Where has Enrique Iglesias been hiding these last few years?
July 1st, 2007 by Sam
The Latin heartthrob, who saw his star rise earlier this decade with the crossover success of such songs as “Hero” and “Escape,” all but disappeared from the spotlight except for tabloid speculation about his romantic relationship with tennis pinup Anna Kournikova.
Iglesias, 32, has a decent excuse for his self-imposed hiatus. After a string of back-to-back records, the singer devoted three years to work on his latest disc, “Insomniac,” released this month. It has 15 songs featuring typical Iglesias come-ons (”On Top of You”) and lovelorn laments (”Wish I Was Your Lover”). But he also takes a musical detour by adding rock and hip-hop sensibilities.
He samples a reggaeton beat and pingpong ball sound effects for good measure.
Iglesias said It’s not that I wanted to make a musical change. It’s not that I wanted to make a more profound album. I just wanted to write songs and pick the best ones. It’s as simple as that.
He also said you know, every single musician out there, no matter what they tell you, we all want to have a hit song. I’d be a liar if I told you I don’t. But the main thing is to have fun with it and to truly, truly believe in it. … I can’t wake up at 5 in the morning and do `Regis and Kelly’ and do the `Today’ show and do every single show around the world every single day and not believe in what I’m doing.