Julio José Iglesias

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Julio José Iglesias, (born February 25, 1973 in Madrid, Spain) also known as Julio Iglesias Jr. is a pop singer from Spain. Julio is son of famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Hola! magazine journalist "La Filipina" Isabel Preysler. He is the brother of Chabeli Iglesias and Enrique Iglesias.

After the kidnapping of his grandfather in 1985, Julio José and his siblings (by his father's side) relocated from Madrid to Miami. The Iglesias family lived in one of Miami's most famous mansions, and were constantly hounded by paparazzi.

Julio José with the help of his friend and manager Darius Jordi Lassus first got into show business as a model. It was his manager that negotiated an exclusive male modeling agreement with Joey Hunter, the president at the time of the Male Model division at the Ford Models Agency in New York. It was thru Joey Hunter, that Julio Jose got spotted by photographer Bruce Weber, he went on to campaign for Versace. He also was featured in an advertisement for Gap, and he modeled for designer John Bartlett.

Julio José went to college near San Francisco at Menlo College in Atherton, California. He won a chance to participate in NBC's Out of the Blue, and he was contracted by the Travel Channel, where he hosted a "MOSAICO" travel show that took him across Latin America.

Next, he was offered two soap opera jobs, one at Televisa and one in the famous soap, All My Children. Julio José decided to turn those two jobs down because he wanted to focus on his music, which he says he has been writing since he was little.

After signing the biggest ever recording agreement for an unknown artist with Epic Records, reported to be worth $35 million, he returned to Miami where he began to record his first album, Under My Eyes, with Rodolfo Castillo. Released in 1999 the recording of this album took them to New York and Los Angeles; two songs released from this English language album are "One More Chance" and "Under My Eyes". Among promotional appearances for the album Iglesias performed "One More Chance" at the Miss Universe Pangeant and opened for Cher on her tour of North America. After the album failed to garner public interest he was dropped from Epic Records

Iglesias's second album, Tercera Dimension, was released in 2003 on the Warner Music Latina label and featured Spanish pop-rock songs with the singles "Los Demas" and "Dejame Volar".

Both CDs received a lot of attention from the Hispanic media in the United States but neither succeeded in attaining commercial or critical success.