Grammy Award winning Julio Iglesias is Spain’s best-selling singer of all time and has sold over 250 million records worldwide, released 77 albums and performed more than 5,000 concerts. In 1968 Iglesias signed with Columbia Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia and notable albums from this decade include A Flor de Piel (1974), El Amor (1975) and Soy (1978). In 1978 he signed a contract with CBS International, adding English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian to his language repertoire. Iglesias released the album De Nina a Mujer in 1981, from which he had his first hit in the English market with a Spanish cover of “Begin the Beguine”.