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Speaker 1: From Fudro Media and PRX.

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Speaker 2: It's Latino USA by Mariao josaf Today. The Tiaras a

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Speaker 2: musical group of sisters singing about Latina empowerment, self love,

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Speaker 2: and politics. The Tiaras have been playing together since they

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Speaker 2: were just little girls. They travel around Texas and perform

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Speaker 2: at different gigs to try to get their name out there.

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Speaker 2: The trio of sisters would walk on to a stage

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Speaker 2: start playing, but they weren't always taken very seriously.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty hard because we were young and we

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Speaker 3: were in a music scene that was catered towards men.

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Speaker 3: We were playing a lot of different gigs, the lineups

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Speaker 3: would be predominantly men. We would get a lot of

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Speaker 3: different looks when we were on stage.

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Speaker 2: That's twenty year old Tory, she's the lead singer of

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Speaker 2: the band.

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Speaker 3: It was hard to find that niche of Latinas and music,

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Speaker 3: so we felt like we had to be that for ourselves.

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Speaker 3: We've made it here and we're just so proud of

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Speaker 3: ourselves and we want to inspire those other younger musicians

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Speaker 3: and especially Latinas that are finding themselves in that place.

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Speaker 2: That same passion and drive for owning who they are

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Speaker 2: and creating music is also shared with her two other sisters.

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Speaker 2: Here's twenty two year old Sofia, the band's drummer.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I just feel like beats inside of

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Speaker 3: me just come naturally when I hear a song. When

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Speaker 3: we're making songs, something just clicks and me, honestly, I

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Speaker 3: don't know how to describe it.

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Speaker 1: And older sister, twenty four year old Tiffany.

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Speaker 4: I would always listen to classical music too, and I

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Speaker 4: just imagine myself being on like those big stages, having

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Speaker 4: an orchestra and everything that kind of vibe.

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Speaker 2: Now, these Edmanas are living their dream, bringing their music

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Speaker 2: to an even bigger audience. They're catchy tunes, dive into

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Speaker 2: themes of leta power and self love. And these sisters

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Speaker 2: are also not afraid to get political.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to hand things.

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Speaker 2: Off to all three of the Tiaras, Toy, Sophia, and Tiffany.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna tell us more about the role of sisterhood

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Speaker 2: in their creative process and inspiring future generations of Latino

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Speaker 2: and Latina musicians.

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Speaker 1: Here are the Tiaras in their own words, Luke and

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Speaker 1: Susca of them.

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Speaker 5: But Hi, my name is Torri Balgietra. I am the

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Speaker 5: youngest of the band. I play guitar and I am the.

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Speaker 3: Lead singer of the Tiaras. So the start of the

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Speaker 3: Tiaras was from pretty humble beginnings. Our parents really raised

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Speaker 3: us in a household that was immersed in music and

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Speaker 3: culture and family and love, and it was really cool.

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Speaker 3: Our dad was a DJ right after he was a

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Speaker 3: breakdancer in the eighties, so he picked up the turntables

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Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and we were born and we

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Speaker 3: followed him to all of his different events, and we

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Speaker 3: kind of just fell in love with music and how

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Speaker 3: it changed people's emotions and body movements and.

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Speaker 6: Brought people together.

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Speaker 3: And one day, my sisters had been taking music lessons

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Speaker 3: because they naturally showed some interest in, you know, banging

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Speaker 3: on pots and percussion and just trying to spend more

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Speaker 3: time with our grandmother playing piano. And there was one

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Speaker 3: day a third grade I was a music class and

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Speaker 3: I saw my teacher playing guitar and I was really

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Speaker 3: really interested. I was like, what is this world like?

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Speaker 3: The guitar is filling up the room and making everyone

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Speaker 3: sing and dance. And so right after that I got

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Speaker 3: lessons and we realized we were in the same household,

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Speaker 3: playing instruments that pretty much go with a band, and

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Speaker 3: then we just started playing covers together and then writing

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Speaker 3: songs that were kind of bad, but it needed to

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Speaker 3: own songs.

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Speaker 5: But it's been a long time.

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Speaker 3: We've been together for about a decade, but we've been

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Speaker 3: sisters forever.

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Speaker 5: And now we're the Tiaras.

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Speaker 4: Welcome the Tiara Girl, the tr Girls, Tierra Girl, the

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Speaker 4: Tierra Girl, the Tiaras.

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Speaker 3: We are changing our band name. Yes, we're still Austin's Face.

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Speaker 3: We were with Young Latina's Sister Power Trio, but we

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Speaker 3: are growing up. Yes, we are formerly known as the

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Speaker 3: Tiara Girls, and we recently changed our name to the

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Speaker 3: Tiaras because of the simple fact that we're growing up.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, we started very young. We were tweens, preteens,

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Speaker 3: and now we're entering our twenties. So we want to

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Speaker 3: honor the fact that we are growing up. We're women

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Speaker 3: now and we want to keep our roots of you know, Tiara,

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Speaker 3: and that came from our last name. Our last name

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Speaker 3: is Baltierra, so we took the ending of that and

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Speaker 3: changed the spelling a bit, had a little play on words.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't have to mean a crown, but it can.

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Speaker 3: We embrace whatever way people want to interpret it. But

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Speaker 3: we wanted to do that because we felt like we

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Speaker 3: were maturing with our sound, We were finding our path

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Speaker 3: in life, in our identities and music in our community,

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Speaker 3: and we wanted to bring people along with us, our

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Speaker 3: supporters that were there with us from day one. We

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Speaker 3: wanted to bring them with us on this new era

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Speaker 3: that we're embarking, and just for the simple fact that

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Speaker 3: we're not girls anymore and we want to represent Latina

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Speaker 3: woman in that way. The role of sisterhood is very,

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Speaker 3: very impactful in my life, specifically because I grew up

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Speaker 3: with a queer identity in a Mexican American household, so

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Speaker 3: it was very It was pretty daunting at a young age.

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Speaker 3: It made me feel invisible, very alone. But I had

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Speaker 3: my sisters there with me, and I was able to

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Speaker 3: tell them my secrets and they were able to hold

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Speaker 3: them for me for many years and to always, you know,

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Speaker 3: hype me up about speaking up and coming out and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. And they they were very good and

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Speaker 3: encouraging me to create a song about it, which is

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Speaker 3: let Love Free.

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Speaker 1: My love's got a place.

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Speaker 5: So I would say.

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Speaker 3: Writing the song let Love Free was a very big

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Speaker 3: journey for me. It started, the meaning of it changed

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Speaker 3: every step of the way. I think it was born

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Speaker 3: from the simple just fact that I wanted to be free.

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Speaker 3: I was just like really tired. I was like my

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Speaker 3: parents know. And the pinnacle moment for me was telling

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Speaker 3: my grandmother. Because you know, you grew up Mexican American.

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Speaker 3: Their grandmother is the foundation of the family. She's the

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Speaker 3: one that feeds us, that nourishes us, nurses our hearts

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Speaker 3: I felt full and it was it was weird because

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Speaker 3: I was like, it's just my grandmother, but it was like,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: My world was kind of just colorful after that.

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Speaker 3: But I wanted the song to have a universal meaning

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Speaker 3: because I wanted this piece of art that we created

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Speaker 3: to fall under the categories of self love, of releasing

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Speaker 3: a love that does not serve you anymore, of you know,

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Speaker 3: letting love free, and coming out and living your truest identity.

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Speaker 1: I did love life.

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Speaker 3: It just feels so beautiful to be able to sing

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Speaker 3: that to different crowds now and.

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Speaker 5: To say I'm queer, I'm gay, I'm.

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Speaker 3: A lesbian on a stage because you know, I grew

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Speaker 3: up and I think at the age whenever we beg

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Speaker 3: and to play was when I started to know. And

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Speaker 3: now that I can like fast forward into the moment

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Speaker 3: of being like, this is my song that I wrote,

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Speaker 3: This is my coming out song, and it's just so crazy.

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Speaker 3: I always imagine my younger self watching us in the crowd,

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Speaker 3: cheering us on. It's so beautiful because now that we've

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Speaker 3: released a music video, we've had messages of you know,

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Speaker 3: there was a Mexican dad that messaged us and he said,

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Speaker 3: I showed the music video to my thirteen year old

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Speaker 3: daughter and she said that it pushed us to have

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Speaker 3: just immerse herself in her identity and to allow me

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Speaker 3: grateful that the music video and just this piece of

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Speaker 6: My name is Tiffany Baltierra.

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Speaker 4: I am the oldest sister.

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Speaker 6: I played.

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Speaker 4: Well when Tory wanted to or decided she wanted to

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Speaker 4: come out. Me and Sophia knew for a while, and

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Speaker 4: I would take her dates and stuff and I would

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Speaker 4: and I knew that it was on her time, and

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Speaker 4: we were always supportive about do you want us to

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Speaker 4: be there when you tell her parents? Is that something

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Speaker 4: you want to have privately? And I feel like Toy

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Speaker 4: has always been kind of like an old soul, and

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Speaker 4: I felt like when she came out, she grew wiser,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't know how that's possible,

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Speaker 4: but I felt special that I could hold that secret

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Speaker 4: for her. And then I felt whenever she came out,

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Speaker 4: I was just like so happy that she could live

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Speaker 4: embarrassment or feel like she was living two different lives. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I definitely view it as our music as anthemic, and

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Speaker 4: I think that's also because I listened to a lot

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Speaker 4: I listened to like definitely like Gwen Stefani.

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Speaker 6: In no doubt, I.

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Speaker 1: Think I've been up that she had.

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Speaker 4: Such a cool style, making me feel like I can

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Speaker 4: hold this power and go throughout my day. Currently, I

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Speaker 4: feel like Megan is Stallion all these female artists, like

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Speaker 4: they just put out all this music that makes you

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Speaker 4: feel that power in yourself, and I want to be

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Speaker 4: able to create that type of music too, Like I

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Speaker 4: and like leave it to the people. That was definitely like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: let's make music for people who want this change. That was.

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Speaker 1: Dot listen to.

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Speaker 7: Us.

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Speaker 4: Let's make music for people who need this inspiration, who

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Speaker 4: want to hear, want their voices to be heard. And

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Speaker 4: I love that we can make this type of music

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Speaker 4: and have people listen to it and feel the same

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Speaker 4: way that we're feeling.

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Speaker 1: You gotta listen.

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Speaker 3: They stook it on.

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Speaker 1: We had a bit your bessive way.

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Speaker 4: It's Tory was the one who came up with the

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Speaker 4: idea for leave it to the people. And that was

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Speaker 4: during or after like the twenty sixteen elections, We the.

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Speaker 7: Citizen of America are now joined in a great national

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Speaker 7: effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for

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Speaker 7: all of our people.

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Speaker 4: And we were all I feel like that was a

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Speaker 4: moment in our lives where we became very political and

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Speaker 4: we were educating ourselves about the systems and the people

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Speaker 4: who are in charge of those systems and different injustices

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Speaker 4: that were taking place, and understanding that this is affecting

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Speaker 4: our lives and.

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Speaker 6: People who look like us.

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Speaker 4: I think as a band, I guess it is an

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Speaker 4: intention of ours, but I feel like naturally it just

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Speaker 4: comes to us to make some of our music a

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Speaker 4: little bit political, or maybe you can interpret those messages

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Speaker 4: as political because our dad kind of shows us all

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Speaker 4: the things that are happening in the news and educating us,

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Speaker 4: and we have these conversations, and as adults, as women,

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Speaker 4: as brown people, I feel like we have that power

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Speaker 4: and responsibility to bring this to the light of our

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Speaker 6: My name is Sophia.

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Speaker 4: I am the drummer of the Tiaras, and I'm the

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Speaker 1: It feeds, So.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like our songs carry really heavy messages

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Speaker 3: So usually Tory's the one that comes up with like

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Speaker 6: I don't take it seriously, you know, or they can

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Speaker 3: So like, the ability to like just voice our opinions

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Speaker 3: We have these little like signals when like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just super comfortable, and I really

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Speaker 6: We're already so close.

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Speaker 3: And this is just gonna be a great memory to

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Speaker 6: We realized that we are too ching guanas.

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Speaker 3: So we wanted to make a song, anthemic song, you know,

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Speaker 6: The things that they're doing are just so badass.

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Speaker 3: And when we created the song, you know, Torri brought

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Speaker 6: So She Got is.

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Speaker 3: Definitely one of my favorite songs to play.

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Speaker 1: So loud, but.

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Speaker 3: So, my favorite thing about being in the Tiara's band

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Speaker 4: There's this movie, I think it's called Soul. It's a

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Speaker 6: It's just it's a.

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Speaker 3: Reminder that we're powerful and we love creating spaces of

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Speaker 1: So came to me. Shade them giant see with all.

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Speaker 3: Know that it's been trying fighting.

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Speaker 2: This episode was produced by Renaldo Leanos Junior and edited

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Speaker 1: It was mixed by j J. Carubin. The Latino USA

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Speaker 2: host and executive producer Maria jo Josa. We'll see you

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Speaker 4: Megan THEE Stallion has a badass way of like call

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Speaker 6: Let me talk. No, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I agree with all my sisters about because we listen

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