Julio Iglesias Jr.
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox musical artist Julio Iglesias Jr. (born Julio José Iglesias Preysler; 25 February 1973) is a Spanish singer-songwriter.
Early life and education
Iglesias was born Julio José Iglesias Preysler in Madrid, Spain, the son of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He is the younger brother of Chabeli Iglesias and the older brother of Enrique Iglesias. His parents divorced in 1979. Iglesias and his siblings moved to Miami to live with their father. Iglesias attended Menlo College in Atherton, California. He won a chance to participate in NBC's Out of the Blue and he worked for the Travel Channel, where he hosted a travel show that took him to Latin America.
Career
Iglesias, first got into show business as a model. It was his manager that negotiated an exclusive male modeling agreement with Joey Hunter (at the time he was the president of the Male Model division) at the Ford Models Agency in New York. It was through Joey Hunter, that Iglesias was discovered by photographer Bruce Weber.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He went on to campaign for Versace. Shortly after, Iglesias signed on with publicity executive Ruben Malaret who began a press campaign to further gain exposure of Iglesias to the English speaking entertainment industry. Some of his notable accomplishments was his participation on Oprah Winfrey's talk show and was featured in an advertisement for Gap and he modeled for designer John Bartlett VII on Sixth Fashion Show.
He was offered two soap opera jobs, one at Televisa and one in the ABC soap opera All My Children. Iglesias also received an offer from the Producers of the Broadway show Grease to star as Danny, but decided to turn down these job offers because he wanted to focus on his music. Iglesias signed a recording agreement with Epic Records and he traveled to Miami where he began to record his first album, Under My Eyes, with Rodolfo Castillo. Released in 1999, the recording of this album took them to New York City and Los Angeles, two songs released from this English language album are "One More Chance" and "Under My Eyes". Among promotional appearances for the album, Iglesias performed "One More Chance" at the Miss Universe 1999 Pageant and opened for Cher on her tour of North America. The album failed to gain success in the United States and soon after Iglesias departed from Epic Records.
Iglesias's. second album, Tercera Dimension, was released in 2003 on the Warner Music Group and featured Spanish pop rock songs with the singles "Los Demas" and "Dejame Volar". Both albums received public interest from the Hispanic media in the United States but attained minority success.
He worked for Hola Magazine, appearing in several photoshoots. More recently he has taken part in a series in Spain called Club de Flo, in which Spanish politicians and celebrities have to present a comedy routine. The show was unsuccessful and cancelled after several episodes. He has moved back to Spain and is living with his mother Isabel Preysler.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He appeared on the Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars called "¡Mira quien baila!" but was voted out in the thirteenth week. He has played the lead role in a drama film entitled The Music of You directed by Lloyd DeSouza.
In 2008, Iglesias was the winner of the first season of CMT reality Television show Gone Country,<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> in which artists from other genres of music lived together in a house in Nashville and competed to win a country music contract. His single "The Way I Want You" was released to country radio on 10 March 2008 and was produced by Gone Country host John Rich. Iglesias also appeared on the ABC TV show the superstars. He was partnered with soccer player Brandi Chastain; they finished in fourth place in the competition.
In 2014, he joined the band Latin Lovers with Nuno Resende and Damien Sargue.<ref>Latin Lovers, nuno-resende.net, 11 April 2014</ref>
In 2015, he performed a concert (complete show) for the first time with his father Julio Iglesias in a tour in Romania, on 22 May at Sala Polivalentă in Cluj-Napoca and 2 July at Sala Palatului in the capital Bucharest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Iglesias is a Catholic and descendant of the religious Filipino-Spanish clan Arrastia from the Arrastia family of Lubao, Pampanga the Philippines.
In October 1999, he legally changed his name from Julio José Iglesias to Julio Iglesias Jr.<ref>Julio José Iglesias ya es Julio Iglesias Jr.</ref>
In May 2011, Iglesias became engaged to Belgian model Charisse Verhaert (born 1982) after 7 years of dating. The religious wedding took place on 3 November 2012 in Aldea del Fresno, Spain.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In August 2020, a petition for divorce was filed in the Miami Court.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
From October 2022 to July 2023, Iglesias was in a relationship with Brazilian model Vivi Di Domenico who is 20 years his junior.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In August 2023, he revealed that he is dating Cuban-Italian model Ariadna Romero.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Discography
Albums
| Title | Details |
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| Under My Eyes |
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| Tercera Dimensión |
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| Por la Mitad |
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Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| "One More Chance" | 1999 | 46 | Under My Eyes |
| "Nothing Else" | — | ||
| "Por la Mitad" | 2008 | — | Por la Mitad |
| "The Way I Want You" | — | ||
| "Geronimo" | 2012 | — | Single only |
| "My Love – A Piece of My Love" Template:Small |
2013 | — | Single only |
| "Vous les femmes" | 2014 | — | Latin Lovers |
| "La camisa negra" | — | ||
| "Smile" Template:Small |
— | Singles only | |
| "Amo di te" Template:Small |
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| "I Wonder" Template:Small |
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References
External links
- 1973 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Spanish singers
- EMI Records artists
- English-language singers from Spain
- Epic Records artists
- Iglesias family
- Participants in American reality television series
- Participants in Argentine reality television series
- Singers from Madrid
- Singing talent show winners
- Spanish emigrants to the United States
- Spanish expatriates in the United States
- Spanish male models
- Spanish male singers
- Spanish people of American descent
- Spanish people of Filipino descent
- Spanish people of Jewish descent
- Spanish people of Kapampangan descent
- Spanish people of Puerto Rican descent