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Speaker 1: So with that being said, I want to bring in
Speaker 1: today my guest, my producer, my friend me Van Ego
Speaker 1: me gone By. You already know Alex and I have
Speaker 1: officially named him well, actually know I found out that
Speaker 1: he was already named that before. So Big Sexy is
Speaker 1: in the house. Thank you so much for joining. And
Speaker 1: I also have Arlene that I have named her today
Speaker 1: Mrs Juicy Juicy Juicy is also here with the t
Speaker 1: um and today actually today is like throwback Thursday. We're
Speaker 1: gonna change it up a little bit and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about some throwbacks right now. We're gonna basically you
Speaker 1: as an artist, my friend, uh, you know, we want
Speaker 1: to know and if people want to know what influenced
Speaker 1: you write and by we're gonna bring calling it throwback
Speaker 1: Thursday because we want to know what did you listen
Speaker 1: to growing up? What did your mom listen to growing
Speaker 1: up that influenced to you? Boy? And I love growing up.
Speaker 1: I remember my mom um. I have some good memories
Speaker 1: of that. But my mom would have a lot of
Speaker 1: young um you know, Fafita. She would have a lot
Speaker 1: of like Dominican and also Cuban music playing in the house,
Speaker 1: especially on Sundays that was the day that she used
Speaker 1: to clean the house by and and also she didn't
Speaker 1: understand the language per same better. She would love to
Speaker 1: play in the house and maintain a turner when in
Speaker 1: Houston's on a summer's glory Gainer, those people, Musica, Yessica,
Speaker 1: all those things influenced me, I guess honestly, Um before
Speaker 1: we had those big as TVs that you have to
Speaker 1: like turn the own, like the buttons you want and
Speaker 1: yelling that you would see those shows and hear the
Speaker 1: music and and a little bit. I picked up a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. I picked up a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything, some of the English from the Spanish, but
Speaker 1: definitely she always played a lot of like strong women
Speaker 1: like Laupe sometimes even Juan or stuff like that. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I listened to everything growing up, so Romantico and stuff,
Speaker 1: Yeah Jose with me yelling Timpo, you know, with Momento,
Speaker 1: a lot of some goes on and on of all
Speaker 1: the amazing roo La. Like, my mom was always very
Speaker 1: well rounded when it came to music, and she wanted
Speaker 1: me to hear a little bit of everything. And I'm
Speaker 1: grateful that she exposed me to so much variations of
Speaker 1: what Latin music was at the time, because that's how
Speaker 1: I was able to be like, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: pick up a little bit of this, a little bit
Speaker 1: of that, put it together and this is you know
Speaker 1: whom is that's amazing. And you know, coming up in
Speaker 1: a Puerto Rican household, it was the same way that
Speaker 1: component component with all the freaking like you know, CD player,
Speaker 1: tape deck, you know, everything, and my mom would be
Speaker 1: playing everything LaSalle, smiting Bolero, but all that stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: everything just just oh my goodness. Now you're thinking about it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't you miss don't you miss those days?
Speaker 1: How things have changed so much. Obviously, we know we
Speaker 1: gotta evolve, you know, we gotta go with times. But
Speaker 1: I think of those memories of how we grew up
Speaker 1: and and then sometimes I look at today's times and
Speaker 1: it's like it's not that it's not nice, but it's
Speaker 1: definitely not as innocent as family oriented as it was
Speaker 1: back then. You know, I agree, and things things have,
Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, and sometimes you think
Speaker 1: you want to keep that the same spirit that you
Speaker 1: had when when you were anger, and even now with
Speaker 1: your kids, you know, you think, do I wanna go
Speaker 1: ahead and do the same thing? And you should? I
Speaker 1: think you should. I think that that's uh, that's a
Speaker 1: lost art, is having that family bonding time, you know,
Speaker 1: because everyone's on a damn screen now, see I I
Speaker 1: agree with the screen thing. Yeah, we definitely have to
Speaker 1: change for those that want to undo, right, but for
Speaker 1: those that want to keep. I think it's important for
Speaker 1: us to be the ones to take charge and be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna play you some music. This
Speaker 1: is what I grew up with. I want you to
Speaker 1: listen to this. I want you to know where you
Speaker 1: come from, what we heard, some of the old school music.
Speaker 1: I think it's important, Um, we have to create that
Speaker 1: family oriented energy. Yes, times have changed these days, no
Speaker 1: way too much. Back then, we didn't know as much
Speaker 1: as they know now. And Lyrica lyrics has also changed.
Speaker 1: You know, when were you going to hear back in
Speaker 1: the days, you know, a song talking about pop that
Speaker 1: pussy or you know jebber like is hot or like
Speaker 1: you know Mrs Juicy over here, you you were going
Speaker 1: to hear them lyrics? You know? Of the current music?
Speaker 1: Is there anything you would play to your daughter's any
Speaker 1: artists that you listen to now today? Are you only
Speaker 1: going to play what you're adele? You might not see like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's some nice songs that I feel
Speaker 1: that my kids can listen to. For sure. But realistically,
Speaker 1: if you really sit down and go through the playlist
Speaker 1: of the modern songs you know up on charts right now,
Speaker 1: it's kind of limited, uh, the songs that you can
Speaker 1: play for them, that is, you know, okay for you
Speaker 1: know children right um, because everything somehow is either sublibinal
Speaker 1: or there's something freaky nasty you know in there that's
Speaker 1: made for adults, which is fine because I've heard that too.
Speaker 1: We can't put the pressure on the artists there. Being
Speaker 1: an artist, you do what you do as a parent.
Speaker 1: You're the one that decides you can hear this, you
Speaker 1: can't hear that, or whatever, and they could hear the
Speaker 1: whole everything. How what are you gonna be changing stations
Speaker 1: every time? I mean even in the you know, in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties, you know, as a teenager growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a lot of songs on the
Speaker 1: radio that we're kind of that you saw the trend
Speaker 1: starting with hip hop and changing and then you know,
Speaker 1: hip hop merging with Latin music, a lot of things
Speaker 1: started changing. But you're right, You're right. I want to
Speaker 1: know from you now. You told us a little bit
Speaker 1: about growing up and what your mom played. When did
Speaker 1: you take it upon yourself to make the switch and
Speaker 1: start incorporating English speaking music into into your playlists. And
Speaker 1: what were some of the records that you remember that
Speaker 1: you know play out in your head. Oh my god, Um,
Speaker 1: I think it was affected in my house. And that's
Speaker 1: how I plan on doing it with my with my
Speaker 1: girls as well. And in a way. Last, this is
Speaker 1: what I didn't even watch, but I last, I want
Speaker 1: you to, you know, smell the Sas song in the house.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be very Latino. This is what we are,
Speaker 1: this is our culture. This is what we do. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna copy paste and do the same thing with
Speaker 1: your kids, because I don't want you to lose the
Speaker 1: essence of Latin because you're born in America. That's what
Speaker 1: we're not going to do. Right. But um, in school,
Speaker 1: I know that in school they pick up all the
Speaker 1: English stuff, the accent, the language, the slang, the blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. You pick all those things up so you
Speaker 1: can do that. But I remember that that, you know,
Speaker 1: being in school listening to my friends and stuff. I
Speaker 1: was into like the Spice Girls. Okay, I was scary
Speaker 1: Spice and Sink, you know, Britney Spears Christina. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was killing it. Janet Jackson. Also
Speaker 1: there was a lot of artists like even even It's
Speaker 1: funny because even when you look at the music videos
Speaker 1: back then, you thought they were so futuristic and it's
Speaker 1: like the technology look and this and that, and you
Speaker 1: that they were killing it. They kind of were. Um,
Speaker 1: I remember the freakiest song that I like back then, well,
Speaker 1: there were two, I think it was, but the Milkshake
Speaker 1: came in earlier, I think, um, but then, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Cisco song? I thought I was killing it.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like, this is so late, you know, when
Speaker 1: the Thong song came out and stuff. You know, when
Speaker 1: you when you think about it, right, you start listening
Speaker 1: to songs that you listen to back then, you listen
Speaker 1: to it now and uh you know, for instance, uh
Speaker 1: end quote you have to lick it before you stick it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like wait a second, I was like rocking out to
Speaker 1: this in my room and just hanging out. You know,
Speaker 1: you're saying like when you discovered the lyrics, when when
Speaker 1: you did, you don't. You're not there for the lyrics
Speaker 1: to be to make sense. You're there to sing, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to jamming out to both um, you know,
Speaker 1: alternate music, Blink one eight two, you know hip hop,
Speaker 1: you know Woo Tang was crazy, you know, planning and
Speaker 1: you know, like all of that stuff. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: thinking back then. You know, now I look back at him, like, whoa,
Speaker 1: If my mom knew English the way we do, she
Speaker 1: would have whoke my behind. I think it's you too.
Speaker 1: A lot of times. I'm not saying that there wasn't.
Speaker 1: There was songs that were you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: you know, freaky harsh or whatever. You just wanted to
Speaker 1: sing the song and dance and you knew that you
Speaker 1: liked and it was a vibe. You weren't really paying
Speaker 1: attention to the death of the lyrics of the songs.
Speaker 1: So I guess is that these days, I think we
Speaker 1: all know what the lyrics mean. The young ones, even
Speaker 1: the young ones, they know. They may not know exactly,
Speaker 1: but they know it is not you shouldn't be singing it,
Speaker 1: but you still do. So I get it. The pressures,
Speaker 1: you know, when you first started to to get into
Speaker 1: the music industry, what were those pressures like for you initially?
Speaker 1: Like coming in, I'm sure there was people you were
Speaker 1: meeting with people that that were saying, you have to
Speaker 1: sound like so and so, I need you to sound
Speaker 1: like this. My mom was one of the first ones.
Speaker 1: She was so annoying because my mom was like, since
Speaker 1: since that was very good at doing many things, it's
Speaker 1: like still now as an adult, you know, I'm an artist,
Speaker 1: even though that I haven't done music in like two years.
Speaker 1: I think since the pandemic, I put out one or
Speaker 1: two songs, But since the pandemic, I really haven't been
Speaker 1: doing music like that. I got kind of caught up
Speaker 1: doing reality TV, doing movies, doing other things. I I
Speaker 1: somewhat maybe I feel I kind of got comfortable in
Speaker 1: that space and I haven't been back in the studio
Speaker 1: also because I'm still going through some legal situations with
Speaker 1: with those that have watched Love Love and Hip Hop Miami,
Speaker 1: you guys know what I've been going through. But that
Speaker 1: also that they say even though that I miss it.
Speaker 1: But my mom was one of those that it was like,
Speaker 1: when you're very talented at doing many things, like I
Speaker 1: could host, I can do radio, I can do this,
Speaker 1: I can do that. DA she felt musically like I
Speaker 1: want you to I want and I'm like, but how
Speaker 1: am I supposed to find my identity musically? Which happens
Speaker 1: to a lot of artists. You get caught up doing
Speaker 1: so many different genres. Then now your audience doesn't even know,
Speaker 1: like you know what you are, who you are, like
Speaker 1: what is your target? Because one day you're singing pop,
Speaker 1: next thing you're now you're singing rock, and then after that,
Speaker 1: now you just did a hip hop song. And as
Speaker 1: an artist, you should be able to be creative and
Speaker 1: try and experiment with all those different sounds. Nothing should
Speaker 1: stop you, but you still do have to have a
Speaker 1: lane of sound. So yes, I did feel the pressure
Speaker 1: of having to, Like all they would do this, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you should be the next Sea Cruiz sing Salta,
Speaker 1: And it was like, that's cool, That's an honor most definitely.
Speaker 1: But just because I'm black and I have an Afro
Speaker 1: and I'm Latina, it doesn't mean that automatically I should
Speaker 1: sing Salza because I remind you of Salia Cruise. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm still from this error, from this generation, and I like,
Speaker 1: I like to do a lot of fusion. I mix
Speaker 1: up a lot of sounds. I'll mix up some Afro
Speaker 1: b with some Brazilian funk. I'll make something bold with
Speaker 1: some like That's what I think that it's fun about
Speaker 1: doing music, being able to create. Yeah, I like that,
Speaker 1: and you gotta find your own voice. It's always great
Speaker 1: to pay homage to the to the past and to
Speaker 1: who we listen to. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta like move on with what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what a lot of artists struggle
Speaker 1: with nowaday and you know, it's it's I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: back then everyone's struggle because somebody, you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to be the next Frank Snatro. You know, for you,
Speaker 1: what do you attribute your success too in music? Like
Speaker 1: do you think about it as your maybe your mom?
Speaker 1: Do you do you give all the props to your mom?
Speaker 1: Is there a special person, a special mentor that helped
Speaker 1: you get to the level of success that you've been
Speaker 1: been at. I know it sounds so corny, but I
Speaker 1: definitely always have to give credit to my mom. I
Speaker 1: have to give credit to my mom because my mom
Speaker 1: has been my number one supporter, my number one cheerleader,
Speaker 1: my number one you know, critic, my everything, And I
Speaker 1: think it's because she sees what I'm capable of more
Speaker 1: more than I can sometimes, and I think that parents
Speaker 1: have don't. It's like a gift like once your kid
Speaker 1: is born. I don't know how they do that, but
Speaker 1: they can say no, Dad or mom, I can't do it,
Speaker 1: and you know what they're capable of them doing even
Speaker 1: though they don't see it, but you can see past it,
Speaker 1: like I know all you can do it, and you
Speaker 1: also know when your kid don't got it. You also
Speaker 1: know like, no, this is not this is not your department.
Speaker 1: And I know you like it, but this is not
Speaker 1: for you, but you also know. So I feel like
Speaker 1: my mom always was able to see beyond what I could,
Speaker 1: and she always pushed me. And I'm grateful that she
Speaker 1: pushed me because if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have known what I am actually capable of. And I
Speaker 1: still don't think that I have forced myself or pushing
Speaker 1: myself to see my full potential. I kind of sometimes
Speaker 1: half fast it a little bit, so I would say
Speaker 1: that it is that if it wasn't because of her,
Speaker 1: said Vialo, you know, like it happens, and I would
Speaker 1: have been coming, you know, just like walking around the
Speaker 1: world trying to figure it out. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm out of the music industry is changing so much,
Speaker 1: and I feel like women, female artists are are really
Speaker 1: taking the lead. I would say, especially in you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to our community, where do you think
Speaker 1: that you fall and how do you see yourself? Like
Speaker 1: what kind of music in the future are you hoping
Speaker 1: to create? The thing is, I'm a very a bubbly, happy,
Speaker 1: upbeat person. So whatever I do, I want to know
Speaker 1: that my music brings happiness and it brings joy. I
Speaker 1: like music that that um can change your whole vibe,
Speaker 1: Like I'm stressed out, let me put this music on.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna get my my momentum, you know, going.
Speaker 1: But then I also love songs where like I did
Speaker 1: my song Insecure, which is one of my favorite songs,
Speaker 1: that I also was able to connect with women, you know,
Speaker 1: and and connect in a more vulnerable aspect because I'm
Speaker 1: not always happy, like like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the battery is got to turn off at some point.
Speaker 1: And I also go through rhoto cultures of emotions like
Speaker 1: I really feel right now if I were to go
Speaker 1: into a studio, which would be so great, and I
Speaker 1: would really sit down and do like a whole album
Speaker 1: of what my life has been like in the past
Speaker 1: two years and not just two years two years now
Speaker 1: moving forward, I think I would come up with an
Speaker 1: amazing album where I am honest about my feelings like
Speaker 1: I am now, and I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: people will be able to connect with me. So I
Speaker 1: love doing happy music, but I think that being able
Speaker 1: to do music that just connects with the audience really
Speaker 1: it's something that I visualize for the future for me.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. That's like, that's a really good way of
Speaker 1: looking at it. Because you gotta know what you want
Speaker 1: to do and who you wanna where do you want
Speaker 1: to make music for? And you have two kids, now,
Speaker 1: do you feel like perhaps they'll inspire you in such
Speaker 1: a way where you'll create I think you have the
Speaker 1: soul in you and the heart to really put something
Speaker 1: beautiful together. So do you feel like maybe you'll inspire
Speaker 1: yourself a little bit more to create something for them,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, to inspire them as well. I think
Speaker 1: that I will. But I also think that in my case,
Speaker 1: I I can relate to a certain extent to things
Speaker 1: that Cardi B has said about her music that she
Speaker 1: still does freaky you know, adult fun music, and she
Speaker 1: doesn't let her children listen to it. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to like stop myself from doing what makes me
Speaker 1: feel good or what I know that my audience expects
Speaker 1: of me because of the canal. I'm a mother, No,
Speaker 1: I'm a mother. You listen to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Speaker 1: over there and I'm over here, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: dropping it like it's hot. So you know, I want
Speaker 1: I want to be able to create that balance. I
Speaker 1: think that creating that balance is important. But I definitely
Speaker 1: would love to do music and and do music videos.
Speaker 1: Get um empower them as well, you know, as a
Speaker 1: strong woman, like your mom's a strong woman. You know
Speaker 1: she did that last Avid wincing. You know that eventually
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, that's my mom over there,
Speaker 1: Like no, you know, I get it. But but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I guess, mama gotta pay these bills,
Speaker 1: so you better. You know what I'm saying, cover your ass,
Speaker 1: cover your ears, and let me do what I asked
Speaker 1: to do. Beyonce, I did that too. I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like she did that. She's helping women say, listen
Speaker 1: I'm a mom, but I also want to be sexy
Speaker 1: and get it on with my partner and I wanted to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm excited does it? She does it very tastefully
Speaker 1: that I'm being like, it's it's it's sexy, but I
Speaker 1: don't find it personally like raunchy. I find it like tasteful.
Speaker 1: I've seen other artists. We're not gonna mention any names that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you're basically just doing porno right now,
Speaker 1: Like that's a lot. You could have still done the
Speaker 1: same thing and got in the same reaction without having
Speaker 1: to like do it like that battle to each his own.
Speaker 1: Everybody expresses their art form in different ways. When I
Speaker 1: think about like musical influences, what are you, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on people like Mary J. Blage like the
Speaker 1: hip hop era and are you ever gonna dive into
Speaker 1: that genre? The thing about it is that funny enough,
Speaker 1: even though I'm on love and hip hop and all
Speaker 1: thesely the things I grew up in Miami. In Miami
Speaker 1: is um Miami is very hip hop influence, I must
Speaker 1: you know, for the African American community, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that. Obviously, the original hip hop like we have.
Speaker 1: We have some of them on the show. You know,
Speaker 1: we have Trina. We got tricked Daddy, like we got
Speaker 1: some of the original essence of hip hop as well.
Speaker 1: But I did grow up very cha cha. I did
Speaker 1: grow up more Latina than anything, so I didn't have
Speaker 1: that original experience of what hip hop was back then.
Speaker 1: I heard about it later on in life, but especially
Speaker 1: here in Miami that is also very Latino based. My
Speaker 1: mom always had me more in Hi Ali or whatever
Speaker 1: the Latinos were at, so I didn't get to enjoy, uh,
Speaker 1: the real essence of Mary J. Bloss and stuff like
Speaker 1: when she first came in. I heard it later on
Speaker 1: in life battle I would I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: like to put any limits to myself, Like I can't
Speaker 1: say I'm not I'm very open minded because what about
Speaker 1: c C And then said what do guy like? Why not?
Speaker 1: So I think that in left you should experiment and
Speaker 1: try everything as much as you can. You never know
Speaker 1: where you're you know what I'm saying, where your target is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I agree? Are you thinking of perhaps letting your your
Speaker 1: I know you've spoken about, you know, having a casting
Speaker 1: agent for your daughter's already, But what what are you
Speaker 1: your thoughts on perhaps letting the girls into the music industry,
Speaker 1: into the music business, Are you gonna shelter them from
Speaker 1: this lifestyle, this you know, hustle. I would love to
Speaker 1: be that support system for my children whatever it is
Speaker 1: they decide that they want to be. And if I
Speaker 1: see that they're talented, I don't want to be the
Speaker 1: one to be like Buena. And I'm like, no, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be no, no, no, no no. If I see
Speaker 1: that you're good at something and you have potential, whether
Speaker 1: I want it for you or not, if it is
Speaker 1: your blessing, your route, now I'm going to push you
Speaker 1: to the end of you. You're gonna hate me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do you like well Mommy did to me. But
Speaker 1: that's the only way for you to get out their
Speaker 1: best potential. And like I always say, I always think
Speaker 1: it's important not just musically, uh, I think it's important
Speaker 1: to expose them to as many things as possible. If
Speaker 1: you like music, fine, I'm gonna expose you to piano,
Speaker 1: to violin, to many of the things percussion, look and
Speaker 1: see what really uh you know catches your eye and
Speaker 1: and support them for sure. Um, but I do want
Speaker 1: to protect them from the animals. Okay, the animals, the beast,
Speaker 1: the monsters that this entertainment industry has that you know,
Speaker 1: will use somebody's ambitions of being successful for their own benefit.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I've gone through many things in
Speaker 1: this industry, Like I've personally gone through a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of wolves, you know, pretending to
Speaker 1: be sheep's out here. And I want you to elaborate
Speaker 1: a little bit more about what it was like for
Speaker 1: your mom when she was first trying to get you
Speaker 1: into the business. I I'm really curious about that. Well,
Speaker 1: how about this. I was born in and I already
Speaker 1: had my first trophy in ninety one. So my mom
Speaker 1: had me like in beauty pageants, baby beauty pageants, like
Speaker 1: with the big dresses and like hay and like the
Speaker 1: big bowls, like one of those baby dolls. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that was my mom with me. Then she started me
Speaker 1: off doing beauty pageants, one of those psychotic beauty pageant moms.
Speaker 1: Like I had a face full of makeup, you know,
Speaker 1: I had a little dance routines and bathing suits and
Speaker 1: one of those, and she would make me do the
Speaker 1: same damn routines in the house a thousand times. She
Speaker 1: would put all my little teddy bears in the couch
Speaker 1: and then she would be like that, like can send
Speaker 1: them kisses? Move her hand dad, Like she like lived
Speaker 1: her frustration as an artist through me. So sometimes I
Speaker 1: was just tired or I didn't want to were like Mom,
Speaker 1: I don't care for this crap right now, and she
Speaker 1: would really get upset, like she would put so much
Speaker 1: effort in time, and these outfits were very expensive, like
Speaker 1: like five six daughters on a little baby outfit, you know,
Speaker 1: embordered with stones and all this stuff, and it was
Speaker 1: a whole sacrifice for her. So that's how she started me.
Speaker 1: And then once she started seeing that I actually was
Speaker 1: good at it, and I kept winning competitions and then
Speaker 1: I want to miss for the miss for handy guy,
Speaker 1: and then this and and you know, and then it
Speaker 1: became this industry also for mom's like the baby ones.
Speaker 1: And so I'm being it's very moms are very competitive.
Speaker 1: It's not even about the kids anymore. It's like the
Speaker 1: moms are fighting with each other. So long story short,
Speaker 1: that's how she started me, and my big break was
Speaker 1: in and don't Francisco. They did Miss Chikka, which was
Speaker 1: a segment that they had I actually won, and after
Speaker 1: I won, don't Francisco was like, you know, and we
Speaker 1: seembody out, you know, we love her personality. We would
Speaker 1: love to have her officially here and in Glann Infantil,
Speaker 1: which was a segment that they had with the children's
Speaker 1: had opinions and things like that. I was there for
Speaker 1: six years every Saturday. Um then it became a background
Speaker 1: dancer for Univision and then from there, you know, Disney commercials.
Speaker 1: Is that like, you know, a lot of things started
Speaker 1: to open up indoors. But and my mom was really
Speaker 1: the one who was like, thank you Mom. Basically, she's
Speaker 1: the one that even though even though she pushed you,
Speaker 1: it got you somewhere. And and by the way, guys,
Speaker 1: if you want to listen to that episode, it is
Speaker 1: in the archives, so make sure you check that out.
Speaker 1: Her time with Savant and her come up there. It
Speaker 1: was very interesting because I watched the show growing up,
Speaker 1: which means I watched you when you were a kid
Speaker 1: growing up. Because I'm not that much older than you.
Speaker 1: I'm what you said you were born in uh so
Speaker 1: I'm only a couple of years older than you, but
Speaker 1: I do remember watching uh E. Really, I feel like
Speaker 1: every Latino you know, either your mother or grandmother or
Speaker 1: somebody you saw it at some point because it was
Speaker 1: such an important part of our culture, sitting down on
Speaker 1: Saturdays to watch four hours of Don't Francisco and the
Speaker 1: check At and all the other things that they had.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was an incredible time to be alive,
Speaker 1: and it's something that's missed today. You know. I want
Speaker 1: to close this off with uh with you giving our
Speaker 1: our younger audience perhaps or anyone out there or a
Speaker 1: mother that might be thinking of putting their kids through,
Speaker 1: you know, the entertainment business, or they have goals as
Speaker 1: as your mom did for you. What would be some
Speaker 1: of the encouraging some encouraging words that you would want
Speaker 1: to give anyone listening right now. Yeah, for sure, if
Speaker 1: you see that your kid is talented, support them, you know,
Speaker 1: stop picking, stop deciding what you want your kids to be,
Speaker 1: and support what God meant for them to be. If
Speaker 1: you see that they're talented and whatever it is, whether
Speaker 1: it's sports, whether they're good at math, whether they're good
Speaker 1: at science, whether what they want to do, hair it
Speaker 1: doesn't math or support them. You never know if they
Speaker 1: are going to be amazing later on in life with
Speaker 1: what they do, and if later on they decided to
Speaker 1: do something else, support them with that too, because they
Speaker 1: do also have the rights to change their mind. They
Speaker 1: do also have the rights to explore and experiment with
Speaker 1: different things, So just be open minded to that. Also
Speaker 1: expose them. I always talk about exposure. I think exposing
Speaker 1: your kids two different things is very important in order
Speaker 1: for them to know what they're good at. You know,
Speaker 1: if you only show them one to three things, that's
Speaker 1: the only option that they have. But if you show
Speaker 1: them about you know, space, and then you show them
Speaker 1: about the sea, and then you show them about different things,
Speaker 1: you give them an opportunity for the mind to to
Speaker 1: you know, open up. Um. If you have to sacrifice
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, as a parent, I think
Speaker 1: that you automatically sacrifice, but if you have to sacrifice
Speaker 1: a little bit of your time, your energy to take
Speaker 1: them to a class, whether it's football, class, dance class, ballet, ballet,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, do it for your kids because
Speaker 1: come therego You never know, and just be supported of
Speaker 1: Stop telling your kids what you want them to be.
Speaker 1: It's not about you. You have your life to decide
Speaker 1: what you want to be. Stop telling them what they
Speaker 1: have to be. Support whatever it is that you see
Speaker 1: that they're gifted at, you know, and obviously guide them,
Speaker 1: guide them, you know, motivate them. Be their number one
Speaker 1: cheerleader because you'll never forget even if you think that
Speaker 1: they're young, they'll never forget that time that you supported them,
Speaker 1: that you were their cheerleader, that you were that you
Speaker 1: stood by them, that you didn't let them fall. So
Speaker 1: just be that support system and also use social media
Speaker 1: to also find the best talent agency, to find the
Speaker 1: best dance school, to find the best whatever coach that
Speaker 1: you can find. You have the internet. Unlike our parents
Speaker 1: back in the days, it didn't have too many options
Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah yellow pages, but um, you
Speaker 1: know you have options these days. So so just support
Speaker 1: your babies, you know, support your kids, be the best
Speaker 1: parent you can be and let them live their lives.
Speaker 1: Just be there to guide them rather better and protect them.
Speaker 1: Once again as usual, Alex Big Sexy, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming in today. Arlene Mrs Juicy, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for always supporting me on the show and
Speaker 1: and I always love being able to connect with you guys,
Speaker 1: especially now that I've given you guys an opportunity to
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