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CELEBRITY

Born May 8, 1975, Enrique is
the third son of singer Julio
Iglesias and his first wife,
Isabel Preysler. His parents
separated when he was 3.
Along with his older siblings,
María Isabel (Chábeli) and
Julio José, he grew up in
Madrid, where he was bap-
tized and received communion.
In 1982, he went to live with
his father in Miami, a city he
adores and considers home. getting all the attention, with the choirgirls
lining up for his autograph.
Little Enrique’s face was to become a
familiar one to ¡HOLA! readers throughout
the decade, and the future star was alre-
ady a globetrotter back then. At Easter
and Christmas, ¡HOLA! would accompany
him and his siblings Julio Jr. and Chábeli
from Spain to Miami, where they would
spend time with their father. During sum-
mers we’d see them vacationing with their
mother, Julio’s first wife Isabel Preysler,
in Marbella. Eventually, Miami was to
become home, with Enrique moving there
and enrolling in school. “Going home to
Miami is one of the things I love most in the
world,” he says. “I love the beach and the
ocean, the water. I grew up there. That’s
why I don’t speak English perfectly or
Spanish perfectly. I dream in both.”
One of those dreams was to follow in
his father’s footsteps. “Music is the only
thing I’ve ever wanted to do. I honestly
didn’t have a plan B,” he recalls.
“Through the ages of 10 to 14—especia-
lly 12 to 14, which is a tough age for a
kid; you’re going through a lot of chan-
ges—I realized that songwriting helped
me. It was like therapy.”
Though he could have turned to his
father for some tips, he never did. “By
the time I left home at the age of 18,
HOLA ARCHIVES there was nothing I needed to ask him.

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