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I wrote to Benito like Benito,
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I love you. You're so great,
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and he wrote back and he was like,
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He was like, he was great.
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He said no. I'm like,
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oh my God, I love you,
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So welcome to Vi Gente Latino.
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Today we're honored to be joined by iconic Mexican singer-songwriter,
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and Grammy Award winning artist Julieta Venegas.
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So happy to have you here.
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So happy to be here.
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we got to start by congratulating you on receiving the
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Artistic Excellence Award at Billboard's Latin Women in Music 2026.
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What a moment. Let's talk about it.
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What did that moment mean to you?
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Well, it meant a lot because it being a,
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like a recognition that I get as a woman.
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I feel like I get to,
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like think about Rafelionarum Poco about being a woman in music and
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being an artist woman and how that has been for me and
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how long it's taken for me to reconcile,
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my education with the fact that this is the life that I
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chose and And it's not a typical life in any sense,
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not for Mexican families,
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you know, that like,
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like traditionally to be a woman and,
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and to do music is like to,
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you know, stay away from the,
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from getting married, from having kids,
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from all these things,
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and that was a long time for me to say,
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well, yeah, but that's the life that I chose,
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it's not a bad thing,
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you know, it's actually a really good thing that I,
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but I did for a long time.
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Feel that it was like a weight on me that I wasn't
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you know, like this Mexican woman who was,
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you know, having kids and doing the whole traditional life and
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that took me a long time to say,
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well, yeah, but this is another way of being a
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Mexican woman, you know,
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and for me it's like it's cool,
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that I'm recognized like that and I feel like this is good
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for also other women,
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you know, it's good for other.
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And to see that this is a way of living and also
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a way of being and choosing to be because there's other choices
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you can have, not just one single way,
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you know, it's not wrong to choose another way.
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It's like right if it's right for you.
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So that was important,
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and you're a mother too,
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you said, I'm a mom,
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yeah, yeah, so you can have both.
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It definitely is different and it's hard sometimes,
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but I think that it's really worth it to.
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it took me a long while to say my daughter somehow in
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a hippie way, she chose me,
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you know, she wanted this mother,
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this woman, and so I'm like this is the kind of
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although I can't be in every single important,
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important moment with her,
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it is good for our relationship and it's good for her to
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know that. I'm doing something that is,
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you know, valuable to me and that is,
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you know, deeply connected to who I am and,
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and that, that is something that I hope that she decides
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to sort of, you know,
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look for in her life also.
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Most definitely. Well,
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she's got a cool mom.
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I'll tell her that she's 15,
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so I'm anything but cool.
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Oh, you got a cool mom.
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Your daughter's watching. I love that.
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I mean, it goes to show again,
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like the template. That our parents kind of grew up with
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and they try to instill in us.
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Again, I'm sure there's some parts of it that work and
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still felt like, you know,
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you felt connected to,
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but there's not a one size fits all.
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And I feel like that's what's cool about this day and age
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of again, like you speaking up for those,
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movements in the right way.
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It's like we all can have our own thing and that's fine
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I feel like this generation of Latinos is more accepting of
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that and more flexible,
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right? Again, I'm sure there's some values that we still
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very much align with,
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but there's some like,
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you know what, like,
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I I do want to do this instead or like there's no
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traditional 9 to 5 that our parents grew up with,
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right? So I love that.
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But, obviously you came here as well to talk about
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your new album. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's dropping very soon,
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Nortena, right? What can you tell us about it?
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Well, one thing I can say is that I've been wanting
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to do this album for a long time,
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at least for 5 years.
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I've been thinking about it.
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Like, I want to do a popular music album.
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is inspired and what,
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what I, what we listen to at home,
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what my parents would play for us like Juan Gabriel and Losibes
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del Norte and Rocio Durcal and Sonora Santannera because my parents were
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very much about that music like Pedro Infante.
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I grew up with a lot of English English speaking music because
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we would listen to the radio.
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It was a lot easier to listen to American radio than to
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try to get a Mexican station,
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you know, in our radio.
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So I kind of grew up with this very exotic mix of
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like very border city,
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and it's all natural to me,
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and I think that definitely,
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I wanted that to be,
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that spirit to be in the album and also like in my
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family, music has always been a way of sharing and,
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and being together and just celebrating and,
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and that is the spirit that I wanted to have.
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And what American music specifically did you grow up?
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I'm curious now because I grew up with Radio Disney.
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Like school Radio Disney,
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well, obviously a lot of hip hop,
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so I'm curious to hear more of that.
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Yeah, I started listening to a lot of hip hop,
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I think when I was growing up,
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it was like 91X and it's,
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it's a station that you listen to in California,
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at least in San Diego,
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and I think we listened to a lot in the 8 because
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I was a teenager in the 80s.
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That was not. It was actually kind of cool.
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That's the best time.
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I'm so jealous because my mom too,
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and I'm like, I envy you.
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You lived the best year.
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That was, that was great because you had new wave and
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you had all this electronic sounding sort of like from Thompson twins
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I definitely love The Cure.
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The Cure where like they,
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they transmitted my spirit of darkness pretty well.
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I was a darkie and I just kind of really enjoyed it
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but then. I would contrast it with other stuff,
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what else we'd listen to a lot of,
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I don't know, madness,
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then we start listening to,
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I started listening to like Mexican rock music like after it was
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it was definitely like the 90s because that's when Cafeta Cuba came
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over and when Caifaes started showing up somewhere and but I
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I think I like Cafetacuba more than Caifane.
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And then when I got,
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went to live in Mexico City,
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I discovered like everything that was going on like Santa Sabina and
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all these bands that were,
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that were playing like,
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well, Atercio Pelado was also a really cool thing to listen
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to also, but in the radio,
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American radio, it was mostly that like The Cure and,
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and I remember loving,
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I remember Boy George.
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I wasn't sure if I was in love with him or if
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I want. I wanted to be him.
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It was very confusing.
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It was super confusing because it was like the way he looked
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and everything was like amazing and at the same time I was
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I kind of wanted to look like that,
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but then I thought he was attractive,
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it's very confusing for me.
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But I was a teenager.
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You got a whole library,
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and it kind of works perfectly with the next segment because I
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wanted to kind of build a little playlist with you,
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very impromptu. So we have this thing called Grandma playlist,
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and so I'm gonna give you some situations,
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and then you're gonna tell me for this song I would pick
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this track. It could be from your own library,
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your own personal catalog,
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or just anything that comes to mind.
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All right, that sounds good.
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Best song to channel your inner tena.
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Best,, I think the one that my mom would
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sing all in the car all the time,
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every single morning was Contrabando Trecion by,
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which is kind of funny because we were kids and we didn't
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understand what, what they were talking about.
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We didn't understand like the yerba mala on the tires,
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what it was, you know.
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That's always the best though when you get old,
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like, 00, and my mom was like super inspired when
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she was singing. I was like,
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Mom, yeah, I like it.
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Sonalela Tejana. She actually kills her lovers.
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Like, Whoa, look at you.
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It's so true. I'm like,
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No, because it's like it's a cafe.
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this song about a fish in the was it like that's something
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but OK, so that's perfect.
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What song reminds you of your childhood?
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The whole album with Juan Gabriel and Rosse Durcal,
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we, we do road trips to go to San
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Felipe, which was like a 5,
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my parents would be playing music all the way through,
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and sometimes they would have just a couple of cassettes and we'd
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have to repeat them and repeat them,
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and I remember like really well that when I listened to Rose
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Like I remember something just brings me back to to those
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freeways with the desert and the sea on the other side,
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and it was just like so nostalgic.
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Yeah, these kids have it good now with Spotify because not
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not old, but like I remember back in the day my
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parents had a whole shit,
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well, even I had one and when I first got my
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first car, a little binder with mixed CDs,
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yeah. And it's like I get to your point of like
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hey, when it's like when it's over,
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do you want another cassette or you want to just start it
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over? OK, we're not searching.
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Hey, what's a DJ on the AI say?
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like it's what we got you know you have 3 albums for
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Now what are you going to do?
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Best song that gets you locked in before a show.
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In my band, we like to play some songs before we
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Stage and we start singing.
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It's a way of warming up and not,
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we like to do the voice warm up,
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but then we like to,
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you know, hang out and sort of play a song and
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I, I remember when we were doing,
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in one of the tours we were doing a lot
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of Charlie Garcia songs.
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He's a, he's an Argentinian,
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singer-songwriter. He's a,
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he's a genius. I can't remember the title of the song
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but it was like Easequedas Simbodia ros,
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Oh sorry, I'm tapping.
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No, no, it sounds good though.
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It's a surround sound that they're going to hear on the the
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but I can't remember the name of the song.
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But that's Charlie Garcia is definitely a good one to,
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to. He gets to like really like going with any of
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his songs, just like,
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yeah, we, we play them on guitar guitar and the
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jam, yeah, he has a bunch of songs.
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And lastly, what's the best song for a late night drive
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I've been listening a lot to the latest James Blake album
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and his voice is very smoky,
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and he's very much a late night sort of artist,
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no? Like you have to listen to him.
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Like, I think that's the best time to listen to him
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actually. I have to tap in because I have no idea
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I feel like I'm very basic with music,
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like, and now that I have a kid too,
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like she's 2 years old,
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it's either Wiggles or she likes Bruno.
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I'm like, and then I'm like,
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bro, why is she singing these songs again,
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those dirty songs. She'd be like,
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she's working that back and she worked the songs.
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cover your ears, you know,
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No, I think that really,
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not good song that I play.
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I mean, I love this song,
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a song with Visar rap and Nati Peluso.
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They have this song together,
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which I love. And I remember my daughter was younger
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when I put it on for the first time.
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We were playing songs for each other and I'm like,
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I'm gonna play a super,
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this song is not something I should be playing for you because
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you're too young and this is like really like messed up and
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she's like, and I'm like,
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they say a lot of bad words and a lot of,
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whenever anything inappropriate is said,
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like squeeze my, my knee,
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the whole time the whole time.
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Because she didn't even understand what they were saying,
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so I'm, I'm like the worst influence in that sense.
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I don't feel bad then.
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I mean she's doing it.
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So you've had some iconic collabs to name a few.
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Bad Bunny, Natalia Naurcade,
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So like what would you say,
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are there any, like,
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can, can you walk us through how those collaborations happened,
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any memorable like behind the scene moments?
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With Bad Bunny, it was through Tiny.
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Tiny's album, and he contacted me,
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which was really great because he contacted me.
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We were still in the pandemic.
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It was still kind of like a mess,
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and I was, I remember being in,
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in my house and just,
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you know, super bored and all of a sudden,
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I remember. It was Sunday and somebody said Tiny wants to
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get in touch with you and I'm like,
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and I love the way he invited me because it's like,
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you know what, we did this song this is for my
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we did this song with Benito,
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and there's a story there like what he's saying,
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and, and I was wondering if you'd like to,
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you know, write an answer for this,
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you know, this character and what he's saying.
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I was hooked immediately because I was like,
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I love this invitation.
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It's like you're inviting me to answer something that a character like
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a song that you already wrote,
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and so he sent me the song the way that,
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Los Into Babe, but without the,
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without the beat. So I would listen to it and I
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listened to it on loop for like,
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I don't know how many times,
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and then I sat down and just wrote the part and I
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sent it to him and he was like,
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I love it. The only thing I would do would be
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to lift it up a little.
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With, with the tempo and now you're ready.
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So when I was recording my album,
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I recorded the voice.
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and it, it all just,
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it was all sort of like really fast,
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you know, it was really easy with him to work with
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I thought I was super generous with him.
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And then after the song came out,
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I, I wrote to Benito like,
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You're so great, and he wrote back and he was like
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He was like, he was great.
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that was great. And then we finally sang it together like
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a few months ago in December.
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He went to play in Mexico City and,
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and it was, it was amazing to finally play it live
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It was like the first time we ever played it,
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you know, and it was great.
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I really enjoyed that.
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That's that. It was great.
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It's such a great song.
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I love it. And then,
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and then when, when I work with Natalia,
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I've, I've always loved Natalia.
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we know, we've known each other for a very long time
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I can actually say we're friends,
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and I really, really,
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really, really think she's just an amazing artist,
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and I've seen her like.
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Florescer, you know how like she's become this like super incredible
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artist and everything that comes out of her is just her own
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world and I really love it.
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I love what she's doing and when we wrote this song,
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we wrote it with David Aguilar,
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who's also collaborated with her and,
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and I, I contacted Natalia.
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she's always touring and she's,
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if she's not touring,
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she's super involved in an album,
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so I wrote to her and I'm like,
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you know what, I have this song and I think,
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you know, I think it would be perfect to sing it
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together. I don't know.
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you're, you're crazy and you're always traveling or whatever,
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and it's gonna be tough,
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I want you to listen to it,
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and she listened to it and she loved it instantly.
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She was like, I love it.
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I, I, this is gonna be great,
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and I think people are gonna be surprised of hearing us sing
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like this because we,
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we hadn't collaborated since who who who that she'd done her album
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That was a long time.
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The song was completely different.
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It's a super like quirky and experimental song.
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And so this one was more traditional sounding,
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more like two women in the cantina just kind of like talking
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about life, you know,
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yeah, yeah. So that was really cool and,
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and we, a good thing we had like a because I
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I wasn't in a hurry with this album.
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I really took my time,
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don't worry about it,
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we're gonna record it whenever you can.
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This was like, I think we spoke like 8 months before
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we actually recorded it.
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It's like I was very,
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very like everything to me was done very calmly,
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uh-huh, and I was like,
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you know, you can tell me when you can do it
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and it's totally fine and And we finally got together around November
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and she was about to have a baby,
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you know, last year,
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and,, then it was amazing because what finally when
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we were able to record,
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she was like I think she,
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she had a baby like 2 weeks later,
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yeah, and when we recorded it,
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yeah. You also grew up in a border town,
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right? You grew up in Tijuana Tijuana,
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but you also grew up in,
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we kind of lived on both sides my family.
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we lived in, in San Diego at one point,
15:50
but we went to school in Tijuana,
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and we always went to school in Tijuana.
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in my house it was really funny because on one side we
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were living right there.
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It's like your, your,
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your vida cotiana happens in a place where in a border city
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which is very different from a city like Mexico City or any
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other city in Mexico.
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your, your cotiana happens right there.
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So you, you speak two languages,
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you kind of live in two countries.
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Like, and you get used to that seeing a lot of
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people trying to migrate,
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trying to, trying to cross a border,
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maybe they're in Tijuana just temporarily,
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or maybe they'll stay,
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you know, it's always like so many stories,
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you know, and that's something that I wanted to have in
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the album because the album has to do with everything about being
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nortena, everything to me about being from Tijuana,
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which is these stories,
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these stories about migrating,
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the salsaparrado to familia,
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You have or or what you think you're going to find on
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the other side. So there's a lot of stories that have
16:49
with, with sort of esolanoranza la migracioni como lagusque sueno,
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yeah. And then you also,
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you were born, I mean in,
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in Long Beach, right?
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like Long Beach. Did you ever,
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did you ever meet like Snoop Dogg,
17:06
Jenny Rivera? I'm sorry,
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I had to get that question in there too,
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but Jenny Rivera. Snoop Dogg,
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I never lived in Long Beach.
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I was only born there,
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because my dad, my dad was studying photography and so him
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and my mom moved to,
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I think they were living in Glendale actually.
17:24
They weren't even living in Long Beach,
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and they had like the 4 1st kids because then we have
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2 more sisters, but the 1st 4,
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we were born over there and my parents lived there for a
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year and then we came back to Tijuana and then they,
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they put their. Studio and that was it.
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But, but they wanted us all to be born on the
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on the American side because it was easy.
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yeah, that way you have the option when you grow up
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you have your Mexican papers,
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but the thing is they never took out our our Mexican papers
17:53
in the school in Tijuana,
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they don't ask you for Mexican papers.
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It's really funny. It's like when I got to Mexico City
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that became a problem for me.
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But then eventually I was able to get my two miso nationalidades
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my two citizenships,
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and that made it easier.
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But at first when I went to Mexico City,
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I was living through,
18:08
through a tourist visa for a long time because I didn't have
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my Mexican citizenship citizenship.
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So I should thank my dad because he told me that he
18:16
got my dual citizenship and I was like out the womb.
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I was born here in Northridge.
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I got your papes over there too,
18:22
just in case. I'm like,
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Really? And so to your point,
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you said that you didn't do that right off the bat.
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And so now it's kind of an issue down the road.
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Yeah, it does become an issue.
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I mean, now it's not because I,
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but I think it when I was in my.
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Twenties they were because in Tijuana nobody asked for a Mexican citizenship
18:37
or anything. It was just like,
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yeah, you're you're OK here go to school,
18:42
you know, nobody in in Mexico City they do become more
18:44
strict about that. You do need to show at least,
18:47
nacimiento or something, you know.
18:49
Speaking of Mexico City,
18:50
like La Ciudad de Mexico,
18:52
it was just ranked as one of the top most beautiful cities
18:56
in the world. Why do you feel like you just like
18:59
you love it and why do you feel like it's so magical
19:02
Well, I think Mexico City does have like when I
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moved there when I was,
19:07
but I was like in love with the glamour of it.
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I'm not thinking about,
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glamorous in the sense of,
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you know, rock bands or anything.
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I was more like thinking like.
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we always thought of Mexico as being,
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wow, Mexico. It was like we were Mexican,
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but yet, and yet our,
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the, the city that we had closest to us was San
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Diego, which wasn't even like,
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I don't know, it was all right,
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but it was like Mexico.
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It was like the ideal,
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you know, when politics were discussed,
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everything was discussed, and it was all about Mexico,
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but we didn't, we didn't,
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it's like we just idealized it.
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And then when, when I finally went there for the first
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everything that I thought about my identity is here.
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you know, it's like,
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so I really wanted to live in that city.
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I became this. It became sort of an obsession like I
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I just need to be in the city,
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and I feel like this is the city that,
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that describes me the most,
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you know, more even than Tijuana at one point because I
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feel like my identity was being like,
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oh, completed, you know.
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So that to me was super important when I went to live
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there, and that's because I was only going.
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On vacation and I finally just you're like,
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I need to stay here.
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I belong here. I'm just gonna stay,
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you know that and real quick before we move on to the
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so say I have 2 hours in Mexico City.
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What do you recommend I do in those 2 hours?
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I mean, definitely the food is,
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I mean, I lived right now.
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I just came back from living in Argentina for 8 years,
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and although I love.
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I love Argentina. I love Buenos Aires.
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I really miss the food.
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It's like the way that a charne over there,
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over there, a lot of food,
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but it's mostly the seasonings.
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It's like they just like their salt and their pepper,
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you know. In Mexico it's like there's like tapa de sabo
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el chile laciel picante,
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el dulce. It's like so many layers of flavor that I
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missed a lot because I see,
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I start talking because I'm,
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the, the whole combination,
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you know. Also just kind of miss my,
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my family, you know,
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just sitting down at the table and just,
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you know, eating something with my family,
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although I did make a lot of really great friends,
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it's very different to have your,
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you know, your flavors and your family and every,
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every, and your friends from,
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from all your life together and just be able,
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you know, being able to share that.
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Definitely, definitely. I feel like that goes perfectly with our
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next conversation because I wanna get to know you,
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right, and you know.
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So I have some questions here.
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Just rapid fire, or it could be a long gap session
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like we've been doing,
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which is fine. So what is your go to taco order
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I do like, I do like the bean burritos.
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The bean burritos, bean burritos are a tradition for me.
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because for a long time when I worked in a,
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I worked in a record store in San Diego,
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I would always go for a bean burrito,
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and now when we went back with my dad,
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I'm like, I'm going to pass on this knowledge.
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To you, is your bean burrito,
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my daughter. So now you know what life is like,
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that was sort of the thing.
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But now in Mexico City they're in,
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in Califa they have their,
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what, what are they called the palsos tacos.
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So I eat the go the gonera,
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but I, it's all like vegan cheese and meat and all
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that, and it's actually really,
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it's, it's actually really nice.
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It tastes great, the pastor,
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the pastor, it's a fake pastor.
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But it's honestly something like they do it so good.
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No, it's really fun and El Califa is really good.
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And, and you know what I really,
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what I realized is like it doesn't matter if it's meat or
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not. I just enjoy sitting down with my friends and having
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a little mezcallito and having some tacos,
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and that's super fun,
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that to me is like a way of sharing that doesn't have
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anything to do with what you're actually,
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it doesn't have to be an actual.
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you know, it can be all like fake animals,
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los tacos, honestly,
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like 90% of the thing is the salsa,
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the carne, you know,
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it has to be cooked obviously and all that the salsa is
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whack the salsa is so important I think that you have your
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your super chipotles, you have,
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I mean, I think definitely the,
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the salsa is, is like 80% of the taco.
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I totally agree with that.
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And currently, what's your go to karaoke song?
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right now I think we like to do Eladron in
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Sonora Santanera, and this New Year's we actually had like family
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karaoke, and my mom,
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my mom has a like a really big repertoire,
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and definitely like Jose Alfredo Jimenez is really cool.
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I think Jose Alfredo Jimenez is great to do in karaoke,
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like anything you wanna do Eya,
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I like one that's called Canta Canta,
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which isn't one of the most well known,
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but it's great. It's like really mad.
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You're really. It's one of those fun ones to see.
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Yeah, those are really,
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those are the best ones,
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and Jose Alfredo is like a specialist,
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and also wanga. I think wanga is definitely like asaconosi,
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you know, it's sort of like slow.
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It's a slow cooker and it starts to go,
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go up and up and up,
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yeah, when everyone joins in yelling,
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that's how you know it's a banger.
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come on, I like to do karaoke at the Rosarito Beach
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Hotel. They have karaoke nights and,
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Paquitala del barrio, get into it.
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It's good stuff, but it was so nice to speak to
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you. No, thank you so much.
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Any words you want to say to the fans before we sign
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I also published a book.
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It's called Nortena. So I mean it's not gonna be here
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in the US, but you know you can get it in
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Mexico and other Latin American countries,
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and well, just saying hi and thank you,
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We'll be back here to play in Los Angeles and we're gonna
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be playing here in the US.
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I mean this year I'm only gonna play in Mexico and the
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US, so we're gonna be around.
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So hope to see you soon and thank you,
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thank you, thank you,
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thank you much for the time.
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Oh yeah, we have to do it.
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