'It is the last album I will record in a studio in my life,' Iglesias said at a news conference after he was serenaded with a birthday song by a mariachi band. Presenting the album in Mexico City, Iglesias said that recording music in a studio is 'complicated' and takes too much time. “Green Grow the Lilacs” flopped on Broadway after 64 performances in 1931.MEXICO CITY - Julio Iglesias announced on his 72nd birthday on Wednesday that 'Mexico' will be his last studio album, but the iconic Spanish crooner insisted he would keep singing 'until I'm 150.' So be sure to keep up with his son’s life at Today’s trivia Seven months later, his daughter Ruth was born. His father, Julio Sr., died in 2005 at the age of 90. And if heredity is any indication, he may be wowing his fans for years to come. They had five children (including now 16-year-old twin girls and a 10-year-old son) before deciding to tie the knot in 2010. After having three kids with his first wife (Enrique is now 42), Iglesias began living with a Dutch model 22 years his junior, Miranda Rijnsburger. Perhaps his family is helping keep him young. With the release of his latest, he now has 82 albums in his long discography. (In 1983, he was celebrated for having recorded music in the most languages ever - 14.) In 1989, he played Sophia Petrillo’s date on the Valentine’s Day episode of “The Golden Girls.” Among his latest honors, he was named the Most Popular International Artist of All Time in China and Guinness World Record holder of Best-selling Male Latin Artist - both on April 1, 2013. In 1979, the 35-year-old moved to Miami, signed with CBS International and started singing his songs in English, Portuguese and French, among other languages. Almost quicker than you could say “olé,” he was signed by the Spanish arm of Columbia Records and issued his first album, which spent 15 weeks on the Spanish charts. In 1968, even after earning his law degree, Iglesias won Spain’s Benidorm International Song Festival with his “La vida sigue igual” (“Life Goes on the Same”), which was used in a similarly titled film about his own life. He didn’t know it at the time, but his future was set. Unable to walk for two years, he reportedly was given a guitar by a nurse so he at least had something to do with his hands.

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