Singer Enrique Iglesias won multiple honours at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
But, no matter how many awards he takes home, they are not the things he craves for. The Spanish singer says he is an artist who is guided by “instinct” and by what “really touches” people.
“The awards are not so important to me. It’s the love of my fans, going up on stage, being in front of them and hearing them sing the songs I’ve written that really moves me,” said Iglesias.With more than 100 million copies of albums sold, the singer is currently immersed in his successful Sex and Love tour, with the album receiving a total of 19 nominations at the Billboard Awards.He has been in the music industry for 20 years and his newest songs continue to have the same, or even more, success than the first ones he composed and recorded. His career has garnered him four Latino Grammys, two Billboard Awards, 27 Billboard Latin Music Awards and 10 World Music Awards, among many others.Iglesias also seems to be very happy with the Enrique Iglesias Scholarship, which is provided to boys and girls with musical talent and ambition, and limited economic resources, so that they can study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.
“What motivates me most about the Enrique Iglesias Scholarship with the Latin Grammy Foundation is that a student who, probably, would not have had the chance to have an education at a school like Berklee, can get one,” he said. The scholarship, which comes with a cash subsidy of $200,000, will allow a 23-year-old tenor saxophone student from Mexico City, Silviana Itzel Salinas, study for four years at Berklee, where singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra received his education, among others.
