World-renowned Spanish romantic singer Julio Iglesias brings his current world tour, “Passion,” to Lake Charles. He will perform at 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, at the L’Auberge du Lac Event Center.
“Passion” was a key word in the vocabulary of the crooner when he spoke in a recent telephone interview.
“Passion is when the head and the heart are together,” he said. “For me, the passion is always there.”
He further explained his concept of passion as the feeling “when you see somebody, when you vote, when a wife cooks dinner for her husband.”
He said that singing was first a hobby for him. During the first 20 years of his career he was a “Hollywood singer. Now I sing with love and passion.”
Once he let the passion take over, it has been with him the remainder of his 42-year career. During that time he has released nearly 80 albums, which have sold around 300 million copies, a record for a single artist, his press material says.
In addition to Spanish, Iglesias has recorded albums in German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Tagalog and Japanese.
“If I don’t sing, I die —my heart dies and maybe I would physically die,” he said.
His current tour has taken him to Moscow and Canada. He comes to Lake Charles from a date in San Antonio and will move on to Bossier City after the L’Auberge gig. In the spring he completed a tour of Asia.
“I don’t understand life without touring,” he said. At age 67, “the road” doesn’t wear him down, especially with his own plane.
“I sleep in my own bed. I can travel 15 hours between continents and wake up fresh,” he said.
For him age is unimportant.
“I am young enough to sing,” he said. Besides, his father is 92 and has given him two brothers, one 6 and the other 7 years old.
Iglesias was born in Madrid.
His career began literally by accident. While he was studying law and playing goal keeper for a soccer team, he was in a car accident. The vehicle flipped over several times, he said, and he was left with serious injuries and a long recovery period. Someone gave him a guitar as an instrument for regaining dexterity in his hands, and it was natural to sing along with it.
After his recovery, he won an international singing and composition competition. Soon he was signed by Discos Columbia, the Spanish branch of Columbia Records.
He went on to represent Spain in a 1970 European song contest and earned fourth place.
He released his first record in 1975. A million copies of the single were sold in Germany alone.
Iglesias is married to Filipina journalist Isabel Preysler. The couple has three children, Chabeli Iglesias, Julio Iglesias Jr. and Enrique Iglesias. His sons have their own careers in modeling, music and acting.
For ticket information, visit www.ldlcasino.com or call the L’Auberge Business Center at 395-7569.
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