I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at home. He sang songs with a waltzing rhythm, yet you can still hear the Spanish influences. I accompanied him to his performances.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.