He has sold over 12 million albums in the US. His mother is a Filipina (of mainly Spanish ancestry) and his father is of Spanish ancestry from Galicia. As his father’s career kept him on the road, the young Iglesias was raised by the family nanny. The record sold half a million copies in its first week, a rare accomplishment then for an album recorded in a language other than English. This was followed by a larger world tour of over eighty shows in even bigger venues. The song “Nunca te Olvidaré” was also used as the theme music for a Spanish soap opera of the same name and he sang the song himself on the last episode of the series. Where most of the Latin crossover acts of the previous year experienced some difficulty matching the record sales of their first English language albums, Iglesias actually went on to sell even more.
