While many artists lament the wear and tear of the tours that take them away from home for months, the Madrid native fills him with energy, although he admits that he has to take care of himself.
His previous routine includes “be quiet”take a tea with ginger and review with your team that everything is in order, bill. And after two hours of intensity on stage, what he wants is to have a “good rum among friends in each city”.
Between concert and concert, he explained, he tries to sleep as much as he can because the adrenaline he spends on each of them “is equivalent to three days in the gym”, although, as it is more “fun” than work, he says he would be over the stage every day.
Enrique Iglesias considers himself a “brave” of music and, like Pitbull, with whom he begins a new tour in the United States this weekend in Chicago, he is a “wolf” of entertainment.
The singer of one of the summer’s hits, “Súbeme la radio,” explained in an interview with Efe that it is important for him to evolve and dare to do new things and “expand the artistic core without egos or insecurities.”
In this process of searching for rhythms, he points out, both he and the Cuban-born musician are “two wolves”, the first to mix pop with the urban genre, a fusion that has become a phenomenon that today has the world dancing to the rhythm of Latin music.
However, Iglesias avoids the term pioneer in this trend, although it was his own father, Julio Iglesias, who recently highlighted his work in creating a combination that Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee repeated in “Despacito”, which leads the charts in countries such as the US, Canada, Germany and France.
“I consider myself a brave man who has fought hard to stay alive. A brave man who began composing ballads and who crossed over to ‘dance,'” he says.
For the singer from Madrid there lies the “secret”, in “not being afraid and not stopping”, going from singing bachatas with Juan Luis Guerra and Romeo Santos to venturing out, creating new options with urban musicians like Zion and Lennox, his latest collaboration.
That is his desire, to reinvent himself, to “develop his sense of smell and continue looking for that song that makes a difference to people.”
In his campaign to achieve successes to those already achieved with “El Perdón” or “El Corazón”, he adds 24 songs in the 100 songs of the Billboard chart since “Bailamos”, in 1999.
In addition, he has 27 entries on the most popular Latin music charts, including “Bailando” with Gente de Zona and Descemer Bueno, which spent 41 weeks on
Despite his long experience, he feels that “he is just beginning” and that every day he feels like a “different artist”, because “tastes change, new rhythms come out, new fusions are made” and he wants to “experience it all”.
That desire to progress is what led him to invite Pitbull for the third time to do a joint tour, in which, he says, they are going to “throw the house out the window” after touring part of the world together in 2012 with the tour “Euphoria ” and two years later in the American part of “SEX & LOVE”.
“He’s a great guy and we have many things in common,” says Iglesias about his partner on a tour that begins this Saturday in Chicago and will have 35 stops, including two in Los Angeles and as many in New York, Houston, Toronto and Miami. .
In total, he expects more than 450,000 spectators on this tour, which is presented as a preview of his new album.
The spearhead of the tour is “Súbeme la radio”, which has been at the top of Spotify for weeks and has more than 350 million views on YouTube, and of which he launched a new version with CNCO, a youth group that They will accompany as opening act.
“I always like to invite colleagues on my tours, from Paulina Rubio and Aventura to Wisin y Yandel, Prince Royce, Romeo, JBalvin, Jennifer López and now it’s up to the CNCO boys,” he recalled.
