Julio Iglesias has turned 80 and all the media focus has been directed towards him to review his career and personal life. Known worldwide for his music, the Madrid artist of Galician descent has won numerous awards in the recording industry, such as the Grammy, the Latin Grammy, the Billboard Award or the World Music Award, and has been credited as the most successful Latin singer. of history.
Of his eight offspring, the only one who has followed in his footsteps to musical success has been Enrique Iglesias, who hit it big in 2014 with the song Bailando or in 2017 with Súbeme la radio. What could have seemed like a good bond between father and son, however, became the root of discord.
Enrique, who wanted to learn everything possible from his father, wanted to start his musical career without telling him. According to his version, he did not want to use favoritism and contacts because he belonged to the family that he belonged to. For this reason, the young man asked the nanny who had raised them for 500 euros to produce the demo of Si tú te vas, the hit with which he introduced himself to the world of music.
When Julio Iglesias discovered what his son had done behind his back, he was furious. This was confirmed by Enrique’s older sister, Chábeli Iglesias, in the special Blood Ties on TVE that they dedicated to the birthday boy: “Not knowing it bothered my father. Let’s say it like this. Not knowing it was the most difficult point.”
In fact, Enrique himself confessed in an interview years ago that they had a fight on the phone in which Julio told him that he was “crazy”, that he was the one who was “in music” and that he was not going to “get anything” without him. After that conversation, he explained the young man, he “packed his bags” and left “home.”
Julio Iglesias is, according to his own son Julio José, a very “competitive” man who wanted to “remain number one” and, therefore, the situation remained more than tense for an entire decade. The only sign of rapprochement that Enrique and Julio had did not occur until the son, exhausted, went to a concert of his father in Marbella.
