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Luis Fonsi

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 15, 1978

The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.

Luis Fonsi

I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.

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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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'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

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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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I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

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Each album always has its own sound.

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As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

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It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

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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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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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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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Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.

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