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" Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in. "

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" I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage. "

Luis Fonsi

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Being Myself

Music

" I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself. "

" My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish. "

" '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. "

" The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men. "

" '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. "

" It's important to stay current and fresh. "

" That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. "

Luis Fonsi

Behind

Important

" 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. "

" Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things. "

Luis Fonsi

Love

Different Perspective

Perspective

" It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it. "

" I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn. "

" As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song. "

Luis Fonsi

Great

Write

" Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist. "

" I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production. "

" I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings. "

" 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 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. "

" As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you. "

" When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album. "

" 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. "

" I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts. "

" It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon. "

Luis Fonsi

Morning

Always

" I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is. "

" Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back. "

" Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say. "

" I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino. "

" I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything. "

" Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town. "

Luis Fonsi

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Family