Julio Iglesias is one of the most representative figures of music in Spain. The Madrid singer has a long and successful career behind him, despite starting in the most accidental way. While recovering from a fateful accident in 1962, which cost him his career as a goalkeeper in the Real Madrid reserve team, he found relief playing the guitar and, convinced by friends and acquaintances, he would end up winning the Benidorm Festival in 1968.
Although that was more than six decades ago, the artist remains on the crest of the wave, and this week he is celebrating. Next Saturday Iglesias will turn 80, a figure that he wanted to celebrate through a heartfelt letter in the magazine that discovered him: HELLO! A celebration that has been echoed by Let’s See, Joaquín Prat’s program on Telecinco, where Alessandro Lequio has left some surprising statements regarding the writing.
“I always say that I don’t believe in destiny, but I believe in circumstances. I was not born to be a singer; In reality, I don’t know why I was born, but I have had many circumstances in my life that have changed everything. First I played for Real Madrid, the team of my life, at the same time I studied Law at the University, then I almost died, but I lived again; Then, a guitar changed my life forever and I started singing, certainly not very well, and I also started writing songs,” said Iglesias.
“HOLA!, my soul magazine, believed in me, and gave me my first cover in 1971. 52 years have passed and, from that day until today, it has not stopped helping me in my career. I am turning 80 and my gratitude and that of my family is forever,” Iglesias concluded. Lequio brought to the table of collaborators a vital detail about the matter, and that is that none of the photographs published in the article were from recent times.
“Julio is, has been and will be number one. Now, for him to celebrate his eightieth birthday with a letter and using archive photos, it means that things are not very good. The feeling I have is that we will not see him ‘naturally’ again,” expressed the aristocrat. His fellow guests did not seem to follow his line, indicating that the real reason was his lack of desire for big celebrations, to relive those concerts in which he needed help.
The aristocrat has had a busy morning on the Telecinco program. Just in the previous segment, a few minutes earlier, Lequio once again criticized one of his favorite targets: Isabel Preysler, in a conversation related to his being single. “I see her very subdued. I’m not saying that out of malice. They no longer have the glamor that Mario Vargas Llosa gave them. It’s like that. Mario enhanced in every way. You even believed that he was smarter than he is,” he pointed out.
