
Enrique Iglesias – Por Amarte
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975), simply known as Enrique Iglesias or King Of Latin Pop, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.
Iglesias started his career in the mid-1990s on an American Spanish Language record label Fonovisa which helped turn him into one of the biggest stars in Latin America and the Hispanic Market in the United States becoming the biggest seller of Spanish-language albums of that decade.
By the turn of the millennium, he had made a successful crossover into the mainstream market and signed a multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for US $68,000,000 with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums. In 2010, he parted with Interscope and signed with another Universal Music Group label Republic Records to release bilingual albums.
Enrique has totally sold over 100 million records world wide, and is the second best-selling Latino artist, taking after his father, Julio Iglesias which has sold over 300 million records and 80 albums world wide, throughout his career.
Iglesias has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones, and holds the record for producing 25 number-one Spanish-language singles on the Billboard?’?s Hot Latin Tracks.
He has also had 13 number-one songs on Billboard’s Dance charts, more than any other single male artist. Altogether, Iglesias has amassed more than 70 number-one rankings on the various Billboard charts. Billboard has called him The King of Latin Pop and “The King of Dance”
Enrique is acclaimed by the public not only because of his musical qualities, but also because of the variety of genres and languages, and the ability to successfully create numerous successful songs in all his albums, even after 20 years since he started his career.
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