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Speaker 1: From Fuldro Media and RX It's Latino Usa, I'm Marianko

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Speaker 1: Rosa and today. From med school student to musician, how

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Speaker 1: Eddie Rodriguez transformed himself into Sema Funk and carved a

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Speaker 1: place for his band in Cuba's rich musical scene. Nicknamed

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Speaker 1: the Cuban James Brown for his intoxicating mix of Latin groove,

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Speaker 1: African rhythms, and American funk, thirty year old singer and

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Speaker 1: songwriter Eric Rodriguez is building a new stage for Cuban music.

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Speaker 1: After a year as a solo artist, he and a

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Speaker 1: band called Los Boys merged in twenty eighteen to become

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Speaker 1: Seema Funk. It's a name Rodriguez had already been using

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Speaker 1: on stage, and just one year later that band was

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Speaker 1: named one of Billboard's Top ten Latin Artists to Watch.

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Speaker 1: Deriving from Sima ronez, the Spanish word for Africans who

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Speaker 1: escape slavery in Cuba, Sima Funk's sound strives to embody

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Speaker 1: not only the island's roots, but also its branches.

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Speaker 2: Mainly, I may funk music with Africuba and music also

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Speaker 2: is a crazy mix of both musity styles. The Cima

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Speaker 2: run for Me is these kind of elements in the

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Speaker 2: Quivan kilture that is a big part of the Africuba movement.

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Speaker 2: And funk well, because funk is something similar for me,

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Speaker 2: also learn from the United States, so I mix the

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Speaker 2: bow's name and I use that for calling myself.

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Speaker 1: Hailing from Cuba's countryside, a city called binard Rio, Rodriguez

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Speaker 1: grew up listening to his mom singing Michael Jackson at home,

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Speaker 1: dancing to the sounds of Sarsa at family parties, and

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Speaker 1: popping in Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder cassettes, driving around

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Speaker 1: and singing with his deal. Nevertheless, Rodriguez was not always

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Speaker 2: My grandmother, she came from more dieping the forest. She

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Speaker 2: out from there with my grandfather and they built a

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Speaker 2: house a little bit more close to the town. When

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Speaker 2: my grandmother did that, she was telling like, every one

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Speaker 2: of my sons have to go to university and every

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Speaker 2: one of my son have to be professional. So in

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Speaker 2: family is like a lot of my uncles, my mom.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is like doing a series engineer. My mom is psychologist,

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Speaker 2: and everybody get into this, you know that build a

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Speaker 1: Growing up in a family of engineers, doctors, and psychologists,

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Speaker 1: it was only expected that he too would take a

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Speaker 1: Two years into medical school, Rodriguez dropped out to go

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Speaker 1: into music, something he had never studied or professionally pursued before.

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Speaker 1: In twenty seven teen, while performing solo as Siema Funk,

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Speaker 1: Rodriguez released his debut album entitled De Rapia Therapy in Spanish. Fittingly,

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Speaker 1: the first track by Void or I'm Leaving, became his

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Speaker 2: He didn't know nothing about Sema phone or something. That

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Speaker 2: he was called. My name at that time was Mayamasa.

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Speaker 2: That was my artist in name. Everybody calling me like that.

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Speaker 1: We had Eric Rodriguez on our show back in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and we're happy to bring this piece to you once

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Speaker 1: again today. Eric Rodriguez talks about discovering his identity, keeping

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Speaker 1: it intimate with his audience, and how the pandemic gave

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Speaker 1: him a chance to barrad el Gimpo, to spend time

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Speaker 1: with his family and reflect universal themes in his music.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning, like when I started to do music,

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Speaker 2: I never I never was you know, focusing my identity.

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Speaker 2: But at some point some guy came to me and

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Speaker 2: he asked me where you come from? And and he said, no,

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Speaker 2: I came from Penaderia. But he told me no, but

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Speaker 2: where where is your your genealogic tree? But the way

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Speaker 2: I came from Canaria, My my wife came from all

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Speaker 2: the side. But you don't know that. I say no,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I never, I never, I never think

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Speaker 2: about that. So I start to think about that. I

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Speaker 2: because you got this this in your in your genes.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in my family, they dance and they listen to

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Speaker 2: like songs of I don't know, Marona Michael Jackson. Many

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Speaker 2: all all that, so I grew up with this. I

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Speaker 2: every night for here some music of that and I

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Speaker 2: start to learn even the lyrics. I didn't know what

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Speaker 2: feel good. I didn't hear this song before. Never. Never.

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Speaker 2: When I heard this song, was like, oh, this is

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Speaker 2: this is a perfect song. This is a perfect song

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Speaker 2: and a perfect group. I don't understand how somebody could

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Speaker 2: just get to know about the funk and about all

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Speaker 2: all this movement of music. So I backed tooking area

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Speaker 2: want to stop to study medicine. I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: that I decided to stop medicine. They was, okay, you

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Speaker 2: the stuff when you are good. You know, it's good

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Speaker 2: the patient can be in danger. And after that, I

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Speaker 2: I built my band into southand nineteen but see my Phone.

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Speaker 2: I came within my phone Firence twenty seventeen. When I

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Speaker 2: was producing the album, I just at the first moment,

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Speaker 2: from James Brown, Stevie and Michael Jackson. But in some

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Speaker 2: and all the stuff that I do is that I

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Speaker 2: And and what was like this? I put the son

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Speaker 2: all the song and try to put other songs. So

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Speaker 2: also but in some point my way is exploded makes

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Speaker 2: having for many years because as I tell you, I

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Speaker 2: have been listening to all this music from my Shiahoo.

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Speaker 2: I made this collaboration with Omara Shuho that I own

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Speaker 2: and Panchama was was a gift, was a gift because

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Speaker 2: they are the professors. They are the teachers. They know

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Speaker 2: Arista already did. The process was a class. Panjama came

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Speaker 2: his experience with the with the English language in the

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Speaker 2: music in the groove, when you sing, when you sing

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Speaker 2: in Spanish in the funky groove, what you got to

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Speaker 2: And he was explaining all that that I never hear

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Speaker 2: that before in anywhere, and it wasn't like a big

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Speaker 2: learning process, but that is really important here. The people

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Speaker 2: here eat podaha almost every day. Literally, it is something

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Speaker 2: more powerful. You tell the PoTA here when you are

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Speaker 2: like a with substance with personality, when you want to

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Speaker 2: it's talking about trying to figure out the way to

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Speaker 2: and for that it'sonner style. Like the scenes of life.

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Speaker 2: You have to take it slow, relax and avoid the excess,

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Speaker 2: but try to stay alive. You have people around you

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Speaker 2: them often. You know, trying to take the time for

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Speaker 2: that because you now realize that life is super, super fragile,

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Speaker 2: you know, and in some moments, in any time, you

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Speaker 2: and talk to them and put the fear away, you know,

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