About Julio Iglesias Jr. Julio Iglesias, Jr. (born February 25, 1973) is a Spanish singer. In 2008, he was declared the winner of the CMT competition Gone Country.Iglesias Jr. was born in Madrid, Spain, the son of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite and Hola! magazine journalist Isabel Preysler. He is the brother of Chabeli Iglesias and the older brother of Enrique Iglesias. His parents divorced in 1978 and in the 1980s, Iglesias Jr. and his siblings moved to Miami in the United States, to live with their father. Iglesias Jr. went to college near San Francisco at Menlo College in Atherton, California. He won a chance to participate in NBC's Out of the Blue and he worked for the Travel Channel, where he hosted a travel show that took him to Latin America.