For a long time, Enrique Iglesias remains the most popular performer for listeners. He is a songwriter, producer and actor. He received prestigious music awards many times, and his albums became 116 times platinum and 227 gold. A total of 100 million records have been sold.
The singer became famous not only in North America, but throughout the world. Until now, this handsome man drives many fans crazy, but for a long time he remains faithful to the successful Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, who has long been considered the wife of Enrique Iglesias.
Childhood of Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preisler was born on May 8, 1975 in Madrid. Enrique's father is the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, who was also a very popular and successful performer. His "crystal" voice is well known to representatives of the older generation. Enrique's motherIglesiasa - Filipino journalist and TV presenter Isabelle Preysler.
Enrique has an older brother Julio and an older sister Maria. Unfortunately, the parents of the future singer divorced when he was barely 3 years old. Perhaps this happened due to the busy work schedule of the parents.
Isabelle stayed with the children in Madrid, and Julio moved to Miami. The mother was busy at work, so the care of the children fell on the shoulders of the nanny Maria Olivares.
Terrorist attack and relocation
At some point, the terrorists began to hunt the Iglesias family, there were regular threats to Father Enrique. Then they moved from words to actions, in 1985 they kidnapped their grandfather, Julio Iglesias Sr. Despite the fact that the criminals released him, the threats continued to come now to the children. For this reason, Isabelle Preysler decided to send them to her father in Miami.
Difficult relationship with father
After moving to the US, Enrique went to study at the prestigious Gulliver Preparatory School for we althy children. Enrique was a shy boy, so it was difficult for him to make friends, he was friends with few people. Enrique said that his father did not spoil him, did not give the teenager money, when his peers drove Mercedes, he got to school in a "wreck". Well, when a stepmother appeared in the family, his relationship with his father completely deteriorated.
Studying at the University of Miami
Oddly enough, the world might not recognize Enrique Iglesias as a famous performer. The point is that his fatherdid not see his son as a talented singer, he wanted him to become a businessman. Despite the fact that the teenager already dreamed of following in his father's footsteps and even wrote poetry for the compositions of his first album, his father's pressure turned out to be stronger, because Enrique entered the University of Miami at the Faculty of Business.
Nevertheless, you can't escape fate, and the guy, in parallel with his studies, begins to earn extra money on demo recordings of his songs, only he signs them not with his own name, but with the name "Enrique Martinez from Central America".
First album and immediate success
As a result, Enrique's stubbornness and faith in his own success helped him achieve what he wanted - the young performer signs a contract with the Mexican studio FonoMusic. Despite the anger and dissatisfaction of Julio, this time Enrique did his own thing, dropped out and went to Canada to record the first disc.
In November 1995, the public heard the compositions of the first album. The singer approached the title of the album simply and called it Enrique Iglesias. The album was such a success that the performer himself did not even dream of. In terms of the number of sales, he became a record holder. In just a week, about 1,000,000 copies of the album were sold out.
Successful career and competition with father
The next album was Vivir. It came out in early 1997. The composition Enamorado Por Primera Vez stayed at the top of the US Latin American chart for about 3 months.
Next Enrique went on tour and visited 16 countries! In the same year, he was nominated for the American Music Awards, but the competitorhis father becomes, who really did not like such a rivalry, so the aspiring star withdraws his candidacy. In the end, the prize goes to Julio.
But the award did not take long to wait for its hero, and already in 1998 Enrique became the best Latin American singer thanks to the new album Cosas del Amor.
Followed by contracts and a new rise. In 2001, the disc Escape was released, which became the most successful of his entire career.
From 2003 to 2007, Iglesias had some recession after the not entirely successful release of the album "7". And in 2007 he returned again, blowing up the charts with Push and Do You Know. From that moment on, the singer had a new dizzying rise and a real starfall of awards:
- Spanish-language CD 95/08 Éxitos by Enrique Iglesias went platinum in the US;
- receives World Music Awards in 2008;
- In 2010, he presented the album Euphoria to the public, for which he received 10 (!) Billboard de la Musica Latina awards.
In addition to success in the musical field, Enrique also tries himself as an actor and starred in commercials, TV shows and movies.
Private life of Enrique Iglesias
There were rumors that Enrique had an affair with Whitney Houston, which was hardly true. But with whom the singer really had a relationship, it was with Jennifer Love Hewitt. But she did not become the wife of Enrique Iglesias. The relationship did not last long, the couple quickly broke up, maintaining friendly relations. The actress even starred in his video Hero after the breakup.
Enrique Iglesias - photo 2016 with his wife
The singer met the famous tennis player Anna Kournikova in 2001 during the filming of the Escape video. Moreover, nothing foreshadowed the novel, since Anya's lip became inflamed, and the singer, spoiled by female attention, said that he would not kiss "this pimply youngster." But in the end, either the make-up artists were first-class, or the “pimple” gave Ana some zest, but Enrique falls in love with a girl and they begin an affair that has been going on for 16 years, so she can be called the wife of Enrique Iglesias.
In 2016, fans saw Iglesias and Anna with a wedding ring in the photo and thought that at last she would become Enrique Iglesias' legal wife, not civil. But the singer answered evasively and made it clear that the cherished event did not happen. Today, little is known about their relationship in fact, because the couple carefully hides the details of their romance.
December 16, 2017, the stars gave their fans a surprise. Enrique and Anna had two children - Nicholas and Lucy. Up to this point, Enrique Iglesias and his wife have not posted photos. Nobody knew about the upcoming event. Enrique Iglesias posted a photo with his wife and children online a month after the birth of their first children.
