Julio Iglesias awarded piano and voice student Mar Giménez Marín with a $200,000 scholarship to support Giménez Marin's studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston."Mar is an accomplished pianist and vocalist, and I am delighted to be able to help her accomplish her dream of pursuing a formal music education at such a prestigious institution like Berklee," the Spanish icon said in a statement. "Bolstering the talent of Latin music students, with the help of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation, is something that I'm very proud of," said Iglesias.Giménez Marín, a native of Zaragoza, Spain whose musical inspirations include Chavela Vargas and Joaquín Sabina, was selected by the foundation's scholarship committee from a group of hundreds of.
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