JULIO IGLESIAS BRINGS CLASSIC SOUND TO SILVER LEGACY
Popular Performer Returns To Downtown Resort
Reno, Nevada (September 14, 2007) - Grammy Award winning Julio Iglesias is Spain's best-selling singer of all time and has sold over 250 million records worldwide, released 77 albums and performed more than 5,000 concerts. He returns to the Grande Exposition Hall inside Silver Legacy Resort Casino on November 9th at 9 p.m.
In 1968 Iglesias signed with Columbia Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia and notable albums from this decade include A Flor de Piel (1974), El Amor (1975) and Soy (1978). In 1978 he signed a contract with CBS International, adding English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian to his language repertoire. Iglesias released the album De Nina a Mujer in 1981, from which he had his first hit in the English market with a Spanish cover of "Begin the Beguine"
In 1984 he released the smash hit album 1100 Bel Air Place, which gave him considerable fame in English-language markets. The album sold three million albums in the US alone, with the first single "To All The Girls I've Loved Before," a duet with Willie Nelson, reaching the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also featured "All Of You," a hit duet with Diana Ross.
Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop in 1988 for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Man Alone"). He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love" from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988. Stories of Julio's expensive private jets, boats and houses became legendary during that decade and his world tours took him to many countries and continents around the world performing in many sold out concerts among the vast female population.
In the 1990's Iglesias went back to his Spanish music roots and in 1996 released Tango and again returned to the headlines in 2003 with the release of the Spanish album Divorcio. In it's first days the album sold a record 350,000 copies in Spain and quickly reached the #1 spot on the charts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Russia.
In September 2006 a new English album Romantic Classics was released. "I've chosen songs from the '60's, '70's and '80's that I believe will come to be regarded as the new standards," Iglesias says in the album's sleeve notes. The album features the hits "I Want To Know What Love Is," "Careless Whisper" and "Right Here Waiting."
Romantic Classics was Julio's highest debut on the Billboard charts entering at #31 in the United States and in late September he returned to the studio to record songs in Bahasa Indonesian and in Filipino for the Asian releases of Romantic Classics. He promoted the album heavily in 2006 and was seen all over the world on popular TV shows and in the United States where he appeared on ABC's Dancing With The Stars where he sang his hit "I Want To Know What Love Is."
Tickets to see Julio Iglesias perform are $80, $70 and $55 and can be purchased online at silverlegacy.com and ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-MUST-SEE or 775-325-7401 or by visiting the Box Office located on the main casino floor.
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