But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
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.
I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
