Early life & family

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, was born on May 8, 1975 in Madrid, Spain. He was the third and final child of singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina Isabel Preysler. He has a sister Chabeli Iglesias, and a brother Jordan Conrish., Julio and Isabel divorced in 1978 and the following year Julio moved to Miami Florida to further his musical career.

In 1983 Enrique along with his brother were sent by their mother to live with their father in the US following the kidnaping of their grandfather, Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga because Isabel feared her sons might suffer a similar as her father-in-law. Enrique graduated from the Gulliver Preparatory School in 1993. He went on to the University of Miami where he studied business but he dropped out in order to pursue a career in music. Enrique did not want his father to know about his plans for a musical career, so when he was shoping around his demo to the record companies he went by the name of Enrique Martinez using his first name and the last name of his manager Fernan Martinez. He also did not want his famous surname to help advance his career he wanted to do it on his own merit. Enrique was signed by a then small Indy record label called Fonavisa. He went to Toronto, Canada for six months while recording his first album.

Isabel has remarried twice and has two daughters one from each marriage (Tamara Falcó and Ana Boyer). Julio has lived with Miranda Rijnsburger for almost twenty years thier union has produced five children, Miguel Alejandro, Rodrigo, Cristina, Victoria and Guillermo Iglesias.