Speaker 1: My first memory of music is when I was three
Speaker 1: four years old. The truth is it was not ready.
Speaker 1: The song was not supposed to come out. The songs
Speaker 1: that I write are about something that I've lived, something
Speaker 1: that I'm feeling in the moment. It gets heavy to
Speaker 1: be compared and to say, oh, yeah, you're never gonna
Speaker 1: be Jenny Rivera. Hello, guys, and welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Cheek Ease and Chill. I'm your host, Cheeks, and
Speaker 1: today we're going to talk about something that's been a
Speaker 1: huge part of my life for as long as I
Speaker 1: can remember. Oh sad, this chick, that music. We're going
Speaker 1: to be covering everything from how I got started to
Speaker 1: where I think my career is headed. It's an episode
Speaker 1: you won't want to miss. So let's do it. Grab
Speaker 1: your tequi la. This is Chick Ease and Chill. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: So music, musica a universal language, is what I like
Speaker 1: to call it. Not only is music a big part
Speaker 1: of my life, it's also a big part of my identity.
Speaker 1: You guys, a lot of you probably know me best
Speaker 1: for being a singer and a performer. My first memory
Speaker 1: of music is when I was three or four years old.
Speaker 1: The first song I ever learned. I was sitting on
Speaker 1: my grandpa's lap in his office and he had one
Speaker 1: of those little recording devices and it was like those
Speaker 1: little handheld ones. I had the little mini cassettes and
Speaker 1: he had me on his lap, and the only song
Speaker 1: that I knew that I had learned, my very first
Speaker 1: song that I had ever learned, was by and I
Speaker 1: sang it. And I don't know. I wish I could
Speaker 1: find that recording. I don't know. He must have it
Speaker 1: somewhere because he doesn't throw anything away. I've never asked him,
Speaker 1: but that is my first memory. And from there it's
Speaker 1: just I remember being at the swap meet every weekend
Speaker 1: with my grandma and we would sell cassettes back then
Speaker 1: and would listen to all types of music, to Selena,
Speaker 1: to Bronco, to Los to Ganes, Los dire Norte, Melentine,
Speaker 1: just so many people, Rivera, lup Rivera, everybody. I grew
Speaker 1: up with music, music letsie go ok jop in the larninglis. Yes,
Speaker 1: because you know, I was raised by my grandparents, which
Speaker 1: meant there was always music playing in the kitchen. My
Speaker 1: grandma was cooking and there was always music, some type
Speaker 1: of radio station. We sold music, we sold cassettes. Then
Speaker 1: from there we went to c these we had the Scotebo.
Speaker 1: There was one in Long Beach, one in Huntington Park.
Speaker 1: So I was just always around music. I grew up
Speaker 1: watching my grandpa saying, my grandma's a singer, all my
Speaker 1: uncle's saying, even the pastor things at church. The one
Speaker 1: that didn't really get into it very much was Rosie.
Speaker 1: But even then she I think saying at church of
Speaker 1: a little bit, and she has staying here and there.
Speaker 1: But in reality, I come from a musical background, which
Speaker 1: is why I think it's always caught my eye. I
Speaker 1: wanted to like sing. I wanted to try it. I
Speaker 1: was afraid because of everything I had seen my mom
Speaker 1: go through as a female. In regional Mexican music is
Speaker 1: yes seven as soon. It's a it's very male dominated,
Speaker 1: very very male dominated genre, so it's very difficult for women.
Speaker 1: So I knew that I wanted to sing. I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure if I wanted to do Spanish or English. If
Speaker 1: I wanted to do I had thought about rock because
Speaker 1: I really liked my not a point. I had thought
Speaker 1: about so many things, but it was a topic that
Speaker 1: my mom didn't really want to touch as much because
Speaker 1: of what she had lived and what she had gone through.
Speaker 1: So she knew my desires about wanting to become a singer,
Speaker 1: and I would tell her, and the whole plan was, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do because I loved Limit Them, you know,
Speaker 1: Alicia a real she was a limit Them, and I
Speaker 1: loved her music, so I wanted to do something like that,
Speaker 1: like North. I was going to be the singer. My
Speaker 1: mom was going to be the manager. That was like
Speaker 1: the whole plan. And she says, Okay, I will help you,
Speaker 1: I will support you, but just wait until I have
Speaker 1: the time to manage your career. You know, I'll do
Speaker 1: my thing and then I'll take a little bit and
Speaker 1: then we'll move on with your career. That was the
Speaker 1: plan since I think I was like I think the
Speaker 1: first time I ever mentioned it to her, like seriously
Speaker 1: was when I was like twenty three, and thank goodness,
Speaker 1: her career just kept getting better and better and better.
Speaker 1: The thing is that my mom knew about it, and
Speaker 1: she was just a little hesitant. She would always say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I just don't know if I want
Speaker 1: this career for you. It's very, very hard for women
Speaker 1: a lot of early mornings, and they're mean. They're very mean,
Speaker 1: especially to the women that seeing in general Mexican music.
Speaker 1: So that was her. You know, she was just hesitant.
Speaker 1: She's like, you don't have to do that, Like I
Speaker 1: don't want you to go down the same road. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult. Just be an actor more than anything. She
Speaker 1: always said, get into acting. And she wanted me to
Speaker 1: be a face model. She's like, I would live for
Speaker 1: be a model, but you're just you know, you're a
Speaker 1: little bit round and not and very short. So just
Speaker 1: be a face model. That was my mama, you know,
Speaker 1: she said. How it was so I realized that I
Speaker 1: wanted to sing for the first time when I was ten,
Speaker 1: when I went to a contest to singing contest. My
Speaker 1: grandpa was running it at a nightclub in l a
Speaker 1: And he would do it every Thursday and he would
Speaker 1: rent out this place to invite people to come sing
Speaker 1: and he would find new artists for his record label
Speaker 1: like this. One of those nights, I said, I told
Speaker 1: my mom, I want to go up there and I
Speaker 1: want to sing. I was ten years old. You guys,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they were like, okay, it's cute, just
Speaker 1: do it. But that's when I realized. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I kind of like like like I like how I
Speaker 1: feel up here and I one second place in that contest,
Speaker 1: and that's when I realized, I'm like, dude, this this
Speaker 1: is probably something I want to do. I kept it
Speaker 1: quiet for a long time, but that's when I realized,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is this is kind of cool, like
Speaker 1: what you feel when you have a microphone in your hand.
Speaker 1: So I was, yeah, ten years old, and that was
Speaker 1: I think the first time that my mom ever saw
Speaker 1: me sing in public. So in when I met Angel,
Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend, he's in the end of Street, you know,
Speaker 1: and I had told him. I had mentioned He's like,
Speaker 1: have you ever wanted to sing? I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually have. Like I talked to my mom about it,
Speaker 1: but I told him the whole story that I just
Speaker 1: told you guys. That's when I decided, Like he said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you. I want to help you make
Speaker 1: this dream come true. And he spoke to my mom
Speaker 1: and told her that he was going to help me,
Speaker 1: and he just said that. My mom's face was like uh,
Speaker 1: because again my mom was very like competitive in that sense.
Speaker 1: That she felt like, who is this guy coming into
Speaker 1: my daughter's life and now like she wanted to help me,
Speaker 1: you know, So it's kind of like I think that
Speaker 1: type of thing. So she didn't really like it, I
Speaker 1: think at first, because she wanted to be the one
Speaker 1: to help me. But she said, okay, fine, if that's
Speaker 1: what she wants to do, help her. So then I
Speaker 1: started taking vocal lessons. I started taking vocal lessons in
Speaker 1: and then I stopped because was a very difficult year
Speaker 1: for me because I had moved out in March of
Speaker 1: my mom actually kicked me out, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, read my books. And then we
Speaker 1: had a little bit of issues in September, and then
Speaker 1: she passed away in December. So I kind of took
Speaker 1: a break. And then I took a break as well
Speaker 1: because I was focused on my siblings. So then I
Speaker 1: started up my vocal lessons again. And I've had the
Speaker 1: re vocal coaches. I've learned a little bit from all
Speaker 1: of them, and it's been great. Right now, I don't
Speaker 1: have a vocal coach because my vocal coach moved far away,
Speaker 1: but I do have all my notes and I practice.
Speaker 1: I think it's very important to take vocal lessons. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how successful you are, if you are the
Speaker 1: best singer ever, having also a vocal coach in your
Speaker 1: recording sessions help you a lot, like to play with
Speaker 1: your your voice. Sometimes we get stuck in doing and
Speaker 1: finishing notes a certain way when in reality you don't
Speaker 1: know how powerful your vocal cords are. That's why I
Speaker 1: think it's important. There's all types of videos on YouTube
Speaker 1: now that can guide you and help you there. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: So if you can't necessarily afford a vocal coach right now,
Speaker 1: because it can get expensive. I actually went to one lesson.
Speaker 1: It was Demi Lovato's vocal coach, and he was charging
Speaker 1: me dollars an hour. Let me tell you he was
Speaker 1: completely worth it, but I was like five dollar an hour.
Speaker 1: That's a lot, you know what I mean. That was
Speaker 1: like three years ago, and I said, hold up, that's
Speaker 1: when I started looking into YouTube. Anyways, Guys, I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of people think, Okay, well she decided to
Speaker 1: sing after her mom passed. Uh no. That's why I
Speaker 1: was like, it's important for me to talk about this,
Speaker 1: have an episode on music because it's something that I
Speaker 1: absolutely love. It's something that I've been wanting to do
Speaker 1: for years, as you guys now know. And they may
Speaker 1: also think, okay, well, it's been really easy for her
Speaker 1: because she comes from a very famous musical family, and
Speaker 1: in reality, it's been quite the opposite. I think it
Speaker 1: would have been easier for me if I didn't have
Speaker 1: a famous mother, if I didn't have a famous family.
Speaker 1: That's just the truth. So many people think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: she she has it easy, you know, reality, I think
Speaker 1: it kind of made it more difficult because then the
Speaker 1: comparisons came and compared me to my mom, and that's
Speaker 1: where it was, like, guys, for so long, I was like,
Speaker 1: you guys need to give me the opportunity. Is my
Speaker 1: first time recording in the studio, first of all, with
Speaker 1: my first song. If you guys I have followed my career,
Speaker 1: that was my first song, and I have to admit
Speaker 1: it was not the best. If it was not I,
Speaker 1: if I could be quite frank, it was horrible, you know,
Speaker 1: but that helped me learn and grow. But if you
Speaker 1: guys listen now that we're talking about my mother, you know,
Speaker 1: Jenny Rivera, If you guys listened to my mom's first albums.
Speaker 1: You will see how different her voice was. When my
Speaker 1: mom passed, she had twenty years on me of experience
Speaker 1: of doing live concerts, of making adjustments vocally and as
Speaker 1: a performer. So when I came in, it was kind
Speaker 1: of like they expected me to just be as amazing
Speaker 1: as my mom was. But we all start somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I just felt like it was even harder. I was
Speaker 1: always going against the current. I was like, there were
Speaker 1: so many times that I was like, f this. My
Speaker 1: mom was right, it is a very difficult career, and
Speaker 1: yess the early mornings, it's a lot, and how people
Speaker 1: and how women should I say, are treated in this
Speaker 1: industry or should I say mainly in our in our genre,
Speaker 1: in my genre? It sucks, guys, it does. So my
Speaker 1: mom was completely right. That's when I went from like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like I totally understand her. I totally
Speaker 1: get it. I would even talk to her out loud
Speaker 1: and be like, Mom, you were right, but I'm in
Speaker 1: it already. And I was also taught to always finish
Speaker 1: what I start, so I said, I'm still haven't gotten
Speaker 1: to where I want to get to. I want to
Speaker 1: grab me and I caught the Grammy, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie being that it's still so difficult. Guys. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, there's so many other things
Speaker 1: that I could be doing, And I thought about it, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I already got my Grammy, thank God, do I need
Speaker 1: to continue? But there are still things that I want
Speaker 1: to accomplish. So anyways, we'll get more into that in
Speaker 1: a little bit. Coming from a family of musicians, again,
Speaker 1: I think it's been harder for me. Did I get
Speaker 1: the support that I expected that I wanted from my family? Yes,
Speaker 1: and no, it came in bits and pieces. To be honest,
Speaker 1: it has never been something that was all the way through.
Speaker 1: Not only was I getting a hard time from the
Speaker 1: world when I first started my career, but also internally
Speaker 1: in my family, it felt like in some way they
Speaker 1: thought I was my mom's competition, or that I wanted musbian,
Speaker 1: wanted to be my mom's competition, that I wanted to
Speaker 1: fill my mom's shoes, and that is has not ever
Speaker 1: been the case. Because I always say this, those shoes
Speaker 1: are so massive that not me, not another woman, not
Speaker 1: anyone can ever fill those shoes. Jennie Rivera's Jenny Rivera Selena, Selena.
Speaker 1: Those people are icons and idols and legends that no
Speaker 1: matter who comes, there will never be another Jenny Rivera.
Speaker 1: There will never be another Selena, there will never be
Speaker 1: another there will never be another Michael Jackson. People want
Speaker 1: to compare Michael Jackson with Bruno Mars and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: they're so different. Yeah, they have little similarities, but Okadakian
Speaker 1: and and it gets heavy to be compared and to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna be Jenny Rivera. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be Jenny river I want to be cheek ease. I
Speaker 1: want to be cheekies. I want you to listen to
Speaker 1: my music. I have a whole other story to tell
Speaker 1: and my old experiences through my music. That that's where like,
Speaker 1: for a long time, it was heavy, and I think
Speaker 1: certain members of my family, my extended family, thought that,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, like, I just want to try it.
Speaker 1: I want to do it. This is something that I've
Speaker 1: wanted to do and I'm not I refused to go
Speaker 1: on with my life and say I didn't do it
Speaker 1: because it was going to upset other people, or because
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done it, or because I was scared.
Speaker 1: I said I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna try it,
Speaker 1: and thank goodness, I did, because I'm very proud of
Speaker 1: how far we've come. You know, it's not where I
Speaker 1: want to be. I feel like every album, every song
Speaker 1: is better and better, and I'm my own competition. I
Speaker 1: don't see anyone else's competition. I don't look at what
Speaker 1: anyone else is doing. I praise other women. I support
Speaker 1: other women in the genre because that's what we need
Speaker 1: more of. There hasn't been enough of that, I think.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to whatever it is that I've accomplished,
Speaker 1: bring other women along with me, other very talented women,
Speaker 1: especially in my genre, so that they can also show
Speaker 1: through my platform, their voice, their talent. You know, it
Speaker 1: is a very very difficult genre for women. It just is.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. It is male dominated. I've
Speaker 1: even heard stories about women having to or have been
Speaker 1: offered to say, Okay, I'll put you on radio if
Speaker 1: you if you sleep with me. Some women have done it,
Speaker 1: some women haven't. That's none of my business, that's just
Speaker 1: the truth. Whatever. Thank god, thank goodness, I've never had
Speaker 1: to do that. I know my mom was offered a
Speaker 1: couple of times she told me herself, and of course,
Speaker 1: you guys know my mother. She's like, f you, I'm
Speaker 1: going to sleep with you if I want to sleep
Speaker 1: with you, but my vagina doesn't want you, so I'm
Speaker 1: not going to. So she got to where she got,
Speaker 1: and me too. I started my relationship with Angel, who
Speaker 1: was who's very known and has accomplished a lot in
Speaker 1: regional Mexican music before him and I met organically and
Speaker 1: throughout our relationship then you know, it just happened that
Speaker 1: he wanted to help me. But it's not like I
Speaker 1: had to sleep with him for him to help me.
Speaker 1: There was. It was an actual relationship of almost five years.
Speaker 1: But um no, thank goodness, no one has ever off
Speaker 1: for me to say, hey, you know, stuck my penis
Speaker 1: and I'll put you on the charts, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I've heard of stories, and I obviously heard of my mom's,
Speaker 1: but I have not been offered, thank the Lord. So
Speaker 1: going back to it being harder for me, I think
Speaker 1: to start my career, I felt like I was for
Speaker 1: a long time going against the current. But obviously, being
Speaker 1: born and raised in a family of musicians, it did
Speaker 1: have its perks. I know a lot about music because
Speaker 1: of my family. I did get a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of advice from my uncle's. I asked a lot
Speaker 1: of questions, I saw a lot of things. Then when
Speaker 1: we like I I can find my Donal's right away,
Speaker 1: like I'm it's something that I think, it's just in me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'm very grateful because
Speaker 1: they did, they did help pave the way, like my mother,
Speaker 1: my uncle's, my grandpa, my grandpa was huge in this.
Speaker 1: Like if it wasn't for my grandpa, none of us,
Speaker 1: I think would be or have this opportunity because he
Speaker 1: did start the Rivera dynasty. So I'm very grateful. And
Speaker 1: he's a very very smart businessman. So I learned a
Speaker 1: lot about the business through my grandpa and just kind
Speaker 1: of they did help pave the way. And in a way,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, like more people because of the Rivera
Speaker 1: last name, it was kind of like Okay, well I'll
Speaker 1: take a chance to listen to this girl, but not
Speaker 1: I think when it came to listening to especially the
Speaker 1: first song, you guys, the truth is it was not ready.
Speaker 1: The song was not supposed to come out. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, yeah, you guys are right. The song
Speaker 1: was not ready and it was not good. I think
Speaker 1: the song itself is good, but but I was not
Speaker 1: ready vocally at all. It was just a surprise. A
Speaker 1: lot of you guys may know this story, but Angel
Speaker 1: at that time wanted to surprise me with the song
Speaker 1: on the radio and he just brought it out without
Speaker 1: it being ready. So that started the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: thank him because he wanted to surprise me. But then
Speaker 1: my team, my management was just like, what the heck.
Speaker 1: It just kind of I feel like we started asked backwards.
Speaker 1: So anyways, if you guys want to know a little
Speaker 1: bit about that, I just mentioned it in my first book, Forgiveness,
Speaker 1: so you guys can go ahead and read the details
Speaker 1: as to how I started my career and what happened. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for him. Everything happened the way it was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen. And yes, I just feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I come from a family of musicians, people expected
Speaker 1: me to sing this certain way or seeing like some
Speaker 1: of my family members are seeing like my mother, and
Speaker 1: that's why it was a little harder. It was. There
Speaker 1: was a via and they had I guess something to
Speaker 1: compare it with, which is why it was more difficult.
Speaker 1: But I like to take the positive out of things,
Speaker 1: and the truth is that I did learn a lot
Speaker 1: that I am very grateful that I had almost all
Speaker 1: my family to see everything that they did, to learn
Speaker 1: from everything that they did, to learn from their mistakes
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, no, so I'm I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for that for sure. I'm asked this question all the time,
Speaker 1: like why do I think that it's harder for women
Speaker 1: in in regional Mexican music? And I thought about it
Speaker 1: a lot, and first of all, I think the women
Speaker 1: for a long time in this industry, they felt like
Speaker 1: there was only one spot, only one woman. Why it's
Speaker 1: like that, I have no idea, but for years it's
Speaker 1: like everyone, all women are fighting for that one spot.
Speaker 1: And that's something that I've wanted to change since I
Speaker 1: started singing, and I stepped into this into this genre
Speaker 1: because I felt like, why is it that we can't
Speaker 1: be like the urbano side of things, those genres that
Speaker 1: women collaborate together. And that's what I did it for
Speaker 1: the first time in my in my playlist album, I
Speaker 1: said I want three women that I admire that I
Speaker 1: love on one song. It's never happened. Why. I don't
Speaker 1: understand why it hasn't happened in so many years. And
Speaker 1: there's so much talent, so many talented women. A lot
Speaker 1: of them are my friends. And at first it was
Speaker 1: kind of like it was just like this tension when
Speaker 1: I first started singing. But then I gone tempo. I
Speaker 1: started reaching out and I'm like, hey, peace and love guys,
Speaker 1: like let's be cool. A lot of them have been awesome.
Speaker 1: There have been a few that have been bitches, to
Speaker 1: be honest, but whatever, I've tried, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to do that something for the first time. And I
Speaker 1: think for a long time, one of the main things
Speaker 1: is not enough women in the genre support each other
Speaker 1: and empower each other. I think that's been a thing,
Speaker 1: and this whole idea of their just being one spot
Speaker 1: for women because it is a male dominated, like especially
Speaker 1: music banda Artho, it's like that's for men, like women
Speaker 1: shouldn't be singing, that women should be singing and mariachi
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because that's more of an elegant
Speaker 1: type of of music, you could say, but that's a
Speaker 1: little bit more rugged. It's it's if you want to
Speaker 1: call it ghetto, call it ghetto, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it. But I think for a long time, especially Bond,
Speaker 1: that women that's singing band that specifically, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like it's like you're competing against all these men, and
Speaker 1: there are a lot of men. I mean, also the
Speaker 1: women that are in high positions in radio or high
Speaker 1: positions and now digital platforms. I feel like those women,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but support men more
Speaker 1: than women. And that's just the truth. And that's what
Speaker 1: I've noticed, and it sucks. And the men that are
Speaker 1: in those positions. Even if there are women that want
Speaker 1: to support our music and want to play our music
Speaker 1: or add us two playlists, there are men that stop it. Why.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's just very sexist. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like this is a man's world. Is music.
Speaker 1: For a long time, they criticize my mom for singing carrillos.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness for for her hard work. She made it possible,
Speaker 1: She made it possible for it to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more okay, But it has been a struggle, and
Speaker 1: I think right now it's better than it ever has
Speaker 1: been because I think we're a little bit more adamant
Speaker 1: and intentional about supporting one another as women, and that's
Speaker 1: something that I'm very proud to say. I think I
Speaker 1: was one of the first, if not the first, to
Speaker 1: share women's music on my social media, to collaborate with
Speaker 1: other women in my genre. Like for me, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Likesrio, and for me, it's like, I can't
Speaker 1: take away what you have and you can't take away
Speaker 1: what I have, So why don't we just get together
Speaker 1: and make this bigger? You know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: that's just the truth. And that's something that I've tried
Speaker 1: to just with the year, is just really really not
Speaker 1: just talk about it, but be about it. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think also women, other women that
Speaker 1: listen to this music should support more women in the industry.
Speaker 1: I get it, like there's a lot of man I
Speaker 1: think it's easier for a woman to go to a
Speaker 1: man's concert and admire him for obviously the way he sings,
Speaker 1: but you know, if he's handsome or his package or
Speaker 1: whatever the hell, but for another woman to support go
Speaker 1: to another woman's concert. So that's another thing. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot of different things anyways, Guys, I can honestly
Speaker 1: tell you yes, it's been a tough road with lots
Speaker 1: of bumps and obstacles and corrects in the pavement in
Speaker 1: my music career. But I'm very very grateful. I'm very happy.
Speaker 1: I feel very proud of myself. Every album has been
Speaker 1: a learning experience. With my first album, aut Am, I
Speaker 1: was still trying to find myself. I was able to
Speaker 1: experiment with different sounds, trying to find where I felt
Speaker 1: the best. I invested a lot of ridiculous money on
Speaker 1: that album, very unnecessary, but I learned then was completely
Speaker 1: banda and I felt like, this is what I like.
Speaker 1: This is Cinario and sing bandait like honestly excites me.
Speaker 1: I love listening to it. I love here at my house.
Speaker 1: It's just something that makes me happy. So I feel
Speaker 1: like in my second album, I kind of just got it,
Speaker 1: and then I wrote a little bit more in there.
Speaker 1: I felt like that was like the first time where
Speaker 1: I felt Okay, I'm getting confident, I'm getting better. And
Speaker 1: then playlist was a little bit like Aura, you know,
Speaker 1: because I had a little bit of a mix. It's
Speaker 1: it's a playlist of music of chickens music. That's when
Speaker 1: we got the Latin Grammy. You guys, so I feel
Speaker 1: very proud of With my third album, I felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I learned from my first and my second. What am
Speaker 1: I going to do different? I want to mix and
Speaker 1: master everything from the sounds, like listening to it in
Speaker 1: my car, just learning, Okay, this is my vocal range,
Speaker 1: this is where my voice sounds the best, and this
Speaker 1: is where I'm going to stay. There's no need to
Speaker 1: try to show off and sing crazy. Hi. The good
Speaker 1: thing is I can I can sing very low. A
Speaker 1: lot of women can't. I can sing very low, and
Speaker 1: I can sing really high if I wanted to. But
Speaker 1: I finally found like this is where it's at. This
Speaker 1: is like where I feel good, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what's the biggest difference with my first and second album.
Speaker 1: With the third album playlist, I felt like I got it,
Speaker 1: Like I got a grip on this and I'm proud.
Speaker 1: I feel like, without a doubt in my mind, playlist
Speaker 1: deserved that Latin Grammy. No matter what anyone wants to say,
Speaker 1: no matter what anyone wants to think, I don't give
Speaker 1: an f for that. I would get like two middle
Speaker 1: fingers up in the air. To those that want to
Speaker 1: criticize and want to say that I bought the damn Grammy,
Speaker 1: how do you even buy a Grammy? First of all,
Speaker 1: that's crazy whatever. Say what you want, but if you
Speaker 1: listen to the album, all the songs from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end, the way I chose every song, the
Speaker 1: flow of the songs, the sound, those are things that
Speaker 1: the academy, the Latin Grammy Academy, listened to. And I
Speaker 1: went in there with that intention, Like recording that album,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm to win a Lentin Crammey. I put
Speaker 1: all the energy, I put in, all the work. I
Speaker 1: was like, I learned, I took lessons, I asked people like.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, wait a second, Like what is
Speaker 1: it that the academy looks for? And I followed those guidelines.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool, this is what I want.
Speaker 1: This is what I want to accomplish. And we did it.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't want to invest, especially
Speaker 1: in regional They don't want to invest the money to
Speaker 1: perfect their craft. And that's something that I'm all about.
Speaker 1: I'm all about investing, about investing your money, especially in
Speaker 1: your craft. And for me, that album was everything. It
Speaker 1: was number three. The number three is huge for me.
Speaker 1: You guys know, I believe a lot of numerology, So
Speaker 1: I invested that extra money to master everything at the
Speaker 1: same level, the same sound, where everything felt like it
Speaker 1: was in your face and not behind you. There's just
Speaker 1: so much to it. But anyways, bottom line is, I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of myself. I'm very proud, and I can
Speaker 1: honestly say I enjoy listening to my songs now. I
Speaker 1: think my first album is a little difficult for me
Speaker 1: to listen to certain songs, but hey, I was just
Speaker 1: starting especially Banca. It's a song that I love because
Speaker 1: I wrote it for my mom. But it's I want
Speaker 1: to rerecord that song with day guys. I want to
Speaker 1: rerecord that song so bad because it deserves it. The
Speaker 1: song is beautiful. It's a beautiful song. It's it's I
Speaker 1: wrote it from the bottom of my heart. But it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to listen to be honest, But now
Speaker 1: I can tell you that I listened to my music.
Speaker 1: I listened to the songs that I'm recording right now,
Speaker 1: this album that's coming. I'm very fucking proud. I can
Speaker 1: say Wow, I enjoy I I listen to and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's even better than me problemma. And it's so different
Speaker 1: from Galia, which are songs that are gonna come out
Speaker 1: on this album. And I'm just like, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm my own competition. I'm like, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: It's bettering yourself. What can you do to better yourself
Speaker 1: in your craft? Keep learning, keep striving for that knowledge,
Speaker 1: whether you're a singer, whether or whether you're a cosmatologist,
Speaker 1: whether you do nails for a living, whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: It is so important to keep learning, to want to learn,
Speaker 1: to ever feel comfortable and say, Okay, well yeah cool,
Speaker 1: I got Latin Grammy. I'm just gonna chill. No now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this album has to be better than playlist
Speaker 1: that want the Latin Grammy because I want to just
Speaker 1: prove it to myself. And and this album is so
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for it. I can't wait for you
Speaker 1: guys to listen to it. Anyways, Guys, I can honestly
Speaker 1: say that the it's been a great team. I have
Speaker 1: a great team behind me. I can't do any of
Speaker 1: this by myself. I am so grateful with everyone with anywhere,
Speaker 1: from my assistant only to to my manager to Mivanda
Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm just gonna right now, I'm focusing on
Speaker 1: this next album. I think for me, I want to
Speaker 1: do a tour. To be honest, I want to do
Speaker 1: a tour in Mexico and Los Nidos, and I have
Speaker 1: a few things on my vision board, things that I
Speaker 1: want to accomplish, a few sold outs that I want.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I am doing what I can.
Speaker 1: I I've learned to set goals, but just focus in
Speaker 1: the moment, and right now, the moment is finishing this album,
Speaker 1: getting my tour ready. We start April ten in the
Speaker 1: Polo Casino. I have some dates in the States as
Speaker 1: well as in Mexico, and I'm just going to let
Speaker 1: it be and I'm just taking a day by day
Speaker 1: right now when it comes to this, because I really
Speaker 1: need to finish this album. With this album, Aberna. As
Speaker 1: those of you that listen to my music may know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the songs that I write are about
Speaker 1: something that I've lived, something that I'm feeling in the moment.
Speaker 1: The first song is the first love song that I
Speaker 1: sing that I really like and it's a cover. But
Speaker 1: I think, more than anything, what inspires me to write
Speaker 1: to record the songs that I record, the songs that
Speaker 1: I even sing live, even if they're not my own,
Speaker 1: it's just I need to feel them. I don't know
Speaker 1: if a lot of artists are like that. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of artists just can sing songs and whether
Speaker 1: they've been through that or not. For me, it's super important.
Speaker 1: I have this saying I've shared here with you guys too.
Speaker 1: What comes from the heart reaches the heart. So if
Speaker 1: I feel that song in my heart, even if I'm
Speaker 1: not living that situation in the moment, if I lived
Speaker 1: it two years ago, I still can sing that song
Speaker 1: on stage like I'm going through it in that moment.
Speaker 1: What I write to there's a corrido coming. I think
Speaker 1: this is the first corrido. Actually, no, the second corrido,
Speaker 1: because the first one is La that I wrote, and
Speaker 1: then which is the name of the album, is also corrido. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean in but I felt like I was ready.
Speaker 1: I felt like, Okay, I've been holding onto this song
Speaker 1: for a little bit for like I don't almost two years.
Speaker 1: I think because I wasn't ready, I need to feel ready, like, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I can every word in this song. I can go
Speaker 1: up there and say, hell yeah, I'm that bitch. So
Speaker 1: I feel like now I feel like I'm that bitch,
Speaker 1: Like I have gotten this far, Like I'm happy, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of myself, like I enjoy being on stage. I
Speaker 1: don't care what anyone has to say. I'm all like,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you guys want to criticize me,
Speaker 1: go to one of my concerts and then you'll see
Speaker 1: what I'm all about on stage. So now I'm like,
Speaker 1: be quiet, go ahead, say what you will. It's a
Speaker 1: part of it. I've learned that people are going to
Speaker 1: criticize regardless, even Taylor Swift, who I think is amazing.
Speaker 1: She's thin and beautiful and is amazing and amazing performer
Speaker 1: and singer, and she's always getting criticized for one reason
Speaker 1: or another. When I saw that, I'm like, dude, this
Speaker 1: is just part of it. We have to understand anyone
Speaker 1: that wants to be a singer, wants to step into
Speaker 1: this world, this industry needs to know if they're going
Speaker 1: to be people that love your music and they're going
Speaker 1: to people that don't. And that's it. Like we have
Speaker 1: to be okay with those things. It's part of it.
Speaker 1: All The haters are part of everything. There's always gonna
Speaker 1: be naysayers and people that are trying to bring you down,
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of like it's just part of it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it really shows like
Speaker 1: what you're made of if you can get through all
Speaker 1: that and keep going. And I think that's why, more
Speaker 1: than anything, I feel very proud of myself. My album,
Speaker 1: my fourth album, is what I want to focus on
Speaker 1: and my tour. Start my tour this year. But if
Speaker 1: we're looking, you know, five years down the road, I
Speaker 1: want to have a couple more albums, I believe it
Speaker 1: or not. I want a Christian album. I want and
Speaker 1: feel the need. I have one song that I want
Speaker 1: to sing. It's in English that I I have for God.
Speaker 1: He's a huge part of everything that I do, as
Speaker 1: you guys know. So I want to do like conferences
Speaker 1: or like seminars that like Tony Robbins, you know that
Speaker 1: last two or three days. I have that in my mind.
Speaker 1: I have ideas for two more books, not memoirs. I
Speaker 1: want to stay away from the os for a while,
Speaker 1: but I do have two ideas that I I already
Speaker 1: talked to to my book agent and I want to
Speaker 1: work on I want to show you guys. I also
Speaker 1: want to show a panel show of not only women.
Speaker 1: But I have this whole idea. I can't really say
Speaker 1: much because I'm all about protecting, you know, but I
Speaker 1: do want like a panel show where we just kind
Speaker 1: of like a podcast, but like it could be probably
Speaker 1: a podcast with other people. Oh my God, to be awesome, right,
Speaker 1: and like have the cameras there. We could be in
Speaker 1: our pajamas, I don't know, but just talk about all
Speaker 1: kinds of ship and get the opinion of so many
Speaker 1: different people. So I have so many dreams, you guys,
Speaker 1: and so many things that I want to accomplish. And
Speaker 1: today when I was I had my vision board and
Speaker 1: I was cleansing it with Baralosanto and I was lighting
Speaker 1: my candles. I was like, Okay, God, protect everything that
Speaker 1: I want to do, and may your will be done,
Speaker 1: because there's so many things that I want to do,
Speaker 1: but sometimes we were meant to do other things. So
Speaker 1: I'm just going with the flow. But those are some
Speaker 1: of my dreams and I share them with you guys
Speaker 1: because I know the people that listen to this podcast
Speaker 1: and to my podcast. Have all send me good vibes,
Speaker 1: So send me a good vibes, guys, get the little
Speaker 1: oh look at But I have a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be a mom. Guys, in five years, I
Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't know. Maybe I'll be a mom.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the thing. Maybe I have all these things
Speaker 1: and then I become a mom and then like I
Speaker 1: just focus on my child. But knowing me, I love
Speaker 1: to work, so highly doubt it. Maybe for a year
Speaker 1: I'll focus on the kid. Briannest my producer. Guys, she
Speaker 1: just asked me a question now that we're talking about kids,
Speaker 1: if I would want my kids to be in this industry. Guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a very good question. Now I
Speaker 1: understand my mom more than ever, you guys, more than ever.
Speaker 1: Things that I was so hard on her about and
Speaker 1: I was a bit critical, I'll be honest where I
Speaker 1: was tough on her, like why aren't you here for birthdays?
Speaker 1: And this and this and that, and even when she
Speaker 1: hit I don't know if it was necessarily a fan,
Speaker 1: but someone in the audience he was pulling her hand
Speaker 1: and she hit him with the microphone. I didn't understand
Speaker 1: that at first. I was like, Mom, you're an artist,
Speaker 1: Like you can't be doing those things and all this
Speaker 1: stuff because they pressed charges in the whole thing, right,
Speaker 1: So I was kind of like hard on her, and
Speaker 1: she's like, well, you don't know, like at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I'm a woman, and I'm like, now
Speaker 1: I get it. Guys. Now I'm like, dude, if someone
Speaker 1: were to throw someone and I've done this before on
Speaker 1: stage where they've thrown something, or if they've said something
Speaker 1: to me in the crowd and I stopped the whole
Speaker 1: show and I'm like, get this person out. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna disrespect me. And I think of my mom in
Speaker 1: that moment. I'm like, oh my god, because now I
Speaker 1: get it. Now I am on stage, now, I'm singing. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm a woman in this industry. And she was absolutely right,
Speaker 1: it's not easy. So if my daughter grew up and
Speaker 1: wanted to be a singer, I would definitely support her.
Speaker 1: I would definitely want to manage her or at least
Speaker 1: be there with her. I would support her and and
Speaker 1: guide her as my as I can. But I would
Speaker 1: tell her woman, Mom said, I would say, it's not easy.
Speaker 1: It's tough. Be ready. You have to have a hard
Speaker 1: shell and a soft heart, and you've got to toughen
Speaker 1: up because I will be honest. This this career, this industry,
Speaker 1: I think more than anything has. I'm different now, and
Speaker 1: I am and I can admit that I was so naive,
Speaker 1: so gullible when I started, and this career, Mapolio, It's
Speaker 1: made me like I have tougher skin like now. I
Speaker 1: guess it is the music that I sing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You feel like you have to be strong and you
Speaker 1: have to show these men I can do this too,
Speaker 1: So it just does something to you. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to explain it. I don't regret it because I
Speaker 1: feel like we are evolving, like we need to, like
Speaker 1: that's just part of life, is evolving. But I do
Speaker 1: see a different cheekys and not necessarily in a bad way,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'd rather be this way and
Speaker 1: be more alert and be masileista you know, like I
Speaker 1: can bullshit now than before. I was just very naive
Speaker 1: and very like a pushover, a people pleaser, and like
Speaker 1: this industry will do that to you. And now I
Speaker 1: understand my mom. Now I understand her she would always
Speaker 1: say this career made me a bit, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I would. I'm telling you, I would tell her Mom,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. You shouldn't do that. And
Speaker 1: now I'm like, Mom, I'm sorry, I get it. I
Speaker 1: fucking get it now, like I get it, and I
Speaker 1: have compassion. Honestly, I have compassion for her, and I
Speaker 1: thank her because yes, she wasn't there for some birthday,
Speaker 1: she wasn't there for some holidays, but she was the
Speaker 1: motor of our family. And sometimes now I have to
Speaker 1: miss Jennica's birthday sometimes, or I can't be there for
Speaker 1: certain holidays because I'm working, and it's like I gotta
Speaker 1: do what I gotta do. I gotta pay my bills.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, Mom, thank you, like my respects
Speaker 1: to you and your hard work, and you did it.
Speaker 1: That's why I always say she's my teacher, she's my
Speaker 1: life professor. Guys, it takes a lot of balls or ovadios,
Speaker 1: like my mom would say to admit that. But hey,
Speaker 1: you guys know how I am very honest and upfront
Speaker 1: and I can tell you guys the way it is
Speaker 1: because I have nothing to hide, and it's a part
Speaker 1: of my growth, and I'm not ashamed of it. So
Speaker 1: mom my hat goes off to your the bomb. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: I hope you've learned a lot about me and my career,
Speaker 1: and I hope I've also inspired some of you to
Speaker 1: follow your dreams. Today's motivational Monday quote is exactly that,
Speaker 1: and it goes a little something like this. It says, courage.
Speaker 1: If you have a dream, you need to follow it,
Speaker 1: and not just follow it, but chase after it, sprint
Speaker 1: towards it, go towards it with passion, with the fighting spirit,
Speaker 1: with the courage to do whatever it takes to make
Speaker 1: it happen. Too many people are walking around with silent
Speaker 1: dreams because they shoved them aside. Too many times, they
Speaker 1: told their dreams that they were too big, too unrealistic,
Speaker 1: too impossible. Don't let that be you. You do have
Speaker 1: the strength, You are capable, You do have what it takes.
Speaker 1: You can accomplish even your wildest dreams. Your only question
Speaker 1: is do you have a few tiny moments of courage
Speaker 1: to say yes? Guys, listen to that again. More than anything,
Speaker 1: what I wanted for this episode was to inspire and
Speaker 1: encourage you guys to follow your dreams, no matter what
Speaker 1: is said, no matter if people say you should or
Speaker 1: shouldn't do it. It's what you're meant to do. Again,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to another episode of Chickens and Chill.
Speaker 1: I appreciate each and every one of my listeners. I
Speaker 1: am so grateful and yeah, I have a great week, guys,
Speaker 1: and I will catch you next week. This is a
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