The internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Julio Iglesias who is among the world's most sought after singers gave a concert to an audience of 7000 fans at this year's Eurovision Song Contest venue, the Beogradska Arena on Monday the 9th of June. Julio Iglesias represented Spain at the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest in Amsterdam with the song Gwendolyne, thus achieving a 4th place.

Julio Iglesias was in the beautiful Serbian Capital few days back where he gave a concert, thus treating the Serbian audience with his romantic and charismatic voice. He sang several of his all time hits such as Nathalie, Manuela, Hey!, Crazy and Abrázame. Around 7,000 people turned up to listen to the world famous Spanish artist.

Julio is currently on his World tour. He will be next visiting next year's Eurovision Song Contest host country Russia, where he will be giving concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. Followed by concerts in Romania, Finland in July, whilst in August he will be visiting his home country Spain where a series of concerts are lined up in Malaga, Cadiz, Tenerife and Girona.

Below you can find the schedule for Russia:

  • 7:00pm Tuesday 17th June. Kremlin Palace, Moscow.
  • 7:00pm Thursday 19th June. Ice Stadium, St. Petersburg.
  • Sunday 22nd June. Tatneft Stadium, Kazan.
  • 7:00pm Tuesday 24th June. Kosmos Hall, Yekaterinburg.

This year's Eurovision venue the Beogradska Arena will be also welcoming Lenny Kravitz who will be giving a massive concert on the 24th of July. The Beogradska Arena hosted the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest Semi Finals and Final late last month thus welcoming artists, delegations, press and fans from the 43 participating countries.


Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.