Luis Fonsi

Professions :

Musician

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

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

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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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Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

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I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.

inside me always romantic

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 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.

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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.

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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.'

day you peace science

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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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.

good you singing love

You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.

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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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I talk bilingual.

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I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

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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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My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

ballad pop touch genre

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

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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.

help human matter together

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.

know language song people

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