- Source: List of awards and nominations received by Julio Iglesias
Spanish recording artist Julio Iglesias has received various accolades through his career spanning seven decades. Renowned for sung in various languages aside from his native Spanish, he is the all-time best-selling Latino artist and one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
Julio Iglesias obtained his first accolades in the late 1960s at Benidorm International Song Festival (Spain) and Golden Stag Festival (Romania) both for its 1968 edition. During the 1970s, he started to receive awards at the international level; Julio was named Best Revelation Singer at the 1971 El Heraldo de México Awards, earned fourth place at the Eurovision Song Contest of 1970, and won the Italian's Golden Gondola Award in 1979. In the 1980s, Julio earned his first Grammy Awards nominations, winning in the category Best Latin Performance for Un hombre solo in 1988, and won an Academy of Country Music Awards for Top Vocal Duo of the Year with "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" alongside Willie Nelson. During the 1990s, he became the first musician to receive Italian's Rudolph Valentino Awards granted by the Motion Picture Association of Italy and the Italian Film Producers' Organization in 1990. He also became the first recipient of the American Music Awards for Favorite Latin Artist in 1998, the first Latino to receive ASCAP's Pied Piper Award in 1997, and received Lo Nuestro Excellence Award in 1995. Throughout 2000s, Julio Iglesias was named Person of the Year by The Latin Recording Academy in 2001, and received the Gold Medal in 2005 by the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute given by Queen Sofía of Spain. Between the 2010s and 2020s, Julio received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and achieved his first Latin Grammy Awards nomination in 2021.
Julio is one of the all-time best-selling musicians and has been recognized by various organizations due his sales. In 1973, he received a special Golden Guaicaipuro for his "extraordinary" sales in Venezuela. He was named World's best-selling artist in 1979 and 1980, and recognized by the Guinness World Records in 1983 with the first and only Diamond Award the organization granted to an artist, for having selling 100 million records in six languages. In the 2010s, he was recognized with a special award as the all-time best-selling Latino artist and the best-selling artist in Spain. Years prior, in 1985, Julio Iglesias was recognized by the Chinese Ministry of Culture as the best-selling foreign artist.
Julio has been condecoraded by various governments, including France's highest civil honours, Legion of Honour by President François Mitterrand in 1992, and Knight Legion of Honour by President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. He also received the Medal of the City of Paris in 1983 and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2010 in his native country. He received the Medal of Competency by Bahrein's King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in 2012 and Santo Domingo's highest civil award, a heraldic shield in 2009 granted by mayor Roberto Salcedo Sr.
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Further reading
Sony Music recognition: First and most popular all-time international artist in China
Sony Music recognition: Most successful latino artist of all-time
External links
Awards for Julio Iglesias at Internet Movie Database
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