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Hey guys, we're out here in West Covina with Di Oro
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That's where we're both from.
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We reconnected from Baja.
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We actually know a spot that we wanna put you guys on
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that we grew up with the one and only taste
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the goody, incredible chow mein,
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incredible salt and pepper shrimp.
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If you know, you know,
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Let's go. Main thing here is the chow mein.
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huh. The chow mein and the,
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and the salt and pepper shrimp.
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Oh, yeah. The chow mein is.
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Oh my God. I'm an orange chicken type of gown.
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Good. How generous they are guys.
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I, I remember her from when I was little.
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She's been here for many years I think,
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Prove prove Dior. Why did you choose the name Dior?
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So my last name is Oros.
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Ok. So it's like Eric de Oros.
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So it's a play on where is De Oro?
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Pretty simple. I mean,
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it's not really any special.
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A lot of people think it has to do with gold.
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Yeah, I thought that too.
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No, it's just my last name and then I know,
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I remember you by DJ Tonic.
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So that's why in Baja,
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I was like, I could have sworn you DJ,
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some of the house parties that I went to but you went
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by a different name.
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There was a DJ tonic tonic.
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Why did you choose that name?
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And why did you change it?
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So, my favorite movie is Iron Giant.
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You know the cartoon movie with the robot.
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There's a scene where he grabs a kid and they're in a
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diner in the background.
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You can see the word tonic.
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I remember I was looking for a name or a DJ name
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oh Tonic, that's a cool name.
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I was just DJ Tonic because of that.
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And then there was a band called Tonic and then they were
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just like, you can't use this name.
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They sent me a season to see.
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No way. So you're like,
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And I was afraid of that.
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I was afraid of that happening again.
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So I just invented a new word honestly.
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Like yours. It's perfect.
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It's perfect. And where did you go to high school?
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I went to Covina High.
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OK. I know back then the quinceanera would come into play
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some of the best memories I have,
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you know, and you DJ Quinces I have before with my
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Two, right? How did he inspire you?
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Yeah. He's more of like a,
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like a typical house party,
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like family, family party.
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he would ask me if I can go with him to help
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him with the speakers and stuff.
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So that's how I kind of got involved with all that.
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And and where are you guys from?
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Like Mexico wise? Like where my dad's from?
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Guerrero, my mom's from Guadalajara.
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That's cool. Do they have a cute love story?
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They do actually. Yeah,
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they do. So they used to sing at a choir in
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church and yeah, my dad always had a crush on my
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mom and I remember he told me he would,
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he would walk two miles to go to a pay phone to
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call her and she would be waiting and but yeah,
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so they eventually got married.
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They had me and they still sing in the choir for a
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long time. And that's where there was just like this music
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room that I would always kind of,
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I grew up in basically.
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And that's how I got really involved with music.
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I fell in love with music and the instruments and everything,
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you know. That's crazy guys.
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You gotta court them,
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you gotta court them two miles.
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Oh, sorry. It's all the water.
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It's just I'm so passionate,
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you know, and going back to your dad,
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how does it feel like for him seeing you with all these
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people going crazy over you.
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One thing he's always told me is he's very proud and I
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think the coolest thing that's happened so far is,
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you know, I recently got connected with the Mexico team,
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the Mexican national team and I remember he used to take me
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that's probably one of the,
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the coolest things that I've been able to do for him is
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to take him to the game,
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you know, not only as a spectator but like,
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hey, like, I'm the DJ,
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and you can just see his eyes light up,
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you know, he's just,
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he's so proud and show him that all of that stress
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you know, all that sleep that I lost and all that
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It was, it was for something,
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you know, it was for this,
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And I love how you incorporate your Mexican culture into your music
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Like, how important is that for you to really represent
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your community for me was one of the best things I've ever
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done in my career is to get in touch with my culture
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And it's also made it 10 times as fun.
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I remember in the beginning it was kinda like,
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OK, I'm gonna start applying this stuff and like,
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there would be some,
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some rasa in the crowd,
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you know, but now it's just like,
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you know, fast forward 34 years later.
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It's like, it's all raza,
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it's just like everyone and even at festivals,
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you know, once I go on stage,
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all the Mexican flags come out,
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you know, all the Latino flags come out.
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it, it makes everything so much more fun.
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It's like, it's like everyone,
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it shows up and then you feel at home,
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you know, I'm really lucky to be able to tell us
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about your new album early.
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you know what? It's funny.
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Well, that was because of Fidel,
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he's into cars, he loves cars.
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He's got all the expensive cars.
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So he hit me up as soon as I met him.
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the reason I, I brought you here is because,
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I wanna work with you.
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shut up. Are you serious?
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If you're serious, I'll go home right now.
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I'll drop everything. He's like,
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I'll go start working all the time right now.
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for sure. Like le let's work.
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So I said, all right,
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cool Ben. All right,
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Ben. So I took a photo with him and everything and
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we changed a couple of ideas that one started taking off from
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where I was just like,
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OK, this is gonna be it,
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he sent me, he sent me the vocals and then I
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started working the music.
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Amazing. And can people listen to the song right now?
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Yes and loudly. It's everywhere.
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It's on Spotify, Apple Music,
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Amazon music, everywhere.
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Awesome. So what do the next month look like for you
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Like where can people see you live and listen to your
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music? You can just go check me out on Spotify Apple
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Music. Just look up the Ro I'm posting a lot
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You know, I'm trying to be a little,
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you know, tiktoker millennials.
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It's actually kind of fun though.
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It's real, it's fun like watching the reactions and like you
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but it's like you can't take yourself too seriously.
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you know what? I do have a couple of shows,
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I'll be playing Sacramento,
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November 1st. and then I go to Mexico for
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me the next day and yeah,
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I think New Year's are pretty stacked with,
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with some shows too.
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I'm not sure if I can announce it,
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but we're putting together a big tour for next year and then
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I'll be all over the place,
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but you always come back to West Kobe,
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right? Always to the roots where it all began.
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Well, thank you so much.
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