Glasses, earrings, rings, sneakers. I love every little accessory.
J Balvin
I have always been a big fan of watches.
As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches - the lifestyle.
I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.
When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.
It's all about the vibes. That's why it's called 'Vibras' in Spanish.
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
Watches are about status.
My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.
I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.
'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.
I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.
The only way I'm not going to follow other people in reggaeton is if I listen to other things. I get other melodies or sounds and put them in reggaeton and make it different.
I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
I like track suits and sometimes to be suited up. I like to be like a chameleon.
I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.
In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.
Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.
I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.
When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.
Music goes further than any border, any language.
I don't plan anything - I just let myself go with the flow.
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
I just want people to respect what I do.
'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.
I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.
We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I'm blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.
Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.
Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.
For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.
I'm still in love with New York. It's like a dream: there's so much to do, so much culture.
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
I love the vibe of Las Vegas.
Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.
To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.
