Alfredo Fraile, who was the representative of Julio Iglesias from 1969 to 1984, during the first years of the singer’s career and his international despatch, failed these four years in Madrid due to covid-19, having spent time with the family. Tenía 78 years.
Fraile (Madrid, 1943) initiated his work as a representative of Julio Iglesias, who was disappointed with the victory of this at the 1968 Benidorm Festival with the theme “The life goes on” and just before his second appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with “Gwendolyne”.
With this simple translation into various idioms began to desperately despair the international career of the singer, who in 1971 had his first turn in Latin America and who persevered in distinct foreign markets in years successive until his final jump to the American market residence in Miami.
“The success of Julio is suyo y mío, of the dos. Yo sé lo que hice por él y lo que le obligé a hacer”, llegó a comentar Fraile a Efe en una entrevista tras la publication de su libro ‘Secretos inconfesables’, as it reveals the avatars shared with the Spanish astro of music, but also with other known numbers.
Hecho, through his 15 years together with the interpretation of “Me olvidé de vivir”, with what he said he slept “more nights” than with his wife, intended to reproduce with Bertín Osborne the same jump to the market market that he followed with Churches.
De vuelta a Madrid, convirtió was despised by the communicator of the former president Gobierno Adolfo Suárez and was later pushed into the service of Alianza Popular in the years of Manuel Fraga and Antonio Hernández Mancha.
As the representative of Javier de la Rosa in the Telecinco Board of Directors, one of the 38 taxpayers in 1997 was arrested by the Baltasar Garzón National Audit Office during an investigation into a tax fraud of 2,000 million detected in the city.
In those years, his relationship with the emperor led him to scandalous scandals, such as ‘Grand Tibidabo’ and the ‘Torras-KIO’ case, but were finally excused from all the crimes committed.
Due to his unique contact with the world empire and politics, he also collaborated for 10 years with the Italian Silvio Berlusconi, of whom he said he was “better jefe”.