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Wikipedia Summary for Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (Spanish pronunciation: [enˈrike miˈɣel iˈɣlesjas ˈpɾejzleɾ]; born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-nineties on Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the turn of the millennium, he made a successful crossover into the mainstream English-language market. He signed a multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for US$68 million with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope Records to release English albums.
In 2010, Iglesias parted with Interscope Records and signed with another Universal Music Group label, Republic Records, to release bilingual albums. In 2015, he parted ways with Universal Music Group after being there for over a decade. He signed with Sony Music and his subsequent albums were to be released by Sony Music Latin in Spanish and RCA Records in English. Iglesias is one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 70 million records worldwide. He has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones. As of October 2020, Iglesias holds the number-one position on the Greatest of All-Latin Artists charts. Iglesias holds the record for the most number-one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart with 27 songs, the Latin Airplay chart with 32 songs, and the Latin Pop Airplay chart with 24 songs. Iglesias also has 14 number-ones on Billboard's Dance charts, more than any other male artist. He has earned the honorific title King of Latin Pop. In December 2016, Billboard magazine named him the 14th most successful and top male dance club artist of all time. In October 2020, Iglesias was awarded the "Top Latin Artist of All Time" at the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
I'm quite grounded.
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
I want to thank my fans for their support and love all these years, thank you Miami. Thank you Latin America. Thank you Mexico. Thank you world !
I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!
I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.
Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.
The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!
I'm not against marriage, but I think it is not as important to me as it is for other people, for example. I think getting married would not change the way I feel about my girlfriend... And I don't know if that would make me happier.
My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.
The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.
Sex and Love are two words that anyone can relate to, no matter the nationality or age.
I am really passionate about sports in general -- especially water sports.
I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.
My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.
Oh, you know record companies... at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.
One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.
Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.
I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.
There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.
If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
Yes, I have made a woman cry.
I always respect a woman.
The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.
I really want to fall in love.
I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.
I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
When I'm in love, I wake up happy.
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
Love is one of my main inspirations.
My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.
Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
I'm a good person, but with many defects.
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.