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I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.
Juan Diego Florez /
Me
Repertoire
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I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.
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Reactions
Spontaneous
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In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.
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Concerts
Latin
Encore
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I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.
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Classical Music
Folk Music
Classical
Folk
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I always feel I sing better if I have been playing a lot of tennis or football.
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Football
Tennis
Sing
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Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.
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Auditions
Enthusiastic
Good People
Good People Good People
Good People New
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I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.
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Middle East
Plans
Singers
Vienna
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Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.
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Ballads
Becoming
Cheesy
Yes
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I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.
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Foundation
Peru
Love Best World
Musicians
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Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.
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Singers
Earthquake
Notice
Slight
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I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.
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Festivals
Compete
Composed
Paul
Rock Band
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I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.
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Technique
Good Voice Singing
Main Thing
Natural Way
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I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.
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Opera
Fits
Jump
Movements
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You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.
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Matches
Repertoire
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I don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.
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Singers
Best Myself I Am
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With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.
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Aim
Orchestra
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My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
Juan Diego Florez /
Musician
Peru
Realised
Money Always Me
Money Me Parents
Genuinely
Earn
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I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
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Aspect
Foundation
Orchestra
Peru
Choirs
Life Children Better
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I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.
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Cancel
Desperately
Fill
Family Time Easy
No Time
Schedule
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Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel they can be successful, too. That's a good state of mind for a country that wants to come out of poverty.
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Peru
Love Good Hate
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Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.
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Center
Fuller
Require
Romeo
Slight
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I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at home. He sang songs with a waltzing rhythm, yet you can still hear the Spanish influences. I accompanied him to his performances.
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Popular Music
Rhythm
Accompanied
Folk
Folk Singer
Influences
Sang
Spanish
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Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it's different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.
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Celebrate
Flags
Italian
Peru
Famous People Sometimes
Famous People
Sings
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I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
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Baroque
Opera
Me Voice Singing
Repertoire
Settled
Tenor
Theaters
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In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.
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Just One
Opera
Orchestra
Peru
Annual
Produces
Struggling
Survive
To Survive
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I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.
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Competing
Best Always Competition
Concentrated
Houses
Sang
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I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.
Juan Diego Florez /
Classical Music
Harmony
Lessons
Classical
Voice Lessons
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When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tennis, I learn a lot for my singing: how the players are focused, how they use their technique, and, in the case of Roger Federer, how effortless it is and how beautiful it is to watch - like bel canto, in a way. That's how singing should be.
Juan Diego Florez /
Sports
Federer
Focused
Related
Roger
Singing
Technique
Tennis
Case
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