Afterwards, he said of those years, "I had more courage and attitude than talent." These were sorely tested when he was involved in that car crash-it smashed his lower spine his legs were permanently weakened as a direct result, and they still required therapy several years later. His professional football career was ruined when he was involved in a serious automobile accident, due to which he was unable to walk for two years. In the earliest years of his young adulthood, he was a goalkeeper for Real Madrid Castilla. He alternated playing professional football with studying law at the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. The name "Iglesias" translates as "churches " likewise, Iglesias is of Jewish ancestry from his maternal side, having mentioned that his mother's family name, "de la Cueva y Perignat," meaning literally "of the cave," referring to Jewish people in hiding, is a very common Jewish name. His maternal grandparents were José de la Cueva y Orejuela (1887-1955), and Dolores de Perignat y Ruiz de Benavides, who was a native of Puerto Rico. Iglesias's paternal ancestry comes from Galicia, his paternal grandparents were named Manuela Puga Noguerol and Ulpiano Iglesias Sarria. He is the son of Julio Iglesias, Sr., a medical doctor from Ourense who became one of the youngest gynecologists in the country, and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat (1919-2002). Julio Iglesias' vast album sales and sprawling body of work made him a legendary figure in the history of Latin music.Born Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva on 23 September 1943 in Madrid. market remained out of his reach until 1983, when a compilation of his best work was sold via television commercial it was quickly trumped by the runaway success of 1100 Bel Air Place (1984), which featured his most unlikely hit, a duet with Willie Nelson on "To All the Girls I've Loved Before." He remained a remarkably popular performer around the globe, as well as a dominant figure on the Latin pop charts in the United States, even more so than his sons Enrique and Julio, Jr., both of whom followed in their father's footsteps. By the mid-1970s, Iglesias had established himself as a force on the European and South American pop scenes, as well as a fearless interpreter of established American hit songs.
Cynics initially dismissed Iglesias as a musical Lothario who relied as much on his good looks as his voice, but audiences around the globe hung on each new song, which he began recording in 1968. Arguably one of the most popular singers around the globe for over four decades, Spanish-born crooner Julio Iglesias sold over 300 million records worldwide on the strength of his romantic ballads in a half-dozen languages.
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