Speaker 1: I can honestly say that Helen is one of my
Speaker 1: best friends. Helen has been like a therapist. She knows
Speaker 1: everything about me. But it wasn't always like that. I
Speaker 1: think it just became a thing where it was a
Speaker 1: lot more convenient for just the music industry in general,
Speaker 1: for all of the women to be like on their toes.
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to not have major label support,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes seen it from your colleagues feels so
Speaker 1: uplifting and it just also makes you feel like we're
Speaker 1: in this together. Hey, what up, guys. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: another episode of cheek Ease and Chill. I'm your lovely
Speaker 1: host cheek Ease, and today we have one of my
Speaker 1: coolest friends on the pod. We're gonna be talking about friendship,
Speaker 1: which actually didn't start out as a friendship, just f
Speaker 1: y I, So stay tuned for that. And we're also
Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about our music careers
Speaker 1: and the industry. So let's get right into it. This
Speaker 1: is chick eas and Chill. Okay, so it's promised. I
Speaker 1: have one of my beautiful best friends here with me today.
Speaker 1: Her name is Helen o Choa or Helena Santos she's
Speaker 1: a regional Mexican singer songwriter, and we actually collaborated on
Speaker 1: a song a couple of years ago called Last If
Speaker 1: you haven't heard it, go listen to it. Now. What up, amiga?
Speaker 1: What's your friend? I'm so happy to have you here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I'm happy to be here. I
Speaker 1: think this podcast is freaking awesome. I love listening you.
Speaker 1: I love I love the conversations. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: we need to just let out. You know, what we
Speaker 1: have in our horrib but we have in our mind.
Speaker 1: We never know who we might impact in a positive voice.
Speaker 1: So kudo's my friend. Thank you so much. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being here. And you guys, we've been friends for
Speaker 1: what three years now? Right? Friends? Just about? Yeah? Yes?
Speaker 1: So I think we should start there so I can
Speaker 1: honestly say that Helen is one of my friends. I
Speaker 1: have very few friends, you guys. So for me, it's
Speaker 1: like Helen has been like a therapist. She knows everything
Speaker 1: about me, she's giving me great advice. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: always like that, Like I said, so I think we
Speaker 1: should we should talk about that friend. Was it the
Speaker 1: media that started bellow between us? Or I think the
Speaker 1: very first time we had this conversation, it flowed perfectly,
Speaker 1: I think because we were just honest at heart. I
Speaker 1: don't think we ever necessarily had a personal problem with
Speaker 1: each other. I think at some point we thought it
Speaker 1: was personal because I know, like we both kind of
Speaker 1: had neutral feelings like okay, like I'm nice to her,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel like it's it's clicking, like, so
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just gonna stay on my side. And
Speaker 1: then you kind of stayed on your side, like we
Speaker 1: we kind of were like almost like unspoken enemies, it
Speaker 1: felt like. And then I didn't see you, I guess,
Speaker 1: like as a person that like I know, mom old
Speaker 1: or you know, I never I never hated you, I never,
Speaker 1: like nothing of that sort. I think it just came
Speaker 1: a thing of you know, we were we were on
Speaker 1: separate labels, but those labels, you know, technically had their
Speaker 1: their beats, yes, their own beat, and I think it
Speaker 1: kind of just arbitracted to it. Yeah, it became our beef,
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember when we spoke about how
Speaker 1: like you were one color, I was another color, you know,
Speaker 1: was like we kind of just stick to our colors,
Speaker 1: to our people stuck to that bridge, and we never
Speaker 1: we never crossed each other's and it was so crazy
Speaker 1: because I remember the very first time that we actually
Speaker 1: spoke to each other. It was it was during like
Speaker 1: in Sioso. You were just absolutely sweet to me. I
Speaker 1: had performed during that, but I remember you hosted. And
Speaker 1: then after there was many like a couple of months
Speaker 1: after we've we've gone to a mutual friend's wedding and
Speaker 1: I saw you that you were so sweet. You came
Speaker 1: and said hi. You were like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: loved your outfit. It was super cool and you sounded amazing.
Speaker 1: Fel always like oh my god, thank you, like it
Speaker 1: was it was just so sweet, and I thought like,
Speaker 1: she's actually really nice. And I always thought like, I remember,
Speaker 1: I haven't even told you because I had seen you
Speaker 1: at the It was inaccuration for uh, your Mama's, the
Speaker 1: reality show that she did, and I remember I was like, frescosa,
Speaker 1: she's so pretty and thank you friend, I swear you know.
Speaker 1: And I think it just at some point we got
Speaker 1: into this mode that we didn't really ask for, but
Speaker 1: we kind of had to like not necessarily defend our people,
Speaker 1: but it was more like just okay, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a guard up because I'm on this
Speaker 1: side and she's on this side. And it was like
Speaker 1: that for a very long time. For a long time,
Speaker 1: it was so uncomfortable because I'm not one to have
Speaker 1: issues with anybody, no man who's done. And now that
Speaker 1: I know you, you're the same way. You get along
Speaker 1: with everyone. Everyone loves you, you know, you and your
Speaker 1: husband JP shout out to Jape's you know. But I
Speaker 1: think what it was it was like you said you
Speaker 1: were blue. I was read. You know, it's like something
Speaker 1: we hadn't we chose, but we didn't, so it was
Speaker 1: kind of like they have beef, so it's our beef.
Speaker 1: And then not only that, it was they kept I
Speaker 1: think putting things I think more in your head about
Speaker 1: me that I didn't like you, that I was trying
Speaker 1: to stop your career, that I supposedly had this power
Speaker 1: of like not having certain networks interview you, because if
Speaker 1: they interviewed you, then I was going to be upset
Speaker 1: and I was going to give them an interview, which
Speaker 1: is absolutely fucking faults you guys. I would never do that.
Speaker 1: I've heard things of like oh checks pays radio stations,
Speaker 1: so that they don't play my music. They used to
Speaker 1: say the same thing about your mom. It's crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why would I spend my money on that, like to
Speaker 1: stop someone's career? Absolutely not. And I think it just
Speaker 1: became a thing where it was a lot more convenient
Speaker 1: for just the music industry in general, you know, for
Speaker 1: all of the women to be like on their toes.
Speaker 1: And I think the point where your your mom passed,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people came about with you know,
Speaker 1: oh my god, proxima. You know, there's an next one.
Speaker 1: And it's like I think I understood fully even when
Speaker 1: she was here, you know, present, there's no feeling someone's shoes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's creating your own path with your
Speaker 1: own damn shoes. And I think at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: when time passed, we went our own paths, even beyond
Speaker 1: you know, the people we were working with at the time.
Speaker 1: And I think both of us kind of once we
Speaker 1: were in a good place, you know, maturity falls into place.
Speaker 1: Obviously you see things a little bit different, and then
Speaker 1: then you're just kind of like, Okay, maybe I was
Speaker 1: wrong about her, you know, maybe maybe things aren't like this.
Speaker 1: And I remember, I think it was in two thousand.
Speaker 1: It was in two thousands seventeen. I sent you flowers
Speaker 1: your birthday, and it's crazy. We have a beautiful friend,
Speaker 1: uh from Miami, and I had spoken to her a
Speaker 1: little bit about it, and she actually told me like,
Speaker 1: chicks is the sweetest person on the planet, Like I've
Speaker 1: never heard of say anything about about anybody, and and
Speaker 1: it's crazy how much you girls are so much alike.
Speaker 1: I think at some point when I send your flowers,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, you know, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. She can be like, what is this, what's
Speaker 1: the purpose of this? You didn't have her garden up
Speaker 1: with me or or just simply say oh that was
Speaker 1: really sweet, like I posted them. I was so surprised, exactly,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, I have this intuition. I'm
Speaker 1: super intuitive, and it's so crazy because so are you.
Speaker 1: It's freaking DUTs. But I thought like, okay, if my
Speaker 1: intuition is correct, it's gonna make her smile. But you know,
Speaker 1: kind of time passed. I think like two years pasted
Speaker 1: it because it was I think we're turning my team
Speaker 1: until I forgot what it is you posted JP and
Speaker 1: I started laughing and he's like, don't you messenger. See
Speaker 1: she wants to grab some dinner. Say, I can't do that,
Speaker 1: and he's like why, Like I can't just do that?
Speaker 1: Like no, Like I'm not gonna just He's like, why not,
Speaker 1: you know, just just do it. You never know. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, here it goes so here. I am
Speaker 1: like hey, and then I kind of just left it
Speaker 1: alone and I'm like, okay, you if you want to
Speaker 1: get together sometime, you know, let me know. And I
Speaker 1: think after like it was like a couple of hours
Speaker 1: and hey, yeah, let's do it all right, we didn't
Speaker 1: actually meet. I think it was too like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. It might have even been almost like a
Speaker 1: month later, like a month I think it was. But
Speaker 1: it's so crazy. I'm the kind of person I always
Speaker 1: know when I meet someone the place they're gonna have
Speaker 1: in my life. I always know by the way they
Speaker 1: say hello. It's so crazy, but I always crazy. I
Speaker 1: always know by the first hello, the eye contact, the
Speaker 1: facial expression, the aura, the overall vibe of that person.
Speaker 1: I can tell the media lee and I remember I
Speaker 1: walked into the restaurant. I was like, okay, here it goes.
Speaker 1: I I did a prayer in the car with literally
Speaker 1: because I love you, I swear. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know it's gonna happened. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk in there and everything's gonna flow, or if
Speaker 1: like it's gonna become a you know play. I honestly
Speaker 1: did not know what's gonna happen. And I remember I
Speaker 1: walked in, I looked for you, and You're like, Helen,
Speaker 1: I'm over here. You were waving. That's super cheesy, I swear.
Speaker 1: I swear. I relaxed and I was like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is you. God, It's fine. It's gonna be fine. And
Speaker 1: I remember I actually had to take a trip back home.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I have maybe like an hour
Speaker 1: and a half, two hours, and then we have to
Speaker 1: get going, and you had a meeting right after. It
Speaker 1: was like a like a kind of like the late
Speaker 1: lunch that we took. We ended up being there for
Speaker 1: like five hours talking and I remember that talking about everything.
Speaker 1: Third time by so fast that I didn't even realize,
Speaker 1: Holy mother, we've been here for five hours. A great
Speaker 1: conversation going back to the whole thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: people or women should I say in the industry, you guys,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. I think that Helen and I um. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm all about women empowerment, as you guys know on
Speaker 1: my social media and everything. But I'm not just I
Speaker 1: don't just talk about it like I I do it,
Speaker 1: you know, with you guys, that was the first time
Speaker 1: in regional Mexican music, and it still hasn't been done
Speaker 1: again where three women collab on one song that's done
Speaker 1: in Roano. We see the Becky Gs, Carol Gs, Anitas
Speaker 1: of that world collaborating, but it doesn't happen in our
Speaker 1: music and regional Mexican music. Why because you know, And
Speaker 1: that's the problem where I was like, no, we have
Speaker 1: to and I've tried to get along with all all
Speaker 1: the women in the industry. I really have that song
Speaker 1: as a tramp, as you guys, was supposed to be
Speaker 1: with two other girls, and then another one that I'm
Speaker 1: just not going to mention because it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: But Victoria, it kind of happened the same thing. People
Speaker 1: started beef. Whatever her and I talked, we hashed it out.
Speaker 1: We're cool as funk. I love VI and with Helen
Speaker 1: and Ellie because I felt that's how you know, God's
Speaker 1: timing is perfect. But there's just this jealousy amongst women
Speaker 1: in our industry that it's there's only one spot for
Speaker 1: a woman, that's it, and it's like, why should it
Speaker 1: be that way? There is so much talent that I'm like,
Speaker 1: the way I'm going to show that is by using
Speaker 1: my social media posting other women's music. Because I have
Speaker 1: my own thing, they have theirs, And I think that
Speaker 1: that's what sets us apart because Helen is the same way.
Speaker 1: You know, I see you posting, I see you get
Speaker 1: along with so many. I think there's just one that
Speaker 1: you don't get along with. But that's not your fault.
Speaker 1: That's ship. But Helen is the same way. Like Helen,
Speaker 1: Helen is celebrates and that's what we need more of,
Speaker 1: you know, celebrating women and lifting each other as you know, cliche,
Speaker 1: as it sounds united, you know, we stand stronger, but
Speaker 1: it's true, you know, and this is what we have
Speaker 1: to do and support women. I hate seeing where women
Speaker 1: are tearing each other down, especially on social media, and
Speaker 1: it's just I'm not cool with that. I'm not down
Speaker 1: with that. So Helen talked to us a little bit
Speaker 1: about that, because you do show on your social media
Speaker 1: that you're not just about women empowerment, like you really
Speaker 1: do uplift other women in this industry. And I love
Speaker 1: that about you. Thank you so much. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's it's tough because I I know
Speaker 1: what it's like. I know what it's like to be
Speaker 1: alone in the industry and not have you know, a
Speaker 1: major label support. You know, right now, it's literally just
Speaker 1: JP and I. We hired of friend of mine, you know,
Speaker 1: to help us out when I do events or you know,
Speaker 1: when I do other things. I'm also an entrepreneur, I
Speaker 1: have a I have a little small business of a
Speaker 1: small life of Blain guys, the life of playing, you know,
Speaker 1: and and we we kind of took baby stairs in
Speaker 1: this entire thing. But I know it's like to not
Speaker 1: have that support. You know, sometimes seeing it from your
Speaker 1: colleagues feels just like saw uplifting, motivating, and and it
Speaker 1: just also kind of makes you feel like we're in
Speaker 1: this together. We have the same struggles, we have the
Speaker 1: same battles. We know. You know that unfortunately, spots for
Speaker 1: women in the industry are very scarce, you know, so
Speaker 1: just we have no control over that, even if we
Speaker 1: put out good songs, even if we do a badass video,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're we're doing promo tours and things
Speaker 1: like that. Sometimes in presidial still will have a cap
Speaker 1: leta with like, you know, ten men that are gonna
Speaker 1: show face at this show and there's one woman on
Speaker 1: the roster at most. Two. Two is already a big thing.
Speaker 1: Three absolutely unheard of. Okay, So but why do you
Speaker 1: think that is? Though? I think there's a misconception about
Speaker 1: us that absolutely is old school and get a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of people still have it, you know.
Speaker 1: I think they think that we're doing music almost like
Speaker 1: part time, like we're doing music, but as at exactly
Speaker 1: we're doing it as a hobby. You know, we're we're
Speaker 1: not willing to work, we're not willing to travel, we're
Speaker 1: you know, very offensive, exactly, or we're married to somebody
Speaker 1: that's too jealous and it's not gonna you know, travel
Speaker 1: and do the most. Maybe it was that way in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases, not all of them, you know,
Speaker 1: but in a lot of cases back in the day,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the nineties and things like that.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about a time where you know, now
Speaker 1: like people are blowing up on on social media. You know, women,
Speaker 1: we're envirable on TikTok. I've spoken a lot about this
Speaker 1: little girl because I absolutely love her story. I have
Speaker 1: not seen that little girl once complained, I've never seen
Speaker 1: that list girl. Absolutely and she's dope. As how, it's
Speaker 1: a competition must be in. I feel with the men,
Speaker 1: they're honestly our biggest competition. They're the ones in the
Speaker 1: popularity list for radios. They're the ones that you know
Speaker 1: have you know a lot more playlists sometimes And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that that's the case all the time, but
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I see it a lot more on
Speaker 1: that side. On this side, you know, every playlist, you know,
Speaker 1: they're putting more women in the cover art. It's it's happening.
Speaker 1: It's slowly but surely happening. I think it's just patients
Speaker 1: and that I personally feel it's get which I think
Speaker 1: is great that have high and important positions that I
Speaker 1: don't know why I feel like we don't get as
Speaker 1: much support from them. It's crazy. I'm like, you're a woman,
Speaker 1: you know what it is to be a woman and
Speaker 1: how difficult it must have been for you in the
Speaker 1: corporate world to get to that position. Should what's that?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't like our music, cool, But
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like I know a few and
Speaker 1: I'm obviously not going to name them, but it's just
Speaker 1: like they make it a little bit more difficult the
Speaker 1: powers in their hands, you know, to make you a
Speaker 1: priority on a playlist, you know, to even put you
Speaker 1: on the playlist to begin with. This is definitely a
Speaker 1: conversation that that should be had, you know, by by
Speaker 1: everybody in the industry, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I think something that your mom did Marvelous Lee was
Speaker 1: just Okay, you're not gonna give me a path. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you. I'm gonna create, I'm gonna make my path,
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna make her you hear what I
Speaker 1: have to say. And I think that's something that I
Speaker 1: always admired about her, And I feel like I almost think,
Speaker 1: do we do we have to have? Like? Like is
Speaker 1: that how it has to be? Like what what's the
Speaker 1: deal here? Like do we have to be do we
Speaker 1: have to be bitches? Come on? Like, you know what,
Speaker 1: That's what my mom would always say. She is like
Speaker 1: I wasn't always a bit. The industry made me a
Speaker 1: bit because I had to defend myself. I remember we
Speaker 1: that we had had that conversation, and it's something that
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, damn, I I still can't
Speaker 1: pinpoint it, you know, exactly, but I can definitely say that,
Speaker 1: you know, the public has you know, the power to
Speaker 1: you know, to help us in that in that I
Speaker 1: guess aspect of Okay, you know, I don't see this
Speaker 1: song on this playlist. Hey I want Helen song in here.
Speaker 1: Hey you guys should put Chicky song in here, especially
Speaker 1: if we're we're consistent, we keep putting our music. And
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money. It's it's this takes expensive
Speaker 1: much money. It's it's Saturday, you know, and so much effort,
Speaker 1: so much of your time. Like you know, you you
Speaker 1: put some creativity behind something, and and I can honestly
Speaker 1: say sometimes it can it can actually be discouraging, you know,
Speaker 1: when for sure you put something out and then you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't make any playlists or I made
Speaker 1: only one, or damning, I'm not I'm not getting enough
Speaker 1: of views. You know. Let me, let me try to
Speaker 1: push this a little bit more. But I think it's
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you have this like passion
Speaker 1: for for a female artist, help her out, you know,
Speaker 1: put it out there the same thing that we do.
Speaker 1: You know, you like a nice story. I only things
Speaker 1: like that, and and it's it's you know, yeah, and
Speaker 1: Norman look. And I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: I also believe, and I've talked about this recently, is
Speaker 1: that I actually just did promo with a friend who
Speaker 1: I also collaborated with. I specified, how you know, women
Speaker 1: in the industry too, we we have an obligation to
Speaker 1: have consistency. I do see some women that come out
Speaker 1: don't have a really good song, but they won't put
Speaker 1: a song out sometimes until another like six seven months
Speaker 1: or even a year. Things like that also kind of
Speaker 1: pushed back a little bit of we're trying to like
Speaker 1: take steps forward with because of the consistency, you know.
Speaker 1: And I know it's expensive. I get it. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It's it's it's tough to kind of
Speaker 1: keep up because now music is being consumed so fast
Speaker 1: that I just I think we talked about this friend,
Speaker 1: like how like so I used to last a single
Speaker 1: used to last three three months, six months within a month.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, what else you got? What else can
Speaker 1: and it's like, dude, hold on, so down. I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of money on that freaking song, the mixing,
Speaker 1: the mastering, the cover, are you know? The photos? Holy
Speaker 1: where to go? You should be proud of yourself, though, Helen.
Speaker 1: To my listeners who haven't heard my friends music, please
Speaker 1: go listen to it on all the digital platforms. How
Speaker 1: old were you when you started singing friends? I was
Speaker 1: literally I think when I started singing, I I think
Speaker 1: more like like formally, I I guess, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was about eight years old. The very first time that
Speaker 1: I like the courage to like grabl Mike. I remember
Speaker 1: it was at my sister's Inzana, and you know we're
Speaker 1: Mexican and during that time, my parents budget was very small,
Speaker 1: so they're like, okay, we want to get married, but
Speaker 1: it's also Francisca, my sister or Kinzana, and Helen needs
Speaker 1: to do her first communion. We had the biggest, fattest
Speaker 1: party with my parents, married my sister Kinzana and my
Speaker 1: first communion. At the moment I was I was little,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great idea. Now that I'm older,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you guys are mean she should have had
Speaker 1: her own moments, you know, and and yeah. But I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it was done that way because
Speaker 1: my parents, you know, they had to save money. It
Speaker 1: was the only way to do it back in the day.
Speaker 1: But basically they had a banda there. Um. I asked
Speaker 1: my dad if I could stay with the banda. He
Speaker 1: said no, He's like, go play with your cousins, forget
Speaker 1: about it. But I was like, I was determined. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give up. So I went straight to
Speaker 1: the band that I grabbed him. I canna tell the director.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to sing, and he looked at
Speaker 1: me the same way, like, oh, you're cute. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm serious, sucker. I want to say you know what
Speaker 1: I mean like I want to say and he's like, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I sing my very first song at that family
Speaker 1: part that it was. It was the first time my
Speaker 1: dad was like, okay, like there's something here. Yeah, see
Speaker 1: you guys. The number one thing she was persistent, okay,
Speaker 1: very important. As we listened to her story, persistence okay,
Speaker 1: go on friend. So basically he he bought me a
Speaker 1: karaoke machine. He bought me a bunch of CDs. Selena Obviously,
Speaker 1: I think every little girl I wanted to be Selina,
Speaker 1: we all wanted that. Actually got the freaking purple suit
Speaker 1: made at some point, like I actually have them of
Speaker 1: I swear it's in there somewhere. And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: I was about sixteen, actually auditioned for American Idol. I
Speaker 1: may it to like the top thirty in American Idol,
Speaker 1: and then I got cut right before they picked. It
Speaker 1: was like fifteen people to actually go on TV and
Speaker 1: like comp and stuff. It was the most heartbreaking thing ever.
Speaker 1: I had no clue, you know, I was super green
Speaker 1: during that time. But I went to a music teacher,
Speaker 1: a vocal coach, and he actually was the first one
Speaker 1: that told me, you have a great voice, but you're
Speaker 1: singing the wrong way. You're doing it wrong, Like we
Speaker 1: need to teach you how to sing where you're not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt yourself. You know you're not gonna at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. Most like, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: help you. These are the techniques so that you know
Speaker 1: you you can start molding your voice the way you're
Speaker 1: saying that you know you want to do it. He
Speaker 1: taught me this method of the tarzan. Oh you taught
Speaker 1: me that one. She says, it's in a voice note one, guys.
Speaker 1: Yea tarzan is key for the vibratos, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's the technique that kind of helped mold a little
Speaker 1: bit of that style. I guess that I always wanted
Speaker 1: to have. I always wanted it through those R and
Speaker 1: B riffs. And you know, once I started to actually
Speaker 1: understand my voice, I was like, Okay, now I'm comfortable.
Speaker 1: But then I went to uh, my very first reality shows.
Speaker 1: In two thousand six, I competed for a recording contract.
Speaker 1: It was an amazing experience, but that's the first time
Speaker 1: I think that I understood that I was singing really awesome,
Speaker 1: but I had no heart in what I was singing.
Speaker 1: And I remember the he's you know, would write the
Speaker 1: songs out and you tell me, okay, let's read the songs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sing them. We're gonna read every line and
Speaker 1: we're gonna understand what this song means and the way
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be sung. And I think it wasn't
Speaker 1: until then that I realized, holy moly, I'm not singing
Speaker 1: from my heart. This is just you know songs to me,
Speaker 1: like they're not stories. And I think once I understood
Speaker 1: you know that part, you know, it kind of became
Speaker 1: second nature to me. We talked about this recently. Friend.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a really cool song that I
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. Honestly, it's my all time favorite song
Speaker 1: I think you've recorded. I love this song thro that
Speaker 1: n I love that, I love I love the lyrics.
Speaker 1: I love all of it, the whole little beat, the
Speaker 1: whole melody of that's the lyrics. It's a vibe, the
Speaker 1: whole Yeah, this is what it's about. Are you writing
Speaker 1: like right now? Songs like what's what's in the pipeline?
Speaker 1: Right now? I am And I think, Um, it's definitely
Speaker 1: something I'm losing fear on and I'm trying to give
Speaker 1: myself the opportunity to to write a little more on
Speaker 1: this one. I'm excited. Do you have the name of
Speaker 1: it already? Not just yet, but I'm thinking you actually
Speaker 1: gave me a really good idea, which is this is
Speaker 1: you had given me the ideas, see, and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think it might be Mrs Santos, or I might
Speaker 1: way to do a Mrs Santos that is a little
Speaker 1: more like Lovelace. Yes, yeah, it has to kind of
Speaker 1: go with what what songs are on. You're gonna know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fill it in your heart, you guys, let
Speaker 1: me tell you. And not only is my friend an
Speaker 1: amazing singer, she's a wife, but her husband lets her
Speaker 1: like allows her to be herself, especially on stage. I
Speaker 1: need to go watch see you on stage like soon. Friend.
Speaker 1: She's a dog mom and she's a blinger. Okay, so
Speaker 1: before we go, I really need you to share friend
Speaker 1: your Instagram handles. And also she's blinged out my mic.
Speaker 1: You guys, I have a hat that I just wore
Speaker 1: for my l A show. She blinged out my hat
Speaker 1: a lot. I have like a couple of cups from her,
Speaker 1: a few actually, so we have life of bling So
Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, share your social media
Speaker 1: friend all of them. Please do something my friend. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, you guys. At Helen underscore toa that's
Speaker 1: how I am on Instagram at Life of Blink. But
Speaker 1: the life is with the why. It's spelled with the why.
Speaker 1: I know, weird like we had I like it though,
Speaker 1: you guys, she's amazing. To make sure you follow her
Speaker 1: listen to her music as soon before I let you go.
Speaker 1: As you know, I always leave you with a motivational quote,
Speaker 1: so I thought this one was fitting. The quote is
Speaker 1: a true friend excepts who you are, but also helps
Speaker 1: you become who you should be. Thank you so much
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