Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (San Juan, Puerto Rico; April 15, 1978), better known as Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, actor and musician.
Childhood: ffHe is the eldest son of Alfonso Rodríguez and Delia López-Cepero. He has two younger brothers: Jean Rodriguez, who is also a singer and Tatiana Rodríguez.
As a child, Luis Fonsi already gave signs that music was going to guide his life. With 3 years imitated to the stars of the popular group Menudo, and to its young age entered the Children's Choir of San Juan.
In 1989, he moved with his family from Puerto Rico to Orlando, Florida, when he was 10 years old. There he did not know a word in English, but he did not resist the move. According to him, his father told him "that he was going to live in the same city as Mickey Mouse. Imagine the illusion that that supposes for a boy of ten years.
Musical career:
There he entered Dr. Phillips High School, where he formed a music group called "Big Guys", with whom he sang at school parties and local festivals with fellow students at the institute, one of whom was the famous member of the group 'N Sync , Joey Fatone.
The music was already important and vital in his life and already in the United States, Luis Alfonso obtains a scholarship of the Florida State University School of Music to realize musical studies and to prepare itself conscientiously, reason why it studied theory, solfeo, musical appreciation, Singing and composition.
He also joins the choir of this university, which gives him the opportunity to participate in various tours of the United States and London. In this institution ends with good results his academic formation, specialized in the field of the music.
Eclectic in his tastes, Luis Fonsi also listened to Stevie Wonder as Marc Anthony, Michael Jackson and Luis Miguel. And although it sang mainly in English, it found its first great musical opportunity singing in Spanish.
That opportunity came to him through the Universal seal, which saw in Luis Alfonso a natural artist and agreed without hesitation to sing in Castilian. According to him, he was not going to reject the proposal for wanting to sing only in English, since he always wanted to do it in both languages.
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez gives way to Luis Fonsi when he decides to start his professional career as a singer and composer. On September 15, 1998, he released his debut album entitled "Comenzaré", which was nominated by Billboard in the "Artist of the Year" category and managed to place himself at the top of the charts with songs like Dime como Forgive me, if you would and I will go, in many countries of South America. After that success obtained they give him a gold record, which encourages him to get to work on his new album.
Eterno, which was released on June 20, 2000, finds the same success and great acceptance among the general public, especially taking the single Imagíname sin ti to the first position of the Hot Latin Tracks of Billboard. Luis Fonsi participated in the general production and in the arrangements and also premieres as a composer with the theme Mi sueño. Within a month of being in the market, Luis received a gold record for the 100,000 copies sold of this album.
With this record it was released in Spain and throughout Latin America. He composed the song Volaré with your wings in honor of his friend Wilmer Vega, who died in a skydiving jump.
In August 2000, Fonsi participated in the Jubilee 2000, where he sang before Pope John Paul II, before two million people. That same year Ednita Nazario took a Latin Grammy for a song composed by Fonsi. She also made a collaboration on the Spanish album of the American singer Christina Aguilera, Mi reflejo in the song If I had not met you.
In 2001 participated in the tribute to the victims of the attacks of 11 of September The last farewell, in the White House, before the President George W. Bush. This commemorative event, part of a charity project, brought together some of the most important artists in Hispanic music to contribute to the cause in honor of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11.
On March 12, 2002, she released her third studio album entitled Secret Love. With only one day in the market, Luis Fonsi obtained a gold record for the more than 100,000 copies sold, only in Puerto Rico and in the USA. UU. About this album and his artistic maturity, Fonsi said: "I see all this as growth. One is maturing and evolving. It's too important to give something new to the public, and I think we did it. "Later, Secret Love was released versioned in English with the title of Fight The Feeling in EE. UU. Where he had a great success.2
On October 28, 2003, the disc of Abrazar La Vida was released, which featured a more Latin facet of Fonsi by its rhythms and lyrics. In this album, Luis Fonsi participated as singer-songwriter and producer alongside Kike Santander, Rudy Perez and Angel "Cuco" Peña. In addition, participated in television like actor in televising series like Taína or in telenovelas like Hearts to the limit next to Sara Maldonado.
After this album appeared Step by Step in 2005, a much more mature album where he shows a Fonsi more clinging to life than ever and especially, influenced by the illness of his wife Adamari López who was diagnosed with breast cancer, And is inspired of that event to compose most of the songs that form the album. Due to the illness of his wife, Luis Fonsi dedicated the theme to him Step by step, song that gives name to the disc to him and that obtains gold disc in Spain. Nothing is forever, it is the first song of the album and with that gold record in Spain.
On November 21, 2006 he released his first album of hits: hits 98:06 where he compiles the most sounded hits on all international radios, and two unpublished tracks getting the first single from this album Tu amor get the first place Of Billboard magazine.
It was three years that Fonsi was absent from the recording studio, to return with lyrics loaded with emotion and feelings. His next album called Words of Silence was released to the market on August 26, 2008 internationally and has been number one sales in many countries. His first single, I Do not Give Up, was on the charts for weeks and even after releasing the second single Here I am, which is a clear sign of the simplicity of the singer, as he shares his music with Noel Schajris , Aleks Syntek and David Bisbal. This record, moreover,
has brought a lot of satisfaction to Fonsi, since the Palabras del Silencio tour toured much of Latin America and Spain. Bringing it to the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile for the second time in his artistic career, he was awarded again with the Silver Torch, Gold and Silver Gaviota. Immediately, the third single was released: It rains inside with its corresponding video, which was recorded live.
On November 12, 2009, Luis Fonsi performed at the Siglo XXI Auditorium in the city of Puebla, before more than 3000 people. It was at that concert that he unveiled an unpublished part of his song Supposed.
January 25, 2010 officially launches the video of his fourth single Although you're with him. On Monday, April 26, 2010, he composed the song Llena de amor, which is used in the telenovela of the same name.
His new album Tierra Firme was released on June 28, 2011 and says that it took him a year and a half to make this record, for which he wrote more than 125 songs, to finish with a selection of 10 songs. For this album Fonsi explains that he follows the same line as a style, mixing pop, R & B, and ballad, which are genres he has always listened to. In addition he says that it is a very varied album, where they will find songs to "cut the veins" to a very rhythmic ones, like the cover that Claridad did, that was made known with the group Menudo, but that also knew through Its creator Umberto Tozzi. In his words, "I wanted to do something super fun, no seriousness, just make my version", adding that "may present the choreography in their presentations during the promotion tour."
The first single from this album is the theme Scream. He says that although it is the first single, it is not his favorite, because usually the favorite is one that goes unnoticed. Scream, according to Fonsi is an optimistic song, which invites us to fight and express what we feel in life. He also says that composing has become like an addiction "as I need it, sometimes when I'm having a hard time, it helps a lot to pass it to a melody," he explained. "The title of this new album proves in the state that I am: with my feet on the ground more than ever; Quiet and stable. At the musical level I feel that I can express myself with much more honesty. "
Luis believes that Tierra Firme reflects the evolution he has had as a person and an artist: "I think I have a great record, and both lyrics and music is as I thought. Emotionally it was an important moment to vent. I'm very stable. I went through painful moments, but I could always vent through my songs. Now, I feel ready to receive whatever comes. "He considers his followers a fundamental part in the realization of his new album Tierra Firme, reason why rewrote a song very requested by them in the concerts.
As a result of the worldwide success it has achieved, it has been declared on September 15 as the day of Luis Fonsi, commemorating the anniversary of the release of his debut album I will begin in 1998. This day is celebrated by thousands of fans worldwide .
In February of 2015, the artist inaugurated the LVI version of the Festival of Viña del Mar, in Chile, where he surprised to the assistants to the Quinta Vergara with a mix of covers Anglo. And during the same month, he was confirmed as a coach for the local version of The Voice Chile, along with Álvaro López, Nicole and Franco Simone, and broadcast from May to August 2015. He repeated his coaching role in the program's second season In 2016, again with Lopez, Nicole, to which Ana Torroja is added to replace Simone.
On January 12, 2017, he premiered the first single from his next album through the label Universal Music Latino, titled Despacito.4 Nicolás Maduro versionó the song5 to call to vote for the National Constituent Assembly of July 30, 2017.6 Due To which Luis Fonsi did not allow its commercial use for political purposes, did not tolerate it, making known its displeasure through Twitter, 7 and several international
organizations and the Venezuelan opposition also rejected it and asked for its suspension.8 A The protest of Luis Fonsi has also been joined by Daddy Yankee and the author of the song Erika Ender, as Maduro has illegally seized the song by not consulting him about its use.
In January 2017 he released the song "Despacito" along with Daddy Yankee giving an air to his genre (urban pop). This song is a cheerful and flirtatious subject, it talks about the chemistry between a man and a woman and the immediate attraction, the song is well elaborated with lines between Fonsi and Daddy with an urban sticky chorus, the video was recorded in Puerto Rico in stages Urban with dancers and local people sharing; The song was a boom in the social networks and arrived in a short time to impressive numbers coming to be in several lists of popularity within the top 10 in several countries;
After a tremendous success in Spanish version, on April 17, 2017, he released a remix with Canadian singer Justin Bieber, a song in which the Canadian sings new versions in English and the original ones in Spanish, the song had more than 20 million Of views in 24 hours being the sensation in the social networks by the incursion of Bieber in the Spanish.
Due to the great repercussion of the subject, the Puerto Rican programmed an extensive tour through Europe and America in the summer of 2017, that would bear the name of Love and Dance World Tour.
Personal life:
Luis Fonsi met the actress Adamari López in Mexico in 2001, but at that time she had a relationship with actor Mauricio Islas and it was not until 2002 that they met again in the United States, during a concert that was giving Fonsi And where Adamari was a spectator. Fonsi, upon learning that she was present, invited her to his dressing room.
Then they started dating, but always as friends. They were first seen together in the Piñones area in Puerto Rico. In October 2002 the courtship was consolidated. On December 30, 2004, after two years of relationship, they engage in the family of Adamari in Humacao, after formally requesting the hand they move to the Restaurant Las Tablas property of Luis Fonsi and his manager Tony Mojena. Shortly after the couple announced their engagement, Adamari announced that he was going through a difficult time as he had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The couple married on June 3, 2006 at San José de Caparra Church in Puerto Rico. The reception was held at the Caribe Hilton Hotel located in San Juan, where they received 400 guests.
On November 8, 2009, Luis Fonsi and Adamari López announced through a press release their separation, alluding to be going through a "difficult process" as a couple.
The singer resumed his love life with the Spanish model Águeda López. Fonsi and López are parents of a girl, Mikaela, born on December 20, 2011. "Without a doubt, life has changed us, the way we see life, to do things," Fonsi says of the birth of Missaela. Both married on September 10, 2014 at a private ceremony held in Napa Valley, California, to which only relatives and close friends were invited.
On December 20, 2016, Agueda López and Luis Fonsi welcome their second child, Rocco.
Discography of Luis Fonsi
1998: I will begin
2000: Eternal
2002: Secret Love
2002: Fight the Feeling
2003: Embracing life
2005: Step by Step
2008: Words of silence
2011: Firm Ground
2014: 8
Filmography:
TV
Year Title Character Notes
2000 Full Moon Lovers Himself Special Guest
2001 Taina Himself Special Guest
2002 Without permission of your parents He himself Special guest
As in the cinema Himself Special guest
Hearts to the limit Roy Recurring paper
2010 Dare to dream Himself Singing «Here I am»
Full of love Himself Singing «Full of love»
2012 La Voz Colombia Himself Singing «I do not give up»
2015-2016 The Voice Chile Himself Coach
2017 Fantastic Duo Himself Special Guest
Tours
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Tour Beginning (1998-1999)
Eternal Tour (2000-2001)
Secret Love Tour (2002)
Tour Embrace Life (2003-2004)
Step-by-Step Tour (2005-2006)
Tour Words of Silence (2008-2010)
Firm Ground Tour (2011-2013)
Tour We Are One (2014-2015)
Love and Dance World Tour (2017-present)
References
- Biografía de Luis Fonsi. Biografías y vidas
- ↑ http://www.quedeletras.com/biografia-luis-fonsi/biography-luis-fonsi.html
- ↑ «Charts monitorLATINO RD». Consultado el 13 de marzo de 2015.
- ↑ «Despacito (feat. Daddy Yankee) - Single». Itunes (en inglés). Consultado el 30 de enero de 2017.
- ↑ «Maduro versiona ‘Despacito’ para llamar a votar en la Constituyente». El País (Madrid). 24 de julio de 2017. Consultado el 25 de julio de 2017.
- ↑ Scharfenger, Ewald (23 de julio de 2017). «Las claves de las elecciones que dividen a Venezuela». El País (Caracas). Consultado el 25 de julio de 2017.
- ↑ Luis Fonsi [@LuisFonsi] (24 de julio de 2017). «#sosvenezuela» (tuit).
- ↑ «Luis Fonsi saca toda su furia ante intento de Nicolás Maduro de usar su éxito "Despacito"». T13. 24 de julio de 2017. Consultado el 25 de julio de 2017.
- ↑ EFE (25 de julio de 2017). «Fonsi y Daddy Yankee critican que Maduro haga "propaganda" con 'Despacito'». El Mundo (Venezuela). Consultado el 25 de julio de 2017.
- ↑ González Cueto, Irene (2 de mayo de 2017). «Súbeme la radio, despacito. (Des)Montando estereotipos con Luis Fonsi y Enrique Iglesias». Cultural Resuena.
- ↑ ¡Se Separan Luis Fonsi y Adamari López!, sitio digital 'Mundosix', 8 de noviembre de 2009.
Enlaces externos
- Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Luis Fonsi
- Sitio web oficial de Luis Fonsi
- Luis Fonsi en Facebook
- Luis Fonsi en Twitter
- Luis Fonsi en Instagram
- Luis Fonsi en YouTube
- Luis Fonsi en MySpace
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