But what works on this slick, snazzy makeover is what always works for him: the ballads and the middle-of-the-road pop tunes. 12), superstar Enrique Iglesias dropped his new single El Bao (The Bathroom), featuring Bad Bunny, and everybody went nuts about it. Both are similar in one regard: they're the kind of song that works for Enrique because it glides by on its sound and doesn't rely on him to do the heavy lifting, either as a singer or a seducer. Sometimes, he pushes too hard in either direction - complete with a Lil Wayne cameo, the dirty-dancing anthem "Push" (as in "push push/back upon it/don't stop until the morning") tries way too hard and has the opposite effect as intended, while some ballads drown in syrup - but sometimes Iglesias strikes the right balance between crossover pop and stylish retro-new wave production, as on "Stay in Tonight," a tune that's sleek and propulsive but not edgy, a tune that could have fit into adult contemporary pop radio at any time since the late '80s, and Sean Garrett's production on "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" is the inverse, sounding tailor-made for the moment of its release. But Enrique is too much of a crossover guy to spend the entire album doing the nasty - he's sharp enough to spend just enough time to give the impression that Insomniac leans toward that sleek, sexy club sound, but loads up the rest of the record with songs that can fit into smooth pop radio stations the world over.
Sure, there's a surplus of slow-burning romantic ballads, but Insomniac also has a stylish shimmer designed for clubs and even those slow tunes can get down and dirty, as on "On Top of You," which is every bit the sub- R. Unlike his dad, Enrique became a global superstar at a relatively young age, and he also came of age in an era that's decidedly flashier than Julio's, so even if he shared a taste for corny romantic ballads with his father, he had a far hipper persona than his dad, and nowhere is that more evident than on 2007's Insomniac, his fourth English-language album and first to really be pushed to a younger audience. A link between Latin pop's past and present, he's also enjoyed a successful sideline writing hits for other artists, including Andrea Bocelli and Lopez.Insomniacs, of course, can't sleep, so they stay up all night - and who better to provide a soundtrack to sleepless nights than Enrique Iglesias, the heir to the Latin loverman throne that his father Julio claimed in the '80s.
In addition to the AOR ballads that made him perpetually popular with female fans, Enrique has continued to surf the contemporary Latin stylebook alongside Pitbull, Romeo Santos, Jennifer Lopez, and other in-vogue collaborators who help keep his sound fresh.
1 Spanish-language singles on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart. He has subsequently topped 70 million album sales and more than two dozen No. His 2000 breakout album, Enrique, included such hits as "Bailamos" and "Be with You" and paved the way for its even more successful follow-up, Escape. Born in Madrid in 1975, Enrique recorded his first album pseudonymously, without his father's knowledge and with the financial assistance of his nanny. Though his first albums were recorded mostly in English, since the mid-’90s Enrique Iglesias has become the undisputed king of Latin pop by applying his breathy romantic charisma to the ever-changing musical desires of young Latin audiences-more than fulfilling the expectations that come with being the son of an international pop titan like Julio Iglesias.