Monday, April 18, 2011

Julio in Windsor, Canada

Julio Iglesias
In Concert
Saturday, July 9th
Caesars Windsor
Windsor, Ontario Canada

Tickets on sale Friday, April 22 2011 at 12:00pm

More information here

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Fan joins Julio on stage in Calgary


A fan joins Julio on stage during "Divorcio" in Calgary on April 14th.

(Source: YouTube)

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Julio in Calgary (YouTube)


Julio performs in Calgary on April 14th, 2011

(Source: YouTube)

Friday, April 15, 2011

New Tour Dates

July 7- Toronto, Canada: Casino Orilla (Tickets on sale 4/18)
July 8- Toronto, Canada: Casino Orilla
(Tickets on sale 4/18)
July 14- San Antonio, TX: Majestic Theatre. (Tickets on sale 4/20)

(Source: www.ticketmaster.com)

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Calgary Newspaper Article

Iglesias hitting stride

Crooner says he's getting better with age

By Mike Bell, Calgary Herald April 9, 2011

Julio Iglesias performs Thursday at Century Casino.

A man gets married, it seems reasonable to congratulate him.

Especially when that man is singing legend Julio Iglesias and he has, after two decades in a relationship with model Miranda Rijnsburger -which has already produced three sons and twin daughters -finally made it official with a private ceremony late last year marking his second nuptials. (His first in the early '70s produced three other children, including pop star Enrique Iglesias.)

So, again, congratulations would seem to be in order.

"Congratulations for what?" Iglesias asks with a puckish laugh. "You know, I've been married for 20 years. Finally I sign a paper because my wife, she wanted me to sign it. And when I sign it, I lose half of the money . . .," he jokes before adding. "I adore her."

Adoration is something the 67-year-old Iglesias is well familiar with. It is what he receives all over the world thanks to a 40-year-plus career that's seen the Spanish crooner sell, according to his website, more than 200 million albums, while accumulating dozens of No. 1 hits in both the English and Latin-speaking industry, as well as awards and accolades from all parts of the globe.

Currently, he has embarked on yet another world tour, which will bring him back to Calgary for a show Thursday night at the Century Casino. Iglesias will perform familiar material such as Vincent (Starry, Starry Night), Me Va, Me Va and To All the Girls I've Loved Before with that smooth, smoldering voice that he says is still in fine form.

"My voice is better than yesterday," he says. "Crooners sing better even at the end of their lives. Only crooners. I was talking with Placido (Domingo) and when you sing opera you have to have the sense of the voice to the limits. When you sing rock 'n' roll you have to scream like crazy. But . . . crooning is much more in the style of the singing."

If that's the case, if Iglesias's croon has become even better, expect him to add to those career totals and accolades in the very near future. Later this year he'll re-record all of his favourites for a special collaboration with the Grammy Awards. The project marks his return to the studio after a long absence and something he's looking forward to -but not for the reasons you might think.

"That's a good thing . . . because after so many years it's good to record again the things that I did bad," he says, once more letting out a chuckle. "When you paint something, you paint for history. But when you sing something . . . you can sing, again, with the same meaning of the track, but different sounding."

Which brings up the question of why, with all that he's accomplished and all that he's accumulated over his career, he would feel the need to continue recording and performing live. "If not, I die," he says simply. "If you take away from me my passion for the music I die. I don't die physically, I die psychically, which is even worse."

And perhaps that mortality is something a little more important to him these days, considering the recent passing of his friend Elizabeth Taylor. While he admits her death was a sad and tragic occasion, he also sees it as cause for a more celebratory outlook.

"Elizabeth was a very close friend of mine for many years," he says. "We all pass away, and sometimes there is people like her where they pass away in a very beautiful way, because they stay, for history, with us. Her legend is stronger than her life. And it's amazing because she dies, and like Sinatra, like Elvis, like James Dean, like the Kennedys, like those legendary people, they pass away they are more alive than the others."

When it's put to him that it is a fate he, himself, seems destined for, Iglesias offers yet one more laugh. "I don't know if it would happen, the same thing," he says. "I don't really look for that, by the way."

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Julio can still inspire hoopla


IN CONCERT: Julio Iglesias

Where: River Rock Casino Resort, Red Robinson Show Theatre

When: Friday (River Rock) and Saturday (Red Robinson) at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $138-$291 at Ticketmaster

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Although he has made 77 albums and sung in 14 languages, to Julio Iglesias it means the same thing: Crooning.

“I’m crooning.” he explains. Simple as that. “Crooning is crooning. There is always room for change. It’s always discipline. I’m a singer, but my musical career is based on crooning.”

As a style, crooning implies romanticism, an unforced, intimate approach to singing. He follows in a tradition set as long ago as by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra (who also could belt out a tune), Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher and, to witness women melt, Iglesias is certainly a romantic figure. The only things that change around him are the size of his audience and the technology of recording.

“For me, the stage is nothing else but my passion,” Iglesias states. “In any case, the motivation for me is still my passion.

“Things are so much more sophisticated today,” he continues. “When I started out, I was thinking only to please my mother and father. When I discovered that other people liked it, then I made more, I tried harder.”

Iglesias is working on his 78th album. It will be re-recordings of older tunes.

“It is songs I used to do in the ’70s,” he explains. “It is my legacy.”

A hit such as “To All the Women I’ve Loved Before” made him one of the biggest international stars of the decade, long before Josh Groban travelled a similar route. He isn’t trying to replicate the ’70s as much as cast his “legacy” in a new light.

“Oh, I try to discover new situations and meet new people all the time,” he says of an ever-changing show that results in an ever-changing Julio.

On tour, he travels with an assembly of 35 musicians, singers and dancers, which suggests that his live show is as lush as his records. Yet he isn’t assuming that, as big as the show is and after 78 albums, everything now is comfortably predictable.

“No, I don’t think so,” the crooner says. “Whatever you do, there always is insecurity. You don’t know. You can’t take anything, like recording, for granted.”


Source: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Julio+still+inspire+hoopla/4557903/story.html#ixzz1IhBTMODs

New Canadian Tour Date

April 14, 2011- Calgary, AB Canada

More information available here