WEBVTT - Chiquis Live in Mexico 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.640 Those funs in Mexico, they are so down for you, 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:08.119 Like well, I don't know if it was because it 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.840 was my first show. It was just this overwhelming feeling. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.000 It was just an amazing moment. I saw their faces 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.400 change right before my eyes. They went from I'm so 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.160 pissed looking at me up and down to where they're like, okay, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.119 nodding their heads, smiling a little bit, and it was 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.400 so gratifying for my type of music, and I think 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.720 for music in general. You guys, Mexico is such an 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.840 important place and they're amazing and I think. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:32.279 We rocked it. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.479 Hello everyone, saludos. I hope you all are having a 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.120 really great day. I've been a busy bee and so 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.280 it's really nice to just sit and talk to you 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.440 guys about what's going on in my life. As you know, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.880 I've been on tour for the Abajos. It's been a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.920 lot of fun and I've really enjoyed it. And we 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.760 started off in Mexico. So let's get into this episode. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:08.640 This is Cheeky's and show. One of the reasons the 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.160 tour is so special to me is because it's the 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.400 first time I've ever performed in Mexico. Well, I performed 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.000 before in Mexico, but this is like my first show, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.160 you guys. In late March, I performed at the Lunardio 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:32.720 in Mexico City. Oh my goodness, I love you guys 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.319 so much that there is the sound of the crowd 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:41.679 during my concert, my people, I love you guys so much. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.120 It was actually sold out and I'm just so excited 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.680 and so grateful with everyone that was there to see me. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.320 Tomy's bozis in Mexico. It was special, you guys. It 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.640 is very difficult to break through to Mexico or into Mexico, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.600 should I say? It's just the different audience. The media 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.720 is different out there, and I've been trying for years now. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.640 I've gone out to Mexico to promote my books, some 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.400 of my music, and I think they see me more 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:16.280 of like an American. And I've always said this, you guys. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.000 I'm a hundred percent Mexicana, one hundred percent American, I'm 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.520 two hundred percent I'm from you know, the two hundred 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:28.400 percent club. But in Mexico is in the sense of 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:33.560 they want us to be like super proud of being Mexican, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.440 and I am, And I think it's just taken a 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.520 little while for them to believe me, I think, and 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.280 for them to realize that I am very proud to 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.160 be Mexican. K then go San Mexican. And not only that, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.000 but a lot of things had been said. There was 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.360 a lot of cheese min and they couldn't really focus 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.120 on my music. So now I'm like xnaying all that 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.240 stuff and trying not to have so much drama in 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.000 my life. And thank goodness, I think just staying away 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.120 from certain people and learning from my mistakes in the 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.799 past has really taught me to just kind of go 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.480 around certain questions and bring it back to my music. So, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.679 you know, thank goodness for my pr Shout out to 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.240 Jennifer Neeman, my publicist. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.760 Anyways, it was an amazing show. You guys. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.640 It was a Tuesday, I'll be honest. We were worried, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.440 all of us, my team, my record label. Everyone was 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.440 worried because the ticket sales were pretty slow. And that 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.160 is because there have been other promoters in Mexico trying 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.400 to sell my shows and they say I'm going to 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.480 be somewhere and then I don't show up because they're 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.080 not my booking agency, you know what I mean. And 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.480 it's kind of given me a bad rap, so I 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.640 had to just get out there and show them, hey, guys, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.720 this is true. I will be at the Lunardio. It 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.480 is my show. And then that's when the ticket sale 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.320 started coming in and we didn't find out until the 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.480 day of, which was March twenty eighth, you guys, that 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.000 the Lunardio was sold out, and I was just excited. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.920 It was a very important because it wasn't only a 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.680 concert for my Mexico fans, but also for the platforms, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.800 all the platforms, all the digital platforms, my record label, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.000 a lot of promoters. It was like their first time 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.840 really saying okay, Cheeky's as a singer, you know what 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.640 I mean. And we killed it. I think we did 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.960 an amazing job. My banda Ana, they are amazing, you guys. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.480 We rehearsed. I don't know. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.279 It was so crazy because I have a teleprompter just 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.320 for like as a safety net, but I know all 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.840 the songs. But I just psyched myself out sometimes and 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.080 I felt like I didn't even need to use it, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.520 like I was just in the moment, feeling everything, feeling 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.720 the energy of the crowd, and oh my god, can 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:46.080 I tell you guys, like those fans of Mexico. Mexico fans, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.720 they are so passionate, they are so down for you. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.360 Like I'm not saying that, you know, in the United States, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.280 my fans aren't down for me, because you guys are. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.120 I always say my boss be's are the best. I 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.520 honestly mean that from the bottom of my heart. You 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.719 guys do things for me that I don't see other 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.240 artists talk about. Or maybe they do and they just 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.240 won't talk about it. I don't know, but you guys 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.240 are the best. But in Mexico, I don't know if 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.880 it was because it was my first, my own first show, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.159 because again I've been at festivals, I've been invited to 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.360 people's concerts, but this was like my first real concert, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.560 like my concert, so it was like, I don't know, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.120 it was just like this overwhelming feeling. And they knew 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.479 all my songs. You guys like songs that have never 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.000 been a single, and my favorite song number seven in 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.360 trebas on the Abahrena album. They sing it, it's never 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.400 been a single, I haven't done a music video for it, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.839 and they were freaking singing all of my songs. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:42.279 You guys. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 It was just an amazing moment, and it was an 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:50.080 important show because it was recorded both visually and audio. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.960 So you guys, there will be a live album, something 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.000 I've been wanting for a long time. And I can 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.920 honestly tell you I sound so good for not being 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.440 on a stage for more than like almost four months. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:05.839 You guys. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.200 Of course I rehearsed, of course I do my vocal 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.599 coaching all that stuff, but I don't know, I just 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.479 felt so good in every aspect. I loved, you know, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.960 the outfits, and that's one thing I told myself, Okay, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.240 we're gonna do ave Herena Barrellos, which means we gotta 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.280 level up. We got to upgrade the wardrobe. I bought 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.880 the bandam outfits, you know, shoes. I want them to 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.640 look like me. You know, I wear tennis shoes. But 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.480 then also we're proud to be Latinos, so we've got 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.640 to show that side as well, and you know, regional 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.359 Mexican and stuff. So that's kind of like what this 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.480 whole tour has been about, Like the bandanas and you 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.360 know that the Hannahs all in one, you know, the 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.360 Mexican and American side of me. So we're still doing 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.880 that in this part too, but I'm adding different songs, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.360 songs that people have been asking for, like songs from 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.839 like my previous albums. I've also added corridos, something that 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.760 I love, you know, as you guys know, both my 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.600 ave Herena songs are corridos, and I love corrios. I mean, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.880 that's what I grew up on, you guys, listening to 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.640 Cheli No Sanchez to do rassos. I mean, like I 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.800 can't even think of who else but a bunch of corrillos. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.320 So I added a little bit of that, and that's 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.000 kind of what it is, you know. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.040 We just leveled it up. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.080 Like all the colors right now for a head right now, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.560 you guys are red, silver, and black. That's all we're 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.880 going to see on this tour. Oh and a hint 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.720 of yellow. And that's what I did in Lunatio. I 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.840 did change so the yellow because of course, you know, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.680 bees honey, you know, so in some concerts I will 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.160 have like a yellow outfit here and there, but mainly 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.040 everything will be red, black and silver. I wanted it 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.440 to be just very like a theme, you know, and 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.120 easier on me as well, because trying to find something 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.080 to wear every show is not only expensive, but it's 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.240 time consuming. So I was like, let's make a bunch 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.160 of outfits and let's like inner change them and kind 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.200 of just stay in the like same aesthetic. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:55.800 So it was great. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.640 I think we started off this tour on the right 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.360 foot and talking about Lunadio and everything that happen. I 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.600 don't want to miss a very important part my mom 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:08.400 making an appearance. And here's the thing. I was very surprised. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.960 It wasn't a surprise for me because I knew I 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.200 wanted to surprise the audience and the people that were there. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.120 I knew my mom was going to sing. I just 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.360 hadn't seen the images like in the background, So it 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.560 was a surprise for the audience, But people thought it. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.640 Was a surprise for me. Mind you. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.000 I mean, I'm very like kind of micromanage everything, so 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.320 I was like, I want to know everything that's going on. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.000 Of course, I put my set list together, everything we 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:38.040 rehearsed and everything. So I was just surprised because every 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.040 time I see my mom or I hear her voice, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.000 I never know how I'm going to feel. I hadn't 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.800 seen any of the images they were beautiful and it's 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.720 just seeing there and it was just like that moment 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.760 of like, oh my god, that's why Johnny. I don't 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.640 know if you guys have seen some clips on TikTok 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.319 and stuff, you know, because Johnny and my brother is 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.240 now a part of the band. Johnny kind of turned 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.160 me around so that I could see the screens and 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.520 it was just like a moment of like, oh my gosh. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.559 And it hits me sometimes, you guys, where I'm like, dude, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.280 my mom's not here. I'm so focused and I have 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.480 to be strong and everything like that's like every day 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:10.520 I'm like I got to be strong. I got to 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.880 be strong for myself or my siblings. That it's not 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.560 that I forget that my mom's out here, but in 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.000 those types of moments, it really hits hard. It's like, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.040 oh shit, my mom's not here. And I don't know 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.200 if if that makes any sense, but those of you 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.200 that have lost a parent or a loved one, like 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.000 I know, you're gonna know what I mean. Because even 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.439 though it's been ten years since my mom's passing, there 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.600 are days when I'm like driving not even thinking about anything, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.120 and it's like I get like this feeling in my 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.760 chest of like, oh my gosh, my mom's ot here, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.080 Like I wish I could call her, and like I 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.880 start crying out of nowhere, because it doesn't matter how 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.200 old I am, I'm always going to need my mom, 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.600 you know. So it was a beautiful moment and the 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.360 crowd loved it and just hearing her voice. I didn't 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.200 want to hear it in the rehearsals. I just knew 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.160 it was going to happen, but I hadn't rehearsed that part. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.920 I just knew I know what I'm singing. I don't 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.400 know what she's going to sing or how she's going 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.640 to sound. So all of that was like a moment 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.400 of like whoa for me and just hearing her It's 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.960 just thank goodness for technology, you guys, that I'm able 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:08.280 to have those moments. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:17.560 It was beautiful. It was beautiful. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.160 The next day, I went to a radio festival, which 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.480 had me nervous as well, because I'm like, okay, it's free. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.200 People can go there for free. What if they don't 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.480 buy tickets for Lunati. That was another reason why I 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.079 was like, oh my god, the tickets are slow whatever, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.520 And people were saying oh, well, chicks notienne publica Mexico, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.000 which means well, Chiki's doesn't have a you know, an 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.640 audience here. And people thought that it was gonna flop. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.160 That's what was happening two weeks before the Lunadi. You 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.840 guys imagine that stress. But I was like, no, this 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.240 happened for a reason. It's happening at the right time. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.600 God would not place me in this place at this 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.520 moment to fail, Like I, I've gone through way too much. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.000 And I just kept repeating that, and I was like, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.319 the Lord is my shepherd. I have all that I need. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.080 I just kept repeating. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.520 When I would find myself getting nervous, I was like, oh, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.600 everything's gonna be fine, And look at God showing off 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.000 and showing up in my life. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.640 We sold out. So anyways, going back to the festival. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.200 The next day was the festival, and again it was 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.040 free and I was second to last to perform. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:14.880 It's late. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.400 I had my engineers, and in festivals usually you shouldn't 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.120 take your own engineers because it takes a long time 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.520 from like one band to the next. It's like this 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.679 whole thing and the wiring and the whole thing. Anyways, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.440 it took forty five minutes. You guys, imagine from the 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.800 last performer, the one before me, forty five minutes for 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.920 me to come on. Mind you, I didn't know what 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.120 was going on. You know, my team doesn't tell me that, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.520 don't want me to get nervous. I didn't find this 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.640 out until the next day. But Irakulba, it was my 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.840 team's fault because they wanted to change everything up and 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.920 switch everything up and make it sound amazing because they 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.959 take care of me. But at a festival. Now we've 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.360 learned we shouldn't do that. We're learning little by little. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.800 But anyways, took forty five minutes. So the crowd was upset. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.040 They were already like whistling Chiflando like hey, like they 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.000 were kind of like they were impatient, and I understand 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.800 and everybody. I saw everybody's face. I was like, what's 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.800 going on? Because someone was telling me like I thought 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.559 that it was them. You know, I'm just sitting here 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.640 waiting for an hour and a half, you guys sitting 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.480 in my green room waiting to go on stage, and 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.760 I thought it was their fault, the festival's fault, right AnyWho, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.880 So I see everyone's face and everyone's kind of like nervous. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.640 I walk on stage, and my band and Johnny their 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.120 little faces were like, and I'm like, shit, something's up. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.520 But we hadn't communicated because you know, everyone was doing 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.719 their own thing. So I went on and sure enough, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.520 I felt the crowd, you guys, I felt the crowd. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.040 They were upset. They were just looking at me straight face. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.679 They were pissed. And I was like, Okay, this is 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.880 my chance to prove to myself, to prove to everyone, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.719 the people that brought me here, the radio station that 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.960 brought me here, that I got what it takes. So 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.520 I made it my mission to switch their faces. And 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.280 I said, I'm going to give my all. Mind you, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.480 it's late as hell. It was one point thirty, I 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.760 think in the morning in Mexico. People are tired. There 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.200 was still another artist after me, so my time was 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.720 cut a lot shorter because you have to be respectful 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.720 for the next person. So I was kind of like, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.360 I felt rushed and everything. But I saw their faces 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:13.560 change right before my eyes. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:13.959 You guys. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.400 They went from I'm so pissed looking at me up 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.079 and down. Imagine that energy, to where they're like, okay, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.360 nodding their heads smiling a little bit, and it was 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.040 so gratifying to say, Wow, it was like confirmation for 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.280 me again, like I am here, I'm leaving my footprint, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.040 and this is what it's all about. You're not always 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.679 going to have people, necessarily, especially at festivals. Going from 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.720 a show like Lunadia where everyone was there to see 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.920 you to a festival where people are pissed and not 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 all of them are there to see you. That is 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.320 your opportunity as an artist to say I'm going to 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.720 show you what I can do. Maybe you don't like me, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.240 maybe you don't know my music, but this is what 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.800 it's all about. I'm gonna get on this stage and 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.839 give it my all and seeing my heart out so 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.120 that you can fall in love with the songs and 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.160 maybe with myself. So it was tough and they did 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.400 cut my time in half, but I was so proud. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.520 I was like, dude, we freaking did it. And before 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:14.079 I forget, one of the things that I'm doing in 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.360 this new tour A Part two is I'm crowning people. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.920 And I know this sounds crazy, you guys, and some people, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.800 especially like maybe some Christians or really religious people will 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.040 see it as a bad thing because I am talking 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 about God on stage when I'm wearing some like little 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.400 shorts and dancing really sexy and having tequila and cussing. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.560 Because I've heard little things here and there it's like, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.240 how can she talk about God? How can she pray 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.800 on stage? And honestly, I don't give I can give 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.240 two fucks about what those people are saying, because this 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.600 is where you touch people's hearts. God gave me this opportunity, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.640 this voice, and I'm going to use it in the 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.040 best way possible. And this is why I always call 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.480 myself a spiritual gangster, you guys, because yes, I twerk, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.920 but I also go to church. Yes I cuss, but 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.480 I love God. I feel like it's all balanced. It's 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.960 the yin and the yank and I live with good 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.720 intentions and not just because I cuss and I kiss 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.240 girls sometimes and I like to dance sexy and I 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.480 drink tequila doesn't mean that God loves me any less. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.920 Absolutely not. And that's why a lot of people stay 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.680 we're from church because they feel judged. Right, This is 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.920 a whole other episode, you guys. But I just needed 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.720 to say this because I saw some comments and not 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.680 that I even want to give that too much attention, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.760 but I do want to express this because it's important 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.720 to me. I told God in my prayers and in 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.960 the darkest moments of my life, God, I know you 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.960 have me here for a reason, because there are a 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.360 lot of times that I've wanted to give up, say yeah, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.040 ask taki yanopoilo because it's tough. It's been an uphill 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.280 battle for me. But I'm grateful and anyways, and in 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.120 those moments, I have told God, Look, this is what 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.120 you want for me. I know that there's something huge coming. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.440 Help me stay strong, and I promise you that when 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.440 we get to those big stages, I will glorify your name, 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.160 you know. And it's not even about me preaching or anything. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.560 It's showing through my experience, through my life, everything that 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.600 I have lived through and gone through. I wouldn't be 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.520 here if it wasn't for the grace and favor of God, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.120 if it wasn't for my faith in God, my spirituality. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.680 I don't know how I would have been here. Losing 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.240 my mom the way I lost her, everything that I've 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.320 gone through, It's a higher power. That's all I could say. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.880 And I want to share that with everyone. And I 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.920 wanted people to understand that it's not me that I'm 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.200 the abe Herena, that I'm a badass bitch that this, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.120 and that I feel I'm better than everyone else. That's 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.200 not what it is. It's I earned this crown. I 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.360 didn't always have it. It fell a few times, you 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.560 know what I mean. I had to pick it up 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:40.880 off the floor and put it back on my head 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.320 and say, no, I am here to stay whether you 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.160 want me to or not. And I'm not saying you guys, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.440 but other people, negative people want me to be here 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.600 or not. It's not up to you, guys. It's up 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.040 to the man upstairs, to the higher power. And that's 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.880 what this crown, the abe Herena, is all about. And 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.760 I've been doing it at every show and I just 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.240 close my eyes on stage, you guys, and I pray 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.639 on stage, buzzed or not, looking like Lahuchi or not. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.439 I pray cause it doesn't matter what you look like 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.560 or how you dress. If you want to talk to God, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.840 He's always here to listen. So yup, I take that 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.440 moment in the festival to you, guys. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:16.800 I did it. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.520 I was like, I'm not getting off this stage without 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.359 giving someone this crown. I brought this crown and that's 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.600 part of my show. And I was already like having 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:23.760 to get off, but I was like, I don't care. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:24.600 I'm doing this. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.240 So anyways, I close my eyes and I pray, and 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:28.840 I'm like, God, help me choose the person that you 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:29.600 want me to speak to. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.400 And I just open my eyes and I. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.159 Look around, and whoever I connect with is the person 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.160 that I just feel it in my heart. I don't 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.520 even know how to explain it. And I say a 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.560 few words. I don't even know what I'm going to say. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.080 I don't even recite it. You guys, It's just here. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 I made it this far and I still haven't gotten 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.000 to where I want to get. And I know that 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.679 there are going to be more trials and obstacles in 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:59.960 my path, but I am here, fur, and that's basically 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.920 the message that I give them. No matter what you've 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.160 gone through, you are also in Avejarrena, in the Nunadio, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.680 there was this guy named Jordan. It was a guy 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.840 and that's who I spoke to. Oh my god, his heart, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.879 Oh my goodness. He was such a beautiful guy. Like 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.560 his little eyes, the way he looked at me, you guys, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.080 Oh my goodness. It was just I can still remember 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.240 his look, the look on his face, and how happy 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.919 he was to receive this crown, and it was just 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.120 I want people to feel special because we are, because 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.040 sometimes we get so consumed with life and the negativity 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.600 that we forget that we are all here for a 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.480 reason and we have to let our light shine. And 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.280 I want to be that person to remind you guys. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.679 So anyways, that's what the whole thing with the crown is, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.360 and it has it's all. They're all custom made. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:44.800 You guys. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.480 Have my guy who puts the bees on there, and 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.560 it's the abe Herena crown, you guys. And it's been amazing. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.280 And I gave it to Jordan, and I also gave 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.880 it to two ladies in Mexico and one in McAllen 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:08.240 and they loved it and I'm loving it all in all, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.440 you guys. It was a successful, successful trip to Mexico. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.880 I had a photo shoot the day after the festival, 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.480 so it was very busy and I came back very tired, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.640 but it was worth it. I felt like, finally, you guys, finally, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.520