Speaker 1: I was going to nobody who was really famous. I
Speaker 1: was going for real music, real people, and you know,
Speaker 1: to keep some of the legacy, especially for given music,
Speaker 1: because that's my heritage. It's a beautiful thing to have.
Speaker 1: You know. The family is important, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: For me, it's the biggest production. And when I was leaving,
Speaker 1: I got the bag and the like. They say, you
Speaker 1: could be famous, but you have to pay the bill. Now,
Speaker 1: you know price Sometimes it's not to get a diploma.
Speaker 1: Price when you accomplish something and you share with other people.
Speaker 1: My dad told me one day, the best feeling in
Speaker 1: the world is when you give something to somebody. The
Speaker 1: worst feeling what you had to ask. Money is important,
Speaker 1: and success is important, but I think to be happy
Speaker 1: and to feel, I mean that you did something for
Speaker 1: the community, for global is an incredible thing. I never
Speaker 1: got to sleep if I feel I have to tell
Speaker 1: you something that you have to hear. I don't like
Speaker 1: to hold anything for anybody, because I think that's what
Speaker 1: should be set used to tell me. You can sell records,
Speaker 1: you cannot buy love. I say, if you don't sign her,
Speaker 1: you don't get you Ennifer Love. You don't get Shack
Speaker 1: and you don't get glorious seff marketing. But it was
Speaker 1: a crazy idea. I got on a boat that was
Speaker 1: only like twenty two feet, very small boat, and we
Speaker 1: got lost for seven days without food and water.
Speaker 2: And my mom was pregnant.
Speaker 1: Was pregnant? I mean, Sacha told me that. Well, look
Speaker 1: the way you went to school, I said, Miami High Season. Man,
Speaker 1: I never go there. They never teach you English.
Speaker 2: Oh Sacha, what a little twirch. Welcome earthling space worms, Senora,
Speaker 2: senoras and everything in between. The truth is, I could
Speaker 2: sit here and only talk about the human being on
Speaker 2: the couch with us today, and that would be way
Speaker 2: more than a gift to us. All I could talk
Speaker 2: about the way he's been married to his wife for
Speaker 2: forty six and a half years, wow, and he's still
Speaker 2: leaving notes love notes on her nightstand and in her luggage.
Speaker 2: The way he works twelve hours a day and still
Speaker 2: drops off medicine for his daughter and her partner on
Speaker 2: the way home. And the way he waits except at
Speaker 2: five am to feed stray animals that probably wouldn't consider
Speaker 2: themselves straight at all, considering they have better mattresses than
Speaker 2: most of us, not to mention what he's managed to
Speaker 2: achieve in other ways. It would be a shame to
Speaker 2: not list those accomplishments, because they are just as rare
Speaker 2: as his soul.
Speaker 3: We are in the presence of a living legend, with
Speaker 3: an astonishing nineteen Grammy Awards, a Presidential Medal of Freedom,
Speaker 3: induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, a star
Speaker 3: on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and so much more.
Speaker 3: Emilio is not just a producer. He's a musical and
Speaker 3: artistic architect who has helped shape the global soundscape for
Speaker 3: over four decades, writing and creating the soundtrack to our Lives,
Speaker 3: working with supernovas including Shakira, Reggie Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony,
Speaker 3: Celia Gruz, Carlos Vives, the Whalers, Gloria and Emily Is, Stefan,
Speaker 3: Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Carlos Santana, and the list goes on,
Speaker 3: and contributing to some of the biggest movies of all time,
Speaker 3: including Top Gun, The Special, Anastasia, The Little Mermaid, and
Speaker 3: so many more.
Speaker 2: But why is he truly the best? Because he's my
Speaker 2: pops and a grandpa and a husband and a son,
Speaker 2: and trust me, one of the best ones to ever
Speaker 2: exist in all of the galaxies, including here in outer space.
Speaker 2: And that's probably the accolade if you asked him, he'd
Speaker 2: be most proud of. Please welcome to outer space the
Speaker 2: one and only my Poppy because.
Speaker 1: She's my daughter. I love her fool So you know,
Speaker 1: say what you get. I mean when you have it,
Speaker 1: such a beautiful family. But you know, the only thing
Speaker 1: I can tell you, I never see a give on astronaut.
Speaker 1: I can tell you.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you're the first. For those of you out there,
Speaker 3: this conversation is going to be in Spanglish, so you're
Speaker 3: gonna hear a little bit of English, so get ready for.
Speaker 2: Maybe another language the world. It was a lot about you,
Speaker 2: and that's good. You're somebody that should be studied for many, many,
Speaker 2: many many years, not only because of, like we mentioned,
Speaker 2: what you've accomplished, but who you are inside. I think
Speaker 2: that's what truly makes you out of this world. And
Speaker 2: there's a few things about you that we know or
Speaker 2: that maybe you haven't talked about. A lot that I
Speaker 2: would love to ask you today, starting with everybody knows
Speaker 2: Miami Sandwichine and everybody knows Mom. Everybody knows Miami Latin
Speaker 2: Boys even but can you tell us about El conjunto Kapatio.
Speaker 1: Co hunt Kapeta was something that you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to be an advansition when I was in Cuba and
Speaker 1: we used to play when everybody went to launch it.
Speaker 1: You know, in Santiago de Cuba, we used to bring
Speaker 1: all the kids around to your Goman performer and then
Speaker 1: the only thing available wasn't.
Speaker 2: Accordion And how old were you?
Speaker 1: I was probably eleven years old, wow, twelve years old.
Speaker 1: But it was a tough time at the same time
Speaker 1: because I will haven't the best time of my life.
Speaker 1: But I made a decision at eleven years old to
Speaker 1: go leave Cuba to save my family, not to get
Speaker 1: any military as so realistic and sometimes probably you don't know,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to confront life when you're eleven years old.
Speaker 1: You have to make a decision to live knowing that
Speaker 1: pro you will never see your family again. But if
Speaker 1: I could stay at the time, that could be the
Speaker 1: end of my family. To stay in a communist country.
Speaker 1: My music was what I saved my life. I think
Speaker 1: that's the reason I done so many great things from music.
Speaker 1: Because you know, when you do something you love, that's
Speaker 1: the man thing and life and to me was a
Speaker 1: blessing many years after real and I with a family.
Speaker 1: I have a beautiful marriage and my family is a
Speaker 1: beautiful family. I have the best daughter in my whole life.
Speaker 1: I love you too, so you know, it's a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to have. You know, the family is important, Believe
Speaker 1: it or not. The family is extremely important for me.
Speaker 1: It's spent for me. It's the biggest production. So what
Speaker 1: you're talking only to accordion conga take guitar. You know something.
Speaker 1: We became really famous and there was time you know,
Speaker 1: believe it or all that. You know, they after three years,
Speaker 1: I mean the the bis A game, we left to Spain.
Speaker 1: It was incredible because you know, getting too Spain, living
Speaker 1: with a beautiful family, and you know, I tell this
Speaker 1: story because people need to know your life can change
Speaker 1: in one minute and a flight to spend eight hours.
Speaker 1: When I got there, we was almost homeless, and we
Speaker 1: used to go to a church for food and you know,
Speaker 1: and I used to eat it between Monday and Friday.
Speaker 1: I used to go to the church where I call
Speaker 1: the given people and then afterwards, I mean Sari and Sonday.
Speaker 1: So a guy played the accordion and went there. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot of given people coming to
Speaker 1: Madrid and the guy who plays a night, but I
Speaker 1: can come for lunch and you give it food for
Speaker 1: me and my dad. You know it will be okay.
Speaker 1: And you know it was in the way it was
Speaker 1: a blessing because I wasn't enjoying playing the accordion, but
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I got free food. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: need to know Latinos, especially we look, you know, we
Speaker 1: do so many things to save her family and to
Speaker 1: do things beautiful things. I also wanted to make a
Speaker 1: contribution to you know, to Latinos and to Latino's families
Speaker 1: and to this incredible country that we live. That is
Speaker 1: an incredible thing to do. I always say, always a
Speaker 1: new kid a labuy, I say, God, bless America. It's
Speaker 1: a blessing, I'm going to tell you, because to live
Speaker 1: in freedom is the main thing that you can have.
Speaker 2: That's true. Well, and there aren't a lot of places
Speaker 2: in this world right now that experience that freedom. But
Speaker 2: also the freedom that you've given your family and your
Speaker 2: children by making that sacrifice. That a lot of us
Speaker 2: out there listening. You know, probably family share the same story. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we have a lot of people like that. But
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing. I mean, when you accomplish a
Speaker 1: lot of things in the long run, what you want
Speaker 1: to leave is a legacy to you, which is the
Speaker 1: more important thing in my whole life, you and my grandson,
Speaker 1: of course, my wife and you know, the family. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a beautiful thing to have, you know,
Speaker 1: to accomplish and create something that people. People are so
Speaker 1: nice to me and in to glory I go out
Speaker 1: of people give me kiss and thank you God, blessing.
Speaker 1: It's so nice that it was, you know, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, make music and you know it's a beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful You do a lot more than but
Speaker 3: we can leave it there.
Speaker 1: It was nice. The other there went to a place
Speaker 1: and you know, I went to gets on the sellars
Speaker 1: for the kids that made the mosticus in the studio
Speaker 1: it was and guy said, Ali said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: hell and he was so loud. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of people come from the kitchen the beauty parlo. I
Speaker 1: mean it was like forty people I took, like, you know,
Speaker 1: forty pictures and when I was leaving, I got the
Speaker 1: back and they like they say, you could be famous,
Speaker 1: but you have to pay the bill now.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you know this, but this
Speaker 3: is actually your fifth appearance on in our own world.
Speaker 3: You came on for a father of the bride for
Speaker 3: a second. We did a prank call with you.
Speaker 2: The first daughter the.
Speaker 1: Association of you know, she has like an incredible timing
Speaker 1: and getting air plane. She said, you know you want
Speaker 1: the best, said, you know, food and wine, and thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Say you're going to be careful with you.
Speaker 3: We also did a club we did had a little
Speaker 3: cameo of you, and so it really is a pleasure
Speaker 3: to have you.
Speaker 1: Yes, pay me, pay me.
Speaker 3: We paid him in.
Speaker 2: On that after your famous days and which capito is
Speaker 2: also what well my grandpa and I heard today actually
Speaker 2: in a reconnaissance.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're doing some research.
Speaker 2: Yes that cap three stooges three.
Speaker 1: Ye, your grandfather won the lottery twenty seven times.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Was the luckiest guy in the whole world, Like he
Speaker 1: died with one perachuse and monso because he gave his
Speaker 1: money away to all the poor people in the world.
Speaker 1: He was a great role model for me as a
Speaker 1: person because he left the prize. You know, price sometimes
Speaker 1: not to get a diploma, apply a price when you
Speaker 1: accomplish something and you you share with other people. My
Speaker 1: dad told me one day, the best feeling in the
Speaker 1: world is when you give something to somebody. The word feeling.
Speaker 1: What you had to ask now the way he did,
Speaker 1: Kapitia was a guy and that was a bad guy,
Speaker 1: and then he played the role that said, listen, Kapeti,
Speaker 1: you say, a good guy give money to everybody. He
Speaker 1: wanted to change his name because he likes the guy
Speaker 1: and it was only like you know something on radio,
Speaker 1: But you know, that's the only reason in his mind
Speaker 1: he wanted to do that. And then he sticked with
Speaker 1: us a nickname.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well didn't you. You told me one time of
Speaker 3: story that you grabbed money from one of the times
Speaker 3: he won the lotto and you opened up a shoe factory.
Speaker 3: No underwear, underwear factory.
Speaker 1: He did. He did that in Cuba. I mean, but
Speaker 1: I did hear when I would When I came from Cuba,
Speaker 1: I grew up with a Bacardi family. I was sixteen
Speaker 1: years old and I needed to work, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I went as a police I need work, and
Speaker 1: you know, they put me as an office boy. And
Speaker 1: then I remember I used to go early in the
Speaker 1: money to make coffee for everybody. I said, monded to
Speaker 1: come here coffee. And then it was a lady said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, a midio, I need to bring the
Speaker 1: kids to the school. I don't have the money. And
Speaker 1: he said, you know something. One day she comes to
Speaker 1: I just want the lottery. I said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy. I made a special coffee. I say,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Thirty minutes later my dad called me said,
Speaker 1: come home, we just want the lottery from Perrico. Oh
Speaker 1: you know what I did. I put some money. I
Speaker 1: put it, I saying something we are long here. Something
Speaker 1: happened to me or it didn't happened to you. I
Speaker 1: want to be sure. You said some money. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we put into some stuff from Bacardy. Wow, so you know,
Speaker 1: I was, it's only five people in the world. I
Speaker 1: want to say, lead a piece of briccardiy, I mean
Speaker 1: my thing. It's very small, but I owned that and
Speaker 1: I was a I mean then Bacardi board, the grey
Speaker 1: use patrols, so many other things. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: think in the long term, what is going to happen,
Speaker 1: because what happened to me. I never wanted them to
Speaker 1: have that problem, my family and my kids, because it's
Speaker 1: really hard to lose everything in hey hours that you fly.
Speaker 1: Because one person, I mean one person, I would never
Speaker 1: like to say his name, change the history of Cuba.
Speaker 1: How it's still people suffering in Cuba, How people still
Speaker 1: don't have the freedom, how people don't have food, you know,
Speaker 1: which is a horrible thing.
Speaker 2: Horrible. So you mentioned earlier when you left your family
Speaker 2: in Cuba, right, And one of the other incredible things
Speaker 2: that you and mom have done is the Broadway show
Speaker 2: On Your Feet, which not only had an amazing run
Speaker 2: on Broadway, but it's traveling all the world. Has been
Speaker 2: translated into a Maria out of languages, and there's a
Speaker 2: very powerful scene in the show where you're at the
Speaker 2: airport and you're holding a photo and you leave your family.
Speaker 2: Did that really happen or was it something.
Speaker 1: Like that happens? Because my grandfather knew that I would
Speaker 1: never see him again. I said this picture, so you
Speaker 1: remember me like that? So many people happens. It's only
Speaker 1: Latinos you're talking about Jewish people, I'm Italian people. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people need to make a move in life, you know,
Speaker 1: to make a better life from their family. And I
Speaker 1: knew I got it to I have to go to
Speaker 1: Cuba at the time, because you know, it was very
Speaker 1: difficult to stay thinking that, you know, getting too fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, you get in a military action. But I
Speaker 1: really realized it. I never went in a bike or
Speaker 1: skate because you know, my childhood was worrying how am
Speaker 1: I going to live my family? And like that is
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of people from many countries,
Speaker 1: a lot of people from many many countries. I go
Speaker 1: to that kind of pain, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: I hope that the world they learned to make things
Speaker 1: better for everybody and get to a better world when
Speaker 1: it comes to it. Sometimes because one person can change
Speaker 1: the life of many people. Look what happened to go,
Speaker 1: I say, dictator for many, many.
Speaker 2: Years, and look at you.
Speaker 3: You're one person who has changed the world for better.
Speaker 2: For a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy because you know, we always work. I mean,
Speaker 1: money is important, and so says it's important. But I
Speaker 1: think to be happy and to feel I mean that
Speaker 1: you did something for the community for Global is an
Speaker 1: incredible thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're amazing. A few weeks ago, your niece Lily
Speaker 3: was receiving her Hollywood Star and we heard a story
Speaker 3: that I've heard a couple of times, but I don't
Speaker 3: think everybody has heard. If you want to share it
Speaker 3: with people, I think they would really love to hear
Speaker 3: it of how you essentially rescue them Lily and and
Speaker 3: Michi and Papo, your brother from Cuba. What was what
Speaker 3: was that like?
Speaker 1: Well, that was the first time came. I mean I
Speaker 1: never said that to anybody because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was receiving the.
Speaker 1: Start and she mentioned that she was leaving a safe
Speaker 1: country because when Cuba opened Maria, that was the only
Speaker 1: chance that I got to get them out. It was
Speaker 1: twenty years. There was long It's not what they was
Speaker 1: going out, but it was a crazy idea. I got
Speaker 1: on the boat that was only like twenty two feet,
Speaker 1: a very small boat, and we got lost for seven
Speaker 1: days without food and.
Speaker 2: Water, and my mom was pregnant.
Speaker 1: It was pregnant, and you know something. Finally, when I
Speaker 1: got there, they told me the boat was so small
Speaker 1: that I cannot get them, so I have to come
Speaker 1: back and then believe it or not, when you do
Speaker 1: something beautiful. We play a benefit in Costa Rica for
Speaker 1: the present, for the benefit kids that we didn't and
Speaker 1: I said, listen, I need a favor. You need to
Speaker 1: see you can get a bisa for them. And then
Speaker 1: the president said I would do that for me, and
Speaker 1: then they came to Costa Rica.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, how long did you say?
Speaker 1: You got lost for seven days?
Speaker 2: That's what is that experience?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: We brought some food with us, but you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't bring enough for the four people that went in
Speaker 1: the boat. So we were thinking we was going coming
Speaker 1: and coming back, and you know it was tough because
Speaker 1: really listen, you're in the middle and we have no gas.
Speaker 1: If we ran out of gas, so what we did
Speaker 1: mean that mean we brought some cookies and you know,
Speaker 1: some things that you can keep with you know, and
Speaker 1: we used to divide that and now I used to
Speaker 1: put like a we used to put like a little
Speaker 1: bit of a plastic to collect water when whenever the
Speaker 1: rain we put whatever we have to collect the water.
Speaker 1: It was tough because Gloria was pregnant when I give did.
Speaker 3: You ever think what happened? What if I don't get back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: many times, my poor mom, like your poor dada, your
Speaker 3: poor mom, for sure.
Speaker 1: And there is no communication, no communication whatsoever. I remember
Speaker 1: they let us go in a private buss.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it took me twelve twelve hours to get from
Speaker 1: the boat and they put they made us way, you know,
Speaker 1: standing there for twelve hours. I was almost I think
Speaker 1: like probably fourteen days without taking a shower.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I went to a hotel. I made a line
Speaker 1: when I called my brother, and my brother said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're free, will coming And I said no,
Speaker 1: I mean you know something that I was not allowed
Speaker 1: to bring. And then he said, you know something, try
Speaker 1: to continue life and do what you have to do
Speaker 1: and forget about us. I said, no, I know, never
Speaker 1: forget about you. Where are you going to get you out?
Speaker 1: And then four years later they went to gost Africa.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, you were all the way there to make
Speaker 2: sure that he knew and crossed all the way and
Speaker 2: swam and took a bus.
Speaker 3: First his life, his family, his wife, his kid on
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 1: But you know, I never said that. To an interview,
Speaker 1: she said that she was getting at touched him and
Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, everybody nobody, nobody.
Speaker 3: I think that it's a perfect story to describe your
Speaker 3: character because your character precedes you. That's like Emily said,
Speaker 3: your your success, your resume. I had Jose send me
Speaker 3: your ePK because I was so impressed by it.
Speaker 2: I wanted to show my friends.
Speaker 3: I do look at everything he's done. I'm part of
Speaker 3: the Amelia Stefan fan. Yeah, but you as a person
Speaker 3: as a father, and I've gotten to see it up close,
Speaker 3: which they haven't had that opportunity. You're an incredible human being,
Speaker 3: and I think that that's really the lesson that you
Speaker 3: have to teach humanity. I really think that's your legacy
Speaker 3: is the man that you are, the father that you are,
Speaker 3: the husband, the grandfather, the father in law.
Speaker 2: It's in the music, It's in everything, sure does you know?
Speaker 2: And I think that's a beautiful thing that you all
Speaker 2: constantly teach me about how you can spread powerful messages
Speaker 2: through music in such a dark time and that way
Speaker 2: we really care.
Speaker 1: Do lyrics when you write lyrics? Tell me so the
Speaker 1: song that I wrote in my whole life is coming
Speaker 1: out of there an accidently. I mean, we was in
Speaker 1: the top of the world, and you know, we made
Speaker 1: president Bush and the White House. Then we went to
Speaker 1: Sony bought a Columbia pictures. We went to celebrate the night,
Speaker 1: and then the next day we got into an accident
Speaker 1: and they told us the Gloria probably whenever woke again
Speaker 1: and no more kids. And then you are you too
Speaker 1: also became like a you know something. You became as
Speaker 1: a miracle too, that you know, and your mom said,
Speaker 1: I going to have her and I want to get
Speaker 1: back in the stage one year after. Your mom is
Speaker 1: an incredible person. It's so beautiful, and you marriage somebody
Speaker 1: that you admire and you fall in love even more
Speaker 1: to the years because you know time is running out
Speaker 1: and it's beauty to spend the time that you have
Speaker 1: with the people love.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, everybody, but you know the long wrong.
Speaker 1: Let me tell your money is important, famous, important, more
Speaker 1: important to be happy if you have a balance between
Speaker 1: money and you can help other people and the same
Speaker 1: time you're a happy person. I see a lot of
Speaker 1: famous people and rich people know famous they enjoy I
Speaker 1: still buy you know me one purchase, oh my god,
Speaker 1: a new purchase tomorrow, gonna wear that the meaning you
Speaker 1: lose that forget about it. Yeah. Now, sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: the only thing I never go to sleep if I
Speaker 1: feel I have to tell you something that you have
Speaker 1: to hear. I don't like to hold anything for anybody
Speaker 1: because I think that's the what should be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to put it in a song and
Speaker 2: send it to you. Yeah, before you pass away, we're
Speaker 2: going to put you in battle and download you onto
Speaker 2: a computer so you never die.
Speaker 3: Poor guy. He's worked his butt off.
Speaker 2: So you come in from Cuba, before you impregnated mom
Speaker 2: the first time, what was the first job that you had? Like,
Speaker 2: how did you get off your feet? Before you got
Speaker 2: on your feet and you know became what you guys became.
Speaker 2: What was the first thing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you When I came my end
Speaker 1: got like almost night. Kids in the house. We used
Speaker 1: to sleep in one room with my grandmother and they
Speaker 1: I knew I play accordion. I saw, I say. I
Speaker 1: went to acarding. Then at three o'clock I used to
Speaker 1: change go to school to seven o'clock. Seven o'clock. I
Speaker 1: used to go to an Italian residant to play the
Speaker 1: accordion for tips. Now how did I boy the accordion?
Speaker 1: It was crazy because my aunt told me we can't
Speaker 1: afford to buy an accordion that I was one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy seven daughters. I convinced my uncle, said uncle, please,
Speaker 1: I'm going to find work. Don't worry about I'm playing
Speaker 1: an Italian restaurant and I learned to you know, the Godfather.
Speaker 1: I play all the Italian music.
Speaker 2: And I still come to it.
Speaker 1: And you know something, we was not allowed to eat.
Speaker 1: Musicians was not allowed to eat or drink in the restaurant.
Speaker 1: So whenever I used to aad some money, used to
Speaker 1: go to the next door and buy a sandwich or
Speaker 1: buy it crackers and something, I eat it. And you
Speaker 1: know something. The only reason I tell you that because
Speaker 1: you know something people need to know in order to
Speaker 1: accomplish them that you have to work. And you know me,
Speaker 1: I work five o'clock in the morning, happy, and I said,
Speaker 1: what what is going to be today? Let me see this?
Speaker 1: And then at the end, I only have twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: At the end, I have twenty five meetings, which is
Speaker 1: a beautiful name.
Speaker 2: He's got to rush out of here after that, I know,
Speaker 2: I guess I was cracking up back there. So do
Speaker 2: you remember meeting mom? That was you so then you
Speaker 2: were working up a cardy. You said, then you finished school.
Speaker 1: I finish school. I don't know how with my English,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Sacha told me that. Well, look
Speaker 1: when you went to school, I said, Miami High. See
Speaker 1: the man, I never go there. They never teach you English.
Speaker 2: Sacha, what a little turk. He's just like me. He's
Speaker 2: just like him to know.
Speaker 1: He's very funny.
Speaker 2: I remember you told me once about your ingenuity when
Speaker 2: you were working up a cardy about uh, you know
Speaker 2: the story about the Sasha's Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, a lot of stories.
Speaker 3: Weave.
Speaker 1: The first thing that I did because I grew up
Speaker 1: with the family and I love them. There that there
Speaker 1: was my family. When it came like somebody made the
Speaker 1: other end pan beach, I said, we love you. They
Speaker 1: said you loved me when you know I used to
Speaker 1: get papers around And that's what it's true. When you
Speaker 1: are broken, you're not famous anything, and they help you.
Speaker 1: One thing is to be always appreciates thank you for
Speaker 1: what you did for me. Now, A beautiful thing is
Speaker 1: that I knew there was really at the time that
Speaker 1: we start, that was on the seventies. All the Kiva
Speaker 1: people was very you know.
Speaker 3: I mean like they used to say no dogs, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, sad about cube and the whole thing. But
Speaker 1: I used I learned on the qua music like me.
Speaker 1: So I used to go to the house and play
Speaker 1: one Tad and Dog and they fed made food. They
Speaker 1: said you allowed to drink and you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of drinks, and they give me tips. And the end
Speaker 1: when I left, I left with one hundred and fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: was a lot of money for so you know something.
Speaker 1: We became like a family. It was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And I saw them in Pambeach and so we did
Speaker 1: a whole big two a big celebration for a friend
Speaker 1: of ours. It was beautiful to chair with people that
Speaker 1: you know help you when you at the beginning. And
Speaker 1: the beginning was tough. But then they told me, listen,
Speaker 1: we want to create. Bring the cordy, but bring maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of more musicians that you know in Cuba.
Speaker 1: I used to call that. They said, gave me two
Speaker 1: or three guys. Used bring the three guys. I wrote
Speaker 1: a song called he writes the album.
Speaker 3: He writes music every day. He writes new songs every
Speaker 3: day and happy with the new album.
Speaker 1: The album is yeah, you know something. And then I
Speaker 1: said okay, and then I said, oh, your song good.
Speaker 1: We love that. People used to dance with the conga
Speaker 1: do all the things and the I mean people. It
Speaker 1: was like incredible. And then they started getting the barbets
Speaker 1: us and we used to get the weddings. The first
Speaker 1: bar missa for me was a chock when I saw
Speaker 1: the kid in the chair going up. These people are weird.
Speaker 1: And then the guy said, we're going to sell very
Speaker 1: we need to and they say, I saw that was
Speaker 1: bringing aka, they brought the bread. That's what's going on.
Speaker 1: But I got to see. Really. The waiter told me, man,
Speaker 1: it's a song called you learned that ship. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna make some money. Yeah, I did it to day.
Speaker 1: I bought the record. I went and learned. They give
Speaker 1: a fifty bucks like yeah, sending of the song I
Speaker 1: should learn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the magic songs you have.
Speaker 3: Great. So the sashes, oh, the sashes, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, such as you know my dad and my mom
Speaker 1: they used to have an incredible factory, a huge factory
Speaker 1: of on they wear and Cuba. When they came. That
Speaker 1: was the way that they put together the whole small
Speaker 1: factory and I know what's the whole promotional Baccardi that
Speaker 1: was a was Bacardie and Cooke and they told me,
Speaker 1: oh my god, they send the bill. The b is
Speaker 1: like four daughters and something for every teacher. Will be
Speaker 1: a lot of money to give away. I said, you
Speaker 1: can do that in the factories. You know we can
Speaker 1: do that. So I I was seventeen years old and
Speaker 1: I went to a factory. I said, listen, this is
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that I want to do. How
Speaker 1: much would you charge me to make this tea shirt?
Speaker 1: And the teacher was I said, well, this we have
Speaker 1: a new thing. It's called detail. It's something instead of painting.
Speaker 1: You pressed that with it, brought it to my boss.
Speaker 1: T Oh that looks good. That's amazing. And the guy
Speaker 1: told me it's going to be one dollar and eleven cents.
Speaker 1: I thought, he said one daughter eleven cents. So he
Speaker 1: told me, you al said, you know, because you have
Speaker 1: to market, put two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 1: And that's what I made my first fifty thousand bucks. Wow,
Speaker 1: it was I was very creative. And that's what you know.
Speaker 1: When people need to know, you need to be created.
Speaker 1: You need to be in charge to create and do
Speaker 1: the best that you can when they give you an opportunity.
Speaker 1: I did such a good work, they told me we
Speaker 1: have it the whole thing that you know for miss
Speaker 1: bacardiy rom cake, and they want to charge, isn't brook? Yes,
Speaker 1: you know what they're going to pay embroidered and you're
Speaker 1: going to give that and they're going to throw it away.
Speaker 1: Just probably the problem. I said, do you think you
Speaker 1: can do in the factory? And we kind of doing
Speaker 1: the factory, but I can't find a way to do
Speaker 1: it through the factory. So I went to a funeral home.
Speaker 1: I saw the amazing you can make me something, I said.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, if you can do it, yes, all
Speaker 1: depends how many people die, but I can do it.
Speaker 1: And I made some money with that.
Speaker 3: Oh wows.
Speaker 2: As you can see, before the music really started taking off,
Speaker 2: you were innovating long before that, oh for sure, and
Speaker 2: making it work. Do you remember when the first time
Speaker 2: you realize that you guys were like famous in the
Speaker 2: music world, You remember, like what was that moment for you? Earlier?
Speaker 2: Like oh my gosh, like.
Speaker 1: The first time we heard ourselves on radio. I have
Speaker 1: to stop the car. I said, oh my god, it
Speaker 1: was a song called and I said, with a local company.
Speaker 1: And then you know something. But I always on my
Speaker 1: mind when I made you mind. My idea wasn't even
Speaker 1: to bring women to the group because at the time
Speaker 1: women was not really famous to be a musician. It
Speaker 1: was like a totally especially for Latino. Let's say I
Speaker 1: want to create some something I believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and the producer who produced more women in the history
Speaker 1: of any producer, which is great. Yeah, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you something. The funny thing is, you know something.
Speaker 1: We did that The first album was a huge hit.
Speaker 1: But the second album, we got a call from Sonys
Speaker 1: at the time, I said, we want to do sign
Speaker 1: you you guys and I say okay, I said, we see.
Speaker 1: It depend on a contract with the guy who signed
Speaker 1: up for three albums, but we never got paid. So
Speaker 1: I told the guys keep the albums. I mean, sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to let things go to look for a
Speaker 1: new future. And the guys say, okay, going to keep it,
Speaker 1: Thank you, goodbye. I don't think you're going to have
Speaker 1: a future. So we did, and we did a In
Speaker 1: the album that we did, we include doctor bit and
Speaker 1: I need a man. Of course, the company said, well,
Speaker 1: Latino company, we have no money. But your mom and
Speaker 1: me we went to every breakad pools and with discribled
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden went number one in London,
Speaker 1: number one, and I in England, number one, in Holland, Germany,
Speaker 1: all over the world. And we flew to Holland and
Speaker 1: we play a club that was packed and we played that.
Speaker 1: People went crazy. We said we want more, we want more,
Speaker 1: but you know we played. I said, Gloria, we should
Speaker 1: play the keep and congas because you know this. Gloria said,
Speaker 1: what they don't know English, I don't know Spanish. Let's
Speaker 1: do it. It was a big, big hit, and Gloria
Speaker 1: came out with the idea to do a song conga.
Speaker 1: Then she talked to the drummer that he'd come out
Speaker 1: with a hook, and then we went to the studio
Speaker 1: with the hook and we finished, I mean he almost
Speaker 1: finished the song. We finished his song in the studio
Speaker 1: and then I was so excited, Oh my god, we
Speaker 1: want to go to Sony, we want to blow them away.
Speaker 1: I went seven times then never let me upset. And
Speaker 1: the morning was only to in and out because I
Speaker 1: used to work on my part of the time little
Speaker 1: now now until the day that he let me go upstairs.
Speaker 1: And the guy said, oh my god, congratulate you. This
Speaker 1: is great, and I said, I have a new album.
Speaker 1: I want to hear. When he started hearing the rhythm,
Speaker 1: he said great, but he he he hear English and say,
Speaker 1: this will never happen in America. Absolutely, you have to
Speaker 1: take the pianou, the trumpe, salt, the percaussion, now by
Speaker 1: the well with all respect if women can be in
Speaker 1: front of the group. And then you missing up. And
Speaker 1: then he said, and you have to change your last name.
Speaker 1: I said, nothing that you said are going to change.
Speaker 1: I said him a bad work. I don't say a
Speaker 1: lot about word. But I told him saying, you like
Speaker 1: it to know this was America's when it looked like
Speaker 1: and you're going to have a new rhythm. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: he told me you feel that way, go back to
Speaker 1: your country. That's why I said see you later. Seven
Speaker 1: years later it was President Sony.
Speaker 3: How's that for a bad world?
Speaker 2: Like, I'm not going to back to my country. I'm
Speaker 2: going to sit in your chair. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know he was not the president. He so only
Speaker 1: and at the time, one person decided was even you
Speaker 1: are a chairman or the president. It was one guy
Speaker 1: about the expert about repertory, and he said, we like it,
Speaker 1: we don't like it. Not With internet, you can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 1: People decide by the time, believe it or not. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of racist about you know, but you know,
Speaker 1: in the long run, I think it's something that I felt.
Speaker 1: I felt proud about what I did, even could be
Speaker 1: the end of my career, glorious career. And I was
Speaker 1: very proud of your mom that she sticked to, you know,
Speaker 1: to say, I'm not changing my name young who I am.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel comfortable doing it. And you know something,
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful thing to go through a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And sometimes I talk about it because people
Speaker 1: need to know that it's not an easy thing to
Speaker 1: be in the music business. And you know, so you
Speaker 1: you take a lot of pride to something that is
Speaker 1: important because every step of the way you can ruin
Speaker 1: a whole life. We want bad decisions, That's what I say.
Speaker 1: Every has consequences. And you know something, we your mama
Speaker 1: and me, we always take care to be sure we
Speaker 1: have we do things right because I mean, we're proud
Speaker 1: where we come from, and we'll probably everything we're accomplished,
Speaker 1: and that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true. And you really are like that,
Speaker 2: and you're one of the people who really uses the
Speaker 2: responsibility of your position and your influence. And it's constantly
Speaker 2: like you know, you know, like don't drink and drive.
Speaker 2: It's not worth it, you know.
Speaker 3: But it's true because he said, he goes, maybe who's driving.
Speaker 1: Of course people do that. Listen, if you are famous
Speaker 1: and you're have the money, I mean, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you I have my takailas this. I'm not the
Speaker 1: same I'd like to answer. I like to enjoy life,
Speaker 1: share with people that I love. Like why should I
Speaker 1: get drunk getting you know, I said, I bring a driver,
Speaker 1: even have to go walking, I will not drive.
Speaker 2: And by the way, even if you don't have all
Speaker 2: the money in the world, if you're going out drinking,
Speaker 2: one drink is like what fifteen dollars. If you're drunk,
Speaker 2: you're already spending way more money than a cab costs.
Speaker 2: Just have one less drink and at great or that
Speaker 2: guys anyway with ubers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's problem is solved.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs to drive. You said something that's incredible that
Speaker 2: you've worked with the most females out of out of
Speaker 2: a producer. One of those females that I think there's
Speaker 2: a very a story that describes you really well, is
Speaker 2: are incredible. Celia Cruz, who unfortunately is no longer with us,
Speaker 2: but has been on you know, it's just on the
Speaker 2: quarter and it is still so present in so many
Speaker 2: people's lives and in my and M's deep dive Researchia
Speaker 2: the mom And when you were getting ready that Celia
Speaker 2: called you, I was sa.
Speaker 1: Show what you called me? Oh you know, Tony, I
Speaker 1: was already working. Gloria was all over the world number
Speaker 1: one on things. I was starting to work, which I
Speaker 1: gat everything by My dream was to work with her
Speaker 1: because I love her. Yes, And I said, I did.
Speaker 1: I wrote a song for you that's beautiful. You need
Speaker 1: to go to the studio because I really want in
Speaker 1: pressed her and she was so nice always she sent
Speaker 1: cards and congratulatings and you know said, and it's the
Speaker 1: energy on her and her husband was so beautiful. And
Speaker 1: she comes, Hey, I'm coming to Miami. I said, I'm taking.
Speaker 1: I hardly hear you, but you know something. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy you want to meet in the studio. Said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I want to hear this song. Go. I didn't like that.
Speaker 1: I said, your lepongos song on le pongos a sole
Speaker 1: pongos a song. He said, Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 1: Keep going. Said no, no, I'm taking I say no.
Speaker 1: I said, Gloria, say this coming tomorrow. We need to
Speaker 1: finish this one because we wrote on this song became
Speaker 1: lumber one.
Speaker 2: Wow wants the best experience in my whole life.
Speaker 1: And then you know, she called me. He said, Emilio,
Speaker 1: I don't have a record label. And I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I have Cressent Moon, but I don't want to get
Speaker 1: you in Crest Moon. I don't want to make any
Speaker 1: money from you. I want to go you to go
Speaker 1: straight to Sony. When I sent her to Sony the President, Emilia,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a good idea because you know
Speaker 1: her age. Come on, you have to be crazy to somebody.
Speaker 1: And you know something, I say, If you don't sign her,
Speaker 1: you don't get Jennifer Love, you don't get Check, you
Speaker 1: don't get Gloriousteff and market. And then I called Tommatola
Speaker 1: I said she's going to be I don't even worry
Speaker 1: about it. And she died with like seven number one.
Speaker 1: She left me the more beautiful note and her clothes.
Speaker 1: She left me like a address, her weak her shoes,
Speaker 1: saying how sameful she was, because you know, something is
Speaker 1: to nothing, lies better to die within nothing, and she
Speaker 1: deserved that. Her and Cahaw is for people that.
Speaker 2: Brought the you that got him signed when he came
Speaker 2: from that.
Speaker 1: You know, something is a beautiful thing that you know
Speaker 1: I was if I became president of Sony, I was
Speaker 1: going to nobody who was really famous. I was going
Speaker 1: for real music, real people, and you know, to keep
Speaker 1: some of the legacy, especially for given music, because that's
Speaker 1: my heritage. I want to be sure that we kept this,
Speaker 1: and we did. We want to Grammys with a child.
Speaker 2: We want first sure sessions, right, incredible records we did
Speaker 2: with and the Garcia those are like archival records. Those
Speaker 2: are like things mark everybody like that.
Speaker 1: People need to really you saw a lot of the history.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was there in the studio when they
Speaker 1: had a lot of things happen.
Speaker 2: You know, I remember how warm Celia was. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: she was something you know she she had like that,
Speaker 2: that energy and just like and I wrote a song for.
Speaker 1: Her and there wasn't number one for her, and what
Speaker 1: she was singing that that was the first time that
Speaker 1: I saw her crying. She cried, said just in case
Speaker 1: I don't make it back. And you know something, she didn't.
Speaker 1: But she brought a lot of pride for women, especially
Speaker 1: African American women. Yeah, because she tells me a lot
Speaker 1: of story that was really hard. It managed to be
Speaker 1: African American, be a Latina and not speaking English, but
Speaker 1: she said, you know, and being no young person, but
Speaker 1: she died with pride. And when they gave me the manager,
Speaker 1: which is done the incredible work. They gave me some
Speaker 1: of the first going to save. Yeah, it was in print.
Speaker 1: I have you know something that that's for me. I say,
Speaker 1: that's the thing you do in life that you know
Speaker 1: that is a beautiful thing to be able to help
Speaker 1: somebody else. And she didn't need help. She deserved all
Speaker 1: the recognition that she got.
Speaker 2: You did her first video, right, first video that's increat.
Speaker 1: I got the company said she wanted to do a video. Say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, let me see what kind of buddy
Speaker 1: you said? Two thousand dollars, Like, what am I going
Speaker 1: to do with two thousands? But I did a video
Speaker 1: and I did it like I love Lucy. Yeah, one thing,
Speaker 1: you want, one thing? And she was so happy, she
Speaker 1: was so happy.
Speaker 2: It's so so awesome people are trying to do now.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. So many of the things that you've done
Speaker 2: now people are like, I'm going to do that again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's called keep a coffee forget about that.
Speaker 2: We've talked about a lot of your accolades, and like
Speaker 2: we said, we know you have a lot of places
Speaker 2: to go, but there are a couple of little funny
Speaker 2: things and Jim, I'm going to give you this so
Speaker 2: that you have one in your hands and we can
Speaker 2: oh my god, oh like a lottery. Oh, we can
Speaker 2: kind of go back and forth here.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to ask. I know that there's a
Speaker 3: long list. I don't think I could answer this question,
Speaker 3: but I have a feeling you will. What is your
Speaker 3: favorite thing about your daughter Emily?
Speaker 1: My favorite thing? Everything I know, I know, but I
Speaker 1: love because you know, she has her own personality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she she doesn't like to be helped. She likes to
Speaker 1: do things by herself that I need help. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she knows I'm there twenty four hours whatever she needs,
Speaker 1: and she knows that. And she's what I love is
Speaker 1: an Emilio and Glories improved because she's better than me
Speaker 1: and Gloria. Yes, she's a lot like you. She's a
Speaker 1: lot like you know something. She's humble, she doesn't want
Speaker 1: to always recognize her talent. But it's amazing that she
Speaker 1: got a career. There's a career. There is more beautiful
Speaker 1: on the whole world because you know, you get free love.
Speaker 1: Tell me you can sell records, you cannot buy love.
Speaker 1: And you know something, when the amount of recognition get
Speaker 1: from people that you know that you don't expect, it's
Speaker 1: people that they love you. I mean the realists, they
Speaker 1: follow you. We have funds from Gloria and me all
Speaker 1: the way from the beginning, and they still like family
Speaker 1: is now. We don't have enough word to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's going live now with a new album. You're getting
Speaker 1: millions of people from all over the world saying, you
Speaker 1: know how happy they are, They asking for a tour
Speaker 1: and this kind of thing. I mean, that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're in this career, it's not only
Speaker 1: your family you have an extent the family that love you.
Speaker 1: They don't ask you for anything, they give you everything.
Speaker 1: And that's a beautiful that's a beautiful thing to have
Speaker 1: as a career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, I love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you remember your first impressions of jam when
Speaker 2: you met her. It's almost been ten years, No nine years.
Speaker 3: No, eight years, it'll be nine this year.
Speaker 1: It was, I mean, beautiful, will we'll like here from
Speaker 1: the beginning, I remember the beginning, of course, the main
Speaker 1: question who is she?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Listen for me to that you're going to have that
Speaker 1: who Who's who? Has a family? What's going on? I
Speaker 1: mean that happens to anybody. Any father to tell you
Speaker 1: if you have a dog and you're going to live
Speaker 1: in somebody's house, you're going to say, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a girl, it was a boy,
Speaker 1: it was an African American, it was a marchant, and
Speaker 1: I don't care. It was the only thing that I cared.
Speaker 1: Somebody who love you and take care of you, and
Speaker 1: you love her, and that to me, that wasn't That
Speaker 1: was his confusion about you know, I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: care nobout his gay anything. I mean, we look anybody
Speaker 1: no color. We don't look anybody like And why did
Speaker 1: I tell you say I want you to be happy.
Speaker 1: As long as you're happy. We're extremely happy. Thanks guy.
Speaker 1: You has a beautiful relation for so many years and
Speaker 1: you still have it. And you know something, that's what
Speaker 1: I have with your mom, my mom.
Speaker 2: Relationships are hard work, like you know.
Speaker 1: I remember the beginning, up said, listen, I gotta do
Speaker 1: a background. I was kidding. I was going something. Did
Speaker 1: second something? Let me tell you a lot of people
Speaker 1: do that. And I said, who are they? Where did
Speaker 1: they come from? You never know? I was twenty two
Speaker 1: a terrorist. I don't know you're terrorists.
Speaker 3: I couldn't be loud, be cool, zep.
Speaker 2: I have something to tell you all Okay, I didn't
Speaker 2: tell I also get a lot of my quirkiness from
Speaker 2: my father.
Speaker 3: Yes, they call.
Speaker 1: Him yeah, and I call her yeah time, I said,
Speaker 1: I said, the people who were from this bank also
Speaker 1: for forty years. I know in our house staff, my
Speaker 1: same stuff in the office, the same musician. And I'm
Speaker 1: so happy because you know, to work for me. It's
Speaker 1: the easy things you can have and the worst thing
Speaker 1: because I'm a professionist. I don't forget anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I work in three olymplex, at four halftime Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: forty events, in the White House six. I mean, the
Speaker 1: only at the World Cup, the least Cup. And the
Speaker 1: only reason you know I achieved I think so many
Speaker 1: things is not that I have the education for that
Speaker 1: is because I'm very persistent and I love life. I
Speaker 1: would love very positive. I don't want to deal with
Speaker 1: negatives with anybody. People around me have to have the
Speaker 1: same energy to say, love what you do, and it's
Speaker 1: a blessing when you have that.
Speaker 3: You know, this morning, I have my nephew, we call
Speaker 3: him Baby Lips Franklin Gevla, and he's starting to learn
Speaker 3: piano and I actually kind of like channeled you because
Speaker 3: my cousin who's his mom, was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: he's nervous because he wants to get it perfect right
Speaker 3: in the beginning. And I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: put on my million Stephan cap and I sent my
Speaker 3: video and I said, Franklin, you just have to enjoy it.
Speaker 3: And I know that's your that's one of your biggest
Speaker 3: same way.
Speaker 1: Because let me tell you, a lot of people worries
Speaker 1: about things and you know, so the meaning that is
Speaker 1: happening now will never come back.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: And I read that in a lot of songs. And
Speaker 1: you know something, if you if you I just wrote
Speaker 1: a song that is a beautiful song. I said, sing
Speaker 1: before you're going to whatever you're going to say, one
Speaker 1: word can hurt a lot. And sometimes you know that
Speaker 1: when I try to get upset, I get away because
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I said thing I said, let me
Speaker 1: don't say better not I got that from you to
Speaker 1: let me tell you I learned that said, Okay, see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow talk. Let's talk tomorrow. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Get me upset if I have to work to two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, don't come to saying that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm hungry. You hungry. You have to like I do
Speaker 1: when I'm eating sometimes, right, I mean, and you know,
Speaker 1: people have to have the same principle to work. Now,
Speaker 1: time to enjoy, to have a party. Let's have a party,
Speaker 1: time to enjoy, to have a concert is great.
Speaker 2: Everything in his time.
Speaker 3: Time to work is time to work.
Speaker 2: Okay, speaking about like I said, funny things and the
Speaker 2: relationship that you have your employees and everything. Funny little
Speaker 2: things about my father, for for example, just to set
Speaker 2: the mood. He travels with yes. But I now do
Speaker 2: that because he cleans the hotel room first thing. When
Speaker 2: he keeps yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: He makes us bad, of course.
Speaker 1: But I need the hotel. It looks better than when
Speaker 1: I came to I want to tell you why. Number one,
Speaker 1: the person who's cleaning that you have to have respect
Speaker 1: for people that they pay and you don't have the
Speaker 1: abuse that you're paying a room because they are poor people.
Speaker 1: Number Two, a lot of people that they are con celebrity,
Speaker 1: they leave everything. Like you said, that's not fair for.
Speaker 2: Those Number Three, I love you and ever since, even
Speaker 2: when you were dating Mom, you would vacuum your footprints
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 2: Now you're not allowed to have trash in the trash
Speaker 2: can oh, I can't trash, can't sleep inside the trash
Speaker 2: outside trash.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's too.
Speaker 2: Agree with all of it, okay. And one of the things,
Speaker 2: which is actually an easter egg. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: talk more about races. But there's a little clip in
Speaker 2: races of you kicking over a stick in the street,
Speaker 2: and that's something that we do either when we're traveling
Speaker 2: or when I will send these in the video. Now
Speaker 2: what I was saying, who can kick over the biggest stick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so people should you should go look at the
Speaker 3: racist video and see that's the video that he took
Speaker 3: to send to Emily when he was traveling of them,
Speaker 3: because we used.
Speaker 1: To do it all over the world, and you know
Speaker 1: something that it went. I mean of course being at
Speaker 1: either girl, but even through time when she wasn't both
Speaker 1: traveling whatever. See when I do it and I can
Speaker 1: be in Japan, I can be in transit and we
Speaker 1: go and and I send it to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just for stretching.
Speaker 1: No, no, I do this.
Speaker 2: Now go watch music video. That one is depressent. One
Speaker 2: more story that really is just close to my heart.
Speaker 2: God bless your that I was in college and they
Speaker 2: were having this big event at their house. I had
Speaker 2: to put my cards down. I can't even get through
Speaker 2: it having this big event at the house. And one
Speaker 2: of the ladies who works at their house was like
Speaker 2: a second mother to me, Maddie Mariam. I've spoken about
Speaker 2: her before on the podcast. Who's still with them to
Speaker 2: this day? Had put away some of the stuff that
Speaker 2: was left over from the party. Uh, and so my
Speaker 2: dad calls me and he was already laughing, kind of
Speaker 2: grumpy on the phone, away good morning. I'm like, probably
Speaker 2: because no, I feel terrible. I was spending the entire
Speaker 2: morning throwing up or throwing out. I'm like, He's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. I went to the kitchen to try to,
Speaker 2: you know, to eat. I went like, Wayawa and cheese
Speaker 2: and crackers. So I go to the fridge kind of look.
Speaker 2: I go to the fridge, you know, I take it out.
Speaker 2: I see there's lemon, grass, goat milk. I said, okay,
Speaker 2: different cheese.
Speaker 1: I said, this is fancy cheese. It was a big
Speaker 1: part of the let me you someday. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the clothing on this.
Speaker 2: Okay, please take it from here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love what you have. Cheese you too,
Speaker 1: By the way, I used to do for you every morning.
Speaker 1: I have my cheese for you, desert. I used to
Speaker 1: take her this cool everyday to get her breakfast in
Speaker 1: the money and.
Speaker 4: Show in the car.
Speaker 1: She was spoiled. You think I mean, I mean, I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I mean, we don't buy this kind
Speaker 1: of cheese. Probably is very specy. I don't know. They
Speaker 1: brought this kind of cheese, grass or something that has
Speaker 1: to be incredible. I got, I got a cracker, I
Speaker 1: got pulled some I pulled a crack and I pulled
Speaker 1: the cheese and I went I said, oh, that's weird
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. But you know when I saw it,
Speaker 1: I said, man, this tastes horrible. So I tell my shelf,
Speaker 1: listen what kind of cheese? Said no, that's the cheese
Speaker 1: that was so.
Speaker 2: So guys by me?
Speaker 1: I said, who, who in the world one thing to
Speaker 1: pull soap with this? That was on my phone?
Speaker 2: Who like no? Because then then my mom, your dad
Speaker 2: is calling, goes baby, it's eleven girl as poisonous. I
Speaker 2: was to say, my god, anyway, so taking away now
Speaker 2: you know where I'm going.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, okay. So my introduction to these emilias was
Speaker 3: one day because you know, you know, I have an
Speaker 3: eye explain emily. I really feel you should explain it,
Speaker 3: because emilia is emilioisms in Spanish.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk and now we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about something called which is what we affectionately call my
Speaker 2: dad's language, which is very surprising sometimes but it's a
Speaker 2: combination of English, Spanish, and invention and imagination. Yes, so
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 3: But so you know what, I love fashion, So I
Speaker 3: always and this man is the most fashionable man you'll
Speaker 3: ever meet in your life. So I always look at
Speaker 3: your shoes. I always look at your jewelry. And one
Speaker 3: time you were wearing shoes and I'm like, wow, I
Speaker 3: love your shoes. You go, baby, but I go, where
Speaker 3: did you get them? He goes, dumb Cruse and I'm like, wow, okay,
Speaker 3: because it's normal. I mean the other day he was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I was talking to the Pope. He says crazy stuff
Speaker 3: all the time. I guess Tom Cruise Center shoes. It
Speaker 3: was not Tom Cruise Center shoes. They were Tom Ford.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like it's like it's like all the information
Speaker 2: is there, but it kind of like smashes together, like
Speaker 2: Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 1: Running and paying attention to you know, things that is
Speaker 1: all important to me and all the things that are important. Right,
Speaker 1: But I love sometime say that knows. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you're married for forty something years, your man never let
Speaker 1: me go to the doctor by myself. Liten, you tell
Speaker 1: them you confuse after you leave. Now, because I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about music. I'm doing this. So the doctor said hello,
Speaker 1: I mean, how are you saying hello? How are your doctor?
Speaker 1: And see say, where do you come from? He said,
Speaker 1: well the problem that you have? I said, well the
Speaker 1: problem he has a pain here and disarm and you
Speaker 1: know the hair here, I say, and the one sais sick.
Speaker 1: But it's not his arm. It's his arm. So so
Speaker 1: you know, because evenhen I go to the doctor, I go,
Speaker 1: I have to go so fast. I tell things that
Speaker 1: you did. You forgot to tell him this and.
Speaker 2: That got she goes for check. Okay, so now we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna grace your ears with a couple of
Speaker 2: more emilianas. He called the hoover Dam, Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: By the way, his.
Speaker 2: Love you have heard him quite get there up. But
Speaker 2: that was a preview of what I really get.
Speaker 1: I love people's faces, my face.
Speaker 3: We were in loved and we were on the bus
Speaker 3: and it was my first time in England. He was
Speaker 3: made a baby. Howking bum palace?
Speaker 2: Okay. He calls them heart rumors instead of heart murmurs.
Speaker 2: He orderedgana ice cream instead of pomegranate.
Speaker 3: Oh court on blue instead of code blue.
Speaker 1: French.
Speaker 2: Okay. He refers to the plane like when the planes
Speaker 2: go down the black box. He calls it the.
Speaker 3: Instead of it. Told somebody put money in their mouth
Speaker 3: instead of put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker 2: Honestly the same. Also great when he was going to
Speaker 2: my show, he said he was going to my recycle
Speaker 2: instead of my recital. I love that one. Oh this one,
Speaker 2: love it. He called a Wretha Franklin, your wreathra of Franklin,
Speaker 2: which is strangely harder. It's so much harder.
Speaker 3: So YOUA, I just go the sound you right, right right,
Speaker 3: it makes sense, It makes sense. What about oh here
Speaker 3: road models instead of role models.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you can see, these are just another layer
Speaker 2: to be around him. That just is like the cherry
Speaker 2: on top.
Speaker 1: You know what happened because realist, I never had have
Speaker 1: a chance to even I went to college, you know what.
Speaker 1: So many things happening that I did. I mean with
Speaker 1: good notes because I think it was because my ear
Speaker 1: was so good that I remember things more than anything else.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, never went to it location, I never
Speaker 1: learned music. I want so many Grammars and everything because
Speaker 1: you love what you do. But it was difficult. I
Speaker 1: had to bring my family support that you work play
Speaker 1: the according do that. I didn't have a chance. Like
Speaker 1: many kids go to school.
Speaker 2: I go to Harbor and I didn't have to study music,
Speaker 2: and I ain't gonna have the ideas and the melodies
Speaker 2: and all the things and the production with me.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, let me write you Okay, don't that.
Speaker 2: No. Literally, he'll put it in his phone and I
Speaker 2: know you'll be around it and by the end of
Speaker 2: the day he's like, boom.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite thing that happened to I think
Speaker 1: probably in my life, my whole life. When Emily is
Speaker 1: moving back from being Berkeley from I just said that
Speaker 1: the air condition is broken. A company. I said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you call a company? Said do you stay
Speaker 1: with the dogs? He gets you got your dogs and
Speaker 1: I said, baby, of course, I mean you're packing anyways,
Speaker 1: and the way I can help you. So he called
Speaker 1: a He called a company. The guy come in with
Speaker 1: the whole thing. He's observed fixing the air conditions and
Speaker 1: I'm doing doing the window packing the whole things underweiks.
Speaker 1: They're doing the glasses with it, you know. Then I
Speaker 1: came to parking and the guy said, if people in
Speaker 1: Spanish ticket like you say, yeah. I love the way
Speaker 1: the Dominican republics too. I said, yeah, do you have
Speaker 1: a little car man? I said yeah. I said, man
Speaker 1: for us, you clean really good. I can send you
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I said, do you think we
Speaker 1: can have a beer. It's really hot in this place.
Speaker 1: So I got a beer and bought a pizza. But
Speaker 1: then I take my hat out. The guy look at me.
Speaker 1: I said, man, you looked like somebody like a Robbie
Speaker 1: the Neros, But I know you're on't Robbie the Nero nomant.
Speaker 1: My can't is really skinny. You look like a million
Speaker 1: stephan I said, yeah, I'm a middia stef. I said,
Speaker 1: what the hell you're doing cleaning apart?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Then I get back from the gig and you
Speaker 2: see are drinking beer eating pizza. Apartment was spotless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no no.
Speaker 2: And uh that night as well, we had these lanterns
Speaker 2: and I I've got and he's like a wait baby,
Speaker 2: and and we're all like, oh, you know we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: We're all gonna race because it was a bunch of
Speaker 2: them and you have to like build them by hand,
Speaker 2: and we're like we're all going to race to see
Speaker 2: who finishes, but my dad had a business dinner like
Speaker 2: down the street, so like Heather, my mom and I
Speaker 2: had started, and then Heather and my mom started getting
Speaker 2: really upset each other, and my dad shows up like
Speaker 2: halfway through, and my mom and Heather were having cosmos
Speaker 2: and and he comes and he like joins the party.
Speaker 2: So they're like, they're having cosmos and he had already
Speaker 2: come from dinner. So he comes and in the time
Speaker 2: that Heather and her built like I don't know, like
Speaker 2: three he was there for like forty minutes, and he
Speaker 2: built one lantern and the minute he walked away, the
Speaker 2: lantern just popped open. And so we went to sleep,
Speaker 2: and the next morning he woke up and he goes
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: He goes, eh, that's what happened.
Speaker 2: And you work too much and you don't sleep enough,
Speaker 2: which you need to do. I need to work my
Speaker 2: ass off and need to learn from your work ethic
Speaker 2: and have better time management like you, so that I
Speaker 2: can be getting music from the funeral home and make
Speaker 2: a movie and writing soundtracks, and me flying all over
Speaker 2: the world and producing the Olympics and producing the biggest
Speaker 2: events in the entire world and still releasing albums and
Speaker 2: still waking up in the morning five hours office.
Speaker 1: I enjoy every single minute and that's what that's what
Speaker 1: happened people. And I wrote that in the new song
Speaker 1: that is number one now basedly an amazing thing because
Speaker 1: it's a song that the first time my whole history
Speaker 1: became like number one, like the first first day. Is
Speaker 1: that that people say, I cry and dance on the
Speaker 1: same time, And so because I tried to send a
Speaker 1: message of hope for people, like people have to enjoy
Speaker 1: the and everything you do in life has consequences and
Speaker 1: how you have to do things right to get a
Speaker 1: good feedback in your life. And you know it's the
Speaker 1: way it should be.
Speaker 2: Yes, amen. So speaking of it, which at this very moment,
Speaker 2: you can go on YouTube and watch the video and
Speaker 2: by the time this episode come out shortly, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have another song which I can't tell you the name. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay behind the camera and you can't see it.
Speaker 2: So won you're gonna have a second video and an
Speaker 2: entire album that he's poured so much love into and
Speaker 2: like he said, not only does it make you cry,
Speaker 2: it makes you Dance's voice is as she sounds incredible,
Speaker 2: as always every time. And it's the first line album
Speaker 2: she's released and you've released in eighteen years. Okay. And
Speaker 2: I've had a feeling about this since I've been hearing
Speaker 2: these songs since a little bit ago. And yeah, so
Speaker 2: enjoy that risis. And speaking of Rasis, before we let
Speaker 2: you go, we wanted to offer you an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do something. Okay, as you can hear, we are literally
Speaker 2: in this We've to go live greeting fam We're beaming
Speaker 2: down from outer space and we were here talking everything. Raisis. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Mama high jam him.
Speaker 1: I congrab the legends that beautiful.
Speaker 4: Song you wrote, by the way, were you were saying
Speaker 4: it over here? Love friends from all over?
Speaker 2: So that's good English. Well mom, as the you know,
Speaker 2: being the other half of this project, in the spirit
Speaker 2: of this interview, do you have any questions for that
Speaker 2: about the project?
Speaker 4: Okay, babe, Yeah, Emilio Quanto, I.
Speaker 1: Mean listen, he spent two years, two years because you know,
Speaker 1: this is an important album, because we want to be
Speaker 1: sure that with the beautiful legacy to a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of people, they need to realize the value
Speaker 1: about family. This song is about family. It's about what
Speaker 1: you do with your family with time pans by and
Speaker 1: some of the families are fans that has been with
Speaker 1: I was talking here with interviews so many years. People
Speaker 1: that has been following us for so many years given
Speaker 1: so much love that I want to thank you. I
Speaker 1: think this song is about that. It's about the family,
Speaker 1: it's about heretage, it's about leaving a beautiful legacy to
Speaker 1: a lot of people and bringing the hope to live
Speaker 1: in a better world.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's not a song right there, that's another song
Speaker 2: he's writing the next album.
Speaker 4: Okay for power Quent to.
Speaker 5: Consume created a love song.
Speaker 1: I wrote a song for you, like I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of songs for you, but you know you sing
Speaker 1: it from me, which is a beautiful thing. People say,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Gloria so in love with you. I said, yes,
Speaker 1: there you have it.
Speaker 4: I know you wrote it for me, Babe. I have
Speaker 4: to say it because it's so funny. He comes to
Speaker 4: me and says, Babe, I.
Speaker 3: Wrote a love song for you.
Speaker 4: Oh baby, sing.
Speaker 2: It for me.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you this that you know something.
Speaker 1: This Almo is about love, giving back all the love
Speaker 1: that people help us for so many years and you know,
Speaker 1: to share this time with you. It's been the hard
Speaker 1: live of my whole life. And you know something is beautiful.
Speaker 1: To be able to make a record that you know,
Speaker 1: like Goes number one is getting the incredible. You know
Speaker 1: something it's about people know that, you know, music have
Speaker 1: no age. Anybody who love music. Age is important, but
Speaker 1: you know it's it's good to do good music and
Speaker 1: least on some great music behind for a new generation
Speaker 1: to recognize the Latino music has no language, said, we're
Speaker 1: going to reach with this album, like many of the
Speaker 1: albums that we don't other people all over the world.
Speaker 5: Wanted to be, you know, for people to realize.
Speaker 4: Emilio and I, well, I'm in my sixties.
Speaker 5: He's already in the next decade and he has been
Speaker 5: and I've been.
Speaker 4: More productive creatively than ever in my life.
Speaker 5: Maybe because the things like raising a family, like getting
Speaker 5: through those moments in life.
Speaker 4: Now the creative project can.
Speaker 5: Be focused on Emilio Disco Para. He's making records for
Speaker 5: Nico Gusi, the Whalers, the.
Speaker 4: Tenors from Canada. This record guy, he says, Seema fun.
Speaker 5: He's like he's doing more than ever in his Lifetiva
Speaker 5: Kahamas yet.
Speaker 4: Albums in Patal. He doesn't slow down this man.
Speaker 1: Listen, we're going to have a big surprise for the
Speaker 1: third single. For all these times, we're gonna do something
Speaker 1: that we've never done. So get ready, certain ceo baman
Speaker 1: okay with the album is like a look a different
Speaker 1: different languages, different countries. They'll learn about Latin music because
Speaker 1: of you. So I'm very proud of you and very
Speaker 1: proud of my daughter's here and we're having a great time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let you go. Congratulations mom, little question? Why why?
Speaker 4: Just one morning questions? Baby? What's your pet teeve about me?
Speaker 1: Every time you asked me a question and broshing my
Speaker 1: teeth before something years that agos a baby? Then answer me.
Speaker 1: I'm going chack baby, God, you never downed too minutes
Speaker 1: to be fair.
Speaker 2: To be fair, though he probably spends fifteen percent of
Speaker 2: his day brushing his teeth.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulates, So tonight we're going to celebrate.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: There you have it all right, well Germaine, Dad, in
Speaker 2: the spirit of in our own world, there's one more
Speaker 2: tradition that we need to speak about before you make
Speaker 2: your way out of outer space and back to Earth,
Speaker 2: but thank you for joining us for this small and
Speaker 2: short window of such a the enormous planet and universe
Speaker 2: that you are. But without further ado, we go. Everybody's
Speaker 2: so it was my next thing out of space finess.
Speaker 2: This is actually a very important day in space news
Speaker 2: because you're going to see there's a resolution to the
Speaker 2: storyline that's been going on for many, many, many many
Speaker 2: months now here space and outer space. So without any
Speaker 2: further ado, here we go. It's space news. NASA has
Speaker 2: captured the exact moment a star is born. The images
Speaker 2: are stunning and connect us to the Cosmos, displaying two
Speaker 2: plates of light forging towards each other, and most incredibly,
Speaker 2: when you zoom in three X you will see Lady
Speaker 2: Gaga and Bradley Cooper making out. Next, the US Space
Speaker 2: Force released a new strategy blueprint outlining in how it
Speaker 2: plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its operations and improve
Speaker 2: AI literacy amongst its personnel. The document, titled we will
Speaker 2: be Faking Everything from now On, was published on March
Speaker 2: nineteenth in response to Defense Department directives calling for more data. Well,
Speaker 2: at least they're not even trying to lie to us. Anymore.
Speaker 2: AI's taken over. Now they're gonna go back and recreate
Speaker 2: the fake moon landing. Is it fake?
Speaker 3: Is it not?
Speaker 2: We'll never know. We'll never know. I just report the news. Okay. Finally,
Speaker 2: like I said, it is a very important day in space. Okay,
Speaker 2: Mahina that you with claustrophobia nine months anywhere, let alone
Speaker 2: in space, you wouldn't be able to do it. Okay.
Speaker 2: After months of reporting the poor astronauts stuck up in space,
Speaker 2: they are finally successfully back on Earth. And unfortunately that
Speaker 2: poor lady's hair is back in gravity. I really liked
Speaker 2: it sticking up like that. I'm sad. That's really Ultimately,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm gonna miss. It was a momentous homecoming
Speaker 2: for NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams after finally
Speaker 2: returning to Earth after spending nine months in space, and
Speaker 2: by the way, it was only supposed to be nine days.
Speaker 2: Reports are merging this is absolutely true. Look it up sharing.
Speaker 2: The astronauts will only receive about one thousand dollars extra
Speaker 2: in total for this space disaster. So kids, if you
Speaker 2: dream of dedicating your lifetime and your body and your
Speaker 2: mind to space travel don't but welcome home. Butch and
Speaker 2: Suoni yay.
Speaker 3: And this has been spaces.
Speaker 2: That. It's not a secret. You are absolutely one of
Speaker 2: my favorite human beings in the world. Whether you made
Speaker 2: me or not, I learned from you every single day.
Speaker 3: You didn't make me, and you're one of my favorite
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate you taking the time and the wisdom and
Speaker 2: opening up and sharing with us. And congratulations on the record.
Speaker 2: We love you so much. I would say, tell me
Speaker 2: what you're working on, but now it's.
Speaker 1: A lot of coming up, to a lot of great
Speaker 1: things coming up. But more than I think, I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of you, guys. I'm so proud of you because
Speaker 1: you know something. I think you are like me a
Speaker 1: lot of things I wish I was like I really
Speaker 1: in the long run, and you too. We try to
Speaker 1: do things what is right. We live in a time
Speaker 1: that you know that it's great to have family values
Speaker 1: and to have unity in the world that we need that.
Speaker 1: I think I hope to this that we don't today.
Speaker 1: People need to learn that. You have to go to
Speaker 1: a lot of things in life, but always it's good
Speaker 1: to be free and a free country. It's always good
Speaker 1: to give it back to a free country and to
Speaker 1: always never forget where you come from. So this is
Speaker 1: what you guys have do is continued, continued everything that
Speaker 1: we did. I hope you make it better.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. Bye.
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