Julio Iglesias

10 Interesting facts about Julio Iglesias

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million copies in 14 languages and released 77 albums.
2	According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever.
3	Julio Iglesias is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat which was of Jewish origin.
4	Julio's siblings were born of Dr. Iglesias's second marriage to Ronna Keitt.
5	In the early sixties, when he was a law student in Madrid, he briefly was goalkeeper for one of Real Madrid's youth soccer teams; however, a 22 September 1963 car crash truncated his footballer's career.
6	In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's contest in Spain, with the song La Vida Sigue Igual and signed a contract with Discos Columbia, the Spain branch of the Columbia Records company.
7	In 1985, Julio Iglesias, Sr, was kidnapped, but found alive two weeks later, prompting Julio (divorced from Isabel Preysler) to move his family to Miami, Florida.
8	Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Man Alone").
9	In October, 2003 he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Giménez three times during a live telecast of her show.
10	He gave music in most popular movie “saw”.

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