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As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.
As a Puerto Rican, I'm always going be grateful to Jose Andres.
The most important thing is loving what you do, this is the craft of the heart.
I'm a fan of small venues that showcase emerging talent in the most organic way.
To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.
Culturally, musically, historically Cuba and Puerto Rico are like two wings of one bird.
We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.
I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to prove it.
Pop is fusing more with the urban; urban is becoming the new pop. The two worlds are colliding and kind of merging.
Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.
Medalla is Puerto Rico's national treasure, as I call it. It's a Puerto Rican national beer - a great light beer for a beach day.
My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.
At some point of my life I've always fantasized that I'd be a boxing champion of the 160-pound division. Or a chef, I love cooking.
I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.
I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether cultural, artistically, or emotionally.
I remember the ballads of the eighties when my mom was cleaning, sometimes I'd listen to, like, Amanda Miguel or something like that and I'll smell the Fabulous.
Growing up Latino is having a grandmother dancing when she's cooking. It's music all over the place. It's endless Christmases. It's, ah, twenty thousand cousins. It's yummy food.
This song 'Calma' has been a blessing, an unexpected one. When I wrote the song, I wasn't looking for a single, I never thought I was gonna have a world hit in my hands. I was connecting with my childhood.
Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love that challenge of keeping up with it, which is important as a pop artist.
Hearing that Alicia Keys liked the song, and wanted to join us on 'Calma' is an honor and blessing that really transcends what I can put into words. She's one of the most talented artists in the world, and someoneI've respected her for a long time.