Celebrities
Enrique Iglesias
- 8 May 1975
- Spanish singer and songwriter.
- He started his recording career in the mid-1990s and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade
- He performed in a high-school production of Hello, Dolly!
- He sent demo tapes to record companies under a false name to avoid cashing in on his father’s famous name
- His father Julio is recognised as the most commercially successful continental European singer in the world
- His partner is Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova
- He is one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 70 million records worldwide
- He has appeared in films: Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother
- He was born with a rare condition known, where some of the body’s major organs, such as the heart, are situated on the opposite side of his body
- His hits include: “Bailamos”, “Could I Have This Kiss Forever” (with Whitney Houston), “Escape” and “Hero”
- In 2004 he played the part of an evil Roman emperor in a Pepsi ad
