That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1995), sold more than a million copies in three months (it earned him his first gold record in Portugal in a mere seven days) and to date has sold more than six million worldwide. Then he flew to Toronto, where no one knew him and he could concentrate just on music, to record for five months. It wasn’t until he earned a record deal with Fonovisa that Enrique told his father and mother of his aspirations. In 1995, he sang in person for his soon-to-be manager, who at Iglesias’ insistence of not wanting to use his family name, first shopped his demos as an unknown Central American singer named Enrique Martinez. After a year studying business at the University of Miami, he decided to follow his passion for music. He made his singing debut in a production of Hello, Dolly, after which he began practicing his singing without his parents knowing. Iglesias’ own career started when he was still attending Gulliver Private School, a very prestigious school in Miami.
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