Heidy - I know you must be really tired you did a great performance -  you're wonderful!  We consider you the next generation of salsa.  It's a privilege to be here with you tonight.

Huey Dunbar -I'm not tired, I'm just taking a breather to go to the next level.

Heidy - Do you feel that since you left D L G and have taken on your first solo project that it's helped you grow as an artist?

Huey Dunbar - Hell yeah! The reason why I left DLG, and broke up the group, is because I couldn't grow anymore within the confines of that style and I was desiring to do more things. I mean, I get bored easily of things in my life, in my personal life. I need to always find something new. I need at times to replenish myself in arts and personal life and organization, business wise. Happiness, peace is very necessary, you pay attention to a lot of those aspects and make sure that you’re continuing to keep it going, to grow.

Heidy - In the latest album you sang different types of music. You sang ballads, salsa....do you plan on doing that with the next album or do you plan on going in a different direction?

Huey Dunbar - Most definitely, I always planned on going in different directions. I always think it's necessary for me to not stay on doing the same thing over because I don’t want to get pigeonholed. I don't want anyone to think that Huey’s only good for one kind of music. I grew up an American Latino. I grew up here in New York. I grew up listening to everything, everything that was American, American music was my first style of music. American music is so vast and then I was blessed to get into Latin music and Latin music is so vast, it sells all over the world! So it made me learn a lot, so I’m going forward now, with a Latin album and an English album.

Heidy -That was my next question.

Huey Dunbar – Most definitely, I think that with in the Latin music and a tropical music and I think I've done pretty much everything that I can do now.  The next step is to take it to the next level and take it to the rest of the world. Take our music to the rest of the people in a way that they can understand it and appreciate it even more. Because, so many people have come up to me and spoke to me about what we did with DLG. Like “Yo! I love your music but I don't understand what you are saying, I love your solo album but I don't understand what your saying, you have a beautiful voice but I don't understand what your saying”, I don't understand, I don't understand that's what I hear a lot. So I gotta bring it to them. It's not the American public's responsibility to learn Spanish to listen to my music, it's my job to go out there and offer my perspective of Latin music to the American markets and that's what I want to do next. That’s where I’m going.

Heidy - When can we expect your next album.

Huey Dunbar - Next album hopefully, I wanted to have my new Latin album out by the end of the summer but I don't think that's going to happen because I'm working a lot and recording a lot. I’ve been checking out a couple of movie ideas you know.
“vamos a ver que es lo que pasa” Right at the moment I'm really concentrating on solidifying things on the english album I’m doing a lot of writing. A hell of a lot of experimenting musically with a lot of different producers, new producers. I think also what happens in Latin music is that, how you have a whole bunch of artist that go to four or five of the same producers for the same kind of music, so after while the entire market whether it be tropical regional or pop gets so totally saturated with a type of sound. I can't tell a Cheyenne track apart from a Ricky Martin track sometimes, because they go to the same producers. I'm not saying that the music sounds bad. It's quality, their talented producers those are talented artists, it's just that in a certain pond you can only go to certain cats and everybody's going to those guys. Everybody is going to Rudy Perez and guys like that, I wanna work with those guys, but I want to do it in a way that no one has....when they turn the radio on they will not mistake me for another artist. There is a proper way to do that and one of the ways is to revitalize the market. Bring new cats into it. I am totally open to trying guys out that have never had a hit before, why? It's a possibility that they've got the new sound. I want to be the doorway. You know someone gave me the chance to get where I'm at, and I wanna give a chance to other people to come through that door. It's one thing to say I believe in Latinos, I wanna push the market for it but it's another thing to do it. A lot of artists say that, not many pull it through. I want to live what I say as opposed to saying it.

Heidy – You’ve got a big heart. I was looking through your website, www.hueydunbar.com  and I read one of your quotes that you said “You can't take credit for having the talent; you can only take credit for what you do with it”.

Huey Dunbar - My vocal trainer Ann Ruckert-she told me that I can't take credit for the voice that I've got what I can do is take credit for what do with it and she's absolutely right.

Heidy -Well it's been a pleasure interviewing you check out this interview on our website www.SalsaWild.com.

Huey Dunbar -Thank you so much. I would like to thank you for helping me out, taking my words to the public because I can sing and talk my head off but if someone doesn't sit down with me and listen to what I say and write down and take time out of their life to post it and bring it to the people, they wouldn't really know what my thoughts are. So thank you so much. Also I wanna say thank you to the fans. The fans are the stars, it’s is really not me, you know. It’s easier for them to say wow “you're the man”. It's not about that. It's about the people tonight that waited out there in line to come to see me, those are the stars, they took their time out of their lives and spent their hard earned money to come and see me. In a sense the people are my bosses and that's what I work for.