Luis Figueroa is a musical chameleon

With everything and how handsome Luis Figueroa is, he says that he frequently suffers from love disappointments.

“Handsome boys are the ones who suffer the most from heartbreak,” said Figueroa in an interview to talk about the premiere of his newest single, “Hasta el sol de hoy.” “We are the fastest to fall in love and the last to fall out of love.”

Obviously Figueroa said this with a laugh. What he was serious about was saying that this song is part of the album “Songs of the soul”, which will be released at the end of May and that it was inspired by various authors.

“It’s a release album”, said the interpreter of 31 years old born in Philadelphia of Puerto Rican descent. “This album is about the artists who have shaped Luis Figueroa; the artist that I am is for them, so it is a tribute, a tribute to those singers and composers. ”

In them is Óscar Domingo Derudi, author of“ Hasta el sol de hoy ”, a song that he also recorded, although in 1993, Anthony Colón, Figueroa’s uncle and vocalist at the time of Édgar Joel y Su Orquesta. That is why he releases the album with this track, and that is why it includes two versions on the album, one acoustic and one in salsa, one of the genres for which this singer is best known. The theme, precisely, talks about not giving up after the failure of a relationship.

Before this production, Figueroa had already tasted the honeys of success. In “Entered the Billboard chart in the Latin Pop Airplay category. And two years before, “Por perro”, with Sebastián Yatra, entered the charts of Hot Latin Songs, Latin Airplay and Latin Rhythm Airplay.

However, Perhaps the biggest boost to his career was Marc Anthony, who hired him at Magnus Media, the New York singer-owned entertainment company. Also, early in 2020, Anthony allowed him to open the shows of his Opus tour in the United States.

Before, his career had been solidified with his work as a backup singer for the bachatero Romeo Santos, whom he accompanied on two of his tours. international And to this, we must add that Figueroa has a degree from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied composition and management in the area of ​​music.

He attributes to this segment of his life his ability to interpret various genres, including pop, ballad, salsa, merengue and urban.

“La universidad it was a place of a lot of learning and growth, ”he said. ” not only to enlarge my musical vocabulary but also my music and genre library, that is why I am considered a quite versatile artist, like a chameleon. ”