In 2001 he released the follow-up, Escape.
It achieved gold or platinum status in 32 countries and brought his global album sales to a total of more than 23 million. Then came Enrique, his first Interscope album and first in English. With 1998′s Cosas del Amor, Iglesias moved to more mature content his earlier material had been written when he was 17 years old. was his biggest market.) He also won the 1996 Grammy for Best Latin Performer, 1996′s Billboard Artist of the Year, Billboard’s Album of the Year for Vivir, two American Music Awards, a World Music Award, eight Premio Lo Nuestro awards, two ACE Performer of the Year awards, and ASCAP prizes for Best Composer of 19, in addition to countless accolades around the world. In a mere three years, Iglesias had sold more than 17 million Spanish-language albums, more than anyone else during that period. The second album, Vivir (1997), enjoyed global sales of more than five million discs and launched his first world tour, backed by sidemen for Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel. That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1995), sold more than a million copies in three months (it earned him his first gold record in Portugal in a mere seven days) and to date has sold more than six million worldwide. Then he flew to Toronto, where no one knew him and he could concentrate just on music, to record for five months.
It wasn’t until he earned a record deal with Fonovisa that Enrique told his father and mother of his aspirations. In 1995, he sang in person for his soon-to-be manager, who at Iglesias’ insistence of not wanting to use his family name, first shopped his demos as an unknown Central American singer named Enrique Martinez. After a year studying business at the University of Miami, he decided to follow his passion for music. He made his singing debut in a production of Hello, Dolly, after which he began practicing his singing without his parents knowing.
Iglesias’ own career started when he was still attending Gulliver Private School, a very prestigious school in Miami.
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