Howie D adopts a "Latin Flavor"

Source: La Reforma
By Juan Carlos Garc�a
The BSB member prepares his debut as a soloist, but rules out that the band will break up Miami - Still a member of the Backstreet Boys, Howie D ruled out that the group would break up this year, but since he has free time, he took advantage of these days to talk with different producers with the purpose of giving a Latin flavor to his debut CD as a soloist.

Howie Dorough was present yesterday at some of the conferences that Billboard organized for its Latin music division, and in an interview he explained that he is already taking a look at his professional future in a personal way.

"We are taking a break, and although many people have said that we are going to break up, that is not true, at least for this year, because we still owe (our record company) a CD - what I can say is that each of us is taking a look a what we will do individually," Howie D assured us.

The member of the quintet commented that he came to talk with producers like Rudy P�rez, Chris Rodr�guez, and Kike Santander to see what on what arrangements they could make in the production of his first solo CD.

"I like the Latin sound, its rhythms, its musical contrasts and the intense flavor/feeling that they have in their interpretations," he said.

Among his favorites, he said, he finds Marc Anthony and Gloria Estefan; because of that, he doesn�t discount that his sound will have a certain influence from what they have done.

Additionally, one of his assistants, who accompanied Howie in his visits to the local production companies, spoke with Ricky Martin to get his advice, and he intends to speak with Alejandro Sanz to see if he can record one of his songs.

*misha's note* I don't know if he meant Howie wanted Sanz to record one of his songs, or if Howie wanted to record on of Sanz's songs, but I think he meant the latter

In the group made up of Howie, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, A.J. McLean and Brian Littrell, we find it is in "stand by"; each member in the past months has done separate projects.

Nick has launched his solo CD "Now or Never", Kevin finished his interval on the stage of the musical "Chicago" on Broadway, and AJ and Howie (sic, I think they meant Brian) have dedicated themselves to spend more time with their families.

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