Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide in 14 languages. It is estimated that during his career he has performed in more than 5000 concerts, for over 60 million people in five continents. In April 2013, Iglesias was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1983, Iglesias was celebrated as having recorded songs in the most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the artist in Latin music with the most records sold in history. In April 2013 in Beijing, he was honoured as the most popular international artist in China. In Brazil, France, Italy and elsewhere, Iglesias is the most successful foreign record seller, while in his home country, Spain, he has sold the most records in history, with 23 million records. During his career, Iglesias has won many awards in the music industry, including the Grammy, Latin Grammy, World Music Award, Billboard Music Award, American Music Award and Lo Nuestro Award. He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts of Spain and the Legion of Honour of France. UNICEF named him Special Ambassador for the Performing Arts in 1989. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1985. Iglesias was born in Madrid to Julio Iglesias Sr., a medical doctor from Ourense who became one of the youngest gynecologists in the country, and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. His paternal grandparents, Manuela Puga Noguerol and Ulpiano Iglesias Sarria, were of Galician ancestry. His maternal grandparents were José de la Cueva y Orejuela (1887–1955)[3] and Dolores de Perignat y Ruiz de Benavides,[4] who was a native of Guayama, Puerto Rico. The name "Iglesias" translates as "churches". Iglesias says that he is of Jewish ancestry on his maternal side, and that his mother's family name, "de la Cueva", meaning literally "of the cave" and referring to Jewish people in hiding, is a common Jewish name. He has proclaimed himself Jewish "from the waist up". He alternated playing professional football with studying law at the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. In his youth, he was a goalkeeper for Real Madrid Castilla in the Segunda División. His professional football career was ruined when he was involved in a serious automobile accident in 1963 that left him unable to walk for two years. The accident smashed his lower spine and left his legs permanently weakened and requiring therapy for several years. He has said of those years, "I had more courage and attitude than talent". While he was in hospital after the accident, a nurse named Eladio Magdaleno gave him a guitar so that he could recover the dexterity of his hands. In learning to play, he discovered his musical talent. After his rehabilitation, Iglesias studied for three months at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge, England. After that, he returned to obtain his law degree at Complutense University of Madrid. ... Source: Article "Julio Iglesias" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Madrid, Spain, 1943-09-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Life Goes On	Julio Iglesias	69
2	1970	Osaka Show 1970		0
3	1980	Me olvidé de vivir	Julio Iglesias	90
4	1981	Julio Iglesias - Live in Jerusalem		50
5	1983	All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra	Self - Singer	60
6	1983	Cilla Black's Christmas Eve	Self	0
7	1988	Julio Iglesias in Spain		0
8	2022	Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star	Self - Singer	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
2	1963	Viña del Mar International Song Festival	Self - Musical Guest	47
3	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
4	1967	Europarty	self	0
5	1968	Starparade	Self	0
6	1971	Disco	Self	0
7	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
8	1971	Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre	Self	60
9	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
10	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18
11	1975	Musik ist Trumpf	Self	60
12	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
13	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
14	1975	Système 2	Self	0
15	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
16	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
17	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
18	1977	Fan School	Self	73
19	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
20	1980	Show-Express	Self	0
21	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
22	1981	Bananas	Self	35
23	1981	De TV Show	Self	0
24	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
25	1985	The Golden Girls	Julio Iglesias	75
26	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
27	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
28	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self (Duplex)	65
29	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
30	1988	Flitterabend	Self - Singer	0
31	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
32	1993	World Music Awards	Self	0
33	1993	Late Show with David Letterman	Self - Musical Guest	64
34	1995	Viva el lunes	Self	20
35	1997	The View	Self	45
36	1998	The Heaven and Earth Show		32
37	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
38	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
39	2003	Celebridade	Self	82
40	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
41	2004	The X Factor	Self - Special Guest	50
42	2004	Vorhang auf	Self	0
43	2013	Cachitos de hierro y cromo	Self (archive footage)	77
44	2020	Pongamos que hablo de	Self	0

Julio Iglesias

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