Enrique Iglesias releases first bilingual album
NEW YORK (AP) — Enrique Iglesias has always lived a bilingual life, but musically, his English and Spanish worlds remained separate.
The Latin heartthrob would release an album to satisfy his Spanish-speaking fans, and then another for the English pop world. But this week, with the release of Eurphoria, he has finally combined both for the first bilingual album in his 15 year-old career.
“This album has everything. Is undoubtedly the most eclectic album I have ever done,” Iglesias said in a recent interview.
Iglesias, 35, was born in Madrid and raised in Miami. He said that artistically, he needed to create a bilingual production.
“I was raised speaking ‘Spanglish.’ I have always written in English and in Spanish, I think in English and in Spanish, I dream in English and in Spanish. The timely moment didn’t arrive before … (But) this moment asked me for it creatively,” he explained.
The album, which Iglesias worked on for three years, includes tropical ballads, reggae, dance and pop. Iglesias, whose hits include the pop songs Hero and Bailamos, also recorded songs with Akon, Nicole Sherzinger, Usher and Puerto Rican duo Wisin & Yandel. Each of these collaborations, he said, “had its grace and its magic”.
One of his favourite songs from the album is the reggae One Day At A Time, with singer Akon.
