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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 28 May 2018
Iglesias loves his fans, but misses family ‘like crazy’

By CARON CREIGHTON ing what I do, which is be-
Associated Press ing on stage and just be-
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Pop ing surrounded by my fans.
star Enrique Iglesias misses Those are the two things I
his newborn twins “like cra- love most in my life.”
zy.” But he says performing It was Iglesias’ fourth per-
for his fans is the next best formance in Israel. Artists,
thing to being home. including Iglesias, often
While the Spanish singer has come under pressure from
traditionally kept his per- a grassroots pro-Palestinian
sonal life private, he and his boycott movement not to
wife, former tennis player perform in Israel. But Iglesias
Anna Kournikova, took to said he never had second
social media last week to thoughts about coming to
share some rare photos the country.
and videos of themselves “I’ve sang in so many coun-
and their children. He said tries around the world dur-
he wanted to open up to ing conflicts, my music
his fans because they have is not about politics,” he
given him so much. said. “If my fans ask me to
“I don’t mind sharing part go to a place and there is
of my life with them,” he demand, I will be there no
told The Associated Press. matter what.”
“I always have, in a way, Iglesias’ most recent single,
through my music.” ‘Move to Miami’ was re-
Iglesias performed to near- leased in May. Iglesias has
ly 50,000 fans in Tel Aviv Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias performs on stage in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 27, 2018. been performing around
Sunday night. The crowd Associated Press Europe and South America,
cheered when Iglesias took companied by a show of love for the 43-year-old father alive.” and came to Israel follow-
to the stage, starting with lasers. Devoted fans wore pop star, and held signs “I miss my family like crazy,” ing a performance in Lju-
his song “I’m a Freak,” ac- T-shirts proclaiming their declaring him the “sexiest said Iglesias. “But I love do- bljana, Slovenia.q