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I was born on a tour.
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I went to school on the road.
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I started working when I was three.
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I'm not bragging about it.
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I'm not crying about it.
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You're the proudest of?
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Oh II, I gotta say, definitely.
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Um I'm proud of my family.
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I'm proud of my family.
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I know it sounds like a cliche, but I swear to you, it's truth
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is the truth, you know, definitely.
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Uh my family makes me uh get up in the mornings and, and, and
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do things, you know, I'm, I'm proud of many other things.
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Of course, I'm proud of, of uh my country, my country, man,
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my history, my traditions, uh my country is the world by the
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way, you know, I, I'm, I'm, I'm proud of many things.
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I'm proud of my work, of course, you know, but that, that wouldn't
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be number one of what I'm proud of.
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I'm, I'm most proud of what I've done with my family.
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You grew up in a musical family, you stepped on stage for the
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very first time, I would imagine at a very, very young age,
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how would you say your life has been different rather than
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the same as what you imagined as a child.
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Um, I don't have nothing ordinary.
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I was born on a tour.
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I went to school on the road.
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Um, I started working when I was three.
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Um, I didn't have a childhood.
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Um, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a pretty peculiar life
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Uh, I'm not bragging about it.
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I'm not crying about it.
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And normally there is not a lot of stuff that people can relate
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So, so, and, and, and curious, very curiously, there's a lot
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of things that I can relate with everybody else.
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You know, everything is the same.
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We all have different ways of saying and wanting the same thing
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So, and besides, I, I've always been uh a status quo killer
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I don't like the status quo doesn't appeal to you, but he said
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no, no, no, no, no, no.
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II I think life's too short, man.
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You know, you gotta do what you wanna do.
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Of course, as long as you don't hurt anybody else or yourself
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starting with yourself, you gotta do what you wanna do what
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You know, you look around today and you see that the Hispanic
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market is this, you know, just this monster of a market over
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You see how we're affecting everything from, you know, supermarket
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sales to the way companies advertise, not just to us, but to
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mainstream America, the way we affect films, you know, it's
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it's, it's, it's a quantum leap from the market that was here
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during your dad's era.
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You know, do you think you would have ever imagined that?
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I don't think nobody, nobody did.
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Not even the Hispanics themselves.
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You know, the whole population, nobody, nobody ever in their
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wildest dreams would have thought that we had, we have had
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this real, we have this reality right now that we would some
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someday we will come to be where we are right now.
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And you know, what's, what's the, the, the, the most exciting
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It's just starting, it's just starting.
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Um There's no way back, you know, our culture is way too strong
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and this country is full of opportunities and it's not gonna
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stop being a country full of opportunities.
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So we are a very hardworking people, you know, that's, that's
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that's in our culture.
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So I think this is only the beginning.
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We just, you know, if you see the numbers, this is just getting
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started, you know, every time, more and more people get to
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high levels of efficiency in the Hispanic community, you
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know, more and more people uh uh get prepared for this kind
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Um So it's fun to be alive right now and being Hispanic in the
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United States, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm full of dreams and I'm
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I've been in this for 30 some years.
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I've been in the business for 39 years and I believe the best
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You know, it's amazing.
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So it doesn't matter if you're an artist, a taxi driver, um
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a restaurant employee, um, or you, if you're in top of your
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class and just come out of Harvard or Yale, you know, we all
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have to do our part.
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We all have to do our part.
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And one thing that is very important, this country is amazing
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This country is beautiful.
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We have to um deserve the opportunity and deserve all this
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How adapting working, being honest, doing what you have to
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do no matter where you are.
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And you sound just like my father just in much better, English
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OK, I gotta, I gotta ask you one last thing and then, and then
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I'll let you go and I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed this
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You know, you said you, you, you said it's fun.
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I agree with everything you've said.
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It's a great time to be who we are.
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Uh But I can't stop but think that, you know, we have certain
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iconic personalities in the industry that you know, they
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have a certain responsibility because of who they are.
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You're beyond an iconic personality in the industry, your
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royalty in this market.
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You really are, you really are, you really are, do you sense
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that responsibility.
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And, and, and, and, and how does it, or doesn't it affect you
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I do not sense that responsibility at all.
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I'm just the guy that worries to do things.
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I think I should think about that responsibility a little
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more because even if I don't see myself as that, there's a lot
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Yeah, I gotta concentrate a little more on that.
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But you know what this is about having fun, man.
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This is not about titles or who's best than the other one.
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And uh for me, it's just remain who I am.
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That's the challenge.
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And I'm a guy that loves what it, what it does.
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You know, I'm a guy that enjoys truthfully to come out and be
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happy after the show and be proud of what I did or, or speaking
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That's more important for me than titles and awards.
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That's more important for me than having a lot of money, you
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So, yeah, iii I know that I'm an inspiration to a lot of Hispanics
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but uh I prepare, I, I'm, I'm sorry, I, I prefer to keep myself
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real and to always uh to always keep myself centered in what
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I am and what I like and what my family and people I love uh need
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and if I can do something to make them happier, that's the important
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thing, you know, that's the important thing in life.
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Too, to be happy, to be free, not to have a title, to be free.
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Freedom is the ultimate, um, blessing every human being has
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to be free no matter where, no matter how, you know.
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So that's my, that's my main goal and it has been all, all the
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time and, uh, that's my main responsibility.
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