A Julio Iglesias ballad of love is meant to be felt, not just heard. My voice is trained but I do sing with much feeling. "A lot of trained singers don't sound good because they don't sing with feeling. "Singing is an expression of emotions, feelings," Julio once said in a Los Angeles interview. The passion, the imagery and the poetry that gush forth from Julio's love songs in those languages seem impossible to capture in English. Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese - appropriately called the romance languages - are languages of love. Julio is far more fluent in English nowadays - he is even taking lessons from a private tutor - but some of the words in his English songs are difficult to understand.Īnd there is another side to the language barrier. The language barrier is part of the story.
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Reagan in Washington for a Christmas TV special.īut for all his triumphs and pictures in the White House, Julio, in the United States, does not evoke the same kind of name recognition or fan adulation of, say, a Frank Sinatra or a Bruce Springsteen. News and World Report and joined President and Mrs. Julio has appeared on Solid Gold and The Merv Griffin Show, graced the cover of U.S. There is no telling, of course, what Julio and his high-powered public relations machine might be able to accomplish in the next 10 years.Īlready his first North American tour played before 750,000 people in 69 sold-out concerts in 37 cities in 1983-84. "Don't think that I am a successful guy in America. "Success? No, no, no, I am still just trying to work in America," Julio told the Chicago Tribune recently. America, from his upcoming album, describes the dreams and hopes of people coming to America. The title of his newest hit single, America, is no coincidence. But the pieces de resistance will be Julio's new songs, being introduced to the public before his second all-English album is released. The shows will include a comedy act by Roseanne Barr, a chunky 33-year-old housewife from Denver who has appeared with Julio on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Music fans in South Florida, where Julio owns a $3 million home, can see him perform at the Sunrise Musical Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and at Miami Knight Center the nights of Oct. He is the midst of his second North American tour, in which he will visit 45 cities in 130 days and will perform in, among other places, Caesars Palace, Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl. So having conquered the rest of the world, Julio, who turned 43 last month, seems obsessed with really making it in his adopted country, the United States.
Yet the Julio-who? jokes have not entirely stopped in this country, and many American listeners seem to know him best for his duets with Willie Nelson (To All the Girls I've Loved Before ) and Diana Ross (All of You ).Ĭan you, for example, name the rest of the songs from his million-selling album 1100 Bel Air Place? Every 30 seconds, his publicists claim, one of Julio's songs is played on a radio station somewhere around the world.
Is there any singer anywhere who can top that?Īs Barbara Walters said on television in 1984, Julio is "the biggest solo recording artist ever" in the world. More than 100 million records sold, 965 gold records, 350 platinum records, more than 2,200 live concerts, about 800 TV appearances in 69 countries, 57 albums and 340 recorded songs in seven languages. Julio's voice is smooth, harmonious, forever romantic and soft - at times so soft that you might think, if only for a moment, that you too could sing as well as he does.īut let's be objective about Julio, and let the numbers speak for themselves: Every day I must have an hour of Julio Iglesias music, and every day the music stays with me, lives with me, embedded in my brain, transporting me to a world of musical fantasy.Īnd then there is the voice. I simply can't listen to just one song at a time. Julio's melodies - he composes many of them himself - are haunting, catchy, contagious. But more important, the man is his music.
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