Luis Fonsi: “I still don’t understand why what happened with Despacito happened”

Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi spoke with EFE all sorts of problems, such as their relationship with colleagues such as Spaniards Anthony Orozco D David Bisbal or five years have passed since the dismissal Slowly“before and after” for his almost 25-year career.

“I don’t think much about the song, but every day I’m reminded of it in interviews. I still don’t understand why what happened, and I don’t want to understand it. I’m not one to look in numbers, count awards (…) It’s important to me that it brought only good things into my life and that I got to know a side of the world that I didn’t know with my music,” he stated.

He notes that this success, “although it was the most important,” came after a 19-year career: “It helped me not to lose my balance and become unbearable. work, that’s why it didn’t change my course, with the same dangers, merits and demerits.”

Would you change all that by writing another one of the anthology songs in the history of universal music? “The first thing I think about is the Beatles” hey Jude or introduce. But no, I wouldn’t change a thing. Things happen for something at the time they should happen,” he said.

heyday Slowly defended “latin boom” in the world that continues to this day. “First of all, I give credit to the talent, to the artists who make good music,” he reflects, and also attaches great importance to streaming, which gave the public a choice, rather than “radio and record companies.”

“And finally to the boom urban genre. I’m grateful to all the artists I’ve worked with, and being a pop artist, for being able to blend their style with these beats to create a sub-genre that has helped me a lot,” he said.

In recent years, his music has been enriched by more high-profile collaborations, such as the one that recently reunited him in the studio with his “brother”. Anthony Orozco on topic My hero for the album that the Spaniard will soon release.

“Many years ago we made a song together Now you knowthat yes, I chose it. This time he suggested this song to me and I agreed before he finished talking. I knew the song, I lived that moment of his life with him, and so I know there’s a lot of honesty in it,” he explains.

“I want to think that I am a good friend”

He also recently signed up with another TV program partner. Voice, David Bisbalto whom he said a few nice words in the middle of the broadcast, publicly admitting that “friends are many, but friends, friends (like him) are few”.

“I like having friends and I want to think that I am a good friend, one of those who call for no reason to ask how the family is doing,” Fonsi clarifies, before recalling that the beginning of his friendship with Bisbal goes back to distant past. path.

About him, he adds: “He was one of those first people who, being engaged in one profession, had a real friendship. We are very similar on a personal level, with the same values,” he says.

Is it harder to make friends in this profession? “Two things happen: a) the person is never in the same place for a long time; and b) the person doesn’t know if someone wants to be your friend by heart or circumstance. Fame makes you choose more who you will open the door to your house. Maybe this is the difference between my situation, the point of view of protection,” he stressed.

Your current visit to Spain this is due to “several television projects”, with a short recording session in the studio and, above all, with a tour of unusual cities from the program of the international star, such as El Puerto de Santa Maria (southwest), where he will stop August 18 as part of the cabaret festival.

“That was the essence of visiting and further acquaintance with other cities in Spain after a few tours,” he explains; and he will return “by the end of the year” to the main cities to continue his album presentation. law of gravity (2022) and the success of his entire career.

Tour starting at America The name “Perfect Night” refers to his return to concerts after the worst moments of the pandemic. “Each scene has its own magic, but if I had to leave one, I would choose the scene. This is the place where you feel the audience, and this is the purpose of everything, ”he says. (EFE)