Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, known professionally as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop. Iglesias started his career in the mid-1990s on an American Spanish-language record label Fonovisa Records under the name Enrique Martinez, before switching to the stage name Enrique Iglesias and becoming one of the biggest stars in Latin America and the Hispanic market in the United States. By the turn of the millennium,...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth8 May 1975
CityMadrid, Spain
CountrySpain
In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.
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.
My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.
The one thing about music is that there are no rules.
If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
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.
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
As an artist, I've been very fortunate.
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.
When theres love theres good sex.
The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
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.
I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.