Enrique Miguel Preysler Iglesias was born on born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain. A Spanish singer of Asian and European ancestry (his Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family). He is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina journalist Isabel Preyslet. He was named after his deceased uncle, Enrique Preysler, who died in Hong Kong due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Enrique started his career on an Indie label called FONOVOSIA and later became the most popular artist in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States. He is the best-selling Spanish Language artist of the last decade. Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover into the mainstream English market and signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums. He has had five Billboard Chart #1s singles in English and holds the record for most ever Spanish language #1s on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks with seventeen. He is also the best selling Latin act in UK as well the Best Selling International Artist in India. Enrique has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguably justifying the label his record company gave him as 'best selling Spanish artist in the world".