
Pour autant, Enrique n'en vise pas moins, comme son illustre père, la gent féminine. Il dispose a priori des mêmes atouts: un charisme certain, un physique de latin lover, une gueule d'ange ! Bref, Iglesias Jr ne peut pas laisser insensible...
Miami
Né à Madrid en 1975, il suit sa famille à Miami sept ans plus tard. C'est là bas, à l'âge de vingt ans qu'il entame sa carrière musicale.
Il commet plusieurs albums de chansons espagnoles avant de s'attaquer en 1999 au marché anglo-saxon du disque. Fruit d'un long travail d'écriture et de composition, son album Enrique se vend à plus de six millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. La machine est lancée et la relève semble assurée !
Chantant aussi bien en anglais qu'en espagnol, il est récompensé par une multitude de trophées: Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, World Music Awards...
Bailamos
Enrique Iglesias s'impose sur la scène internationale à un moment où la musique latine est en plein boom, grâce également à des artistes comme Ricky Martin.
Les singles Bailamos et Rhythm Divine lui permettent de vendre des millions de disques et de se faire définitivement un prénom.
Il participe par ailleurs à la musique du film "Wild Wild West", avec Will Smith, en 2000. Il chante également en duo avec Whitney Houston (Could I Have This Kiss Forever ?).
Anna Kournikova
Pendant la préparation de son opus suivant, il fait la connaissance de la joueuse de tennis Anna Kournikova. Il tombe immédiatement sous le charme de la bimbo russe... qu'il épousera en 2004.
Côté chanson, il supervise lui même la production de son album Escape en 2001. Le bel Ibère ne change rien à ses bonnes habitudes en distillant une belle alchimie de pop, de dance et de guitares andalouses. Succès garanti.
C'est justement avec ses racines qu'Enrique renoue l'année suivante en publiant un disque tout en espagnol, Quizas. Mais sur son album 7, à la fin de l'année 2003, ces sonorités s'effacent quelque peu au profit d'une pop plus dans l'air du temps. Sans doute la production de Jimmy Iovine (U2, Eurythmics, Dire Straits) y est elle pour beaucoup
children
Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, 17 October 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This white rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999 with a controversial take on the horrorcore genre. Mathers endured an itinerant childhood, living with his mother in various states before eventually ending up in Detroit at the age of 12. He took up rapping in high school before dropping out in ninth grade, joining ad hoc groups Basement Productions, the New Jacks, and D12. The newly named Eminem released a raw debut album in 1997 through independent label FBT. Infinite was poorly received, however, with Eminem earning unfavourable comparisons to leading rappers such as Nas and AZ. His determination to succeed was given a boost by a prominent feature in Source's Unsigned Hype column, and he gained revenge on his former critics when he won the Wake Up Show's Freestyle Performer Of The Year award, and finished runner-up in Los Angeles' annual Rap Olympics. The following year's The Slim Shady EP, named after his sinister alter-ego, featured some vitriolic attacks on his detractors. The stand-out track, "Just Don't Give A fuck", became a highly popular underground hit, and led to guest appearances on MC Shabaam Sahddeq's "Five Star Generals" single and Kid Rock's Devil Without A Cause set. As a result, Eminem was signed to Aftermath Records by label boss Dr. Dre, who adopted the young rapper as his protege and acted as co-producer on Eminem's full-length debut. Dre's beats featured prominently on The Slim Shady LP, a provocative feast of violent, twisted lyrics, with a moral outlook partially redeemed by Eminem's claim to be only "voicing" the thoughts of the Slim Shady character. Parody or no parody, lyrics to tracks such as "97 Bonnie & Clyde" (which contained lines about killing the mother of his child) and frequent verbal outbursts about his mother were held by many, outside even the usual Christian moral majority, to be deeply irresponsible. The album was buoyed by the commercial success of the singles "My Name Is" and "Guilty Conscience" (the former helped by a striking, MTV-friendly video), and climbed to number 2 on the US album chart in March 1999.
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