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Girls love emotion.
All my fans are my girlfriends.
I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.
I just want to bring the people good music.
I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.
I hope to touch many Hearts through my music
I love American food, but I also love Latin food.
Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice.
I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.
I'm not here to try and replace anyone or compete with anyone.
My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.
I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.
I like eating; I like going to restaurants and trying new things.
Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.
In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.
I would definitely love to work with somebody like Jay Z or Rihanna.
My dream girl... well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!
I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.
I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.
At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.
The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.
Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?
Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.
I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.
I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!
Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.
I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself.
I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.
I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.
I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.
I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.
There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.
I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward.
I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.
When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'
I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.
Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes you see the real world. Not just in the studio or at concerts. I live it up as normal as I can.
My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!