{"id":14730,"date":"2011-08-28T23:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2011-10-29T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T04:05:41","slug":"enrique-iglesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=14730","title":{"rendered":"Enrique Iglesias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enrique Iglesias is a <a title=\"Spanish-American\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish-American\">Spanish-American<\/a> pop music singer.\u00a0 Iglesias was born in <a title=\"Madrid\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madrid\">Madrid<\/a>, Spain,and is the third and youngest child of singer <a title=\"Julio Iglesias\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julio_Iglesias\">Julio Iglesias<\/a>. His mother is a <strong><a title=\"Filipino people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filipino_people\">Filipina<\/a><\/strong> and his father is of Spanish ancestry from <a title=\"Galicia (Spain)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galicia_%28Spain%29\">Galicia<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/enriqueiglesias.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[14730]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14731\" title=\"enriqueiglesias\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/enriqueiglesias.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label <a title=\"Fonovisa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fonovisa\">Fonovisa<\/a>. This helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the <a title=\"Hispanic and Latino Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans\">Hispanic American<\/a> market in the United States, and the biggest seller of Spanish language albums of the 1990s. Before the turn of the millennium, he made a crossover into the mainstream English language market, signing a unique multi-album deal with <a title=\"Universal Music Group\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_Music_Group\">Universal Music Group<\/a> for an unprecedented US$50,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and <a title=\"Interscope\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interscope\">Interscope<\/a> to release English albums. In 2010, he parted with Interscope and signed with another Universal Music Group label, <a title=\"Universal Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_Republic\">Universal Republic<\/a>. For a few years he has been dating <a title=\"Anna Kournikova\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna_Kournikova\">Anna Kournikova<\/a>. Iglesias has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling Latin artists of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesias has had five <a title=\"Billboard Hot 100\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> top five singles, including two #1s, and holds the record for producing 22 number 1 Spanish-language singles on the Billboard&#8217;s <a title=\"Hot Latin Tracks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hot_Latin_Tracks\">Hot Latin Tracks<\/a>. He has also had nine #1 songs on Billboard&#8217;s Dance charts, more than any other single male artist. Altogether, Iglesias has amassed 53 #1 hits on the various Billboard charts. He has honorably been named as The King of Latin Pop and The King of Dance according to Billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Source from <a href=\"http:\/\/enriqueiglesias.com\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish-American pop music singer.\u00a0 Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain,and is the third and youngest child of singer Julio Iglesias. His mother is a Filipina and his father is of Spanish ancestry from Galicia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interested-in-asian-culture-check-out-our-most-famous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14733,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions\/14733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}