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

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Speaker 3: jo Hosa today straight out of Havana. Daime Arosenna Daime

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Speaker 3: Arosenna is a Cuban singer and songwriter whose last few

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Speaker 3: She felt isolated and it started to change her lifelong

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Speaker 1: Hello guys, my name is Daimdo Senna and I am

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Speaker 1: It has all of those flavors of jazz and rhedom,

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Speaker 1: Dancing is great for everybody. Start allowing your body to move.

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Speaker 2: So we have to respect a lot or body.

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Speaker 1: We have to celebrate, and we have to take care

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Speaker 1: can we be so mean with our own body. That's

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Speaker 1: whole humanity. The Joduba philosophy is actually the practicing I

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Speaker 1: Now I'm ready to receive the message that I have

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Speaker 1: When I left Cuba, it did change a lot my

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Speaker 1: perspective of music industry. The genre is that many people

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Speaker 1: I look at Latin pop and and I don't see

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Speaker 1: Music is for everybody, but I just believe that we

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Speaker 2: That's the way they have been hiding us.

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

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Speaker 1: And I said loud and proud. I want people to

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Speaker 2: There is a lot of pain inside us.

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Speaker 1: I believe one of my missions of life is helping

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Speaker 2: That's my dream that when I pass.

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Speaker 1: My music continues healing people through its message. It's not

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Speaker 1: Because the day I die, I'm not gonna take a

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Speaker 2: The gold I'm gonna take with me is the impact

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Speaker 2: I make in people. By Land, Build by Alan by Land,

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Speaker 2: My Love.

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Speaker 3: This episode was produced by Genio Montalbo and edited by

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Speaker 3: Alana Casanova Burchas. The interview with Daime was recorded by

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Speaker 3: Isegiel Rodriguez Andino. It was mixed by Andy Bosnak. The

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Speaker 3: Latino USA team includes Julia Caruso, Jessica Alis, Victoria Strada,

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Speaker 3: Grinando Lanos Junior, Stephanie Lebau, Andrea Lopez Cruzado, Luis Luna Flri,

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Speaker 3: Mar Marquez, Marta Martinez Mike Sargent, Nor Saudi, and Nancy Trujillo.

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Speaker 3: Penile Ramidez is our co executive producer I'm Your Host

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Speaker 3: and co executive producer Marieojosa join us again on our

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

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Speaker 3: and as always, Geri docikerids, Geriz and Geri dex notes.

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