"I divorced Sony two years ago and (now) I've gone back and remarried her," Iglesias joked.
Iglesias has begun the work of remixing and "contemporising" 46 iconic songs from his huge discography, which comprises 38 albums.
"And covering all that distance, if Elvis were 65-years-old and they gave him the chance to redo 40 or 50 songs on which he didn't like how he sounded, he'd do it," Iglesias said. "Like tennis players who play better at 27 than at 17, I've learned to sing a little bit in the last 15 years of my life." "I think I sang very badly in the first 20 or 25 years of my career," Iglesias said. The international launch of the new album, which is expected next March, could collect around 46 songs and would have another version in Portuguese with about half that number. Julio Iglesias is once again taping his greatest hits.
Iglesias has begun the work of remixing and "contemporising" 46 iconic songs from his huge discography, which comprises 38 albums. "And covering all that distance, if Elvis were 65-years-old and they gave him the chance to redo 40 or 50 songs on which he didn't like how he sounded, he'd do it," Iglesias said. "Like tennis players who play better at 27 than at 17, I've learned to sing a little bit in the last 15 years of my life.". "I think I sang very badly in the first 20 or 25 years of my career," Iglesias said. Julio Iglesias is once again taping his greatest hits. The question of marriage invariably pops up. On the homefront, Iglesias insists all is well in his 10-year relationship with 28-year-old Miranda Rijnsburger, who is the mother of his two youngest sons, Miguel, 2, and Rodrigo, 1. The singer, who generally lets loose a tidal wave of Spanish passion when discussing his work, seems almost subdued on this fall morning when he talks of the album, adding only that he's "happy that the company wants to do 10 albums more." It's a little more rhythmic, but I will always have time to go back to ballads." "But it was sometimes hard to step back and not be so much in the studio. I felt like a grandfather," he says, laughing. "These young kids were so wonderful to work with they move like crazy, always rhythm, always rhythm. He admits it was both a pleasure and somewhat difficult. With the likes of Rosa and Sanz at the producing helm, the project also meant that Iglesias had, for the first time in his career, less control over the entire project. Still, the album would never have happened were it not for Tomas Munoz at Sony, who urged Iglesias to team up with the stable of young Latin music megastars. That the album also featured the producing talents of Robi Rosa didn't hurt, either. "When you write a song, you have to tell something about you, you have to say something that is inside you," Iglesias says. The album also marked the first time in 15 years that Iglesias returned to songwriting, a process he calls "very personal." Latin charts) is surprisingly young at heart, featuring a lush duet with Mexican pop heartthrob Alejandro Fernandez, a cover of Alejandro Sanz' megahit Corazon Partio, and several tracks penned by Latin hitmakers Estefano and Ruben Blades. The critically acclaimed album (it peaked at No. leg of the tour earlier this month, which brings him to Ruth Eckerd Hall for concerts Friday and Wednesday nights. Having just returned from a summerlong tour of Europe on the heels of his latest album, Noche de Cuatro Lunas (Columbia), he embarked on the U.S. _ Iglesias is an icon in the business, perhaps one of only a handful of "older" singers holding his own with the record companies and fans. With 77 albums to his credit (more than 250-million units sold worldwide) and two very famous offspring _ as in Enrique and Julio Jr. The stylish Iglesias has done much more than survive after 30 years in the music business. For an artist to survive after 20 or 30 years is like a wine that survives in a bottle after 20 or 30 years it has great balance, great discipline, great style." And continuing his fabulous way with words, he adds, "Wine is like music, like a singer.
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