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Speaker 1: USA listener, here's the show the Los Chibos.

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Speaker 3: So we both have a struggle with anxiety for all

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Speaker 3: these years. We found a way, in a great tool

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Speaker 3: to cope with that anxiety, to look at it as

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Speaker 3: a friend and accept it.

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Speaker 2: It's also good for creativity.

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Speaker 1: From Futura Media and PRXSA I Maria no Posa Today

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Speaker 1: heavy metal on acoustic guitars. In the late nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 1: after they'd played in a lot of different heavy metal

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Speaker 1: bands for many years, Rodrigo Igabriella best friends, decided to

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Speaker 1: ditch their native Mexico and embark on a European journey.

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Speaker 1: They settled in Dublin, Ireland, where they swapped out their

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Speaker 1: electric guitars for acoustic ones, and they became street performers.

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Speaker 1: The band has come a long way since. In two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six, their self titled album, Rodrigo Iabriella, debuted

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Speaker 1: at number one on the Irish album chart. Their work

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Speaker 1: has appeared on Hollywood films and television shows, from AMC's

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Speaker 1: Breaking Band to DreamWorks Put Some Boots and Disney's Pirates

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Speaker 1: of the Caribbean on Stranger Tied. In this How I

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Speaker 1: Made It segment, Rodrigo Igabriella take us back to their

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Speaker 1: band's origins and tell us how heavy metal influenced their

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Speaker 1: acoustic sound.

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Speaker 2: My name is Gabriella. I'm a musician.

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Speaker 3: I would play guitar and I play in a band

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Speaker 3: called Rodrigo I Gabriella.

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Speaker 4: My name is Rodrigo and I am a musician, a composer,

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Speaker 4: and I play guitar as well for Rodrio and Gabriella.

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Speaker 3: I grew up listening to all sorts of music, but

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Speaker 3: not Mexican music. At home, my mom used to listen

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Speaker 3: to sixties rocks.

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Speaker 2: From Beatles to Rolling Stones.

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Speaker 3: Cheap and also she was a big fan of boleros.

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Speaker 2: I like most.

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Speaker 3: Mexican families, especially all generations, they love bolero music, which

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Speaker 3: is actually as guitar based. I was exposed to great

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Speaker 3: music since I was very young, Bodies, Route Dum's DNA.

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Speaker 2: But then eventually for me was loose also and rock.

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Speaker 2: I was more attracted musically to play.

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Speaker 3: I was very excited to learn how to play those things.

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Speaker 4: When I was very young. I was introduced to heavy

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Speaker 4: metal back in the day, in the early eighties, it

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Speaker 4: was more like a glam road. Everything's in the eighty

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Speaker 4: to eighty three changed and my taste moved towards more

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Speaker 4: thrash metal area and heavy metal, and then I stayed

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Speaker 4: there for many years.

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Speaker 3: What was that made me attracted to the instrument? I

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Speaker 3: think for me in general was music by the guitar.

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Speaker 3: It seemed like a more easy instrument to access because

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Speaker 3: you can get cheap guitars somewhere.

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Speaker 4: The reason I was attracted to the instrument is because

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Speaker 4: I wanted to be a drummer, but I never got

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Speaker 4: any from my parents and I was a kid, and

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Speaker 4: so I couldn't buy one myself. And I had the

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Speaker 4: two guitars at home and I I was playing with

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Speaker 4: my brother, which is five years older than me, and

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Speaker 4: you know, after a couple of years of playing with him,

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Speaker 4: then I was glad that I picked it up instead

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Speaker 4: of the drums. I love drumming, but I guess I

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Speaker 4: love more guitar nowadays.

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Speaker 3: Where we met me and Rodrigo was back in Mexico

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Speaker 3: City in a cultural house like we calla usually in

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Speaker 3: those places that they have like drama lessons and some

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Speaker 3: like arts, you know, activities and community activities. And so

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Speaker 3: then I saw Rodrigo playing the drums and he was

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Speaker 3: playing with a girl was playing the bass and his

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Speaker 3: one from.

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Speaker 2: Metallica the World.

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Speaker 3: He was playing the drums, and I was like, whoa,

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Speaker 3: there is a metal band and they have a girl

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Speaker 3: playing the bass. So I was very excited. So somehow

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Speaker 3: we met each other. We talked well the guitar and

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Speaker 3: all of that, and so we were a fifteen year

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Speaker 3: old and we went very into sepultur and although usual

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Speaker 4: Gall and I we spent years playing a metal band,

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Speaker 4: and in nineteen ninety eight we decided to leave the

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Speaker 4: band because we had already spent like seven years, and

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Speaker 4: we wanted to travel and we were tired of trying

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Speaker 3: The reason we decided not to stay in Mexico City

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Speaker 3: I think for Rodrigo was the same.

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Speaker 4: We just went to Europe. That was in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 4: We started playing on the streets and the duo just

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Speaker 4: suddenly started without planning, you know, to become a duo.

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Speaker 4: We just needed to have some money to pay the rent,

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Speaker 4: and we traded the electric guitars for the acoustics, and

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Speaker 4: that's when the duo really started.

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Speaker 3: We reset our definition of success, so for all success

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Speaker 3: at that time was travel and play.

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Speaker 4: Metabolution is an effort that we just wanted to portray

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Speaker 4: something different. We wanted to have a kind of a

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Speaker 4: concept that kept the original sound of the two guitars

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Speaker 4: but adding something new, and in order to achieve that,

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Speaker 4: we had to write an approach the composition part of

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Speaker 4: the process differently, and we wrote the songs in the

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Speaker 4: form of a regular song with vocals and writing songs

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Speaker 4: with lyrics as an instrumentalist. That changes the whole game

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Speaker 4: because it gives you like a clear map of a melody,

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Speaker 4: which is in a way much more simpler than a

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Speaker 4: melody you would write without any limitations of singing it.

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Speaker 2: Music is healing, not just for musicians.

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Speaker 3: Just music heals, and so we need more music for

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Speaker 3: the world.

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Speaker 4: What keeps us going after twenty years and more is

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Speaker 4: to know that what we do is a service.

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Speaker 2: I mean, music is.

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Speaker 4: So powerful and has healed us continuously the way I

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Speaker 4: was inspired by musicians back in the day. I hope

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Speaker 4: we do that every night we play. That's our intention,

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Speaker 4: if we keep the intention of being present and giving,

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Speaker 4: especially that giving something like knowing that we are there

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Speaker 4: to give, not to receive. The only reason we are

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Speaker 4: out there is just to bring some good and we

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Speaker 4: know music has that power and we are just the instruments.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, Rodrigo I Gabriellas album Met Evolution one

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Speaker 1: the Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. This episode was

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