Pedro Capo Quotes

Pedro Capo

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 14, 1980

My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.

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Culturally, musically, historically Cuba and Puerto Rico are like two wings of one bird.

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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.

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Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.

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I've always loved challenges.

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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.

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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.

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To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

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As a Puerto Rican, I'm always going be grateful to Jose Andres.

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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.

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The most important thing is loving what you do, this is the craft of the heart.

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Music is something that is born in the soul.

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Pop is fusing more with the urban; urban is becoming the new pop. The two worlds are colliding and kind of merging.

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As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.

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I'm a fan of small venues that showcase emerging talent in the most organic way.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to prove it.

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