Prince Royce

In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.

I love American food, but I also love Latin food.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

I like eating; I like going to restaurants and trying new things.

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.