Showing posts with label Enrique Iglesias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enrique Iglesias. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Whitney Houston & Enrique Iglesias "Could I Have This Kiss Forever?"

"Could I Have This Kiss Forever?" won an award from the publication Idolator for being the #1 song from Whitney Houston that radio forgot. While that award title might elicit a head scratch, the sultry ballad featured Enrique Iglesias and appeared on radio stations in late-2000 before apparently falling off the map. If you're curious, other songs that made the list include "Million Dollar Bill" and "My Love Is Your Love".

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Enrique Iglesias "Bailamos"

Say the name Michael Bolton and people always bring up his long hair (which he cut short in 1994). Whenever Enrique Iglesias' name gets mentioned, someone will bring up his emblematic mole. When the spicy Latin singer first popped up in the late-1990s, the mole was his trademark. America's love affair with his mole ended shortly thereafter. Enrique's fear of the mole becoming cancerous led him to have it removed in 2003 and the internet went nuts.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Enrique Iglesias "Hero"

Released days before the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, "Hero" from Enrique Iglesias was one of several songs remixed after the 9/11 attacks to include audio from first responders and politicians. The ballad went on to top the Adult Contemporary Chart for 15 weeks during a time when radio programmers struggled with (among other things) the tone of their radio stations -- should it match the somber feeling of the world around them or be an escape from the reality of what happened? That challenge helped several remixes of songs such as "Hero", "Only Time" and "One More Day" get plenty of airtime.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Barry Manilow - "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight"

If Enrique Iglesias and Barry Manilow combined their collective styles, the product would be "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight".  Manilow turned the England Dan & John Ford Coley tune into a Latin-Disco explosion hit in 1996 (is that even a thing?).