Kat DeLuna, who is back with a music video for ‘Wanna See U Dance’, was on with ‘On Air with Ryan Seacrest’ to talk about how long it takes before she knows she has a hit. “The first fifteen seconds,” she responded, “from when we start writing it. If it doesn’t feel good, right away, it’s not a hit.”

‘Wanna See U Dance’ is off Kat’s upcoming third album ‘ViVa Out Loud’, getting a Universal Motown release later this year.

Listen to the brief comments via kiisfm.com below.

Kat Deluna visited Krystal at HOT 107.1 in Denver before the station’s Little Black Dress Party at Casselman’s in Denver last year. The pop singer talked about how Colorado has treated her, needing a dress for the evening, on making ‘Drop it Low’, what to expect from her new album ‘Viva’ and the struggles she had to make it in the industry:

On the single ‘Drop it Low’:

Recording the album, which is the American version of my sophomore album, it’s called ‘Viva’, I wanted to come out with a song that was still reminiscent of that Kat Deluna that came out in 2007, which was very euro pop with a Latin flavor to it. Actually I was one of the first to start that sound. So it was like let me come up with that, but then in the verses I wanted to flow like a reggae artist. I just got influenced and inspired with that.

On the upcoming album ‘Viva’:

The amazing thing about the album is that I got to be more Kathleen, you know the actual singer that started. There’s vocally beautiful and strong tunes on the album, that’s why it’s called ‘Viva’, just celebrating life and I believe whatever you love in life, celebrate it to the fullest. What I celebrate is giving my all, and that’s what I feel I gave with this album. You’re gonna have party songs, but then you’re gonna have that voice that I’m very blessed and humble that I have. A lot of the time I feel in certain songs I didn’t get to showcase my voice.

On how she got noticed:

What really really got me noticed was just me. I was a little businesswoman. When I lived in the Tri-state area, that point of time in high school. I finished growing up in north New Jersey. Brick City. I went to Arts High School, so everyone was getting ready to go to college, and I’m like, oh my god, I don’t think college is for me, because I want to do the singing thing. I almost won this big scholarship to basically go to a musical college, and I declined it. I declined it because in order to make it in this industry that I’m in, for me and my experience in life, I needed to go out there and fight. So hey, there I was doing all the auditions and stuff. I actually had an audition for remember that group Eden’s Crush that Nicole Scherzinger was a part of. They were like you’re too young to be in it, but why don’t you do a group on the side and we’ll see if we can work with you. Then I recruited all the girls in my school and we formed a Spanish girl group and after high school we all graduated but we still kept on but eventually things don’t work out and the group disintegrated. I just kept working hard and got signed. People, you see all that I’m saying? That’s how long it took me to get there. Granted I started young but it’s really hard. Then in 2006 that’s when I finally got a record deal.

Watch the interview via YouTube below.

Kat DeLuna is out with the music video to her new single ‘Drop It Low’, off the American pop singer’s second U.S. album ‘ViVa’, out soon on Entertainment One. Watch the Tyrone Edmond directed video below.

J-14 hung out with Kat DeLuna at the Jersey Shore Soundtrack release party in New York City, where the ‘Whine Up’ singer talked about her new CD and what fans would want to hear about her on the album.

“Because I’m starting to write my thank-yous,” Kat said. “I thanked everybody of course, the label, management and then I started to think, wow, I can’t wait for my fans to hear more of my album ‘Inside Out’ that comes out later this year, 2010, in the fall, and I can’t wait for you guys to hear it.”

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95.9 KISS FM’s Tyler James interviews Kat DeLuna backstage after her performance at Chickenfest in Darboy, Wisconsin on Saturday (June 26). Kat talked about her impression of Wisconsin, being born in the Bronx and raised in the Dominican Republic before returning to New York, how she’s treated in the Dominican Republic, what she thought about the cheese curds she had tried their earlier, wanting to visit a farm on the visit, how Angola was her favorite country to visit, people she’d like to collaborate with, where she sees herself in five years, and more.

“Angola is a country that just came out of war 11 or 12 years ago, and when you go there, people are so full of life and the hope there, you feel it,” DeLuna said. “To me when I went there, and then I compared it to home, I’m like, wow, kids here take their opportunities for granted and don’t take advantage of it. When you compare it, you see how much you have and then you start to learn more about the world.”

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Kat DeLuna is out with the music video to her new single ‘Push Push’, featuring Akon, off the Newark, New Jersey pop singer’s second album ‘Inside Out’, due out later this year via Universal / Motown Records.

Kat DeLuna checked in with fans on her YouTube channel, talking about working hard on the new album, which she says is “finally, basically done.” Kat added, “I’m telling you guys to get ready, we’re doing it again, it’s a whole big dance move with the single coming up.” Watch the message below the cut. (more…)

Kat DeLuna is out with the music video to her new single ‘Unstoppable’, featuring Lil Wayne, off the Dominican-American pop singer’s second album ‘Inside Out’, out later this year on Universal Motown. Watch it below.

Kat Deluna is out with the music video to her new single ‘In The End’, the third release off the Dominican Republic pop singer’s debut album ‘9 Lives’, out now on Epic Records. Watch it at DailyMotion.