Enrique Iglesias
Iglesias in 2007, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Date of Birth: 8 May, 1975
Ethnicity: Galician, Puerto Rican/Spanish [Andalusian, Castilian, Valencian], Filipino [Kapampangan], distant French, possibly distant Austrian
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish-born singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and cartoonist. He has written songs in both Spanish and English.
His father, Julio Iglesias (Julio José de la Cueva Iglesias), is a Spanish singer, with Spanish and Galician Spanish ancestry. His mother, Isabel Preysler (Maria Isabel Arrastia Preysler), is a Filipino journalist, socialite, and television host. Isabel’s ancestry is Spanish and Filipino [Kapampangan], with possible, distant, Austrian roots. After his grandfather was kidnapped by armed Basque group ETA, Enrique was raised mostly outside Spain, particularly Miami, Florida.
Enrique has three children with his partner, Russian tennis player and model Anna Kournikova. His half-sister is socialite and television personality Tamara Falcó.
Enrique’s father has stated that he has, or that he thinks he has, some degree of Sephardi Jewish ancestry on his own mother’s (Enrique’s paternal grandmother’s) side. It is not clear if this ancestry has been documented/verified. Julio’s recent ancestors were not Jewish.
Enrique’s paternal grandfather was Julio Iglesias Puga (the son of Ulpiano Iglesias Sarriá and Manuela Puga Noguerol). Julio was born in Ourense, Province of Ourense, Galicia, Spain, and was a prominent gynecologist. Ulpiano was the son of Juan Iglesias and Carmen Sarria. Manuela was the daughter of Elías Puga de la Torre and Elisa Noguerol Buján.
Enrique’s paternal grandmother was María del Rosario de la Cueva y de Perignat (the daughter of José de la Cueva y de Orejuela and Dolores Perignat y Ruiz de Benavides). José was the son of Manuel de la Cueva y Campo Redondo and Rosario de Orejuela y Prieto. Enrique’s great-grandmother Dolores was evidently born in Guayama, Puerto Rico. She was the daughter of José Mariano Eleuterio Gavino de la Santísima Trinidad Perinat y Ochoa, a Spanish military officer, from Seville, Seville, and of Manuela Ruiz de Benavides y Pérez. Enrique’s great-great-grandfather José was of part French ancestry, from Paris.
Enrique’s maternal grandfather was Carlos Pérez de Tagle Preysler (the son of Don Fausto Preysler y Moreno and María Carmen Pérez de Tagle Pastor). Fausto was the son of Don Joaquín Preysler/Preisler Cernuda and Doña Natalia Moreno Ravelo, who were from Cádiz, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. Enrique’s great-grandmother María Carmen was born in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Central Visayas, the daughter of Don Benito Pérez de Tagle y Mijares and Doña Carmen Pastor Teves.
Enrique’s maternal grandmother was María Beatriz Arrastia y Reynares (the daughter of José Salgado Arrastia and Teodorica Reinares). María was born in Lubao, Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. José was the son of Don Valentín Arrastia Roncal, who was born in Allo, Navarra, Spain, and of Francisca Serrano Salgado.
Enrique’s maternal great-grandfather, José Salgado Arrastia, was also a paternal great-grandfather of American actor Steven R. McQueen, making Enrique and Steven half-second cousins.
Sources: http://www.elmundo.es
Genealogy of Enrique Iglesias – http://www.geni.com
Iglesias in 2007, photo credit: jonklinger
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.
The US military occupation and Spanish occupation would not have had a great effect on the majority of Filipinos. They have done genetic studies on a lot of populations and invader genes are not numerous in many countries. In places like the Philippines the native population was very large in relation to the Spanish. There have been some genetic testing done on small sections of the Filipino population and only 3.6% of the population had varying degrees of European admixture. That is very small. Also most Filipinos have y chromosome O3 which is also most common among the Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese. There is also y O1a which is highest among Taiwanese aboriginals. A variety of genetic studies done in the Philippines has found the most prominent genotype detected is Southeast Asian. There just wasn’t that many Spaniards that went to the Philippines to affect the already large population. The most common y haplotype in Spain is R1b like the rest of Western Europe. There is no such thing as pure blood as most countries have populations that come from other areas but most of the Filipino population is from ancestral populations from Southeast Asia. Genetic testing can tell where your ancestors lived.
WOW HE HAS SOME GREAT MIXS IN HIM
The information under Enrique’s picture says he is also of BASQUE descent, and that is TRUE. Her mother’s second surname is ARRASTIA, a BASQUE SURNAME:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Preysler
So, here you are the singer’s first 4 surnames:
Enrique Iglesias Preysler De la Cueva ARRASTIA
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…
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
Have you been to the philippines? Esp in cebu? Doesnt seem like so. Are you referring to native filipinos who like to think they have alota spanish blood? That remark is really shallow. Im half spanish but i dont look filipino. Cuz my filipino mom surprisingly doesnt look filipino either but she’s always mistaken as spanish, but never admits to it. So what are you saying? I am proud and so is she being filipino. Perhaps the filipino community is different from the one you’re around with.
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NO FILIPINOS LOOK LIKE DARK ASIANS
AND THEY ARE ASIAN
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THEY EYES LOOK ASIAN TOO
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FILIPINO DONT LOOK LIKE HISPANIC
NOT EVEN CLOSE
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.
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,