Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to this show, my show I Am,
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Speaker 1: By the way, if you can tell, I am under
Speaker 1: the other I don't feel the best, but I am
Speaker 1: a profession now and no matter what this is, this
Speaker 1: is basically what we're gonna be talking about today. This
Speaker 1: is what it takes, no matter how you feel, no
Speaker 1: matter what you're going through in your personal life. Part
Speaker 1: of being an artist, a celebrity, or not just that,
Speaker 1: but actually making it in the industry is being able
Speaker 1: to put your big girl panties on no matter how
Speaker 1: you feel, and push through and come through every single time.
Speaker 1: But because I am, you know, a little bit horse
Speaker 1: and I'm going through it, I wanted to have my friend,
Speaker 1: my partner, my producer, Alex come in today and you know,
Speaker 1: be that other half, that other half of me, that
Speaker 1: other part of my voice is God I'm exhausted because
Speaker 1: my girls barely let me sleep. I've been traveling so
Speaker 1: much between my real estate and being here doing music videos.
Speaker 1: I did this amazing red carpet in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 1: that took so much from me, just doing so much stuff,
Speaker 1: and my voice just said, you know what, I think.
Speaker 1: It's not just my voice. I think it's like your
Speaker 1: body saying you need to rest, you need to stop.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard when you have so much responsibility,
Speaker 1: but that's part of making it in the industry. You know,
Speaker 1: people look at it and it's such a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: from the outside, and it looks so much better on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is that not all,
Speaker 1: not all survived, not all can take it, not all
Speaker 1: can deal with the pressure of what it is to
Speaker 1: be in the spotlight, whether you feel good or not.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it, because we have touched
Speaker 1: on this topic before, and today we should, I feel like,
Speaker 1: dive a little bit deeper in it. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: might come up in the industry as an artist, and
Speaker 1: not just the musical side, but also on TV, radio,
Speaker 1: in movies and everything else that I've done. I think
Speaker 1: it's important to you know, not just see the ameronada
Speaker 1: is on the podcast right now or Amonada on TV,
Speaker 1: but just see the overhead of you know, the zig Zac.
Speaker 1: So you have to go through to actually make it,
Speaker 1: the struggles to become a recognized artist, and the hoops
Speaker 1: that you basically have to jump through in certain places
Speaker 1: and in the industry, especially as a Latina, an Afro Latina,
Speaker 1: and then on top of that being a woman alone,
Speaker 1: it's even more pressure. I also want to share and
Speaker 1: just talk a little bit about these three amazing talented women.
Speaker 1: They're sisters, I mean, Alice, you know all about them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do this. I'd like to share the story of
Speaker 1: three amazing talented women, sisters Keisha, Fiona and fyodor La Sanchez.
Speaker 1: But I don't know as the Mussas who discovered their
Speaker 1: love for performing as young girls. We had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to them and get their come up story,
Speaker 1: just as the one you're going to share with us
Speaker 1: today I did. I started as a child star. I
Speaker 1: started when I was four years old in a very
Speaker 1: well known TV show called Salahie with Don Francisco. I
Speaker 1: was there every Saturday for six years of my life.
Speaker 1: Then I became a background dancer for the network, dancing
Speaker 1: for Graham, He's all all those things. It was such
Speaker 1: a beautiful experience. Um, now I understand the importance of
Speaker 1: value of the stages I got to perform at such
Speaker 1: a young age. It's, you know, such an honor. I
Speaker 1: was able to perform one of the biggest icons and
Speaker 1: legends of my life, which is Selia cruz Oca. I mean,
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on, and yeah, I started
Speaker 1: very young, which, by the way, I haven't criticized a
Speaker 1: lot too because people are like, um, you're trying to
Speaker 1: take your daughters into the same path. You know, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like copy pasting your life onto them. What
Speaker 1: about they don't want to be you know, celebrity babies.
Speaker 1: What You're screwed because I'm your mother, So this is
Speaker 1: a you know, and later on they're like, oh, Mom,
Speaker 1: I want to be a scientist, I want to be whatever.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I just feel like I am creating a
Speaker 1: path for you that a lot of people wish. I
Speaker 1: am creating a brand for you. I am creating a
Speaker 1: financial financial stability for you at such a young age,
Speaker 1: and you could do whatever you want with it because Obviously,
Speaker 1: being in the spotlight gives you many opportunities, but it
Speaker 1: also comes with high responsibility. So at a young age,
Speaker 1: I remember the one thing that I do sometimes feel
Speaker 1: guilty about or miss is that I miss a lot
Speaker 1: of my childhood. You know, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: ride a bike, I don't how to skate. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to swim, I don't I don't recall too
Speaker 1: much playing with dolls and stuff because it was from
Speaker 1: school to dance classes, acting classes, modeling classes, this audition
Speaker 1: that I remember, this rehearse that it was just so
Speaker 1: much pressure. It did definitely give me work ethic, you know,
Speaker 1: on the professionalism side, but as a kid, you want
Speaker 1: to be able to be a kid. And I definitely
Speaker 1: want my girls to enjoy their childhood. I still want
Speaker 1: you to work and make your own money, but I
Speaker 1: want you to enjoy your childhood. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of great things that people see. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that people don't see that happen behind scenes. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's what we also see the Britney Spears.
Speaker 1: It's justin biebers and Mighty Sires. We see so many
Speaker 1: childhood stars, celebrity babies that later on just can't take
Speaker 1: the pressure. It's a lot breaking into the industry. You
Speaker 1: can break in when you're four, you can break in
Speaker 1: when you're fifty, whether it's as an actress. Some people
Speaker 1: work in a supermarket and all of a sudden there's
Speaker 1: this director that comes in. It's like, your face looks
Speaker 1: perfect for my movie. Have you ever acted? No Boom
Speaker 1: and you became you know, a well known artist or
Speaker 1: you know actress at fifty five. Like breaking into the
Speaker 1: industry can happen at any point in your life, so
Speaker 1: never give up or feel like it's too late. However,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously breaking in was very hard because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of competition. Everybody wants to be famous, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be rich, everybody wants to be known. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants but there's just so much responsibility and hard work
Speaker 1: that comes with it, and not so much in this
Speaker 1: era per se. I'm talking about like more in my time,
Speaker 1: but in this era you have social media. I have
Speaker 1: to do is be funny, do a couple of skits
Speaker 1: or videos or maybe rap, sing a song or do
Speaker 1: with TikTok dance, and you have followers and you have
Speaker 1: become popular. Right, They've cut out the mentalman. Social media
Speaker 1: has cut out the metal man. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about that. For you coming up and your mom
Speaker 1: putting you on television like this on SAWA and becoming
Speaker 1: your performer, what was your thought process? Did you want
Speaker 1: to continue? Was something that your mom pushed on you?
Speaker 1: Because eventually, you know, you went on to writing music
Speaker 1: and becoming a musician on your own. So how was
Speaker 1: that transition for you? You know what, I am always
Speaker 1: grateful to my mother that she believed in me, she
Speaker 1: saw the vision as she supported me, because if it
Speaker 1: wasn't because of her, I wouldn't be here today. I'm
Speaker 1: grateful that you pushed me. You know, you can't have
Speaker 1: your cake and eat it too. Sometimes you're gonna miss
Speaker 1: out on things I missed out on my childhood. I
Speaker 1: now someone I'm trying to relive it through my children,
Speaker 1: and that's it. You know. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: have everything in life. I know we all say that,
Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily think it's true. And you got
Speaker 1: a family now, like that's something you know you look
Speaker 1: forward to later in life, right to teach and and
Speaker 1: help your kids, and you know, you're doing almost what
Speaker 1: your mom did. You've learned so much because you've been
Speaker 1: in the industry right that you can actually help your
Speaker 1: kids and educate them later on. Were there any problems
Speaker 1: along the way in the journey with managers, producers, anyone,
Speaker 1: or anything that you can talk about and share with
Speaker 1: the world that would basically help anyone who's listening right
Speaker 1: now and getting up and going into the world of entertainment.
Speaker 1: Make sure you have a good attorney, make sure you
Speaker 1: know in the process you learn about the industry. One
Speaker 1: of my biggest mistakes has always been not being that
Speaker 1: person who is very business you know, savvy. Till this day,
Speaker 1: I'm honest to say, that's not my forte. I'm good
Speaker 1: at being an artist and entertainer. I work on, you know,
Speaker 1: perfecting my craft. That's fine, but the technical part of
Speaker 1: it has never been my forte, and that is the
Speaker 1: most important part. You have to be on top of
Speaker 1: your own business, be on top of everything that's happening
Speaker 1: in your life and your career, in your business, so
Speaker 1: I think that's important. You know, never trust someone too much,
Speaker 1: and all money is not good money just because they
Speaker 1: come and they bring you let's say you've never seen
Speaker 1: twenty and fifty thousand dollars put together at the same time.
Speaker 1: Just because they give you that, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: it's a good idea, because you have to see you
Speaker 1: have to believe in yourself. You have to believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: You have to believe in what you're capable of doing.
Speaker 1: And even if nobody else can see it, if you
Speaker 1: can see it for yourself, within yourself, that's the most
Speaker 1: important part, because just because you're here today doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that tomorrow you'll be there if you take If you
Speaker 1: take these twenty right now, you don't know if tomorrow
Speaker 1: you're worth two million. But you accepted the twenty at
Speaker 1: an early point because you yourself didn't believe you were
Speaker 1: capable of becoming bigger. So never settle, never think you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't low ball yourself. That's the one thing I
Speaker 1: definitely learned. All money is not good money. As disgust
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, it is now time
Speaker 1: for a segment we like to call shining Stars. Now.
Speaker 1: Both are Lean and I, as producers of the show,
Speaker 1: recently had the pleasure of sitting down with a talented
Speaker 1: girl group Musas without further ado, here's a conversation with them.
Speaker 1: All right, ladies were so excited to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Please introduce yourselves. My name is Fiela and I'm nineteen
Speaker 1: and I am the bass player and the rapper of
Speaker 1: the group. My name is Fiarella. I am seventeen, and
Speaker 1: I am the chanist. I am I'm Kasia, I am
Speaker 1: twenty one, and I'm the vocalist slash producer engineer of
Speaker 1: the group. Yes, I know y'all came together during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: but was there always a love for music before you
Speaker 1: started creating it. We started singing, dancing, acting since we
Speaker 1: were super young. I was trained in musical theater for
Speaker 1: a really long time, and I mean we've been in
Speaker 1: the arts since forever since we can remember. So the
Speaker 1: pandemic came and we were like at home, We're like
Speaker 1: what should we do? We're kind of bored, and then
Speaker 1: we we came together with the group. Tell us more
Speaker 1: about the name of your group. How did y'all decide
Speaker 1: on the name Musas? So our name is Musas, and
Speaker 1: in Greek mythology, Musas is like the muses of Hercules.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have heard about it
Speaker 1: or watch the movie. So we thought because they were
Speaker 1: always singing and they have this really positive energy, we
Speaker 1: thought that was like a great idea for us. But
Speaker 1: we kind of went back and forth with a couple
Speaker 1: of names m because we weren't sure we should use
Speaker 1: musas And then everyone kind of just came together and
Speaker 1: was like, let's just do with us. Do you find
Speaker 1: it harder to try to keep being original? Right because
Speaker 1: you're in you know, you're listening and um, you know
Speaker 1: you're in the world of tittok now right, everything is
Speaker 1: like all these songs and everything are are back older songs,
Speaker 1: like ninety songs for their old you know. So, like,
Speaker 1: do you feel like a little bit harder to, um,
Speaker 1: stay original to yourself or are you kind of taking
Speaker 1: bits and pieces of what you've you're hearing to write
Speaker 1: your music and play your music. I think it's a
Speaker 1: maxture of both. I definitely think that our music, you know,
Speaker 1: since we like, I started writing music at a very
Speaker 1: young age, so my style was already very original in itself,
Speaker 1: and I kind of grew on it and I like
Speaker 1: matured and you know, the sounds stayed the same, but
Speaker 1: the lyrics matured. And the chords. Yeah, so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we do stick to some of the music
Speaker 1: that we listen to now, some of the music that
Speaker 1: we listened to from back then by growing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we, like Kasha has said, we put our
Speaker 1: own twist to it. I also think that sometimes it
Speaker 1: is good to appeal to the audience. It is good
Speaker 1: to do stuff that is mainstream, you know, but just
Speaker 1: putting it. We always like to put our own twist
Speaker 1: in it. You just released a new single last month
Speaker 1: called Fantasy. What is the writing process like for you all?
Speaker 1: A lot of the music is composed by Firella, and
Speaker 1: you know, she'll have the cores and everything ready, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I have this idea and da da da
Speaker 1: da da, y'all sing this, y'all sing this other thing,
Speaker 1: and she has it all here in her head. And
Speaker 1: sometimes it's the other way around, where we write something
Speaker 1: and then we put it on a on a beat.
Speaker 1: How do your parents feel about you know you? I mean,
Speaker 1: you said you start at a very young age, So
Speaker 1: did they encourage you to write? Like? How did that
Speaker 1: process begin where you guys started as such a you know,
Speaker 1: twenty one, nineteen and seventeen, like that's that's like dedication.
Speaker 1: You're giving up a lot of your your time. You're
Speaker 1: not doing the normal things that kids your age are doing,
Speaker 1: you know, and the Skeisha twenty one. You know, you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys are are doing like you guys are taking
Speaker 1: a lot of time and putting it into your future. Right.
Speaker 1: So for me, my question is your parents, how did
Speaker 1: they feel? Are they how encouraging are they? What's what's
Speaker 1: happening there? Um? I think as the oldest sister, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen my parents process since I was born, um,
Speaker 1: and the way they raised us and with you know,
Speaker 1: values and everything in dreams. I mean my mom she
Speaker 1: through her parents, Um, she's she was actually in a
Speaker 1: band when she was younger, like my age or actually younger,
Speaker 1: she was like sixteen I think, yeah, And and she
Speaker 1: used to play the keys, just like Farrella, and you know,
Speaker 1: those dreams kind of come to an end when you
Speaker 1: start having kids. And then she at us and I
Speaker 1: think that she I don't know that word in English,
Speaker 1: kind of passed that on. Yeah, she passed that on
Speaker 1: to us. Like if you guys want to you know,
Speaker 1: make our If you guys want to sing y'all can
Speaker 1: do anything y'all want, and the same with my dad.
Speaker 1: Through his family, we also have a lot of musicians,
Speaker 1: So it was kind of like we kind of were
Speaker 1: bound to make music because both of our both sides
Speaker 1: of the family our musicians, and they were always very supportive.
Speaker 1: They were like, if you want to dance ballet, you
Speaker 1: dance ballet. If you want to be an engineer, you
Speaker 1: be an engineer. They did tell us, they were like,
Speaker 1: if you want to do this, you could do it,
Speaker 1: but take it seriously, like we will support it, but
Speaker 1: we're putting you in classes. We're pretty inquired. We went
Speaker 1: we were in a gospel enquire Yeah, like take it there.
Speaker 1: Please tell us all about this album you're working on
Speaker 1: our EP, we're working on it. We have a couple
Speaker 1: of songs. They're really amazing. I think that Fione also
Speaker 1: talked about how each of us put our own experience
Speaker 1: into our music and our lyrics, and I think it's
Speaker 1: going to resonate with a lot of people. We also
Speaker 1: released a couple of months ago our single Patients, and
Speaker 1: that's also about experiences. You know, we're kind of aiming
Speaker 1: to that audience where you know, sometimes you don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, you're looking for something, and then you
Speaker 1: can stumble across our music because we are like young,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're trying to make it very relatable
Speaker 1: to other people, but still making it true to ourselves.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something that you're going well, all
Speaker 1: of you guys are going to be able to see
Speaker 1: when you listen to our EP. Where can people find
Speaker 1: you and listen to your music? Our music is on
Speaker 1: all streaming platforms, whichever one you prefer, and you can
Speaker 1: find us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok at, Mosa, Underscore Official,
Speaker 1: Underscore Well, thank you all so much for being here.
Speaker 1: We really appreciated. That was so amazing. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's so good to know that the industry is growing
Speaker 1: and gaining some really incredible young talent. I hope that
Speaker 1: we can get them back on the show and see
Speaker 1: where they're at, because they definitely can count with my support.
Speaker 1: I am here for them one hundred percent. I feel
Speaker 1: we could continue to bring in amazing talent and showcase
Speaker 1: here obviously on the show, which, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you are an artist, or if you have a cousin,
Speaker 1: a sister, or somebody who's talented. Feel free to hit
Speaker 1: me up on my Instagram or exactly I'm out of
Speaker 1: or go to the YouTube channel. It's fine to matter
Speaker 1: and just be like listen, I would love to be
Speaker 1: on the show. I want to showcase my music, my art.
Speaker 1: I want to give people opportunities. I've been blessed to
Speaker 1: be here and I want to bless somebody else, So
Speaker 1: I would definitely want to showcase here on the show.
Speaker 1: More of the Latina women, Latina Latino men out there
Speaker 1: that are really doing something the industry, that are really
Speaker 1: making it happen in the scene. So here's where you
Speaker 1: can take home. Just being true to yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: don't let society make you feel as if you're not
Speaker 1: good enough that you have to change who you are.
Speaker 1: Don't try to fit into society standards of beauty either.
Speaker 1: Be you being you really can make a difference. Use
Speaker 1: your voice, use your platform. Never feel that your voice
Speaker 1: is not strong enough to make a difference, because it is.
Speaker 1: Don't give up with your dreams. If you want to
Speaker 1: do something and you have a vision, that's because God
Speaker 1: gave you that vision for you, so it's possible when
Speaker 1: you can make it happen. I would I get your
Speaker 1: butt up and take your ass to work because it's
Speaker 1: the only way you can make it happen. Give up
Speaker 1: and never feel like you're too old. Never feel like
Speaker 1: it's too late. It's never too late. While you're still alive,
Speaker 1: you can still make it happen. Don't overthink it. Just
Speaker 1: get up and do it. Get up and make it happen.
Speaker 1: With that being said, once again, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for always checking out exactly I'm outa for subscribing,
Speaker 1: for giving me those five stars, for being my supporters,
Speaker 1: for being friends, my family. I'm so grateful for all
Speaker 1: of you. I am more than thankful to Alex for
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