Julio José Iglesias
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Julio José Iglesias, also known as Julio Iglesias Jr, (born 1973) is a Spanish pop singer from Spain. Julio is son of famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Hola! magazine journalist "La Filipina" Isabel Preysler. He is the brother of Chabeli Iglesias and Enrique Iglesias.
After the kidnapping of his grandfather in 1985, Julio José and his siblings (by his father's side) relocated from Madrid to Miami. The Iglesias family lived in one of Miami's most famous mansions, and were constantly hounded by paparazzi.
Julio José first got into show business as a model. Spotted by photographer Bruce Weber, he went on to campaign for Versace. He also was featured in an advertisement for Gap, and he modeled for designer John Bartlett.
Julio José went to college near San Francisco at Menlo College in Atherton, California. He won a chance to participate in NBC's Out of the Blue, and he was contracted by the Travel Channel, where he hosted a travel show that took him across Latin America.
Next, he was offered two soap opera jobs, one at Televisa and one in the famous soap, All My Children. Julio José decided to turn those two jobs down because he wanted to focus on his music, which he says he has been writing since he was little.
Later, he returned to Miami, where he began to record his first album, Under My Eyes, with Roberto Castillo. Released in 1999 the recording of this album took them to New York and Los Angeles; two songs released from this English language album are "One More Chance" and "Under My Eyes". Among promotional apearances for the album Iglesias performed "One More Chance" at the Miss Universe Pangeant and opened for Cher on her tour of North America.
Iglesias's second album, Tercera Dimension, was released in 2003 and featured Spanish pop-rock songs with the singles "Los Demas" and "Dejame Volar".
Both CDs received a lot of attention from the Hispanic media in the United States but neither succeeded in attaining commercial or critical success.
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