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Birth Name:
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler
Birth Place:
Madrid, Spain
Date of Birth:
May 8, 1975
Ethnicity:
Spanish, Basque, Jewish and Filipino
Enrique Iglesias was born to Spanish singer, Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler, a Filipino celebrity. Isabel Preysler also has Spanish ancestry as she was born into a Spanish-Mestizo family in the Philippines. His father Julio is also half Jewish.
He has written songs in both Spanish and English.
Source:
- http://www.famouslikeme.com/97474/article.html
- http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=154358
- http://www.manilatimes.net/
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he is good looking
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Why is everybody so hung up on whether someone looks like the nationality they claim to be? I came to this site because I’m proud to be Filipino Canadian. I consider myself to be pure Filipino because I was born to two Filipino parents. But I don’look like it. I’m usually mistaken for a Mexican.
Most Filipinos are aware that pure Filipino blood is a rarity due to the Spanish occupation and the US military occupation in the Philippines. I have distant Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and German blood, but the last ten or so generations of ancestry are mostly Filipino.
Who cares how they look. Just be proud. I am.
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WOW HE HAS SOME GREAT MIXS IN HIM
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Just letting you all know that if you go to the philippines, most of us look almost Hispanic. We don’t look that oriental since the spaniards reigned our country for over 500 years!. 2nd of all, we are PACIFIC ISLANDERS. Filipinos are a whole different thing. That’s why Enrique doesn’t show Asian blood but it’s very common in the Philippines that FILIPINOS look Spanish.. If his mom was Japanese, Chinese or any other oriental descent, you would definitely see Asian in him since their blood is much stronger than Filipino, which really blends in more with foreign blood…for example, if you see half white/Spanish, Chinese, or half white/Spanish Japanese or korean etc, you can definitely still tell the asian very strongly.. But with Filipino (softer blood) you can’t really see it. It’s like blending mocha with creme, rather than red and white…
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I do not think that is true about all people in the Philippines looking Hispanic i think its a thing Filipinos like to think they have a lot of Spanish blood i dont know why
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Her mother is a very famous celebrity in Spain, always considered among the most elegant women in the spanish papers. She is philipino, but has lived in Spain since she was a teen, where she met and married the spanish singer Julio Iglesias. Enrique’s brother, julio, has inherited more from her mother’s asian side, but enrique has not, definitely.
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Wow i taught he was just Spanish.Did not know he was other race aswell.Do not really see any Asian in him he is still hot though,
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