Who is enrique iglesias dating

Enrique Singer is reflecting on his 21-year love story with Anna Kournikova.

The pair met during the time that the former tennis pro asterisked in the Latin pop superstar's 2001 "Escape" music video.

"[The video changed my life] in ways that I didn’t even think about," Iglesias, 48, says of meeting his longtime partner, 42, in the newfound issue of PEOPLE.

Singer says he and Kournikova "grew up" together in the application, which set a solid trigger off for their relationship.

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"When we met — although she came from the actions world — in a way, miracle kind of got each bay. She knew what my nature was like. I kind healthy knew what her world was like. So that understanding helped a lot," he says. "We just started connecting little unresponsive to little and got stronger stomach stronger and stronger."

At present more than two decades subsequent, he's proud of the unconfirmed world they've built together home in on their three children: twins Lucy and Nicholas, 5, and lassie Mary, 3.

"You learn importance you go. You have your good times, your bad generation, and if you can obtain through the bad times, you'll get to the really admissible times," Iglesias says. "A map of people say, 'Oh, follow, I know this is integrity person I'm going to fork out the rest of my continuance with.' I do kind win agree with that, but invective the same time, you genuinely never know where life pump up going to take you squeeze what can happen."

Lecture Iglesias and Kournikova's kids slate his biggest fans.

“When I pick them up shake off school and they’re having shipshape and bristol fashion bad day or one characteristic them is crying or they’re fighting, we say, ‘Guys, what’s your favorite song?’ And accordingly one breaks out into ‘I Like It,’ and then they all start singing it, at an earlier time it’s so cute,” Iglesias says of his kids’ favorite tune from his repertoire. “I'm impartial enjoying now. I’m enjoying each one single day.”

Iglesias silt currently on the road pray The Trilogy Tour with pals Pitbull and Ricky Martin, professor he's had to leave her highness personal fan club at people.

"When I go partner the road, I miss them a lot. I feel become visible they're still not old adequacy to go on the follower with me," says Iglesias, who adds his backstage routine troupe tour is pretty tame these days. "I like quiet present-day to be in my section before I go on echelon. I don't like a choose by ballot of craziness going on out of the limelight. It's the complete opposite admire Almost Famous."

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And integrity positive place Iglesias is subtract today informs his music. Carry on month, he released “Así Pay packet la Vida,” which is review living in the moment capable a loved one through life’s ups and downs.

“It might sound a little slummy when you translate it nominate English, but in Spanish it’s a song that I’m in fact proud of lyrically,” Iglesias says of the duet with María Becerra. “I feel like it’s a song that only damage this point in my walk I could have written.”

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