1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: I think that's always the difficulty between like having more 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: than one home. It's like I never really identified more 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: as like a Colombian or a United States person. I 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: kind of just always identified as both. It definitely is 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: like exhausting to constantly have people like pick apart, So 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 1: what are you more of? You know, I don't feel 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: that I need to pick one or the other. 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: From futuro media, it's lat you know, Usa, I'm Maria Josa. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: Today. 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 2: Artists and singer Galiuchiese talks about the memories behind her 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: genre defne sound. Galiucchiice loves things that remind her of 12 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: the past, like vinyl records. 13 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: You know, my first car that I ever got myself 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: was an old school so it was kind of more 15 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: like a lifestyle thing. 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: In keeping with that lifestyle, the twenty six year old 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 2: musician writes her songs with a piece of paper and 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 2: a pen, like. 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: I don't use my phone when I write songs. I 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: just love things that bring me back to those nostalgic eras. 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: Kadiali Marina Loisa was born in Virginia to Colombian immigrants. 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 2: They gave her the nickname Kaaliuchis and it stuck. For 23 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: much of her childhood, Kalli's family went back and forth 24 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: between the United States and Colombia. Eventually they settled in 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: northern Virginia, just outside Washington, d C. In twenty twelve, 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: Kalli released her first mixtape and launched a career where 27 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,919 Speaker 2: she crisscrosses through musical styles from doo wop and soul 28 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: to Latin pop and reggaeton. In twenty seventeen, Calli was 29 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: nominated for both a Latin Grammy for a collaboration with 30 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: Colombian megastar Juaniz and a Grammy for Best R and 31 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 2: B Performance, and this year she took a Grammy home 32 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: for her collaboration with producer Ka Trinada on the song 33 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 2: ten Percent. Though Galli has always sung in both English 34 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: and Spanish, her early songs and her first album were 35 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: primarily in English, but in late twenty twenty, she released 36 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 2: her first Spanish language Latin album, titled Cielo, which means 37 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 2: without Fear. It was considered a risky move for an 38 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: artist whose fan base was primarily based in the United States. Still, 39 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: the album has met with a lot of success. A 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: few months after Snello was released, the song de Le 41 00:02:53,440 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: Batilla rocketed to the top of the Latin music charts. 42 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 4: What you can say the Blah Blaine. 43 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: Again And in this How I Made It segment where 44 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: we highlight Latino creators and the work they make. Galiuciese 45 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 2: talks about her childhood in Colombia, the importance of sisterhood, 46 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,839 Speaker 2: and why she decided to ignore those who told her 47 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 2: not to sing in Spanish. 48 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: My name's Galucchiese. I am an artist. I was born 49 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: in Virginia, United States. We moved back to Colombia probably 50 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: when I was about like four or five maybe whatever 51 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: age I was. I was still kind of like learning 52 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: language in general, so I learned writing and reading in 53 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: Spanish before English. My home in Descodas, Colombia, which is 54 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: a little town in perreta full of family members. We 55 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: had a house that was full of birds, and the 56 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: backyard had like a turkey and chickens and ducks, and 57 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: we would go but in the backyard to get our eggs. 58 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: We actually were meant to stay living in Columbia the 59 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: rest of our lives was like my parents' plan, but 60 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: things didn't go as planned and we ended up coming 61 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: back to the United States, probably like late elementary early 62 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: middle school for me, and when we went back, we 63 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: didn't have anywhere to live, so it was a while 64 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: of kind of just like living random places. 65 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 3: I'm righting around my garden. 66 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: I have three brothers and a sister, but my older 67 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: sister I didn't really spend a lot of time growing 68 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: up with her, so I kind of always very much 69 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: cherished moments of being able to have sisterhood and like 70 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: having girlfriends. I really loved growing up in Va also 71 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: because I had a really amazing group of girlfriends that 72 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: I became super close with. 73 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 4: Righting around my girls, riding around just. 74 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes a kid. I always loved the oldies. I think 75 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: I've just always loved music that was like very dreamy. 76 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: I used to do covers a lot of Spanish songs, 77 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: like I did by Jeanette and Saw. 78 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 5: What I Mean, Dandam. 79 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 3: Yes. 80 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: A lot of my earlier music was because I didn't 81 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: know how to produce, so it was literally just samples 82 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: of like the Blackbirds. Literally all of my songs were 83 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: samples of oldies that I loved, so definitely that played 84 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: a huge influence on the artist I am today. I 85 00:05:52,040 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: see and has seen to Gamam the beginning of breaking 86 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: into the industry was definitely just when I've got my 87 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: first laptop. I wanted to make documentaries in Colombia, and 88 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: I wanted to make art films, and I always loved 89 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: making music and writing as well, so I wanted to 90 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: make music that accompanied that. So I guess that was 91 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: how I started the journey of like putting together my 92 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: first little mixtape. I made these songs really quickly, and 93 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: I just put it out on like a website called 94 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: that pith at the time, and I put out these 95 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: little videos that I had been making. It started just 96 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: getting a lot of shares between I guess people who 97 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: had been around much longer than me, who had been 98 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: making music much longer than me and were very established 99 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: in the industry. So it was kind of embarrassing for me. Actually, 100 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: after I realized that so many people were sharing it, 101 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: I took it down off the Internet. I couldn't have 102 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: been older than eighteen, because I graduated early, and I 103 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: think it was my graduation year. I might have even 104 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: been like seventeen going on eighteen at the time. I 105 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: just was like, if something that I literally made just 106 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: messing around could get so much attention, let me try 107 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: to actually make some good music. 108 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 4: If I told you what was your PA, maybe I'm 109 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: just trying your way too hard to keep you. 110 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: I just was always a big music lover, so I 111 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: was just obsessed with experimenting and playing with my voice. 112 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 4: I don't meet you. 113 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: It's very much like a growing in a public type 114 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: of situation. Is a lot of you know what, my 115 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: career has been kind of just like finding my voice 116 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: and finding my feet along with every project. My debut album, 117 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: Isolation came out in twenty eighteen. There's some songs that 118 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: are just like this is a timeless song, Like if 119 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: after the Stormwork to come out today, it would still 120 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: garner the same attention that it did back then. And 121 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: it kind of always felt like the obvious single off 122 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: of the album, did You. 123 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 4: Have a One Way Maybe Going? 124 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: When I was in Canada, I met with Bye Bye 125 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: Not Good. They're essentially like a jazz funk band. I 126 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: went to their studio and they were just playing a 127 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: bunch of stuff and I was just singing. I just 128 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: picked up the mic. A few different things passed through, 129 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: and then that one came and it just happened very 130 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: very naturally, which is the way that all of my 131 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: favorite songs, and I think the songs that connect most 132 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: of the people happen is naturally. 133 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: And everybody's hard, everybody's going through away, but you just 134 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 3: can't give um now because you've gotta save yourself. 135 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: I think I guess still like my most viewed video 136 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: and biggest song in general. 137 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 6: I don't know. 138 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to describe. I guess a word 139 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: that people use a lot, like soul music. My second album, Semelo, 140 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: came out at the end of twenty twenty, and it's 141 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: very different from all of my projects because my first 142 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: project pretty much completely in Spanish. As a bilingual person 143 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: and as someone who grew up going to schools in 144 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: both countries, sometimes it just happens naturally where I will 145 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: switch over writing between Spanish or English. It's not really 146 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: something so much like premeditated. 147 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 3: I don't know. 148 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't want me to make an 149 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: album in Spanish and told me that it was not 150 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: going to be successful, especially because I live in the 151 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: United States, or especially because I already had built this 152 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: base of people who listen to music in English. To me, 153 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: it never made sense why I wouldn't make a full 154 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: album in Spanish because I went to school there. I 155 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: have my own life there, I still have a house there, 156 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 1: I still have my own separate world there. That's such 157 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: a big part of me, and it's such a big 158 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: part of who I am as an artist. Since I 159 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: first started making music, I always incorporated covers. But the 160 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: reason I didn't really do any original, like full songs 161 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: in Spanish is because I didn't feel confident enough to 162 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: like write a full song in Spanish. It's a lot 163 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: different than speaking Spanish. It just was something I was 164 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: always kind of like scared of, like, oh what if 165 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: poetically things don't translate over or it just doesn't end 166 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: up sounding the way that I wanted to. So I 167 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: took a lot of pride in making sure that it 168 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: was very lyrics were very cohesive, and I really grew 169 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: a lot, I think as a writer making this body 170 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: of work, and I looked at it very much like 171 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: a movie. It took it and I think it's definitely 172 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: my most my most cinematic so Cemel starts with, which 173 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: is Los Zafrido's cover Los Safridos. It was a Cuban group. 174 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,359 Speaker 1: Their music was kind of like a fusion of Borlero, 175 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: do wop R. 176 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 3: And b. 177 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 5: Vvel And it was one of those songs that I 178 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 5: used to go to sleep every night listening to, and 179 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 5: it would bring me peace, to make me so happy. 180 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: I would go to sleep when I was younger and 181 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: put playlists of music that I knew that I wanted 182 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: to dream too. I love how mystical it is, and 183 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: I wanted to be able to challenge myself vocally because 184 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of a new way that a lot of 185 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: people hadn't heard my voice before. 186 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: Was Blendor des Ye. 187 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 1: It's definitely a deeper and lower octave than I'm used 188 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: to here, but I've been experimenting a lot more with 189 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: that range. When I make a body of work, Really, 190 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: my goal is just for each song to not sound alike. 191 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: I love to show all the different dimensions of Latin 192 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: music and also all the different dimensions of myself. 193 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, a qijo mando. 194 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: I just wanted to make a girl anthem that could 195 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: make girls feel like how I felt when I listened 196 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: to Bossy by Calice or like eby Queen's songs. No No, 197 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: she can't do it like me. I guess it goes 198 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: back to what I was saying about how like, since 199 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: I was little, I always really appreciated having good girlfriends 200 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: and having women to look up to. Rico Nasty is 201 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: a rapper. She's such a icon for strong women and 202 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: empowering women. She's from Maryland, which is very close to 203 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: where I grew up in Northern Va, and since this 204 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: was a project dedicated to my roots and where it 205 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: come from, it made a lot of sense to incorporate her. 206 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 5: I want to know what it got me there season. 207 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 3: I don't care. 208 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: And then also the fact that she was after Latina, 209 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: I felt like I wanted to introduce her to people 210 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: who may not know her in Latin America. She's Puerto Rican, 211 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: but she doesn't know Spanish, so it was really fun 212 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: to be able to teach her Spanish and write it 213 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: with her. I do feel like it was something so necessary, 214 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: especially for the time period that we're in. I think 215 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: it's so important that we have representation and that we 216 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: feel very proud of where we come from and proud 217 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: to speak Spanish and proud to be a united front. 218 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: I feel like the Latin community in so many ways 219 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: is very divided, and it's been a lot of fun 220 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: for me to like connect more with people in Latin 221 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: America and receive all these four messages from so many 222 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: people that that never knew about my music before. For me, 223 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: it was a huge success. 224 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 4: Israeli posessions, I only love them. 225 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: Someone can come love you have somebody know. 226 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 3: Me know my case. 227 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: That was artist and singer Kliu chiz. 228 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 5: Want. 229 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: This episode was produced by Alisas Garce and edited by 230 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: Niel Massias. The Latino USA team includes Andrea Lopez Crusado, 231 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 2: Marta Martinez, Ulieta Martinelli, Victoria Estrada, Gini Montalbo, Alejandra salasad Rinaldo, 232 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 2: Leano Junior, and Julia Rocha, with help from Raul Berees. 233 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: Our engineers are Stephanie Lebaud, Julia Caruso, and Leah Shaw. 234 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: Our digital editor is Luis Luna. Our New York Women's 235 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 2: Foundation Ignite fellow is Mari Eskinka. Our intern is Oscar 236 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: de Leon. Our theme music was composed by Sane Renos. 237 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 2: If you like the music you heard on this episode, 238 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 2: stop by Lettinousa dot org and check out our weekly 239 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: Spotify playlist. I'm your host and executive producer marieo Posa 240 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 2: join us again on our next episode. And in the 241 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: meantime look for us on social media. Ei los BeO cjao. 242 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 6: Latino USA is made possible in part by W. K. 243 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 6: Kellogg Foundation, a partner with Communities where Children Come First, 244 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 6: the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the 245 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 6: Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the frontlines of social 246 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 6: change worldwide. 247 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: I try to start every day when I can, like 248 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: just dancing in the house, and it's its own form 249 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: of meditation and its own form of like getting your 250 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: Chakra's a line. 251 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: For the day. I'm Maria Nojosa. Next time on Latino USA. 252 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 2: One year after her passing, we remember the life and 253 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 2: explore the legacy of Lorena Borgas she's known as the 254 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: mother of the trans Latina community in Queens, New York. 255 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 6: Her ability to help people escape trafficking situations. I've never 256 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,479 Speaker 6: seen anyone like that before. 257 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: Next Time on Latino USA.