What will the series that Netflix will make about the life of Julio Iglesias be like?

The legendary Spanish singer Giulio Iglesias has signed an agreement with Netflix and will participate in the creative process of a series about his life and musical career.

This fiction, which recently it is in its development stagehe will return to his beginnings as a law graduate and footballer in the youth categories of Real Madrid.

But an accident interrupted his sporting career and years later he ended up becoming a world music star.

It will also be told how the singer became the first non-Anglo-Saxon artist to enter the American and Asian markets. And she will show how he became one of the five biggest record sellers in history.

The official press release

“After much speculation, books and documentaries in which I have not participated, For the first time I decided to tell the truth of my life to a universal company like Netflix,” the singer said in statements included in an official statement.

“After much thought, a very emotional letter that Bela Bajaria, vice president of content at Netflix, sent me was enough to convince me that it was the ideal company to carry out this project,” added the 80-year-old artist.

Diego Ávalos, the platform’s vice president of content, highlighted Julio Iglesias’ “talent” and “tenacity” as “unique in the world.”

“Now we will have the opportunity to see beyond the lights, the magazine photos, the gold records and get to know in depth an exceptional person who has accompanied and will accompany many generations from every corner of the planet”, he underlined.

As a reference, it is worth mentioning In 2018 the Netflix series about Luis Miguel was a boom, which later ran for two more seasons, and is said to have cost over five million dollars to use the images. He revitalized his career, became known to a new generation and generated more than $35 million.

A unique career

In the 70s, Julio Iglesias forged himself as an artist, but it was in the 80s that he managed to break all records and reach all five continents.

Among the hundreds of awards he has to his credit, the Guinness World Records stands out as “Latin artist who has sold the most albums in the world” and the one awarded to him by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for his entire career (Lifetime Achievement).

In all its more than 55 years of career, recorded and sung in twelve languages. He has shared the stage with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Sting, Dolly Parton, Placido Domingo, Charles Aznavour and Johnny Hallyday, among others.