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Like I thought my phone was tripping out because the views
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just kept going and going and going.
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So I was like, OK, cool.
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Like tiktok really does like videos like this.
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So I was like, I'm gonna post more very wavy.
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We're so excited to have you here at Latino music by me too.
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Thank you for joining us.
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We just want to know a little bit more about you and your career
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I was actually born in Mexico City and then I moved around a
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little bit in Mexico and then my dad, he ended up getting a job
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offer here in the United States.
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So we're the first of our family to be here in the United States
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Like it's just four of us here.
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So it's kind of crazy when we moved.
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I was like, oh my gosh, we're moving to the US.
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Like, you know, that's such a big thing in Mexico.
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So we finally moved here.
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I was about second grade.
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I want to say is whenever we moved here.
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So I've been here for a minute and then, yeah, I just grew up
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It wasn't until high school.
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That then I started to be really, you know, experimenting
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with, like, OK, maybe.
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I've always loved music.
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Like, ever since I was little, my dad played it all the time
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Like, music has just always been in my life.
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Did you teach yourself, like, through youtube videos or,
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like, how did you, like, really start becoming a DJ?
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Like, did you, did someone give you the equipment?
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Like here you go, here's what you need to do or where you're
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I was self taught every time somebody asked me like, yo, what's
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Like, I want to become a DJ.
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I'm like youtube, they're like, no, what advice do you have
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I'm like, literally youtube, you can find it any thing on youtube
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That's how I started out.
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I looked up like beginners for DJ s just anything or just watching
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DJ sets seeing like how a DJ was able to control a crowd and stuff
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That's a big part of it too.
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So, yes, literally youtube, I self taught and that's how I
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It was a lot of mess ups before we got to the good stuff.
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Were you on tiktok before the pandemic or like you were just
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like, did someone tell you, hey, you should try like uploading
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I remember I got tiktok like before in the pan pandemic and
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I was just kind of like, let's see what these kids are doing
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you know, because it was like the new app.
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So I was like, OK, this is cool.
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I had, if you go back on my tiktok and you scroll all the way at
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the bottom, there's like one video where I posted where it
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was me doing a DJ transition.
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It isn't really going on here.
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So I was like, OK, you know, like, I didn't think too much of
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it but usually what I would do on my Instagram stories, I would
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put my phone like right there how the tiktok videos and I would
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just put them on my stories and I noticed that people were really
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liking, seeing that type of stuff, you know, like the up close
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So one day I was just like, uh I'm gonna try and put what I usually
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put on my Instagram stories.
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I'm gonna try and put it on tiktok and then I did it, I did like
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three videos back to back and then one of them started going
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crazy and I was just like, what's going on?
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Like I thought my phone was tripping out because the views
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just kept going and going and going.
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So I was like, OK, cool.
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Like Tik Tok really does like videos like this.
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So I was like, I'm gonna post more.
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How do you feel like, you know, I got like at the forefront of
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like feeling this new way of Latino DJ, they can see honestly
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I have no words for it because to me, you know, I'm just mean
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I'm out here doing this.
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But whenever I hear, like people say that, I'm like, wow, that
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It's, it's exciting because what makes me really happy is
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whenever I see like young girls in my comments that are like
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oh my God, you inspire me.
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And it's like girls that look like me, you know, like Hispanic
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Latina and like they look at me and they're like, wow, I can
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do that too because I see somebody that looks like me.
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So I think that's like the most beautiful part about it is to
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be able to inspire people that look like you talking about
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you know, Latin artists, which Latin artists do you think
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that have influenced you?
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I love me some bad bunny JB.
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But then you know, of course, we got to go with the OG that the
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Yankee like, so I don't know, it's so many like when you say
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that I'm, I just goes through my Serrato and I just start scrolling
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through all these artists.
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Like it's impossible because there's so many and they're
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so amazing in the fact that they're able to still influence
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like the newer generation.
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Like you can see how beautiful it is.
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Like the love that like Daddy Yankee and like Jay Balvin have
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to each other like it's never on some oh you're crossing the
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It's like no, like come on, let's do this.
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So I think that's pretty dope.
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Which plans do you have for this year?
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Because I know you have some parties set up right now, some
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Yes, coming up, we have our party returning.
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So very Latin is the second party under my own production company
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So that party is really special just because I own everything
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Like we go to the venue like it's full 100% ownership.
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And I think that's been one of my biggest goals from the beginning
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is showing that we're not, not just DJ S like we don't just press
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buttons like we're event curators, we put on shows like there's
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so much stuff that goes behind the scenes that just me sitting
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here, popping my phone up and practicing.
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Like you have to think about tickets, you think about, OK,
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how do we make this an experience for everybody?
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And I'm grateful that I have a team that is willing to, you know
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come up with these great ideas with me and we're able to curate
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them and bring them to people in a special, special way.
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The top five Latin party bangers that every party meets, you
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see, that's a really hard question because I can tell you five
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songs right now, but it really depends on the crowd and in the
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So let's say like right now for sure people are like Oh my God
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You know, like that's a song that would go right now.
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But there's been times where I've done live, like, streaming
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DJ sets of line and I never play the song once just because that's
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not what was in the moment.
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So you really have to look at a crowd, see it and feel it to know
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But two songs that I for sure love throwing in there, I love
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putting in because I just love how it's such a classic, but
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it's like, it represents everybody.
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Like I love songs that shout out everybody like yo and then
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whenever the Colombia and they just start naming all these
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different countries, it's amazing because as Latinos, there's
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so many of us, we look so different, we're dark, we're light
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like we're all shades of the spectrum and I think that's beautiful
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So I love when songs shout out all these different places and
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be like, yeah, that's me, that's me two more that you can think
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of like you're like, like every time you play you're like,
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hey, people just, you know, like my dad.
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