, a World Music Award, eight Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, two ACE Performer of the Year Awards, and ASCAP prizes for Best Composer of 19, in addition to countless accolades around the world. In a mere three years, Iglesias had sold more than 17 million Spanish-language albums, more than anyone else during that period. The second album, Vivir (1997), enjoyed global sales of more than five million discs and launched his first world tour, backed by sidemen for Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel. That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1996), sold more than a million copies in three months (it earned him his first gold record in Portugal in a mere seven days) and to date has sold more than six million worldwide. Then he flew to Toronto where no one knew him and he could concentrate just on music, to record for five months. It wasn't until he earned a record deal with Fonovisa that Enrique told his father and mother of his aspirations. In 1995, he sang in person for his soon-to-be manager, who at Iglesias' insistence of not wanting to use his family name, first shopped his demos as an unknown Central American singer named Enrique Martinez. After a year studying business at the University of Miami, he decided to follow his passion for music. He made his singing debut in a production of Hello, Dolly, after which he began practicing his singing without his parents knowing. Iglesias' own career started when he was still attending Gulliver Private School, a very prestigious school in Miami.
While there, Enrique was exposed to three different cultures and musical influences - Hispanic, European, and American. In 1982, his mother sent them to live in Miami with their father. The son of multimillion-selling singer Julio Iglesias, Enrique was born in Madrid, Spain, where he lived with his mother, his brother Julio, and his sister Chabeli. At the dawn of the new millennium, Enrique Iglesias was the best-selling Latin recording artist in the world.
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