Julio & Michael Jackson (Todo Para Ti)

Julio Iglesias joins Michael Jackson and many other Spanish singers for the song "Todo Para Ti" written after the September 11th attacks.

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Julio's USA TV debut- 1983

Julio makes his USA network television debut on "The Tonight Show"

with Johnny Carson in 1983 and sings "Gone With The Wind"

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Happy Fathers Day

To Julio and all the other Fathers out there,

best wishes for a very happy fathers day!

Thousand Oaks, CA -- Opening June 9, 2009

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To All The Girls... LIVE 2009 (YouTube Video)

A great performance of this Julio Classic.

LIVE June 2009!

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Julio's Walk of Fame Star in Cuba

I was flipping through the United Airlines magazine "Hemispheres" earlier this week and stopped on page 84. The article was about Cuba and page 84 featured Julio Iglesias' star on the Cuban Walk Of Fame in Havana!

(Photo: Hemispheres Magazine- United Airlines June 2009)

YouTube Las Vegas Videos

Julio sings a very powerful version of "Always On My Mind" in Las Vegas

"Crazy" featuring the Tango dancers - Live in Las Vegas

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Las Vegas Newspaper (June 6, 2009)

Julio is featured on the front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal today (Saturday, June 6) advertising his show tonight at the Las Vegas Hilton.

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Las Vegas Interview

INTERVIEWS: Julio Iglesias A Passion for Life:

Romantic crooner Julio Iglesias still loves singing to an audience

By: Mike Weatherford

Las Vegas Review

Julio Iglesias used to get busy -- incredibly busy -- in Las Vegas. Now he brings the kids.

When he would play the old Caesars Palace showroom in the 1980s, "I used to make love before the concert, in the middle of the concert and after the concert."

Before and after -- of course. But the middle?

"That was the audience. Two thousand people at the same time!"
He laughs, as he does frequently, for the 65-year-old Spaniard is quite the kidder. It's hard to say if he's serious about all that sex, though almost any old story you find about him on the Internet will address the oft-cited number of 3,000 partners.

"My sex life is complete. I make love three times a year, and it's perfect for me," Iglesias says, kidding again, one hopes.

Whatever happened then was then, and this is now. At one point in a brief phone chat, the singer holds the phone aside to say what sounds very much like, "Where you going? Pee-pee?"
These days, the former Casanova travels with longtime partner Miranda Rijnsburger and their family: a 2-year-old boy, 8-year-old twin girls, and two other sons ages 9 and 11. (He also has three grown children, including pop star Enrique Iglesias.)

"They will be in Las Vegas with me, by the way," he says of his shows at the Las Vegas Hilton today and Saturday. "It is a place to bring the kids and have fun."
Yes, he agrees, "Life has changed a lot. For the best always. The passion is still there. I love what's happened to my life. I'm so grateful for everything that's happened."

Then and now, most of the romantic crooner's audience lies in the Spanish-speaking world. But in 1984, two English-language duets cracked the U.S. Top 20: "All Of You" with Diana Ross, and "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" with Willie Nelson, which has been a gift to impressionists ever since.

In 1986, Iglesias began his annual visits to Caesars Palace, where his opening-act comedians included Roseanne Barr, Brad Garrett and Rita Rudner. They learned the hard way that only about a third of each audience spoke English. But the dates pointed to the future of Las Vegas entertainment expanding beyond the English-speaking world.

Iglesias says fans bought him a piece of the old Caesars stage, demolished in 2000, which he proudly displays in his office. Now he travels "to the end of the world," with dates this year in Brazil, Spain and Israel. But he and the family take their Gulfstream G550 jet.

"To travel in a train or a bus is a different story," he adds with another laugh. "That's why I don't sing for money anymore. No money is enough to pay me to go on the stage. It's about the passion.

"If I stop to sing today, I die," he says. "Physically maybe, but for sure psychically. No doubt about that, I have still that flame and that passion that moves me."

Turning 65 last September is "nothing compared with 75. And 75 is nothing compared with 85," he says.

He has houses in Miami, Spain and the Dominican Republic resort of Punta Cana. "All the houses are in the sun, so there is no winter for me," he says.

"There will be a winter for me in the next 20 years, but not now."

Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at mweatherford@ reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0288.

(Source: http://www.lvrj.com/neon/47032802.html)

Las Vegas

Billboard featuring Julio greets new arrivals by the Las Vegas Airport.

Julio will perform at the Las Vegas Hilton this Friday and Saturday

June 5th and 6th

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Newspaper Article on Julio's show in Soboba

Julio Iglesias to croon his way to Soboba


01:30 PM PDT on Thursday, June 4, 2009

By VANESSA FRANKO The Press-Enterprise

Within five minutes, you can understand why Julio Iglesias has made more women swoon than probably any other living performer. He's the walking, talking, singing embodiment of all things romance.

Iglesias said he lives in a mysterious place where it never rains and the sun doesn't dance. He credits the sounds of the Mediterranean with helping him develop the smooth voice that has been the hallmark of romance for decades. For him, performing on stage is not only life but the cure to all ills.

In a recent telephone interview, Iglesias, who comes to Soboba Casino's arena in San Jacinto on Thursday, started talking about how beautiful Southern California is in his smooth voice. I return the compliment by telling him I've heard of the beauty where he lives.

"I live in the moonlight. Sometimes it's cold; sometimes it's warm and it doesn't rain," Iglesias said. (I meant the Dominican Republic, where he is based these days, but sure, the moonlight is romantic, too, and an image of Iglesias chasing moonbeams while singing on a yacht in the ocean kind of fits.)

I ask Iglesias what are the qualities of having a romantic voice and he laughed and said he didn't have a romantic voice, but rather it's his style.

Julio Iglesias credits the sounds of the Mediterranean with helping him develop the smooth voice that has been the hallmark of romance for decades.
(I wonder if all those girls he loved disagree with that one.)

Iglesias' argument is that the sound of his voice stems from the naturally acoustic tones of the Mediterranean, a sound that can be compared with an acoustic guitar, not an electric.

"I was born with that sound," he said, before singing a string of four notes.
That was it. Those four magic notes cast his musical wizardry, and now I understand why he was such a special guest star on "The Golden Girls" 20 years ago.

Performing is his life, and the mercurial nature of passion changes every song, every night, even with the ones he's sung thousands of times before.
"You have a headache and you go out on stage, you get cured. You go out to the stage and the headache is stronger than ever. On the stage, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing except the communion of the people. This is the life of the artist. The stage is a miracle and the stage you cure all of your problems," Iglesias said.

(Source: http://www.pe.com/music/stories/PE_News_Local_S_julio0605.28b305a.html)

Passion drives Julio Iglesias

From the Las Vegas Sun..

Passion drives Julio Iglesias.

“I’m a young guy in my brain and in my heart,” the 65-year-old romantic says from his part-time home in Miami. “Passion moves everything, including mountains. Even in the worst occasions, if you have even a little flame of passion you will survive. Life has given me passion for everything.”
Iglesias — who will perform at the Las Vegas Hilton this weekend — does not merely talk passion, he lives it.
He has seven children ranging in age from 37 to 2. Among them is singer Enrique, 36.
Apparently passion runs in the family — Iglesias has a 5-year-old half-brother and a 2-year-old half-sister, born of his father’s second marriage. Dr. Puga Iglesias died in 2006 at the age of 90.
But the singer’s greatest passion is, surprise, singing.
“If I had not discovered music, what would I have done? I would be lost in the middle of nowhere,” Iglesias says. “I would be a lawyer and I would be a different person. I am very grateful for the circumstances that put me in the way of music.”
The circumstance was a near-fatal car wreck in 1963 that left him temporarily partially paralyzed. He was a law student at the time with a passion for soccer.
After the accident he moved to Cambridge, England, to recover. During the months of recuperation, he discovered the passion that would change his life — writing songs and singing.
He didn’t finish law school until 2001, which fulfilled a promise to his father.
“In ’68, ’69, ’70, I wake up my brains and my heart to music,” Iglesias says.
He didn’t perform in Las Vegas until 1978, at the old MGM Grand (now Bally’s).
“For me, the first time I came from Europe I was the typical European who doesn’t know how to deal with Americans,” he says. “But after the second time I started to be in love with Las Vegas. It is a very happy place.”
He performed at Caesars Palace for 23 years. In more recent years he has performed at the Hilton.
Iglesias performs about 100 concerts worldwide each year.
“I am excited about Las Vegas,” he says. “No doubt, it is the No. 1 place on Earth for entertainment. In Las Vegas you can play for 50 different nationalities. It is very attractive, I can meet people from so many different places.”
He can probably sing to all of them in their native languages. In 1983 the Guinness World Book of Records recognized him for selling more records in more languages than any other musical artist in history (English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, French and Tagalog).
Iglesias has recorded more than 80 albums and sold more than 250 million units.
He says he owes his American audience, in part, to Willie Nelson. In 1984 they recorded “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” which became a Top 10 hit and sold more than 3 million copies.
“That, maybe, was the biggest step in my American career, without any doubt,” Iglesias says.
There could not be two more disparate characters — the suave, urbane European with the smooth voice ideal for romantic ballads and the gruff man of the earth who seems to have been cut out of sandpaper.
But, Iglesias says, they are close friends.
“I love him,” he says. “We have been together on many occasions. I have great admiration for the guy.”
Diplomatically, he says he doesn’t know if Nelson smokes marijuana — which has been noted in many stories.
“I don’t know,” he says. “Willie is a natural. When you’re a natural you can do everything because nothing gets in the way. Nothing detains you when you are a good guy, enjoying peace with your conscience — and I’m pretty sure Willie has that.”
These days Iglesias divides his time between raising his young family and jetting around the world to concerts.
His relaxation is performing.
“Let me explain to you something very important,” he says. “I need to be on stage. The passion is always there. It is very important to me. It is not a question of needing money for anything. I make more money sitting at my desk than singing. But if I stop singing, I die. What is my relaxation time? I don’t need relaxation time. I am a lucky man.”

(Source: Las Vegas Sun)