Iglesias was signed by a record label called Fonovisa. Approaching his father's former publicist, Fernan Martinez, the two promoted the songs under the stage name 'Enrique Martinez' with the backstory of being an unknown singer from Guatemala. He borrowed money from his family nanny and he recorded a demo cassette tape which consisted of a Spanish song and two English songs. Iglesias did not want his father to know about his plans for a musical career and did not want his famous surname to help advance his career. He attended Gulliver Preparatory School and went on to study business at the University of Miami. As his father's career kept him on the road, the young Iglesias was raised by the family nanny. He also lived in Belgrade, Serbia, for one year with his mother. For their safety, Enrique and his brother, Julio Iglesias, Jr., were sent to live with their father in Miami. Julio Iglesias Puga, was kidnapped by the terrorist group ETA. His parents' marriage was annulled in 1979. His mother is a Filipina and his father is of Spanish ancestry from Galicia. Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain and is the third and youngest child of singer Julio Iglesias and socialite and magazine journalist Isabel Preysler. He has honorably being named as The King of Latin Pop and The King of Dance according to Billboard Altogether, Iglesias has amassed 53 #1 hits on the various Billboard charts. He has also had nine #1 songs on Billboard's Dance charts, more than any other single male artist. Iglesias has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two #1s, and holds the record for producing 22 number 1 Spanish-language singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. Iglesias has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling Latin artists of all time. In 2010, he parted with Interscope and signed with another Universal Music Group label, Universal Republic. Before the turn of the millennium, he made a crossover into the mainstream English language market, signing a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for an unprecedented US$48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums. This helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Hispanic American market in the United States, and the biggest seller of Spanish language albums of the 1990s. Iglesias started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa. Enrique Iglesias (born Enrique Miguel Ingesias Preysler, May 8, 1975) is a Spanish pop music singer.
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