Enrique Iglesias

**Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler** (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish pop singer-songwriter. He was born in Madrid, but mostly grew up in Miami, Florida. His parents are Spanish singer Julio Iglesias (born 1943) and Filipina journalist Isabel Maria Joy Preysler (born 1951).

His career started on Mexican label Fonovisa. They helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States. He sold more Spanish albums than any other artists in the 1990s. Before 2000, he made a crossover into the mainstream English market.  He signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for $48,000,000. Universal Musical Matino would release his Spanish albums and Interscope would release English albums. In 2010 he signed to Universal Republic and released his first full bilingual album.

Enrique Iglesias has sold over 100 million records worldwide and has had two Billboard Hot 100 #1s and one #3. He holds the record for producing twenty-two number #1 Spanish language singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. Altogether, Iglesias has 69 number-one rankings on the various _Billboard_ charts.

He is dating tennis player Anna Kournikova.

## Discography

- Spanish-language studio albums
- _Enrique Iglesias_ (1995)
- _Vivir_ (1997)
- _Cosas del Amor_ (1998)
- _Quizás_ (2002)

- English-language studio albums
- _Enrique_ (1999)
- _Escape_ (2001)
- _7_ (2003)
- _Insomniac_ (2007)

- Bilingual studio albums
- _Euphoria_ (2010)
- _Reloaded_ (TBA)

## Filmography

|Year|style="width:240px;"|Movie|style="width:130px;"|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1997|_Fools Rush In_|"Si Tu Te Vas"|Soundtrack||||
|1999|_Wild Wild West_|"Bailamos"|Soundtrack **Nominated** – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Song from a Movie||||
|2000|_2000 Teen Choice Awards_|Himself|Host||||
|rowspan=2|2001|_I Love the New Millennium_|rowspan=3|"Hero"|rowspan=3|Soundtrack|
|_Smallville_: "Craving"|||||||
|rowspan=2|2003|_Scrubs_: "My Friend the Doctor"|||||
|_Once Upon a Time in Mexico_|Lorenzo|Debut in Hollywood|||||
|2005|_Premios Juventud 2005_|Himself|Host||||
|2006|_Zoom_|"Hero"|Soundtrack||||
|rowspan=5|2007|_America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9_: "The Girls Who Crawl"|rowspan=3|Himself|Special guest||
|_Live with Regis and Kelly_|Co-host||||||
|_Dancing with the Stars_|Musical guest||||||
|_How I Met Your Mother_|"Gael"|TV guest; 2 episodes: "Wait for It" and "We're Not from Here"|||||
|_Two and a Half Men_|"Fernando"|TV guest|||||
|rowspan=4|2008|_Step Up 2: The Streets_|"Push"|rowspan=6|Soundtrack||
|_Rob & Big_: "Poop in the Pool"|"Do You Know?"||||||
|_Beverly Hills Chihuahua_|rowspan=3|"Hero"|||||
|_Lady Godiva_|||||||
|rowspan=2|2010|_Hot Tub Time Machine_|||||
|_Jersey Shore_|"I Like It"||||||
|2011|_The X Factor_ (U.S.)|Himself|Guest judge along with Nicole Scherzinger||||
|2012|_Glee_: "The Spanish Teacher"|"Hero"|The song "Hero" was covered by Sam Evans and New Direction males.||||

## Awards and nominations

Enrique Iglesias is one of the most celebrated Latin musical artists of all time. He has won 16 Billboard Music Awards and 23 Billboard Latin Music Awards.  He has also won 5 American Music Awards, a Grammy, a Latin Grammy and 7 World Music Awards. He won an award for Best International Pop Act at the MTV India Awards.

As well as being named "King of Latin Pop", he has won 15 Premios Lo Nuestro awards. In 2000, he was awarded Most Fashionable Artist at the VH1/_Vogue_ Fashion Awards. In 2001, for the release of his second English studio album _Escape_, he received awards for Best-Selling Pop Male Artist and European Male Artist at the World Music Awards. Iglesias won an award for Most Successful Spanish Artist of the Decade at Premios Ondas in 2002.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Enrique Iglesias
- **image**: Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull 2015 (Cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Iglesias at a 2015 concert
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler
- **birth place**: Madrid, Spain
- **instrument**: lead vocals, Vocals, guitar
- **genre**: Alternative rock, alternative music, dream pop, new wave music, new wave, Pop music, Pop, Latin pop, contemporary R&B, R&B, dance-pop, soft rock, rap, pop rock
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, model
- **years active**: 1994–present
- **label**: Fonovisa, Interscope Records, Interscope, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Universal Music Latino, Universal Republic, Polydor Records, Polydor