Sunday, September 16, 2007

Enrique Iglesias on Filipino heritage


Capital Radio
Interview with Rachael Hooper
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R: We dragged him into our studio, which is rather cold, he had to put his jacket on, grilled him with your questions, that you guys sent in last night after hours. So without further ado let me hand you over to myself and Enrique Iglesias.

R: Enrique thank you very much for coming in first of all.
E: Thank you.

R: You did great tonight! Most people come in our living room they do three songs, you did eight?
E: No we were just screwing around see to get the sound right, but the audience was great they were very cute.

R: They were very excited.
E: Yeah they were very nice.

R: We've been giving the tickets away all week and they've been going mentalfor you. So it was so nice that you did that first of all.
E: And it was very laid back, so it's cool, you know. There was no pressure whatsoever.

R: Have you done that sort of thing before?
E: Yeah a few times but not a lot. Not a lot, I mean not for radio.

R: We just imagine that you'd play just huge screaming gigs, you know, as opposed 15 people sat in a living room.
E: No. I know but it was cool, that's what I said, it was laid back so there was no pressure. It's good to do gigs like that.

R: That's cool. Well we have a whole host of questions, which I can't ask everyone's, lots of people wanted to come to the gig tonight, but they couldn't come because we didn't have that many tickets, so I have some questions. If they're a little close to the knuckle they're not my fault, ok it's the ladies fault.
E: That's OK.

R: Here we go. First of all Brandy Mancini, she e-mailed in last night to Capital and said she would like to know the profile please of your ideal woman. The women in London are mad for you, can you tell them, please.
E: I don't have an ideal woman. The day I get married, that'll be my ideal woman.

R: They're all going to be ringing up now.
E: But I don't really have, I can't tell you that she's gotta be like this, or, I'll probably marry the opposite.

R: So do you find that you find someone and the person at that time is the person?
E: I think it's all about chemistry, if you like someone, you like someone and that you can't really control.

R: Absolutely.
E: And I'm like, I'm not very picky.

R: I can't believe that somehow.
E: Should I say that?

R: You have! So basically Brandy could be in with a chance there if she managed to meet you at one of your gigs in London. You never know, you never know! Melanie Brown also e-mailed into us last night, and she says she was lucky enough to meet you in London last January, when you were here. She's obviously one of your dedicated fans. And you told her that you speak, is this right, Tagalog? Tegalog?
E: Ah Tagalog.
R: Tagalog? So completely wrong then!
E: I was like, Tagalog?

R: What is it? And were you telling her the truth?
E: Oh Tagalog, no because I am part Filipino.

R: Yeah.
E: And in the Philippines they speak Tagalog, but I don't really speak Tagalog. Did I say I spoke Tagalog?

R: So she says.
E: No I don't think I, no oh maybe, oh I'm sorry if I did. I'm a stup~d li@r sometimes.

R: She was probably so overawed at meeting you, she just imagined that maybe happened.
E:Oh.

R: But I wanted to know what it was, because I never heard the word.
E: No that's why because I'm part Filipino.

R: Fantastic.
E: I don't look Filipino, but I am.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

i always thought he was just Mexican because he sang in Spanish, but i always forget about some singers ranging from Colombia or anywhere that links to Latin America, like Shakira but she's easy to identify. I didn't know he was filipino until i looked him up. Puedo ser tan estùpida a veces.

Anonymous said...

He's Spanish himself, but his mother is Filipina and his father is Spanish, so when he says he is Filipino, that's what he means. I don't know if his mother taught him Tagalog or if he can understand it. But he says "not really," which to me all it says is that he isn't fluent or doesn't feel comfortable speaking in it. If his mother's normal, he must understand a little bit. But his mother is very famous in Spain and very enigmatic, so who knows what his childhood is like. He doesn't really talk about his relationship with his parents, or his siblings, but in an interview he did in Spanish in Miami a Peruvian emigré asked him why he doesn't live in Spain, and he asked him back why don't you live in Perú? And I think the reason why he doesn't live in Spain is that he'd be hounded by the press day and night and in Miami he's famous but he can have a lot more privacy.

Anonymous said...

P.S. - to the comment I just left ( June 24, 2019 at 12:48 AM)

In Spain his whole family is famous. I didn't mention his dad because many people know that his father is Julio Iglesias, but some people in the English-speaking world and so on may not know that his mother is also very famous in Spain and in the Spanish-speaking world. The entire Iglesias family's always been hounded by the press and the tabloids want to get into their lives at all costs.

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