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Speaker 1: we're bringing our radiophonic novela to the Micikura network to

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Speaker 1: continue sharing stories from the latinxt community. Welcome to Loca

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Speaker 1: to Radio season seven. Take us to your network, Locamores,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another capito of Loca Radio. I'm Diosa

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Speaker 1: and I'm Mala. You're tuning into Sinco one fifty five.

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Speaker 1: Last time on Loca Radio, we talked about influencers and gatekeeping.

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Speaker 1: Tune into that one if you haven't already. And today

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Speaker 1: we have the pleasure of interviewing one of the hottest

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Speaker 1: and newest bands of the moment, The Tiaras. A little

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Speaker 1: to talk about their music. So, like I said, these

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Speaker 1: are sisters turned bandmates, Tori, Sophia and Tiffany Baltierra, collectively

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Speaker 1: known as The Tiaras. They are a multifaceted band comprised

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Speaker 1: of Mexican American sisters, musicians and songwriters who started recording

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Speaker 1: the beginning of their album this year in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: They are genre defying artists from Texas and they're on

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Speaker 1: without further ado, let's welcome on the Tiaras. Hello, we're

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Speaker 1: the Tiaras. My name is tor Baltiera, my name is Sophia,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Tiffany Balia. Thank you for being here, Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: This has been a long time coming to have you on.

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Speaker 1: Look at that our radio, So very very excited. And

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Speaker 1: I'm the baby of the band. I'm Sophia and I'm

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Speaker 1: I went to school for marketing and I try to

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Speaker 1: I'm Tiffany. I'm the oldest. I played bass and I

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Speaker 1: canently incorporate that into the band. But yeah you can.

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Speaker 1: medical emergency. Yeah, I love that so much. We need

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Speaker 1: to see um. Tell me about how you fell into

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Speaker 1: love that it speaks to y'all very much doing a

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Speaker 1: Our last name is bout Yea, So we took that

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Speaker 1: joining Look at thot A Radio. We hope to catch

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