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Speaker 1: I'm really grateful to be playing with these wonderful people.

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Speaker 1: They've helped me create a family away from my own.

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Speaker 2: From Futuro Media and PRX, It's let you know, Usa,

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Speaker 2: I'm Marieohosa Today. Luna Luna, a band from Texas, on

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Speaker 2: how the stars align bringing them together to live out

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Speaker 2: their dreams. Luna Luna is a rising band based in Dallas, Texas.

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Speaker 2: They're best known for mixing nostalgic sounds of the past

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Speaker 2: and fusing them with elements of funk and dreamlike pop.

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Speaker 2: One of their favorite things to sing about is young love.

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Speaker 2: You know, from the joys of a newly blossoming relationship

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Speaker 2: to the withering of love and oh the heartache. Each

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Speaker 2: member of this millennial four member band comes from a

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Speaker 2: very different walk of life, and that's part of Luna

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Speaker 2: Luna's DNA. They're made up of vocalist Kevin Gonzalez, who

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Speaker 2: also goes by Cave, backup vocalist and keyboardist Danny Bonilla,

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Speaker 2: drummer Kaelin Martinez, and bassist Ryan Gordon, who goes by Gordo.

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Speaker 2: The band has had different members throughout the years, but

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Speaker 2: they say destiny has brought them together from across the

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Speaker 2: Lone Star State. Now they're having a good time creating

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Speaker 2: music and going back on tour across the country. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to hand things off now to Kevin, Danny, Kaylin,

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Speaker 2: and Ryan of Luna Luna. We're going to get to

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Speaker 2: know more about the people behind the instruments and hear

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Speaker 2: about how the universe brought them into each other's lives

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Speaker 2: to let them live out their wildest dreams. Here's Luna

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Speaker 2: Luna in their own words.

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Speaker 3: Hey, my name is Kavi. I'm the singer and producer

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Speaker 3: of Lua. Yeah, so lu Lu Luna started yay back

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Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen in Dallas, Texas, and we're all Latino

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Speaker 3: and that's Luna Luna.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: Yes. I was born in Colombia stayed there until I

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Speaker 3: was like six years old. You know. I feel like

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Speaker 3: a lot of Latino parents are like this where they'll

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Speaker 3: film like everything. So even back in the day, my

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Speaker 3: that they would have with her family, and it was

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Speaker 3: just all music and every like nobody's like sitting down,

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Speaker 3: of was like, whoa like she just telling me about

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Speaker 3: how life growing up in Colombia was. It was always

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Speaker 3: full of music and family. And I think like the

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Speaker 3: from Colombia and you know, like Satas, my daut Chat

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Speaker 3: all of that, and then obviously growing up in America

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Speaker 3: I think that's what created the sound. Then my mom

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Speaker 3: brought me and my older sister to Dallas, Texas. She

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Speaker 3: came here as like a missionary for the church. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, I started like getting the urge to make

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Speaker 3: like how to like record music or anything. So I

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Speaker 3: I had like a little like microphone that you like

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Speaker 3: so right there. I would just record my voice and

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Speaker 3: later on I found out there's someone that you can

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Speaker 3: use like an app called Garage Band on an iPhone,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, I can do that, and

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Speaker 3: these sounds you can actually like make a song. Even

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Speaker 3: on our last album Flower Moon, like three or like

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Speaker 3: the day, Uh, it just started with me and a

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Speaker 3: weeks already. In Deep ellenm it was called Drugstore Cowboy. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: At that time, it was still like the old cast,

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Speaker 4: I'm Danny, I'm the cheerleader of Luna Luna, and I

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Speaker 4: And I remember the intro hit and I was like okay,

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Speaker 4: I was blown away, and for some reason, that night,

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Speaker 4: It was like the world was waiting for us to collide.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kaitlin and I'm the drummer for Luna Luna, and

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty six years old. So I grew up in Lufkin, Texas.

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Speaker 3: I'm around Gordon, but I also go by Gordon.

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Speaker 1: So I'm in a band with Ryan called Digital Candy,

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Speaker 1: and then he's making music and I'm like seeing his stuff,

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Speaker 1: I know that it's really cool, and I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: Like all the music in Denton is like, you know,

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Speaker 5: It's Kevin comes by and gets my number and said,

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Speaker 1: Like, I don't know, this whole situation is kind of

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Speaker 5: Going back on tour, like it's it's very rewarding yet

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Speaker 4: I just want to say thank you to the big man,

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Speaker 4: In the beginning, we were definitely just kids. Haven't thought

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Speaker 3: Me out, I think we started you know, it's kind

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Speaker 5: That's some of your Christs of art.

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