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Listen, if you tell my grandmother,
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that's it and chat what's up immediately lanena was starting tour las
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boleta estos via bamosa.
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Hi familia me too it fills my heart so much.
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We're joined by Elena Rose on Mi Gente Latino today.
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Can we give it up for Elena?
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Thank you for having me.
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Thank you. I feel so blessed to be here.
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Oh yeah man, you might know her for her pen game
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because Elena's pen game is so incredibly strong,
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but she's also taking up space in the spotlight with her own
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music. Elena, how are you feeling today?
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So, so happy to be here.
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It's such a beautiful day out here in LA.
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I haven't been here in a while.
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And she, she mentioned the strong pen game and then,
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we were mentioning it earlier like.
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You're the voice behind one of my favorite songs,
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Body Party. Is that your voice?
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Exactly. Yes, that's Elena.
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I remember Bete telling me and I lost my mind.
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And you already knew me by then.
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my OG song that I know you from that I listen to
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all the time is Noboya Cambia.
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That was the one that she put me on.
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She put me on and I was like,
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Oh no, they're not different.
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That song is we go back.
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So knowing that and then listening to Pari,
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I think the people that knew me before that is kind of
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cooler, but they have that connection.
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The people that met me after that,
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They do whatever cause they toa is different,
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they connect to the project later,
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but I think being an OG.
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In whatever way to say going back in in the day makes
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it always the music video.
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I remember we played it in her apartment here in Melrose and
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I'm just like, you know her?
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Like I need, I need to meet her.
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Like that's so special because I'm going back to the,
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a, a big moment for us Latinos earlier in the year
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which was the Bad Bunny halftime show and one of the biggest
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moments was when you hear Fari Fari and then he goes,
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Viveniva la fiestama grande.
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That's your voice. You made it to the halftime show essentially
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I'm so grateful to be here and say.
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you know. I think that it's been a beautiful path that
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to do so many cool things,
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and music has been my conversation mia madrina and your fairy godmother
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yeah, yeah. And then I'm very lucky,
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man. I feel lucky and,
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and I feel grateful.
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And I know today has already been a lot.
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You just landed because you're opening for Caro's show tomorrow at Soi
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Stadium. Have you been to the stadium yet?
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I've never. I've never.
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I'm actually getting to know all these stadiums with her.
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the invitation, I was very.
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I was very grateful to Porque.
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I'm learning so much.
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I'm getting to meet so many new people.
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I'm connecting with so many new hearts,
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you know, so it's been an experience.
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How long did you have to hold it a secret?
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Oh my goodness, so long.
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Thank you for asking me this question.
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We had to basically till the day before that,
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till the day that we announced.
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We didn't say anything.
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It's hard for Latinas.
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It's hard to keep saying.
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You can't keep a secret on WhatsApp.
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I kept it even from my grandmother.
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I know you have to to sell it because listen,
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if you tell my grandmother what's up immediately lane.
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Super hairy, super hairy.
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How did you find out?
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Did you get a personal call or was it a DM?
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no, but, but it was,
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it was pretty direct,
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I think it, it was also very organic.
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If the, I know Carol really Moke likes my project,
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has always been very supportive with my songwriting and me as an
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artist, and And I think it comoque fluyo ya monito saw
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and and it felt like that comoque because she really wanted us
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there and and it meant a lot for us tai Jorge it's
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our first time doing alguasi so we're really grateful and I think
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as Latina fans this feels like the best summer ever because it's
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the group. Of all of our favorites like Latina bodies all
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around, we're going out,
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we're going to support you all comoqueno genna alma and it makes
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I think a lot of people feel very inspired,
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especially your music. It just,
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it, it, it touches a certain point that I think
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really appreciate right now.
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So you're so sweet and I love seeing you guys.
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I love tambien connect and being like yo,
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we're here we're here and and from everything that that means you
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know croque paraosotrofurano pocommojelica portolo que pas in Venezuela ora reemente conloquesta
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pasan in Colombia. We're brothers,
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so and, and we have to be strong all the time
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over and over, and I know how that feels.
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I know how heavy that can feel,
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and I know that everybody has to keep going,
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proquermoso puea brasarno and be like we don't have to be by
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ourselves in this process and all of us can actually stay together
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stick together and see how together we can fix this as
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I'm grateful, for example,
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that Carol gave me the opportunity.
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To be able to bring my merch to the to the tour
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and 50% of what we are selling is being donated,
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you know, to help back so those are the type of
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things because this is her tour and she's still giving us the
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her, her team to be able to.
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To give that back to my community that means a lot to
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me because that is that is how we are making every opportunity
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that's given to us into an echo of love,
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you know, and I don't take that lightly Carlindo you said
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it perfectly. I've been looking forward to this weekend the entire
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summer, but I will say my heart is shattered right now
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because of. What is happening at home and I am comforted
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by the fact that I'm going tomorrow to be uplifted and to
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feel united porque juntos somos mas unidos el solo pueblo salva pueblo
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ibueno and music has the power to do that too,
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you know. Music has the power to heal.
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Music has the power to awaken something in.
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You and I think for the artist is very hard sometimes because
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for example when the when the Venezuela one happened it was a
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week before starting my first tour in Europe and I was completely
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shattered saw the joyamente and and my heart was only there but
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then. Recognizing and realizing and and understanding that the work that
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I do that we do that my team that every single artist
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that goes on a stage and has a message to give is
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really saving hearts, you know,
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and we can't take that lightly.
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So sometimes we have to be very strong even when we don't
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think that we can come I had so many times in that
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tour that I would just go back after a song and cry
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it out. And take a sip of water and go back
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out again and just keep going and then You know,
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it's, it's, it's beautiful because I was able to also
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understand one more time how resilient our community is and how really
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love is, is comoque is the center of who we are
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in our essence and we keep going through very hard things to
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digest but we always come out of it,
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I'm grateful queora and the tour,
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you know, that that we're doing is,
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is on a bigger scale because this is what's happening,
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Sara Comogue. This is why I'm so grateful that Latinos are
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having the moment that we're having,
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and now it's just in a bigger scale,
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and the world deserves to feel the love that we're able to
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give. Nobody loves like a Latino.
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I'm sorry, you know what I'm saying?
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No, I can only end up with a Latino for that
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reason. Elena, so you,
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you rep Venezuela pretty hard.
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do you remember like when you first got here,
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like what was your first jobs?
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Like what was your first job?
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you got there? Goodness,
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this is the, that's a good question.
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I first got to Miami 11 years ago.
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I had just And I was 18.
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Still my little sister was 17.
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I always have to talk about my middle sister when I tell
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this story because today she's an incredible veterinarian.
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She did her master in acupuncture.
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She's specialized in exotic animals.
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She's an incredible human being and She started cleaning bathrooms in the
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United States and I was ya mesonera in Hard Rock Cafe
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the same Hard Rock Cafe that years later I got,
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premio para salon de la fama compositores,
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so it, it was beautiful,
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you know, we were young,
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I think I remember my parents crying so much when we left
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our country because it was just me and her.
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And, and I can only imagine how hard that was for
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you know, their daughters just leaving and being like,
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and make a life of my own.
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man, because, you know,
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we worked very hard and.
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One thing led to another and we've been El Hard Rock is
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Yeah, and what a full circle because I,
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I know that award was a very important moment in your career
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but to know that when you first arrived that you were
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you know, working hard waiting tables to come back years
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later and make history with that award,
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that literally gave me chills.
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It is beautiful, you know,
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I remember I was as grateful and as happy and as in
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the moment and in the present in both places,
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you know, when I was in everything that I've done in
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my life I've given all my heart and I've been so positive
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that I have to be there,
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you know, that comoquesi comoquesi just to lugar yoto estarrai there's
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no, there's no way I have to be somewhere else right
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now. I have to be here and I trust that.
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and I think along the years I've developed Comoge that relationship with
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God and the universe,
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whatever you wanna call it,
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to understand Comoge. It,
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It feels the same to win an award there and it feels
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the same to get a check every month at the travajando waiting
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Comoge. I, I've been grateful along the way for everything
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bonitos cuchar. So you started songwriting,
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right, and we wanted to know if there was ever a
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song that you've sat with and sort of later in life thought
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I was the one singing that one that I've written or that
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porque, I didn't write Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
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But I wish when my heart get do you imagine I love
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that response guys isn't iconic twinkle twinkle little star is perfect twinkle
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twinkle little star is perfect.
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Somewhere over the rainbow.
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It's a classico. I wish,
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but wait, I have an idea.
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What if you came out with a special edition?
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Album of just classics Elena Rose edition putting it out there.
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I love this. I would listen.
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No, listen, I'm a big,
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big fan of lullabies.
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This isn't like my core.
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I, I think that lullabies,
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comoque song nostra espina or sal,
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you know, as humanity,
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no matter where you're from,
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the whatever now, everybody was.
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I think it's a song I really,
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really connect with. I would even love to interpret it.
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I don't feel it's mine,
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but I would like to interpret it.
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That'd be beautiful to see,
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and I think the fans would love that.
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And do you remember the first time that you heard yourself
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on the radio? What was that moment like?
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That's such a good question.
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It's in Miami and El Caro.
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You know what's interesting,
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Comoque bigger things happened before that.
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I don't know how to explain it.
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Comoque majina achievements. See comoque cosa la.
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But I remember one time my the our ex-drummer de la banda
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sent a video in Walmart itasando tracioloreco and that just felt como
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crazy crazy porquilatamigo. No loo loo loo loo in particular you
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know pero que in Walmart.
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No, that's it and I can see the,
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I can imagine the video because I'm like,
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yo, you're Elena Walmart right now.
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You hear the video and I'm like I could already see the
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Walmart and you know those errands.
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I love it. I love it.
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I love it. I'm like I love all those moments.
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I was like. Artists,
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those are the little ones that you know people usually don't hear
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about, but I'm like that's in the group chat,
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trust me, like that's a moment you just gotta ask them
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you know how it went down,
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and I still gotta say comoque.
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I still get excited for all of it.
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Comoque you have to just,
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I would, I would never ever see,
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I ask God, que mecida getting excited with all of it
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and that's special because it comes to a point,
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I think many artists can.
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It's not get lost but you get used to it.
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But there's something very special and that leads to a greater connection
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with your audience about that excitement,
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that like emotion whenever you're experiencing something that eventually maybe you'll get
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used to. Peroque tenjena is amismo motiones algo ui bonito.
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It's a tenota. So we did want to ask you for
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Elena Rose playlist because I know you have an immaculate music taste
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So we'll just give you a scenario.
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You tell us what song an artist comes to mind,
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First song you remember completely being obsessed with Three Little Birds by
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what's a song that takes you immediately back to Venezuela?
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Venezuela, it's called Venezuela.
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It's, yeah, like I said yeo to lujito rama mipielque
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I put a little part of it in a song that
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I wrote that's called Depense and a song that you're playing right
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before you're walking out on stage to open Carro G's Tropic tour
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or are you more need silence before that moment?
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I think I'm on prayer mode.
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I think I am on like very focused,
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making sure I don't step on the dress because also.
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I don't know how you call it,
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bro, every time I'm like,
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Yo yo. I'm like I think that's so relatable too as
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as a woman like sometimes like yes we have to perform and
16:10
stuff, but the technicalities like I'm on,
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I'm on the technicalities,
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especially the ones that your life is at risk you're there no
16:22
but but I think it would if we would have to choose
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what's a song by another woman in the music industry that has
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inspired you throughout your career?
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Celia Cruz. Anything that Celia Cruz has always reminded me that
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there is Being Latina means that you have a rainbow of colors
16:48
in your chest. Savejique,
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you gotta let that shine.
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You gotta trust in that.
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There's a, there's a lot of power that's in our essence
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and Celia never let me forget that.
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Queanito. And what song's the Elena Rose era that you're feeling
17:08
right now? There's a,
17:10
there's a song that I wrote that came out not so long
17:13
ago that's called Agra decimiento,
17:15
and I'm really vibing in that.
17:20
And then if you had to dedicate one of your songs to
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your dog, which one would it be?
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Because I saw an amazing video and I pulled the video.
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Oh, that is so cute.
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So right now I've been dedicating that song to him,
17:33
but I actually wrote a song to him when he passed away
17:36
because he passed away last year and I wrote a song to
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him that's coming out on the second album.
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It's called Angelito. And it's beautiful because I never thought that
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one of my favorite songs that I've ever written would come out
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from such a painful situation,
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and I learned a lot from that,
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you know, and I feel grateful that I was able to
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grasp into that feeling,
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I can't wait for you to listen to that one,
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Angelito, when it comes out.
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Remember I wrote it for sales.
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I saw that you have a new,
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I saw a video dancing.
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I know he's so sweet,
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even my veterinarian. He said,
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Como, I can't believe that you got a second one that's
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because usually you know these are souls that are sent to you
18:28
I really believe that was so special,
18:31
man. Peggy is a new one.
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Lindo and I miss him.
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do you miss him on tour?
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Oh my goodness, he has.
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He travels everywhere. He's so cute.
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He's like this size too.
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Forever watches you perform,
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cheers you on with a little bark.
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I love that. Alright,
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well, you're someone who empowers us women through your music a
18:57
lot and through the words that you speak,
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and I wanted to know who are two or three women who
19:03
have played a big part in your journey and that you want
19:10
very lucky to grow up in a female household.
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I, I am the oldest of 3 girls.
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My mother is an incredible woman.
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I always say that I am a little piece of her heart
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She is an angel on earth,
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my grandmother is just like a living rose,
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I. I'm grateful that I grew up around women and I
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was always taught what that means,
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you know, our power,
19:45
our the way we can really transform any situation into love,
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you know, you give a woman a little seed and it
19:56
That is something that's part of who we are and we're able
20:00
to put that in any aspect of our lives,
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you know, you give a woman a house and she'll make
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etc. Etc. and I think that's something that when it
20:10
my career, all my different relationships,
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I, I never walk into a room thinking I'm a woman
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I always walk into a room thinking I'm a daughter of
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God and la cija de diosson consentidas,
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la cija de diosson poderosa,
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you know, are able to really transform everything into love and
20:32
and then being an older sister,
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tambiencommoje kind of build.
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You different. What is it called?
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I'm the middle. I'm the middle kid and I'm an only
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child, but I know that there's the eldest daughter sit not
20:43
syndrome. There's something about it,
20:46
I am very protective when it comes to any,
20:50
any human life form,
20:52
obviously, but you know it is why I,
20:57
my girlfriends are my sisters.
20:59
I see a woman and I understand is like I,
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I know you and I will protect you and let's go
21:07
Be also like I'm here for you,
21:09
but don't forget who you are like you have that in you
21:11
you know, it's like honoring that so I'm grateful I
21:16
you know, because for me it was always hard even to
21:18
be like I, I would always ask my mom like why
21:21
do men. Like what's up with guys and the way they
21:25
think, you know what I'm saying?
21:27
And then I fell in love with understanding how different we are
21:31
and how I can also in a way,
21:33
in a very feminine way nurture men and spoil them and give
21:39
the love like the proper love that a man deserves,
21:45
and that has also made me.
21:47
The woman I wanna be if that makes any sense.
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No, it does because I can.
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It takes understanding that to almost,
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at least in my own journey,
21:55
to, to feel my own self love and understand sometimes that
22:01
we're all built differently and then I have to pour it in
22:03
my own cup to make sure that I'm strong,
22:06
loving of myself so I can be sure to be that to
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and I think that's beautiful as women we do it.
22:14
sometimes men, no judgment,
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but I'm a grandma's boy,
22:18
right? My grandmas were neighbors and I grew up with them
22:24
every day like quenocosinava to the other one next door,
22:28
and yeah, I'm like a grandma's boy like.
22:34
I'm tuned in, too tuned in sometimes.
22:38
I'm like too tuned in,
22:39
but it's, it's good.
22:41
I'd rather be like this.
22:42
I'd rather be like this,
22:43
you know, like la buamian and Comigo wherever I go,
22:46
you know. I have one left,
22:48
latasa for last year,
22:49
but Listen, a lot of what happens with men at Comoge
22:53
they're afraid of showing their vulnerable side of loving,
22:57
but also of being loved,
22:58
and I think there's a lot of that that women can help
23:03
heal. So that if you create a safe space.
23:07
To tumba quiergoviernosi esoi esoi,
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I loved your story about lullabies because we wanted to ask if
23:17
there's a tradition or saying that you would hear growing up that
23:22
always stays with you.
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It could be Spanish too,
23:25
see, poregemplo you were saying,
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well, el lo el camarron.
23:29
I mean it doesn't have to be that.
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Oh no, el cameron is cameron.
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Like something like that,
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but like I don't know,
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you could carry something else with you.
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I don't know. I carry,
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I carry so much porque casa mujere lambatante pero joo que jonito
23:49
quereal that's simple, straight.
23:57
It's a universal rule.
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If you wouldn't do it to yourself or to somebody that you
24:05
And I think that's a good one tenemojuno taming.
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And my familia que genre mojeremojeremoque palante conto carajito palante conto carajito
24:17
means no so it's a feeling tambiende sisterhood in motherhood.
24:28
It is in cona man it makes you feel unstoppable,
24:31
to be honest primerodios mi casa mi casa siempre primerodios and and
24:38
I'm grateful for that porque eno medicuenta europa come on nuestra cultura
24:45
latina tine mucho majadio total en el luardon deo we see as
24:53
some superpower. Buenolena.
24:56
So we have a segment called Perocadaquien where people send in messages
24:59
and we just give them advice.
25:02
Here's one right here.
25:03
I don't know if you can read it.
25:04
You would read it and then we would chime in.
25:07
advice. My boyfriend owns a construction company and has 3 kids
25:12
from a previous relationship,
25:17
I found out he secretly has another child with a woman who
25:20
worked for the for his company.
25:23
His other kids had no idea they even had another sibling.
25:27
Wait, was this like before she,
25:30
or after months of watching him make excuses and expecting me to
25:34
keep quiet, I finally told his oldest,
25:36
Wait, but he's a teenager.
25:39
You didn't have to do that.
25:40
He says, I destroyed his family and crossed the line.
25:43
OK, obviously he's gonna say that.
25:45
I think they deserve to know.
25:49
Maybe la form. This is hard.
25:54
I wanna think that she didn't have anybody else to say this
25:58
to, but to be honest,
26:00
bringing. Kids into it.
26:03
I think people don't realize how much a kid because 16 years
26:08
is still kind of a kid for me.
26:10
I would say until 18 anyone is underages nobody really osakomoque it's
26:16
hard to understand how much you can impact.
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A kid in that moment,
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I don't, I would have left them out of it,
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to be honest, because there's nothing else that what are they
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they, they can't really do that or not understand fully what's
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going on. I think we're missing a lot of context,
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but Yeah, and these type of things,
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me being a child as well,
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I was an older sister and in the middle of a divorce
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What I would always do with my little sisters is like they
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don't have to know everything,
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you know, and that's a way to protect because we can't
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understand. I think I've gotten to understand a lot of what
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happened in my childhood now and I'm 30,
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It takes time. It takes a lot of therapy,
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but therapy is important,
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guys. But I can also tell Mira.
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This is, it feels like this is her not having somebody
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to talk to, you know,
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if you have a man that's giving you excuses and is kind
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of manipulating a situation and it seems like this has been going
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you know, it's like you're feeling that you're sleeping with the
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I know how that feels too,
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you know, that you can't trust the person that's next to
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you. I don't think you destroyed his family.
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Maybe crossing the line at this point,
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that could have been,
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but I don't think there was nothing was destroyed.
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The truth sometimes hurts and has its way to coming out.
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With this situation specifically,
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I think there's a lot of communicating that could have been better
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because there's ways of,
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of really solving situations that that you have no control over,
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you know, especially when kids are involved.
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that kids don't have osano tina la culpa,
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and I think a lot of situations like this could be,
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could be worked in a different way if you had somebody else
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to call instead of a child.
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So unamiga unamiga unabula unterapeuta,
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you know, condo pasang is the tipo esituacione que normal la
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vidasa yonton de cosas.
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bucar una ya unagia responsiblemente irresponsible it's always gonna give
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a better outcome, most definitely.
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I'm sorry you're going through this.
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you gave some wonderful advice.
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We're actually going to see you tomorrow.
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Yes, get there early.
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Yes, we're, we're gonna be there early.
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The doors are gonna be open and we're gonna be there.
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we can't wait to see you and we're just so
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so incredibly proud of every accomplishment.
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We'll be cheering you on forever and yeah,
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I'm a lifer. Thank you.
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I love you. I'm a lifer.
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No guys, thank you for having me.
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Thank you for the awesome questions,
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how we said it before we started.
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God bless this podcast.
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God bless whoever is watching it and listening and looking at it
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I que algo que pueatre mucha cosalinda la gente quelomire iquereciendo
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eguandi frutando. Keep communicating,
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keep talking, keep asking good questions.
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People are always looking for answers.
29:44
We need better questions.
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Amen, I love you guys,
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because we're on Mi Gente Latino,
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we do have to end it with just a migente Latino on
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of our, of our beautiful queen La Reina and migente Latino
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