Speaker 1: This tour is coming. Like I told myself, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do everything I want to do. I don't care what
Speaker 1: anyone has to say. I just want to make my
Speaker 1: audience happy. For the first time, I have like a
Speaker 1: theme when it comes to a wardrobe, leather and gean
Speaker 1: and bandanas, because that's who I am, that love that
Speaker 1: I get from the people that go see me. It
Speaker 1: still blows my mind that people took the time out
Speaker 1: of their night. They could be anywhere else in the
Speaker 1: world and they decided to buy a ticket to a
Speaker 1: cheeky show. Hello and welcome to another episode of cheek
Speaker 1: Ease and Chill. I'm your host cheek Ease, and let
Speaker 1: me tell you I'm super excited about this episode because
Speaker 1: today I'm pulling back the curtain on my right not tour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about everything from makeup and wardrobe
Speaker 1: to how I decide which songs I'm going to perform,
Speaker 1: sat my set list, and be sure to stay too
Speaker 1: until the end for some juicy Q and as so,
Speaker 1: sit back, grab a drink and enjoy this episode of
Speaker 1: cheek Ease and Chill. Oh Yes, life on the road.
Speaker 1: It's actually one of those things I enjoy the most
Speaker 1: about being a singer, and I'm gonna tell you why,
Speaker 1: because I personally like staying at hotel rooms. That's weird, right,
Speaker 1: but I do. I feel like I'm on vacation in
Speaker 1: a way way, but I'm actually there to work. But
Speaker 1: I get to relax more. I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's more me time. And now regarding my album
Speaker 1: recording it, I'm done, officially done recording the album, but
Speaker 1: I want to say that this one was I think
Speaker 1: the toughest to finish. The studio, to me, is a
Speaker 1: very personal place. I like to be kind of by myself.
Speaker 1: I like, you know, the lights to be damned. I
Speaker 1: like candles to be lit. I drink a little bit
Speaker 1: of team for a long time, you guys, going to
Speaker 1: the studio, oh, was like a drag because you can
Speaker 1: hear every single mistake when you're in the studio. So
Speaker 1: it's like I felt very intimidated, for the lack of
Speaker 1: a better word, like I just felt like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Like I almost preferred singing live than in the studio
Speaker 1: because like literally it's just you feel closed in. And
Speaker 1: with time and with experience, now I've learned to love
Speaker 1: the studio, I just feel like it's me time. It's
Speaker 1: me and the mic, and I get to express myself
Speaker 1: and I get to release tension. And yes, it's a
Speaker 1: little stressful because I'm a perfectionist and I want everything
Speaker 1: to come out right. I'll do take after take after
Speaker 1: take until I get it exactly how I want it.
Speaker 1: But it helps me release. I forget about everything in
Speaker 1: the world and I just focus on that track that
Speaker 1: I'm recording. And I'm not one to like sit there
Speaker 1: and finish my record in two weeks. Like there are
Speaker 1: people that say, Okay, I got my songs, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in there, and I'm just gonna like record my album,
Speaker 1: my entire album in two weeks. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I'm more of like, I have the song, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in there. I live with the song, and that's
Speaker 1: why it's taken me on most two years to finish.
Speaker 1: So anyways, let's go back to the tour because I
Speaker 1: just got back from my second date, which was in Dallas.
Speaker 1: The first one was in pol Casino and it was
Speaker 1: sold out, so we started off with the right foot.
Speaker 1: You guys, Policastino, everyone that was there, Thank you. So much.
Speaker 1: It was a sold out show and Dallas was too,
Speaker 1: so that's exciting. And now we're gonna be going I
Speaker 1: have one in Northern California and then I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: going to Mexico with the tour. The album comes out
Speaker 1: May twelve. He was, I'm gonna be in Mexico. Aciendo
Speaker 1: is the lad so I'm really excited. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: an O Passo too. So the tour, the dates are
Speaker 1: going well, Mr Bull. My manager keeps adding dates and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna tell you, it's crazy because before
Speaker 1: every show, I'm very, very nervous, Like I get so nervous,
Speaker 1: and then when I get up there, I'm like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like I know how to do this,
Speaker 1: like what am I tripping off of? But I get
Speaker 1: so nervous. And I feel like it's good to be nervous, though,
Speaker 1: because that means that you're passionate about what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, but it is tiring, especially because
Speaker 1: I want to give my very best, especially with this tour,
Speaker 1: because the set list took me four hours to put together,
Speaker 1: you guys, four hours on a Sunday. I need to
Speaker 1: like envision the song. I need to like listen to
Speaker 1: the songs back to back to see if the flow
Speaker 1: goes well, because I want people to obviously start on
Speaker 1: a high note and then bring them down. And you know,
Speaker 1: I sing love songs and then songs to my mom
Speaker 1: and I cry a little bit. Sometimes sometimes I do,
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't. These last two shows I have, I've
Speaker 1: cried and then I bring them back up. So it's
Speaker 1: like for me, it's like what do I want to
Speaker 1: see as a fan. That's why it's so important, Like
Speaker 1: how I want the intro to look, what I want
Speaker 1: to say in the intro before I go on stage
Speaker 1: the first song I want to sing, removing certain songs
Speaker 1: that don't go with the flow, you know what I'm mean.
Speaker 1: And it's hard because a lot of o G fans
Speaker 1: want to hear songs from my first album. But now
Speaker 1: this is called the tour, so I have out of
Speaker 1: the songs that makes sense with the story I'm trying
Speaker 1: to tell, because that's what I'm doing with this show.
Speaker 1: I'm telling a story. I'm bringing you on the experience.
Speaker 1: So it can be stressful, it can be very tiring.
Speaker 1: It's late nights. You guys. But it's worth it. It's
Speaker 1: been worth it because that love that I get from
Speaker 1: the people that go see me, it still blows my mind.
Speaker 1: It blows my mind to know that people took the
Speaker 1: time out of their day, out of their night. They
Speaker 1: could be anywhere else in the world, and they decided
Speaker 1: to buy a ticket to a cheeky show. And I
Speaker 1: just feel like this responsibility in a good way to
Speaker 1: give my best to make sure that that hour and
Speaker 1: a half, that hour and forty five minutes that you're
Speaker 1: with me and listening to me, that you're enjoying every
Speaker 1: single part of my show, even if something goes wrong,
Speaker 1: because especially on the first show, ship went wrong with
Speaker 1: you then monitors with the DJ, like certain songs didn't
Speaker 1: come in when they were supposed to, and things that
Speaker 1: I see but maybe even the audience hasn't notice, but
Speaker 1: I notice it and it bothers me. But even that,
Speaker 1: I'm very like, I go with the flow. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know what it is, what it is. It's the
Speaker 1: first show I tell the audience. I'm very open, but
Speaker 1: because I want them to know that it's important to
Speaker 1: me that the money that you're investing in my show
Speaker 1: I wanted to be completely worth it. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's like I take that ship serious. I take it
Speaker 1: so serious because it still blows my mind. I'm just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: all these people are here for me. Like when you
Speaker 1: guys are singing, you know the songs, those of you
Speaker 1: that have been with me on tour or have been
Speaker 1: with me to one of the shows. Like sometimes I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like i want to sit there and
Speaker 1: just cry like a little baby. Like I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, these people love me. It just feels
Speaker 1: so beautiful. But then I'm like, no, you gotta be
Speaker 1: a bad bitch. You gotta be a bad bitch. You
Speaker 1: gotta get up. You can't be crying. So I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, come on, let's go, you know. And and
Speaker 1: it's it's a little hard, but now i feel like
Speaker 1: I've gotten the hang of it where I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: okay to cry a little bit, but you gotta pick
Speaker 1: it up. I've learned to get the hang of that
Speaker 1: because girl, our boys, men and women that are listening,
Speaker 1: I'm a cancer and we could be very emotional creatures.
Speaker 1: So controlling my emotions has been a task in itself,
Speaker 1: especially on stage, but I think I think I've dominated
Speaker 1: it now. Talking about my band Labanda, it's very hard,
Speaker 1: very very difficult to find a responsible band because mosticos
Speaker 1: can be and of course, especially like if we don't
Speaker 1: have like a full on tour with like I don't know,
Speaker 1: a hundred dates, it's a little hard because vans the musicians,
Speaker 1: they have other jobs and they have families that they
Speaker 1: have to provide for, so sometimes they come and they go.
Speaker 1: So that's been a little bit. I think the most
Speaker 1: difficult thing since I started my career is finding a
Speaker 1: banda that is going to stick. And I think I
Speaker 1: finally found one, and it just gives me so much
Speaker 1: peace of mind because I've been working with this guy
Speaker 1: and he's like the manager and head of the banda.
Speaker 1: So even if one leaves, he makes sure that he finds,
Speaker 1: you know, another trump and he puts him in line
Speaker 1: and they rehearse because rehearsing is so important. I was
Speaker 1: actually in Brownsville for about I don't know, like a week,
Speaker 1: like four or five days rehearsing, because before I would
Speaker 1: rehearse one or two days. But I was like, I
Speaker 1: need to set these days aside and rehearse so that
Speaker 1: we have that connection and you could tell we're family,
Speaker 1: me and my musicians, you know, and that the flow
Speaker 1: goes well. Even if we mess up, we know where
Speaker 1: to pick up. It's very important to have that relationship
Speaker 1: with your musicians and Sambien and I think, finally, thank god,
Speaker 1: I have found that and I feel very comfortable, and
Speaker 1: I think rehearsing and that's one thing that it's like,
Speaker 1: you got to be disciplined enough to say I'm going
Speaker 1: to set days aside for whatever it is, even if
Speaker 1: you're not a singer. It's it's just really striving and
Speaker 1: seeking that knowledge and practicing and rehearsing and making sure
Speaker 1: that you are intentional about giving your best at whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you're doing. And so to me, rehearsing
Speaker 1: it's super important. I like to be at my sound
Speaker 1: checks because every stage is different, every sound is different,
Speaker 1: every mic is different. I have my own mic, but
Speaker 1: even like at the parlor, I wasn't able to use
Speaker 1: my personal mic. So I was worried because I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, this is my mic. You grow an
Speaker 1: attachment to your mic. So when they said, oh we
Speaker 1: can't connect it, we don't have the device to connect
Speaker 1: your mic. I had to use one from theirs, and
Speaker 1: I was a little nervous, but then I did my
Speaker 1: sound check and I was like, okay, cool, Like I
Speaker 1: got the feeling the mic and I became one and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, make sure that this is
Speaker 1: the MIC I'm going to use because I'm already leveled out.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing, like I've seen it myself when
Speaker 1: I go to my sound check sometimes I'm the only
Speaker 1: one there when it's like a bunch of artists and
Speaker 1: they just send their musicians. But for me, it's like
Speaker 1: I want to be there. I want to feel the stage.
Speaker 1: I want to see what I'm looking at. I want
Speaker 1: to be able to go to every corner and no,
Speaker 1: like not just walk up on stage and not know
Speaker 1: where what I'm doing. So for me, it's like when
Speaker 1: they say practice makes perfect, that's just the truth. Believe me,
Speaker 1: you guys, there's these are things that you guys don't see.
Speaker 1: There are some people that I'm sure I can say
Speaker 1: or want to say, ah no, Ganda like I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm not taking that any more. Now. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm doing and I have put
Speaker 1: in the hard work, and I know about music. I
Speaker 1: know what I want, especially with this album, especially with
Speaker 1: this tour, Like I put everything. I put the set
Speaker 1: list together, I put my track list from my album together,
Speaker 1: I did the intros, and I wrote everything like I
Speaker 1: know what I want to hear. I have the ear.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was raised in this you guys, like
Speaker 1: I was born in the music. Now I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let anybody's negative comments steer me from
Speaker 1: believing in myself and knowing I know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: and not only that I put the work. I really do.
Speaker 1: Like for me, it's important even more so for me
Speaker 1: because my mom is who she is and I have
Speaker 1: been constantly compared to her and people may think, oh
Speaker 1: Ki's probably watches her mom, and because I've gotten it
Speaker 1: a lot where like oh my god, chick, he's like
Speaker 1: you made me cry. Because I do meet in greats
Speaker 1: after the show's right, and I have the conversations with
Speaker 1: it's not just take a picture with me, and by no,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how did you like it? Did you enjoy yourself?
Speaker 1: And like, oh my god, yes, chick, he is like
Speaker 1: you made me cry. I saw your mom so many times,
Speaker 1: like you look so much like her, Like I went
Speaker 1: to her concert, and it's crazy because it's not like
Speaker 1: I sit there and watch my mom. I still to
Speaker 1: this day can't watch my mom. You guys, it's still
Speaker 1: very hard. Just maybe like a few months ago, I
Speaker 1: watched the reality show and I was watching it there,
Speaker 1: but I can't watch it for long. It it's still
Speaker 1: hard for me to sit and watch my mom's concerts
Speaker 1: because it makes me miss her. So it's not like
Speaker 1: I sit here and study my mom. It's just I'm
Speaker 1: her daughter. No say like get set, Absolutely not, because
Speaker 1: she's my mom. People that try to talk about it,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's kind of like, yeah, well, who
Speaker 1: do you want me to look like? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, who do you want me to act like?
Speaker 1: That's like that was my mother, my father, my friend,
Speaker 1: my boss. I don't under stand. And it's been ten years,
Speaker 1: you guys, It's gonna be ten years in December. But
Speaker 1: I said, the thing here is it's important for me
Speaker 1: that I give my best to you guys, which means
Speaker 1: I'm going to make it to my rehearsals. I'm going
Speaker 1: to make it to my sound check. I'm going to
Speaker 1: make sure that every piece of my show has a
Speaker 1: touch of cheek ease here and there, especially with this tour.
Speaker 1: I'm putting in a DJ. I added a DJ. I
Speaker 1: have a saxophone. A lot of people in regional don't
Speaker 1: have a saxophone. I have a saxophone. I added a saxophone.
Speaker 1: Added a DJ because there are times when I want
Speaker 1: to get crazy and I want to like twerk on stage,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do that, and I want to
Speaker 1: have my DJ there to play a song for me.
Speaker 1: And while I'm talking, I want little beats because I
Speaker 1: want to wrap. So this tour is coming like conto.
Speaker 1: I told myself, I'm gonna do everything I want to do.
Speaker 1: Band them a little bit of urban, I I wrap
Speaker 1: a little bit. Depends on how buzzed I am. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it all in this tour, and I
Speaker 1: don't care what anyone has to say. I just want
Speaker 1: to make my audience happy. I feel like my balls
Speaker 1: just dropped, Like I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1: I knew and I've always been a confident woman, but
Speaker 1: this confidence that I feel, especially now on stage, I
Speaker 1: feel so different. I feel like that's the best way
Speaker 1: I can explain it, like my balls dropped, like I'm
Speaker 1: a woman now and you guys are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to see it. For those of you that are gonna
Speaker 1: go to my shows, Okay, gem Gems and Chickens, I
Speaker 1: was at your last show before you started this tour,
Speaker 1: and oh my goodness, I feel and I see and
Speaker 1: I hear the difference. And that's what makes me so
Speaker 1: happy because I always say we are our own competition.
Speaker 1: I want to just be better than I was my
Speaker 1: last tour. I want to be better than I was
Speaker 1: my last album. Like it's just growing and learning. More
Speaker 1: so now that we talked about the music and all
Speaker 1: that stuff that's super important. Now I can tell you
Speaker 1: guys about my wardrobe. I think this is the first
Speaker 1: time with all those shows that I've done, with the
Speaker 1: tours that I've done, I've had the tour, I've had
Speaker 1: the playlist tour. Now this is my tour and for
Speaker 1: the first time, I have like a theme when it
Speaker 1: comes to wardrobe. Before I would just put outfit together
Speaker 1: and like that's it. Like it was like a jumpsuit.
Speaker 1: Like my whole thing is always been like rompers jumpsuits.
Speaker 1: You know, like one pieces because I wanted to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: Now we have a theme going for Aina, it's leather
Speaker 1: and gene, so miss Clia and Bandanna is like, I
Speaker 1: want to bring in that long beach into like I
Speaker 1: love my te Hannah. So I'm putting like my bandana around, mate, Hannah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing bandana patches all over my clothes because that's
Speaker 1: who I am. I'm the two percent, you guys, I
Speaker 1: am a hundred percent he got a hundred percent American,
Speaker 1: and I want to be able to implement that in
Speaker 1: my shows. And I want to have long hair because
Speaker 1: I love fans, okay, like fans fans, yeah, like human fans.
Speaker 1: But I also love like fans like Eles, because I
Speaker 1: want my hair to blow and I want to have
Speaker 1: like those moments, you know, especially for pictures. So I
Speaker 1: think of everything. So I'm like, Okay, I want my
Speaker 1: longest extensions. I want my makeup to be not too
Speaker 1: heavy because sometimes I cry, So I don't like my
Speaker 1: makeup to be two cakey. I just want like lashes,
Speaker 1: a little bit of shadow, very glowy, and the hair
Speaker 1: has to be long with the Hannah. So I was
Speaker 1: very proud of myself because I've been wearing my the
Speaker 1: Hannah throughout like almost the entire show. Usually I would
Speaker 1: take it off like it would bother me, but like,
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm having like a really good
Speaker 1: relationship with my the Hannah. So now i want the
Speaker 1: Hannah's in red and black and blue and pink, so
Speaker 1: you guys will be able to see a lot more
Speaker 1: of that. Oh and I'm getting like ten different outfits
Speaker 1: done and customed to my body for these tours, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to see different outfits. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be ten outfits custom made for this tour, so
Speaker 1: I'll be able to switch them out between dates and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's saving me money. I've learned. I'm like, okay, wait,
Speaker 1: Like I can't just be buying a new outfit for
Speaker 1: every show, Like I have to buy a series of
Speaker 1: them and change them, you know, have them for this tour,
Speaker 1: and I want to save them because I want to
Speaker 1: be able to have my own like museum one day
Speaker 1: of like wardrobe, have a whole plan. And when I'm
Speaker 1: on tour, it is important for me, especially the day
Speaker 1: of the show, to work out. I do cardio because
Speaker 1: I feel like It just gives me more energy, obviously,
Speaker 1: and it helps my vocals, like clear my throat. So
Speaker 1: I'll do cardio in the morning. Sometimes I do. Wait,
Speaker 1: it just depends, and I try to eat as clean
Speaker 1: as I can on show day because my stomach gets
Speaker 1: bloated really quickly, so I like to have just I'll
Speaker 1: go light especially before my show, like approachein shake or
Speaker 1: some chicken or a soup or something that's not too heavy,
Speaker 1: so that I can just feel comfortable on stage. After
Speaker 1: the show is another story, because after the show, I've
Speaker 1: done so much cardio on stage that I get really hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to try to watch what I eat,
Speaker 1: but honestly, like my body craves bread and wants sugar,
Speaker 1: So there are times where I'm just like, okay, instead
Speaker 1: of having two tacos, I'll have one. But after the
Speaker 1: show is so see Mellois gustos, and I'll have especially
Speaker 1: something sugary, because it's like it's a lot of energy
Speaker 1: you give out, you know, And especially me, I do
Speaker 1: my show, my hour and a half show, and then
Speaker 1: I do meeting greets after usually anywhere from eight hundred
Speaker 1: people of meeting greats and I sit there and I'm
Speaker 1: standing and I'm taking pictures and I'm like talking. So
Speaker 1: by the time we're done, a bitch is hungry, so
Speaker 1: I eat. Okay. Now, a lot of people might think
Speaker 1: that after my shows, I get crunk and I get
Speaker 1: crazy and I drink and I continue drinking. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I can count on one hand, maybe literally
Speaker 1: three times mucho. It's a lot if I've partied after
Speaker 1: a show, especially because I do my meeting greets after
Speaker 1: my show, I like to just eat, put on my pj's,
Speaker 1: take off my makeup, and maybe watch a movie and relax.
Speaker 1: It's very, very extremely rare if I go out and
Speaker 1: I party afterwards, or I have after parties, and even
Speaker 1: if I say I'm going to have an after party,
Speaker 1: like the time that I performed at the Grove, I
Speaker 1: had this whole thing plant. I had invited all my friends.
Speaker 1: We were going to party afterwards. It was like the
Speaker 1: last day of my playlist tour, and we were supposed
Speaker 1: to party at the Rumor Room, my friends club. Everyone went.
Speaker 1: After my meeting greens Dude, I was exhausted and I
Speaker 1: was way too buzzed. So I went to my room
Speaker 1: and I ordered food and I fell asleep and everyone
Speaker 1: was waiting for me at the after party, and I
Speaker 1: felt so bad because I was like, I'm a homebody.
Speaker 1: I'm introverted. Like it's crazy because I feel like when
Speaker 1: you're on stage you're giving so much of yourself that
Speaker 1: I felt like, sometimes I feel like going to an
Speaker 1: after party and mingling, and so it's just sometimes it's
Speaker 1: too much. Like I've learned that what I do is
Speaker 1: I'm extroverted. That's cheekies, but Jenna is introverted. I like
Speaker 1: to be with the people that I feel comfortable with.
Speaker 1: I like to be in my room. I love watching movies,
Speaker 1: I love reading books. I love just even eating in bed.
Speaker 1: That makes me so happy. So I'm not that much
Speaker 1: of a party animal. But when it's time to party
Speaker 1: at party, I can throw back those tiquila shots. I can't.
Speaker 1: That's just me, guys, and people ask me this all
Speaker 1: the time, like do I go sight see when, like
Speaker 1: for instance, like when I was in Dallas. I'm very
Speaker 1: to myself. I like to spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: in my room. I'll go to the gym. Most of
Speaker 1: the time. I eat in my room. It's very rare
Speaker 1: when I go out to a restaurant when I'm on
Speaker 1: tour because I'm so focused and I'm so about like
Speaker 1: what I'm doing and the task ahead that I don't
Speaker 1: really enjoy much. I want to get better writ it though,
Speaker 1: like see and visit landmarks and take pictures and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, mingle a little bit more. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, about nine of the time, I stay in
Speaker 1: my room and I just read and I relax that
Speaker 1: I can have as much energy for my show. But
Speaker 1: I will admit I want to get better at seeing
Speaker 1: a little bit more of the world and not just
Speaker 1: be in my own world in my room. So now
Speaker 1: we come to the rapid fire questions. You guys, remember
Speaker 1: I said to hold to the end because we're gonna
Speaker 1: have some Q and a s okay. Number one first
Speaker 1: memory of being on stage, well, the first one that
Speaker 1: comes to mind is when I did I Want to Say?
Speaker 1: And it was my first single that was playing on
Speaker 1: the radio, and it was like my first performance ever,
Speaker 1: launching my career on television. So I remember that it
Speaker 1: was like this whole thing, whole product and thing. It
Speaker 1: was awesome, but I was shaking you guys, like you
Speaker 1: have no idea and I always say that first performance,
Speaker 1: I feel like it wasn't me, Like I feel like
Speaker 1: something took over my body because it went by so
Speaker 1: fast and I don't remember any movement I make, Like
Speaker 1: even when I go and watch that show now, like
Speaker 1: you go on YouTube and watch it, like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember doing that. It was just I
Speaker 1: don't know something to go over my body. It's the
Speaker 1: craziest thing. Now I pray for like I asked God,
Speaker 1: I want to be completely present on my shows. I
Speaker 1: want to feel that. I want to know exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, and thank goodness, we're much better with that.
Speaker 1: A favorite city to play and why oh my favorite city,
Speaker 1: geez Louise. Okay, Well, besides l A, I love Dallas.
Speaker 1: That's one of the places where I just saying, um
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Like it's one of my favorite places. It's
Speaker 1: an intimate restaurant sort of feel like nightclub, and I've
Speaker 1: always really enjoyed it. The stage is very small there,
Speaker 1: but the feeling that I get is crazy, Like last
Speaker 1: Happen Louso is just it's so beautiful, Like that's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite places. I always look forward to go
Speaker 1: into Dallas. Said that one specific place, and they've offered
Speaker 1: me bigger places. They're like, okay, you know, you could
Speaker 1: do one night here and it's X amount of people.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I don't know. I want to keep
Speaker 1: doing It's just it's fun. I don't know, I feel great.
Speaker 1: I love being there. Okay, how do you choose your
Speaker 1: first and last song, especially with this tour. I just
Speaker 1: felt like it was the most appropriate thing to start
Speaker 1: with the song that still hasn't come out. It's it's
Speaker 1: a part of the album, it's still not a single.
Speaker 1: A lot of people haven't heard it. I wanted to
Speaker 1: give my audience, the people that go watch me sing
Speaker 1: with this tour something special, a gift. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I need to start with a strong song, a high note,
Speaker 1: and end with a high note. For me, it's like
Speaker 1: I want to leave people wanting more. So I always
Speaker 1: end with complement, which is one of my most popular songs.
Speaker 1: It's called and I always end with that. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to become like a thing like brand that you know,
Speaker 1: So it's always start with the high note and end
Speaker 1: with a high note, you know, and everything else in
Speaker 1: between will work out. Okay. Worst experience with a fan,
Speaker 1: any unruly ones. Um, well, okay, talking about this place
Speaker 1: in Dallas, there was this one guy, a boss Bia
Speaker 1: king By I'm not going to say his name, but
Speaker 1: he It was like, you kind of have to sit
Speaker 1: there because if if you don't sit, then the people
Speaker 1: behind you can't see you when you're on stage. So
Speaker 1: there was this one fan that kept standing up and
Speaker 1: screaming and stuff, and people were getting upset and the
Speaker 1: security had told him a few times to just sit down.
Speaker 1: He was just excited. He was drunk and having a
Speaker 1: great time, and he's one of my biggest fans and
Speaker 1: I love him so much. I was singing to the
Speaker 1: left side of the stage and from the corner of
Speaker 1: my eye I could see that something was happening on
Speaker 1: the right side of the stage. And next thing you know,
Speaker 1: I see the security guard grab the guy from his
Speaker 1: neck and bring him down to the floor. And I
Speaker 1: just stopped everything, and I'm like, wait a second, you
Speaker 1: are not going to do that. Like, of course, I
Speaker 1: respect with the security guards, that's their job. They need
Speaker 1: to let calm people down. But I just felt like
Speaker 1: it was just way too much and I had to
Speaker 1: stop everything. The music and I think they even caught
Speaker 1: this moment on TikTok where I was like, wait, don't
Speaker 1: do that, Like I'm not okay with that. But for
Speaker 1: me to have like a bad experience with a fan
Speaker 1: like me personally, I haven't. I actually had a bad
Speaker 1: experience with one of my mom's fans. I was selling
Speaker 1: posters at one of her concerts. I would sell the
Speaker 1: posters and the CDs and the shirts and stuff. I
Speaker 1: had one of the posters in my hands. I was
Speaker 1: about to give it to someone else, and she snatched
Speaker 1: it out of my hand. So I turned around and
Speaker 1: I grabbed it back and my mom's fan bit me
Speaker 1: on the arm, like she literally bit me. I had
Speaker 1: bite marks, and I was like and I screamed, and
Speaker 1: my mom was busy doing something, but she heard her
Speaker 1: child scream me, and she's like, what happened? And I
Speaker 1: told her as a she just bait me. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: my mom slapped that lady so bad, like she slapped her.
Speaker 1: She said, don't you ever put your hands on my daughter.
Speaker 1: I will never forget that day. I felt so bad
Speaker 1: for the girl because I don't think she knew I
Speaker 1: was my mom's daughter. But it's like my mom at
Speaker 1: that moment was not the artist, she was the mother. Dude.
Speaker 1: That lady beat me so hard I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to bleed. My mom just heard me scream and
Speaker 1: she was like, What's what's wrong with my daughter? So
Speaker 1: for me, I think that was like the worst experience
Speaker 1: with the fan, but not necessarily one of my fans. Oh. Actually,
Speaker 1: one time, now that we're talking about it, a lady
Speaker 1: flipped me off. I was in Mexico and she was
Speaker 1: slipping me off with both her fingers and I was like,
Speaker 1: I flipped her back off too. I said, girl, if
Speaker 1: you don't like it, if you don't know, and I
Speaker 1: had the security guards take her out because I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're not going to disrespect me. I'm here working, I'm
Speaker 1: doing my thing, and you're they're flipping me off. So
Speaker 1: I flipped her back off and I said you better go.
Speaker 1: So that was one anyways, most embarrassing moment on stage.
Speaker 1: Most embarrassing moment um, well, it's always with wardrobe and
Speaker 1: my butt because I got a big gas so the
Speaker 1: pants were too tight. I was working sas my pants
Speaker 1: ripped right in the crack of my ass. Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I had madias but still I had like media's where
Speaker 1: you could still kind of see my my booty crack.
Speaker 1: That was, like, I think, the most embarrassing moment on stage,
Speaker 1: and I told them, I said sorry, guys Pio, and
Speaker 1: they had to come on stage and put like little
Speaker 1: alfielet Is and you know, to cover it for the
Speaker 1: time being. But it was I just didn't turn around
Speaker 1: the rest of the show. Okay, next, what's the one
Speaker 1: song you always have to sing? The one song I
Speaker 1: always have to sing. I think it's completemente absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: the song that I finished my set list with. That
Speaker 1: video has the most views on YouTube, and I have
Speaker 1: to sing it because I dedicated to my fans. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm yours one yes, And those are two songs that
Speaker 1: if I do a show, I have to do those
Speaker 1: two songs with. Whom would you love to share the stage.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I've shared stages with a lot
Speaker 1: of people that I love that I've wanted to, like
Speaker 1: my sister Jackie, my uncle Lupe, my deal Gus Groups.
Speaker 1: He invited me once. I'm a huge fan of us,
Speaker 1: so he invited me once. I went to his show
Speaker 1: and invited me to sing on stage with him. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I think Carol G. I would
Speaker 1: love to share stage with Carol g. Alright, dream city
Speaker 1: venue to perform? Oh I I have on my vision
Speaker 1: board the Microsoft Theater. I like to do short term goals.
Speaker 1: Of course. I would love to sell out the Crypto
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles. That would be like a dream,
Speaker 1: of course, but like my shorter term venue right now
Speaker 1: and short term goal would be the Microsoft Theater. Okay,
Speaker 1: how would you describe your feelings right after a show.
Speaker 1: I am hyped. The adrenaline is like to the top.
Speaker 1: I think after my show, I'm just like the first
Speaker 1: thing I do is I thank God. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: thank you God, I got that done. But yeah, more
Speaker 1: than anything, it's like, oh we did it. Having more
Speaker 1: than anything. It's it's that type of feeling where it's
Speaker 1: like I feel relieved, I feel satisfied. Okay, So are
Speaker 1: you superstitious at all? Do you have any rituals you
Speaker 1: do before performing? This is a good one. Before my show,
Speaker 1: it's super important for me to pray. I like to
Speaker 1: pray by myself. I have some time to myself. I
Speaker 1: have Balo Santo. I love Balo santo and incense. So
Speaker 1: I like that before every performance with Bobo and I
Speaker 1: say I'm protected. I always say this, God, give me
Speaker 1: the mind of Jesus, give me words of excellence so
Speaker 1: I can remember my song so that I could sing great.
Speaker 1: I put hands over my throat and I'm like God
Speaker 1: annoyed my voice. And I pray with my team, and
Speaker 1: I always wear like a certain bracelet that just I
Speaker 1: feel gives me strength. It could be mental whatever, but
Speaker 1: for me, it just helps me and I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm protected and I could just go out there and
Speaker 1: give my all without having to worry about something quote
Speaker 1: unquote bad happening. You know, for me, it's like it
Speaker 1: has to be done. I have to get on my knees,
Speaker 1: I have to thank God, I have to pray, and
Speaker 1: then I go out there and do my dying. So
Speaker 1: that's all the time we have. Guys. Hopefully I see
Speaker 1: you at one of my upcoming shows. But before I go,
Speaker 1: I'll leave you with a motivational quote. Be strong but
Speaker 1: not rude, be kind but not weak, Be humble but
Speaker 1: not timid, Be proud but not arrogant. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: again for supporting my music, my shows and this podcast.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful. I love you and I hope
Speaker 1: you have an awesome week. Thank you for listening to check,
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