Julio Iglesias, the best-selling Spanish recording artist of all time both at home and abroad, lived the last day of his “public life” in Madrid on Friday as he accepted a prize for that double achievement from his record label.

The singer was handed the award by tennis player Rafa Nadal, from one winner to another.

Iglesias will continue singing where invited, but his time of awards ceremonies and public events, the singer announced, probably ended with Friday’s event at the Cervantes Institute.