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<v Speaker 1>The first person that has to see beauty inside my

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<v Speaker 1>body is me, which is not a simple thing to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Leaving the society that I had to leave. We decided

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<v Speaker 1>to make three music videos to represent what I really

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<v Speaker 1>needed when I was younger. The first thing I said

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<v Speaker 1>is I want to show up. I want to be

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<v Speaker 1>the girl that they like. I want to be the

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<v Speaker 1>girl that people say it is beautiful. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>be the girl that when they walk down the street

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<v Speaker 1>they look at. I never saw that on a music video.

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<v Speaker 1>I ever saw that in a TV show, But I

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<v Speaker 1>have heard many songs naming Nega. I'm in Negrida is

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<v Speaker 1>Land Agreda, Buta is never there.

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<v Speaker 2>I want there.

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<v Speaker 3>From Futuro Media and Pox It's Latino usay, I'm Maria

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<v Speaker 3>jo Hosa today straight out of Havana. Daime Arosenna Daime

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<v Speaker 3>Arosenna is a Cuban singer and songwriter whose last few

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<v Speaker 3>years have been an intense time of transformation. In twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 3>she left Cuba looking for artistic freedom. Just a few

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<v Speaker 3>months later, she found herself adjusting to a new life

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<v Speaker 3>in Canada.

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<v Speaker 2>Far from her family.

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<v Speaker 3>She felt isolated and it started to change her lifelong

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<v Speaker 3>relationship with music. That's because Daime is a jazz prodigy

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<v Speaker 3>who grew up in the Cuban conservatory system, and she's

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<v Speaker 3>been described as one of the most explosive and dynamic

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<v Speaker 3>voices today. In her new album Algeme, she's partnered up

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<v Speaker 3>with the Puerto Rican producer Eduardo Cabra, previously visitante of Caerese.

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<v Speaker 3>Gabra has earned a groundbreak making twenty four Latin Grammys,

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<v Speaker 3>so partnering with him was a dream collaboration to fully

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<v Speaker 3>tap into her potential. Bridging her knowledge of jazz, Afro,

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<v Speaker 3>Cuban percussion, and even a little nineties R and B,

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<v Speaker 3>it all melts together to create her mold breaking sound,

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<v Speaker 3>a bold testament to her power as a singer, composer,

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<v Speaker 3>and as a heifer. Today on Latino USA, the thirty

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<v Speaker 3>two year old tells us how she sees and deals

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<v Speaker 3>with pressure, how you as singer and rapper Lizzo, helped

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<v Speaker 3>her embrace dancing, and how her upbringing has helped her

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<v Speaker 3>create music that doesn't fit easily into a box.

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<v Speaker 1>Hello guys, my name is Daimdo Senna and I am

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<v Speaker 1>from Havana, Cuba originally, but I live in San Juan

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<v Speaker 1>Puerto Rico. I define myself as a singer, songwriter, as

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<v Speaker 1>a musician, mainly as a composer. My first memories started singing.

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<v Speaker 1>I was born musician, and all I have done in

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<v Speaker 1>my life is making music. My parents they saw the

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<v Speaker 1>spark on me. They said that when I was a kid,

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<v Speaker 1>I will sing. Even before I started talking. I was

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<v Speaker 1>like a really creative kid. So I will create melodies

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<v Speaker 1>and I will create lyrics. Qui fua so fast. I

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<v Speaker 1>was born in a house that we were fourteen people

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<v Speaker 1>in a two bedroom, one bathroom apartment. I had to

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<v Speaker 1>wash my body with a container of water, and I

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<v Speaker 1>will brush my teeth on the grass outside of the house.

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<v Speaker 1>We didn't have electricity most of the times because I

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<v Speaker 1>was born in the nineties. When the Cuban crisis or electricity,

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<v Speaker 1>we will get it like once a day, two or

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<v Speaker 1>three hours a day. All I saw around those days

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<v Speaker 1>of adversity when I was a kid was people singing,

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<v Speaker 1>was people making music without the instruments in my house,

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<v Speaker 1>so we were so noisy, we were.

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<v Speaker 2>Just so black.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes people feel like, how do you have that strength?

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<v Speaker 2>How you are that strong?

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, I'm just given like, I'm coming from

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<v Speaker 1>this environment that if you have to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>And you have to fight since you were the kid.

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<v Speaker 1>At the age of eight years old, I got into

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<v Speaker 1>music classes and I started singing in the choir of

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<v Speaker 1>my community. I got into the music school when I

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<v Speaker 1>was ten years old. I got into the school, which

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<v Speaker 1>is something really difficult to achieve. I felt the pressure

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<v Speaker 1>really hard.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes.

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<v Speaker 1>I never felt that I wanted to quit. I knew

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<v Speaker 1>that was all I wanted. But at the same time,

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<v Speaker 1>when I think about pressure, I just look back at

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<v Speaker 1>my house, at the house that I was born, because

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<v Speaker 1>they had way more pressure than I have ever seen.

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<v Speaker 1>They had no food to it, no place to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>My first memory is are sharing the same bed with

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<v Speaker 1>four more people. That's a lot of pressure. That was

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<v Speaker 1>my very beginning. So pressure doesn't excursee me because I'm

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<v Speaker 1>coming from pressure, and pressure has just give me inspiration

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<v Speaker 1>and strength. When you get into the music conservatories, you

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<v Speaker 1>have to go from Monday to Saturday, from eight am

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<v Speaker 1>to six pm.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't a child anymore. You don't have time to play.

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<v Speaker 1>Games, and they always reminded you that if you fail,

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<v Speaker 1>they take you out of the school. The way we

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<v Speaker 1>study music in Quba at the conservatory is European classical music,

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<v Speaker 1>especially Russian music.

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<v Speaker 2>It feels like military.

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<v Speaker 1>We are not allowed to play Cuban music or Latino

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<v Speaker 1>or Caribbean music. Its illegal to study Cuban music at

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<v Speaker 1>the school and you can be kicked out of the school.

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<v Speaker 1>Back in the days, they used to say that playing

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<v Speaker 1>that type of music at the school was Daniel abroad

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<v Speaker 1>publica damaging the public potoperty in Qa is everything like

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<v Speaker 1>the schools are supposed to be public property of the people. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>So basically they said, if you play timba or dumbaos

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<v Speaker 1>or Afro Cuban music, you are the machine, the public property. Me,

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<v Speaker 1>as a Caribbean black girl, I wanted to do other

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<v Speaker 1>type of music. I wanted to learn other things. The

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<v Speaker 1>most difficult thing for me was to keep that energy,

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<v Speaker 1>to keep the love for music.

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<v Speaker 2>So for me, I needed to keep this part.

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<v Speaker 1>I had to double study. If you want to be

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<v Speaker 1>a good musician, you have to study in the street.

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<v Speaker 2>And you have to study in the school.

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<v Speaker 1>If you don't know the language of the street, if

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<v Speaker 1>you don't know Quba music, you're lost. Playing Russian music

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<v Speaker 1>in the street, you don't wanna make a penny.

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<v Speaker 2>I just got the knowledge of harmony and.

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<v Speaker 1>All of that from great masterminds like Johan Sevastian Bach,

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<v Speaker 1>Mozart or Hoping, people that knew a lot about harmony.

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<v Speaker 1>And we black people, we just put together that harmonization

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<v Speaker 1>into riedom and into soul and into power. The classical

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<v Speaker 1>training makes an impact in many way. It's like I

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<v Speaker 1>can point exactly, this is the note, this is the harmony.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't suffer the learning.

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<v Speaker 1>People don't treat me as a fool, or people don't

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<v Speaker 1>treat me just as a girl that sings.

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<v Speaker 2>Body bad self at all, include so bad, so Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>Jazz as been my base.

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<v Speaker 1>I got cut, I got improvisation, I got loose, I

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<v Speaker 1>got sold, I got harmony, I got riadom, knowledge. Jazz

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<v Speaker 1>has been the music that holds me, protects me, and

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<v Speaker 1>accomplished all my musical dreams. Jazz is the genre that

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<v Speaker 1>gathers freedom for me. I said all that, but there

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<v Speaker 1>was a moment that I didn't want to sing jazz

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<v Speaker 1>and I didn't want to listen to jazz because I

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<v Speaker 1>was to stress out. I had to go through a pandemic.

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<v Speaker 1>I had to go through a kind of depression of

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<v Speaker 1>being out of my homeland without my family. I had

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<v Speaker 1>to go through many things to reject the idea of

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<v Speaker 1>listening to jazz. But of course there is no way

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<v Speaker 1>for me to take jazz out of my way to

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<v Speaker 1>write music. It is already in my blood to I

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<v Speaker 1>have two ways to describe my music. Sometimes it's just

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<v Speaker 1>some writers music with mixed feelings, mixed flavors. Jazz is there,

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<v Speaker 1>but later on in life I discover the concept of

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<v Speaker 1>soul music, these flavor of jazz, but it's more commercial.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's black, but people can get it. People understand that.

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<v Speaker 1>The best way for me to describe my music is

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<v Speaker 1>unboxing music difficult to play in a box. The name

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<v Speaker 1>of my album is Alchemy, and it means alchemia in

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Duba language. And the Alchemia is the Cosmo vision

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<v Speaker 1>of the trans mutation, changing for a better results, getting

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<v Speaker 1>gold out of transformations. The first intention of Alchemy was

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<v Speaker 1>just to make an album that made me feel happy and.

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<v Speaker 2>Made me dance. I'm more or less, but.

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<v Speaker 1>It has all of those flavors of jazz and rhedom,

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<v Speaker 1>bad flavor, bad chill, but you can vibe. I put

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<v Speaker 1>many songs together of my life story through love. Love

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<v Speaker 1>teached me a lot about who I am and how

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<v Speaker 1>people look at me, how people see me as a woman.

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<v Speaker 1>My life stories have been teaching me about how we

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<v Speaker 1>black women are seeing how women like me.

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<v Speaker 2>Have been treated.

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<v Speaker 1>We decided to make three music videos to represent what

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<v Speaker 1>I really needed when I was younger.

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<v Speaker 2>Man and Modas come to.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing I said is I want to show up.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to be the girl that they like. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to be the girl that people say it's beautiful.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to be the girl that when they walk

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<v Speaker 1>down the street they look at. I never saw that

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<v Speaker 1>on a music video. I never saw that in a

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<v Speaker 1>TV show. But I have heard many songs naming Nega

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in Negridada, but is never there, So I want there.

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<v Speaker 1>I went to the Escuela Secondaria the Puerto Rico and

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<v Speaker 1>I show these music videos to the students.

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<v Speaker 2>Both videos are really essential.

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<v Speaker 1>And after I show those videos to these students that

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<v Speaker 1>are between twelve to eighteen years old, the first thing

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<v Speaker 1>they said to me was you are so beautiful. I

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<v Speaker 1>had to hold my tears because I never heard that.

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<v Speaker 1>I never felt that way, because maybe they never saw

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<v Speaker 1>a woman like me on TV being shown as the

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful girl. The way people feel pressure, the way people

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<v Speaker 1>feel the society telling you you are not beautiful. You

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<v Speaker 1>have to change who I am, who you are. You

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<v Speaker 1>have to change your body. You cannot get old. That's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of pressure, and the way that people feel

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<v Speaker 1>it is mainly the same. It doesn't matter if you

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<v Speaker 1>are black or white, or blond, or skinny or fat.

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<v Speaker 1>People feed that in their gods and people need an

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<v Speaker 1>album like Alchemy for some type of hair.

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<v Speaker 2>This album represents more than music for me.

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<v Speaker 1>This album might not change the war, but at least

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna make an impact. Once I understood that, I said, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>now I have to start working in myself.

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<v Speaker 2>A CEO fantasy.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day, the first person that

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<v Speaker 1>has to see beauty inside my body is me, which

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<v Speaker 1>is not.

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<v Speaker 2>A simple thing to do. Leaving the society that I

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<v Speaker 2>had to leave.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing I did to find beauty and strength

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<v Speaker 1>in my body was to dance. I always felt so

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<v Speaker 1>scared about dancing in front of people. I never felt

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<v Speaker 1>I was right to learn a choreography. I'm being trained

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<v Speaker 1>to Hans properly. I saw a show that really changed

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<v Speaker 1>my point of view about my own body.

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<v Speaker 2>And the name of the show is watch Out for

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<v Speaker 2>the Big Girls. It's kind of sort the world how

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<v Speaker 2>we do. Watch Out for the Big Girls.

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<v Speaker 1>Is a show that Lisa did for Amazon Prime.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's little. I'm looking for dancers to join me

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<v Speaker 2>on my tour.

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<v Speaker 1>She was looking for blue size dancers for her shows.

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<v Speaker 2>Girls that look like me, don't get representations. Kind of

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<v Speaker 2>pull up my slings find them myself.

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<v Speaker 1>And I saw many, many, many black women dancing incredibly

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't hold my tears.

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<v Speaker 1>I just cried and cried for many hours, like trying

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<v Speaker 1>to understand how I stepped away.

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<v Speaker 2>From something that I like so much.

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<v Speaker 1>So the first thing I did was to find the

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<v Speaker 1>has many mirrors. So my trainer, she made me look

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<v Speaker 1>at me all the time. That has healed myself so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Dancing is great for everybody. Start allowing your body to move.

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<v Speaker 1>That is going to start changing your perspective for your

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<v Speaker 1>own body, because sometimes it feels like our soul is

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<v Speaker 1>covering our body, and it's not that it's the oppositie

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<v Speaker 1>or body is carrying or soul.

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<v Speaker 2>So we have to respect a lot or body.

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<v Speaker 1>We have to celebrate, and we have to take care

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<v Speaker 1>of it in a good way. Not take care of

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<v Speaker 1>is take care of what or physical existence means. Because

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<v Speaker 1>our soul is going to be here forever. But we

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<v Speaker 1>choose a body to give us physical form. So how

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<v Speaker 1>can we be so mean with our own body. That's

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<v Speaker 1>not fair for us, and that's not fair for the

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<v Speaker 1>whole humanity. The Joduba philosophy is actually the practicing I

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<v Speaker 1>do spiritually. Joduba said that music is the way you

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<v Speaker 1>send the message and dancing is the way you received

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<v Speaker 1>the message. I have sent so many messages through music.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I'm ready to receive the message that I have

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<v Speaker 1>been sending.

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<v Speaker 2>You go.

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<v Speaker 1>When I left Cuba, it did change a lot my

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<v Speaker 1>perspective of music industry. The genre is that many people

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<v Speaker 1>are making millions from Let's say, I don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>they get on are mainly black people's music. We look

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<v Speaker 1>at how they get on and I don't see black people.

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<v Speaker 1>I look at Latin pop and and I don't see

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<v Speaker 2>Can you in hip hop just with.

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<v Speaker 1>Eminent or just with Mac Miller, That's exactly what we

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<v Speaker 1>have in reggae, and we just have light skin people.

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<v Speaker 1>Music is for everybody, but I just believe that we

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<v Speaker 1>have to give space to the people that put that

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<v Speaker 1>music here for all of us. We cannot compete with

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<v Speaker 1>label that invest a million dollars in a campaign to

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<v Speaker 1>advertise and position aid an artist. If we don't get

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<v Speaker 1>that type of deals, how can I compete with an

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<v Speaker 1>artist in every single radio station is being advertised If

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have access to that type of funds, that

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<v Speaker 1>type of budgets, that type of investment.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the way they have been hiding us.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the way they have been positioning others over other individuals.

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<v Speaker 1>Once I moved to Puerto Rico and I faced the

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<v Speaker 1>industry for the first time, interacting with other musicians, I

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<v Speaker 1>realized the conflict and I tried so hard to find

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<v Speaker 1>the solution. Now that I can see inside the industry,

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<v Speaker 1>I can actually find the odds of being I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know a black Latina in the music scene and in

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<v Speaker 1>the media. How we have been overlooked, How we don't

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<v Speaker 1>have a single black Latina mainstream. They want to be global,

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<v Speaker 1>And I said loud and proud. I want people to

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<v Speaker 1>know who I am because of my background, my heritage,

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<v Speaker 1>those five hundred years of people behind me suffering being diaspora,

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<v Speaker 1>the way they were taken bad here.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a lot of pain inside us.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe one of my missions of life is helping

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<v Speaker 1>to heal that pain through music.

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<v Speaker 2>That's my dream that when I pass.

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<v Speaker 1>My music continues healing people through its message. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>about the human existence. It's not about getting millions of dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>Because the day I die, I'm not gonna take a

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<v Speaker 1>single penny with me, and I'm gonna take the gold

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<v Speaker 2>The gold I'm gonna take with me is the impact

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<v Speaker 2>I make in people. By Land, Build by Alan by Land,

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<v Speaker 2>My Love.

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<v Speaker 3>This episode was produced by Genio Montalbo and edited by

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<v Speaker 3>Alana Casanova Burchas. The interview with Daime was recorded by

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<v Speaker 3>Isegiel Rodriguez Andino. It was mixed by Andy Bosnak. The

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<v Speaker 3>Latino USA team includes Julia Caruso, Jessica Alis, Victoria Strada,

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<v Speaker 3>Grinando Lanos Junior, Stephanie Lebau, Andrea Lopez Cruzado, Luis Luna Flri,

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<v Speaker 3>Mar Marquez, Marta Martinez Mike Sargent, Nor Saudi, and Nancy Trujillo.

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<v Speaker 3>Penile Ramidez is our co executive producer I'm Your Host

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<v Speaker 3>and co executive producer Marieojosa join us again on our

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<v Speaker 3>next episode. In the meantime, We'll see you on all

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<v Speaker 2>My Latino USA is made possible in part by the

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