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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents love to dance. They love to throw parties and dance, so there was a lot Latin music in the house.
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 always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.
I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.
In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
I'm rarely singing in English.
I grew up listening to English music.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.