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40 free Luis Fonsi trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Luis Fonsi spent nearly two decades as one of Latin pop's most dependable balladeers before one song changed everything. In 2017, Despacito turned the Puerto Rican singer into a household name, rewrote chart and streaming record books, and pulled Spanish-language pop back into the global mainstream. This quiz covers the whole story: his childhood and school years, the early albums that made him a star across Latin America, the famous partners he has sung with, the making of his biggest hit and the records it set, plus his television work, family life and charity efforts. It is built for fans who want fun facts worth sharing, and for anyone curious how a romantic crooner ended up with one of the most-watched music videos ever made. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which Canadian pop star heard Luis Fonsi's Despacito in a Colombian nightclub and asked to record a remix?
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber heard the song while touring South America and recorded his part in Bogotá, singing in Spanish for the first time in his career. The whole remix took six days from start to release.
Q 02Which reggaeton star improvised his verse for Luis Fonsi's Despacito in a corner of the studio control room?
Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee made up his verse on the spot, later saying he had been thinking about his father playing bongos. He also wrote the post-chorus.
Q 03Which children's song dethroned Luis Fonsi's Despacito as the most-viewed video on YouTube in November 2020?
Baby Shark
Baby Shark, the Pinkfong sing-along, passed it with 7.04 billion views. Fonsi's video had led the site since August 2017 and was the first to reach three billion views.
Q 04What does Despacito, the title of Luis Fonsi's chart-topping 2017 single, mean in English?
Slowly
Slowly is the meaning, and the music acts it out: the track slows each time the title word opens the chorus, a device musicians call text painting.
Q 05For which pop superstar's Dream Within a Dream Tour was Luis Fonsi the opening act in 2002?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears had Fonsi open for her on the tour's Mexico dates, in the same year he released Fight the Feeling, his only album in English.
Q 06Which future *NSYNC member sang with Luis Fonsi in The Big Guys, a high school a cappella group?
Joey Fatone
Joey Fatone and Fonsi sang together at school parties and local festivals, and Fatone later turned up in the video for Fonsi's English single Secret.
Q 07Luis Fonsi's Despacito was the first Spanish-language Hot 100 number one since which 1996 dance craze?
Macarena
Macarena, by Los Del Rio, had been the last one, 21 years earlier. Fonsi's hit then stayed at number one for 16 weeks in a row.
Q 08Which country pulled Luis Fonsi's Despacito from its government broadcasters in 2017 after complaints about the lyrics?
Malaysia
Malaysia took the song off government-owned stations in July 2017 after public complaints about its lyrics, while private stations were only encouraged to censor themselves.
Q 09Luis Fonsi sang Despacito on Celebrating America, the TV broadcast marking which US president's inauguration?
Joe Biden
Joe Biden already had history with the song: at a 2020 campaign event headlined by Fonsi, he played a few bars of it himself.
Q 10Which English singer-songwriter said in 2017 that he had wanted to remix Luis Fonsi's Despacito but lost out?
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran revealed in June 2017 that he had hoped to sing on the song himself, weeks after the official remix reached number one in the US.
Q 11Luis Fonsi has coached on Chilean, Spanish and US Spanish-language editions of which singing competition franchise?
The Voice
The Voice gave Fonsi two wins as a coach: Jeidimar Rijos took the 2019 US Spanish-language season, and Elsa Tortonda won in Spain in 2023.
Q 12Which American singer performed partly in Spanish on Échame la Culpa, her 2017 duet with Luis Fonsi?
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato's duet with Fonsi topped charts from Spain to Mexico, and an English remix titled Not on You followed in 2018.
Q 13Luis Fonsi won the 2018 Global Gift Philanthropy Award for relief work after which hurricane devastated Puerto Rico?
Maria
Maria struck in September 2017, months after Fonsi's video had shown the island off to the world, and he became one of the most visible figures helping it recover.
Q 21At age 10, Luis Fonsi moved with his family to which US city, where he attended Dr. Phillips High School?
Orlando
Orlando became home when the family left Puerto Rico, and Fonsi went on from its schools to a full music scholarship at college.
Q 22Luis Fonsi's Despacito was the first Latin single to earn which certification from the RIAA?
Diamond
Diamond marks ten million units in the US, and by January 2020 the single had been certified 13 times platinum.
Q 23Since 2008, Luis Fonsi has served as an ambassador for which American children's hospital?
St. Jude
St. Jude, the Memphis research hospital that fights childhood cancer, has counted Fonsi among its ambassadors since 2008, and in 2017 the Billboard Latin Music Awards gave him the Spirit of Hope Award.
Q 14Luis Fonsi was born in 1978 in which city, where the video for Despacito was later filmed?
San Juan
San Juan is where Fonsi was born, the eldest of three children, and he came back in December 2016 to film in its La Perla neighborhood.
Q 15Which boy band did Luis Fonsi idolize as a child and later help recast as an audition judge in 2007?
Menudo
Menudo was the Puerto Rican group Fonsi grew up admiring, and in 2007 he sat on the Dallas jury that picked singers for a new lineup.
Q 16Which official role did Puerto Rico give Luis Fonsi in August 2017, while Despacito topped charts worldwide?
Tourism ambassador
Tourism ambassador was the title, and it fit: interest in visiting Puerto Rico was reported to have jumped 45% after the song's worldwide success.
Q 17Which pope did Luis Fonsi sing for in Rome during the Catholic Church's Great Jubilee celebrations?
John Paul II
John Paul II presided over the Great Jubilee of 2000, and Fonsi, two years into his recording career, sang for him at an open-air event in Rome.
Q 18Which 2019 hit finally broke the 16-week Hot 100 record that Luis Fonsi's Despacito had tied two years earlier?
Old Town Road
Old Town Road, by Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus, passed the mark in August 2019. Until then it was shared with One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.
Q 19Which YouTuber's Short ended the long run of Luis Fonsi's Despacito as the platform's most-liked video in 2025?
MrBeast
MrBeast took the title in January 2025 with a Short about flying to Paris for a baguette. Fonsi's video had been the most-liked on the site since July 2017.
Q 20Which pop star recorded a duet ballad with Luis Fonsi for Mi Reflejo, her 2000 Spanish-language album?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera chose Fonsi for the duet Si No Te Hubiera Conocido because, she said, the two had grown up listening to the same things.
Q 24In which country did Luis Fonsi perform at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert honoring Barack Obama?
Norway
Norway's capital, Oslo, staged the concert that December because the Peace Prize is the one Nobel presented there instead of in Stockholm.
Q 25Zuleyka Rivera, who dances with Luis Fonsi in the Despacito video, won which international pageant title in 2006?
Miss Universe
Miss Universe 2006 was Rivera's crown, and Fonsi asked her to appear in the video to represent what he called the powerful Latina woman.
Q 26Luis Fonsi released a 2018 version of Despacito with Singaporean star JJ Lin in Spanish and which other language?
Mandarin
Mandarin joined a long list of makeovers: the song also got a Portuguese version, a salsa remix and a banda version with a Mexican group.
Q 27Which Spice Girl recorded the duet Amazing with Luis Fonsi for Free Me, her 2004 solo album?
Emma Bunton
Emma Bunton steeped Free Me in the 1960s Motown and bossa nova sounds she loved, and Amazing paired her with Fonsi two years after his own English-language album.
Q 28Which Puerto Rican actress did Luis Fonsi marry in 2006 after cancelling a tour to support her through cancer?
Adamari López
Adamari López was diagnosed in 2005, and Fonsi called off an international tour to travel with her for treatment. The couple divorced in 2010.
Q 29Luis Fonsi objected when which country's president used a reworded Despacito to promote a disputed 2017 vote?
Venezuela
Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro used the tune to urge turnout for his Constituent Assembly election, and Fonsi and his co-writers condemned it as propaganda.
Q 30Luis Fonsi joined Avril Lavigne and Ryan Tedder on the official song of which 2019 sporting event in Abu Dhabi?
Special Olympics
Special Olympics organizers made Right Where I'm Supposed to Be the anthem of their 2019 World Summer Games, with Arab stars such as Tamer Hosny also singing on it.