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" My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B. "
Luis Fonsi
Pop
Ballad
Genre
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" 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. "
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" My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is. "
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" 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. "
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" I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that. "
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" Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top. "
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" Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together. "
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" At no time was I trying to write a crossover record. "
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" That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist. "
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" 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. "
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" It's important to stay current and fresh. "
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" I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything. "
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" Each album always has its own sound. "
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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 wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production. "
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" As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you. "
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" My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything. "
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" 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. "
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" I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game. "
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" I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is. "
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" 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. "
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" I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.' "
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" In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs. "
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" When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view. "
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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