Zitat des Tages von Luis Fonsi:
Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.
I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.
My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.
It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.
At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.
My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is.
I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.
I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.
It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.
As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.
Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.
I talk bilingual.
Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.
Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say.
It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.
I've learned and grown as a songwriter.
I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.
