The one thing that worries Soluna's Christina Lopez, known as "T" in the group, is the possibility of catching a cold. "When one of us is sick, the whole group is sick."
During a telephone interview with the entire quartet from Puerto Rico, where Soluna made some recent TV and radio appearances, T added, "We sing live, and when one of us is off, the whole group is off. So we have to take care of ourselves and rest as much as possible, but sometimes that's hard when it comes to the schedule."
Soluna's schedule will bring them to Salt Lake City on Saturday, when the group opens for Enrique Iglesias in the Delta Center.
The four singers — T, Jessica Castellanos, Aurora Rodriguez and America (pronounced ah-meh-REE-kah) Olivo — are taking their current popularity in stride.
"We all know this is an opportunity of a lifetime," said Castellanos. "We have been able to travel the United States and see other singers do what they do best — entertain."
"We're taken care of," T said. "We have people with us constantly who get us whatever we need."
"And we have all found we have more cousins than we remember," Olivo said with a laugh. "We get calls all the time saying, 'Hey, remember me? I'm your cousin.' "
"But we also learn a lot from doing what we're doing," said Rodriguez. "We get to see how Enrique and Marc (Anthony) relate to the audience. And we learn how to do it ourselves."
Although it's fun being on the road and making albums, the singers of Soluna know that it's important to keep themselves grounded.
"We are all lead singers," said Castellanos. "We wanted to be able to make sure we could sing four-part harmony on the spot whenever someone asked us. And to do that, we need to stay close to each other as possible. It is important that we all remain friends and let no rivalry come between us."
"We have become like sisters," said T. "And that's important to remember. And it's easy to do that when the bottom line is the music."
"We all have different musical influences," said Olivo. "But the four of us want to make the best music we can together."
The group's new album "For All Time," is a mixture of rhythm and blues, and Latin pop. "When choosing songs for this album, we went in open-minded," said Olivo. "We chose the ones we liked. And if we had to make a choice between a couple of songs we really liked, we used the majority-rules rule."
These days the women have been listening to a lot of Usher, Mariah Carey and Mana.
"We want to grow as a group, musically," said Rodriguez. "As performers, we want to bring something to the audience but not clutter up the music. And hopefully, in four or five years, we'll be working on our fourth album."
Singing Saturday
What: Enrique Iglesias, Soluna
Where: Delta Center
When: Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.
How much: $37-$47
Phone: 325-7328
E-MAIL: scott@desnews.com