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Tracy Byrd Jumps On The Latin Bandwagon
01/16/2002 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor
(1/16/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Tracy Byrd's current single, "Just Let Me Be In Love," provided the singer with an opportunity to learn a new language. The song has a Latin feel that Byrd thought lent itself well to a Spanish version, so the singer learned enough of the language to record a convincing version for his Hispanic fans. Byrd says the learning process proved to be a blast.
"I gotta say, it was the most fun I've probably had in a while, especially when I got in the studio and started really singing along with the track for the first time," he tells LAUNCH. "The song is already a romantic-sounding ballad, and Spanish is such a romantic language, you know? Once it all came together--man, it just come out great! It's different, but I'm glad I did it now. I really think it adds a little twist to it."
Byrd says he had so much fun learning to speak Spanish for the song that he plans to take lessons to learn to speak fluently. Becoming bilingual is something Byrd has toyed with for quite a while now, he explains. "Well I must admit three years ago I ordered Spanish The Easy Way on CD-ROM and I haven't even tore the wrapper off of it, so I never have even started working on it, but it has always been something I wanted to do and so one of these days maybe I'll get the time to really, really learn the language," he says.
"Just Let Me Be In Love" sits at Number 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song is from Byrd's latest release, Ten Rounds.
-- Margy Holland, Nashville
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