{"id":128,"date":"2009-01-30T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:36:47","slug":"latin-music-luis-fonsi-from-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/latin-music-luis-fonsi-from-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin music: Luis Fonsi, from Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Fonsi was born in Puerto Rico, but spent most of his childhood in Florida. He went to the Florida State University to study vocal techniques. While in FLU he was overheard singing by a music department president, who offered him his first contract with a large <em>disquera<\/em> (recording company). Below is a video of Fonsi singing live the song &#8220;Ser\u00eda F\u00e1cil&#8221; (It Would be Easy). Here&#8217;s some vocabulary to help you understand the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luis Fonsi - Ser\u00eda f\u00e1ci (en vivo) - completo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDm79fAAAiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>remediar los problemas<\/strong> &#8211; to solve problems<\/p>\n<p><strong>l\u00e1grima <\/strong>&#8211; tear<\/p>\n<p><strong>tristeza <\/strong>&#8211; sadness<\/p>\n<p><strong>reproche <\/strong>&#8211; criticism<\/p>\n<p><strong>desamor <\/strong>&#8211; lack of love or heartbreak<\/p>\n<p><strong>traici\u00f3n <\/strong>&#8211; betrayal<\/p>\n<p><strong>detener el tiempo<\/strong> &#8211; to stop time<\/p>\n<p><strong>envejecer <\/strong>&#8211; to get old<\/p>\n<p><strong>no poder evitar<\/strong> &#8211; can&#8217;t help something<\/p>\n<p><strong>sentimientos<\/strong> &#8211; feelings<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Aprov\u00e9chenlo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Fonsi was born in Puerto Rico, but spent most of his childhood in Florida. He went to the Florida State University to study vocal techniques. While in FLU he was overheard singing by a music department president, who offered him his first contract with a large disquera (recording company). Below is a video of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/latin-music-luis-fonsi-from-puerto-rico\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}