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album. I’ve done a couple of bilingual Spanish and English records. This is my full all-English record… Allison: … With a really eclectic group of songs. How did you choose some of these songs and artists to cover? Julio: With Into the Night, the hardest part of the record was choosing ten songs out of 150 that I had in mind. Rudy and I would sit for hours trying to figure out which songs we are going to do, and which songs could we make into a big band production that would sound amazing. Another song on the album is Just the Way You Are,” which is one of my favorite songs of all time. Allison: I love Billy Joel! Julio: He is one of my favorite artists of all time. Allison: Me too. Did anyone ever ask you, “If you were stuck on a desert island, and you could only play one album…?” Mine would be Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I and II. Julio: Anybody that tells me they don’t like Billy Joel, I just cannot believe it. For me, Billy Joel rocks the earth. Just the Way You Are is another one of those songs I grew up listening to and when I told Rudy I would like to do a Billy Joel song, that was the song. The way we did it with the horns and the production, I love the way it came out and I’m super happy the song made it onto the record. Allison: And you have a duet with Jewel, a cover of George Michael’s Careless Whisper. Julio: That was a song that my dad also sang. It is one of the best George Michaels songs. Then we have a beautiful Stevie Wonder medley with Over Joy and I Just Called to Say I Love You. Allison: One of my favorites! Julio: Yes, and Isn’t She Lovely. Allison: And that is a duet with Brian McKnight? Julio: Yes, and we were very happy that Brian wanted to work on the record with us. Allison: Okay, this one shocked me. You do a big band-esque cover of Right Said Fred, I’m Too Sexy. Julio: It was also one of those songs that, of course, I’ve heard a million times. I grew up with that song in the 90s. [We] actually spoke to the guys from Right Said Fred and they agreed to do it as a duet. The way we did it is, we kept the beat of that song, because that is what makes the song it’s a similar version, but big band with a lot of instruments in the right places. It sounds like a band is playing it, instead of a computerized [sound].