WEBVTT - How I Made It: Francisca Valenzuela 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.040 This is Latino USA, the radio journal of News and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:09.280 Courture Latino USA. Latin Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. We 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.000 bring you stories that are underreported but that mattered to you, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:14.840 overlooked by the rest of the media. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:16.720 And while the country is struggling to deal with these, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.479 we listen to the stories of Black and Latino Studios 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.599 United Latino Front, a cultural renaissance organizing at the forefront 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:25.520 of the movement. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:34.839 I'm Maria Inojosa. Noan getio, gebila gevirix Latino USA. Listener, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.080 What's up? What's up? You know what I love? I 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.839 love our archive. Here's a story from it. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.960 I really didn't have a musical community until maybe I 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.240 was like seventeen or eighteen years old in Chile, because 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.839 growing up, it was really more me and my own world, 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.760 spending time in that kind of wonderment with music, whether 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:58.760 it was like Spice Girls or Keith Jarrett, Oh Sweet 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:07.280 Genety's and Charlie Arcia. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.640 From Pudro Media and PRX. It's Latino USA. I'm Maria 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:19.680 Josa Today. Francisca Valinsuela, the Chilean American singer, songwriter, author 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:36.679 and entrepreneur Francisca Valinsuella's musical identity was shaped in two countries, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.920 the United States, where she was born and spent her childhood, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.400 and Chile, her family's homeland, where she moved to in 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.720 her teens. It was there in San Diego, Chile's capital city, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.440 that her prolific career as a bilingual pop rocker would begin. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:01.760 Francisca's music career is a testament to Chile's thriving DIY 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.280 music scene. Her efforts to get the attention of major 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.040 labels weren't working out, so Francisca cut her teeth, performing 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:19.720 in small venues and reaching out to local radio stations. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.200 Her first album, Moredree de la Lengua, was released in 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:36.680 two thousand and seven. From there, Francisca found success as 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:45.639 a workie musician. In twenty fourteen, she created her own 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.040 music label called Frantastic Records, and she toured in the 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.720 United States, where she continued to build her global fan base. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.200 After noticing a lack of women in music festivals around 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:06.480 the world, Francisca founded a LATINX feminist community called Ridosa, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:14.480 which means a noisy woman. Since its inception in twenty sixteen, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.680 Rithosa has hosted an annual music and culture festival throughout 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:23.600 the Americas. Artists such as Javiera Parra, Huimera, Sarrignana, and 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.679 Pussy Riot have played at Ridosa Fest, and other creatives 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.840 like Monla Ferte, Lido Pimenta, and Jessica Salgado have spoken 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:41.760 at Ridosa's events and panels. Even during the COVID nineteen epidemic, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.880 the platform has engaged with its community with online workshops 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:52.560 and interviews. Francisca released her fourth studio album, La fort 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.080 Lesa in January of twenty twenty. On this episode, Francisca 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.680 talks about her journey from California to Chile, and she 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.600 takes us on the road that led her to La 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:04.320 fort Lesa. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:17.480 Hi, everybody, my name is Francisca Alenzuela. I'm a Chilean singer, songwriter, performer. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.280 And artist Hope and Joy. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.520 I was born in California, in San Francisco. My family 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.679 is bicultural, so I grew up kind of first generation 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.080 of a Chilean family in the Bay Area. My parents, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.000 which are Chilean, were in the States since the seventies 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.360 and then they went back to Chile and took us 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.400 with them naturally in the nineties. I grew up in 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.120 elementary school until like sixth grade or so in the 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.800 Bay Area, and then moved to Chile with my family, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.120 so we have kind of this multicultural Chile California, you know, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.440 Lyringo Chileno situation. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.680 I think that I was really lucky because my. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:05:01.120 Family really preserved the Chilean identity and were able to 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.599 maintain that in the house. So, for example, growing up, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.719 I remember I learned how to read and write in 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.800 English first, and I remember I call my mom. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.880 Like mom, and she'd be like Mama. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.680 So there was always this this kind of natural yet 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.400 conscious effort to keep us attached to both cultures. And 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.200 I think I'm very lucky that I've been able to 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.640 live a bicultural or multicultural identity, which is something that 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:31.919 many people in the US I think have. At the 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:33.640 time when I moved there, I was confronted with a 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.040 whole bunch of things that I took for granted in California, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.839 which is naturally very diverse, which is very progressive, and 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.680 has so many resources, and it's such a unique history 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.760 and identity. So going back to Chile, there were all 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.240 these other issues that I had never even thought about. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.080 And there was all these formalities too that I wasn't 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.280 exposed to, and a lot of religion. So there was 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.840 a lot of culture clash in many respects, whether in 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.560 my inability to communicate properly or the more conservative kind 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.600 of very antiquated culture in many ways. Language wise, eventually 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.440 I began to kind of not only get comfortable with Spanish, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.560 but also understand myself in Spanish. Like, for example, I 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.600 didn't know how to really read in Spanish that well, 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.080 and then eventually I was like, I got curious about 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.320 reading in Spanish. I was like, who are the most 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.960 famous authors in Spanish? Like who are singer songwriters in Spanish. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:40.520 That's how I discovered like Shaquita last Elia. I began 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.560 to kind of go down the nopster at the time 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.480 hole and google all the different kinds of singers and 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.720 begin to be interested in the language itself. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:49.279 Poets. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.200 I remember, I was like into poetry, so I was like, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:56.240 who are the Spanish poets and found and all these 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.760 different voices that I had never discovered. I think if 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.120 I always had an interest in the arts in general, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.560 and literature and music and books, I'm very lucky because. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.159 In my house that was always very nurtured. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.960 Even though my parents and my brothers aren't necessarily in 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.960 the creative arts or in literature or anything like that, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.360 they were always validating this interest and seeing it as 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.160 something that was important and valuable. They'd allow me whether 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.600 at ten or fifteen, I was like, family, sit down 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.400 and have a show to put on, and then I'll 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.000 be like, okay, here she goes. Do you think the 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.920 idea of pursuing music or really switching to music came 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.760 much later, like I would say, in my late teens, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.119 because I was always writing and doing stuff with music, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.640 and I began to take piano lessons really young. Then 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.960 when I was in Chile, I did more piano lessons 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.640 and actually was interested in pursuing classical music at one 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.560 point because I wanted to be like Keith Jarrett. That 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:57.280 was my dream, like an improv jazz pianist. But the 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.440 classical piano things seemed so daunting and imposs and I 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.800 remember this one teacher once was like, you know, there's 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.200 only one classical pianist for orchestra. It so difficult, and 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.200 I was like, oh, I'm never going to. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.240 Get that spot. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.800 On the side, I would write songs for myself and 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.240 write songs in a very pop format, and only when 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.160 I began to show it to my friends in high school, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.600 they were like, this song really resonates with me. I 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.040 totally identify, and they'd asked me to sing the song 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.000 in school. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.520 When we get together in those houses. And it kind 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 of became a thing. It kind of like my stick that. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.120 I would write songs, and I would write songs about 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.480 boys I liked or my friends' stories, and that also 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:46.240 was really encouraging Giadne, Oh, that's good. Scenes. Eventually music 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.520 began to take off for me, and sheated performing my 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.199 own stuff, you know, maybe two or three years in 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.880 a certain circuit because I was performing like in restaurants 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.440 and jazz bars and all that kind of stuff. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.680 And eventually put together a band. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.839 And once that band began to perform and was part 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.719 of a scene, and I began to put together an 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.040 album and eventually make a little bit of money off 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.679 of that, I was like, Okay, I think I'm safe, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.800 and I can you know, quit college and really commit 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.880 to this full time love. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.240 I know, get okay. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.959 So my first album in Chile called Morte Dere Lingua, 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.480 which means by your tongue came out. We recorded it, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.000 I think in two thousand and five, two thousand and six. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.280 I actually recorded it with the generous collaboration of a 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.480 band in Chia, Carlos Bunks, and they kind of god 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.560 fathered the project and taught me a whole bunch of 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.760 things I had never been in a studio before. We'd 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.400 rehearse and do all this stuff to kind of eventually 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.680 put together an EP. And that EP I took to 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.040 multiple radio stations everywhere, to TV anyone that I thought 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.360 could listen to it and open an opportunity for these 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.360 songs to be heard somewhere. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:51.840 I took to. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.880 I would go on a daily basis all these places 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.800 with my songs, and I put together the MySpace and 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.199 the YouTube and eventually the Facebook and all the platforms 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.000 that were integral to having an independent project. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.959 Because I had even gone to labels at the. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.120 Time, the very few ones in the Southern Cone like Agentina, Chile, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.600 and they all said no. So I was like, I 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.120 can either sit and wait for something or someone to 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.800 come and pick me up. Just might as well move 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.839 forward and figure this out because I don't have another option. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:26.480 Really gombnad Misste. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.160 The first album came out, the first songs began to 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.680 sound on the radio. This was a you know, a 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.560 process of maybe two years or so, and as I 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.440 was saying very much artisanal, very much DIY and then 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.360 I was performing and finding places to play and kind 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.640 of begging places to let me perform, and eventually things 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.920 began to slowly take off. And when that happened, I 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:59.280 think I began to feel more comfortable and validated. I 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.280 think I'm still on that path of self validation and 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.560 self discovery and learning how to listen to myself as 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.040 an artist and who I am as an artist. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.280 Truly, it took me a while to really have a 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:12.880 self confidence to be like, Okay. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.800 Yeah I am I can be a captain of this vote, 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.559 I can be the leader of my project. I can 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.280 understand that there's an artist in me that you know, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.960 deserves to be heard kind of And then also began 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.280 to eventually see how can I leave Chile, how can 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.440 I make this a project that has the international reach? 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:47.240 And that's been kind of the path. Which is the 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.520 last and most recent album that came out. I think 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.679 I didn't really have an idea of or a shape 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.400 of the album. Previously, it began to come together maybe 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.880 a year before, like a year in, I want to say, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.800 the sense that I released them and was the first single, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.520 and just when Thoma came out, I began to imagine 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.160 what this album was was speaking to and what photo 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:08.319 it was taking of the moment. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.800 Oh yeah, yeah yeah do momento moment ah yeah yeah, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.680 ooh yeah yeah yeah doment moment ah yeah yeah. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.000 There's an inherent difference between this alum and the previous 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.000 just because of course the person I am today not 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:28.240 the person I was five ten years ago their moment. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.000 I would say it's a very confessional and emotional album 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.960 that speaks to the process of empowerment and power and 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.800 getting out of the dark place that maybe a lot. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.920 Of us have been through at times. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.959 And it's an album that has moments of like self 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:52.360 realization and insecurity, and it's kind of a conversation with 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.760 myself and also with the world in different dimensions, whether 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.360 as like a woman, whether it's sexists, invisruality, whether it's joy, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.200 whether it's giving in to someone else, whether it's getting 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.480 over a really damaging relationship. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.240 I think also especially for women. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.440 Culturally, we grew up thinking that the hero is someone 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.520 outside of us, someone that comes and rescues us. I 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.760 wanted to illustrate that with the concept of Ita So 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:28.600 You'll Sit. It is a song that talks about the 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.199 battle that we all may face on a day day basis, 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.920 whether with ourselves, the world, someone something specific and overcoming 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.200 that battle. My idea with the song and the concept 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.640 was defined or resignifying the idea of who a hero is. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.400 And it also speaks to the fact that sometimes our 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.720 biggest enemy, our biggest villain, is ourselves. If we overcome 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.440 which we're all capable of, we can also be our 0:13:50.480 --> 0:14:03.320 own heroes. It's almost like a cinematic description about what I imagine, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.720 how strength feels like, what it looks like. It's a 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.640 moment to look at yourself and see who you are 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.120 and accept that and love that and love all the 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.040 pieces in the parts. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.760 I almost forget sometimes that I wrote that song. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.760 You know, even in the recent months when things have 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:19.640 been hard, my friends are. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.120 Like friend, but you got this. You wrote the song. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.160 You understand that this is something you can you know 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:40.560 you can face and you can do, especially for women 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.200 and people that have been marginalized. I think not only 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.520 are many stories and realities made invisible or made to 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.200 feel invalidated, but I think also we're put into boxes. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.960 And I think the idea of truly freeing yourself from 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.320 whatever chains are holding you back is an invitation that 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.760 is really power horful. This is a song and this 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.880 is an album that talks about this personal journal is 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.520 personal transformation and strength, but it also talks about how. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:09.800 We are strong together. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:24.240 As is an intersectional, interdisciplinary LATINX feminist festival, community and 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.160 platform and we you know, we seek to empower women 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.240 and marginalized voices and non binary voices in the creative 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.720 industries throughout Latin America and the US, and we do 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:47.040 that with actual music festivals. I put that together in 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.680 twenty sixteen. We've been doing festivals and stuff all over 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.400 the region. We've done stuff in Peru, Argentina, Mexico, here 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.480 in the States as well. We do workshops, we do 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.000 conversation panels, talks, and seminars, and we also do content 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.720 and research. How can there be one girl representing all 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.360 Mexican girls in Mexican music when there's not. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:12.440 One type of woman for the succeed in La care. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.400 We have different stories, and I believe that all of 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.360 our stories should be represented. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.200 We put together the first study on female participation in 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.560 Latin American music festivals and Latin American award shows and 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.960 awards just to kind of put on the table this 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:42.160 conversation about the lack of female participation, representation, and just 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.160 just to be able to have identified the problems that 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.800 are within our industry, whether it has to do with stereotypes, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.040 abusive behavior, the lack of participation, and the barriers that 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:56.920 to access these opportunities. The fellow, I think that our 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:02.840 region is a very machista region. It's the place where 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.040 you know, diversity, especially the multi dimensions of women, aren't 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.879 really welcome. And I think to break those stereotypes and 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.080 free you know, whether it's men, women and non binary 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.840 folks from the constructions of gender and the pressure of 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.120 gender is really important because if something I've seen transversally 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.320 in all the Riosa is that the stories of all 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.640 these women and all these creative fields have been you know, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.960 no one has been exempt of that. And to also 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.639 celebrate and connect the network of women in the region 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.920 and the creative industries, it has been really important because 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.040 that was something that hadn't been mapped out yet. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:52.560 Ola Ilma Loyo Sandro de miss West. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.560 In a personal note, I think it's been an amazing 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.240 thing because I was feeling very alone at the time 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.679 in the music industry in the Latin world, and it 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.000 really also was a response to the desire to make. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.280 Community, and it's been such a beautiful thing to. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:12.440 See how many colleagues and creative voices have been generous 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.359 with their time and have opened up and shared and 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.639 connected with the whole community with the platform with me 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:18.080 as well. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:52.120 That was singer songwriter Francisca Balinzuela Latitolino Escant. This episode 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.080 was produced by Oscar de Leon and Gini Montalbo was 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:01.320 edited by Alexandra. The Latino USA team also includes Victoria Strada, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:07.520 Renaldo Leanoz Junior, Andrea Lopez Crusado, Lori mar Marquez, Marta Martinez, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:13.160 Benilee Ramirez, Mike Sargent, Nour Saudi, and Nancy Trujillo. Our 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.320 director of engineering is Stephanie Lebau. Our senior engineer is 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.879 Julia Caruso. Additional engineering support by Gabriel Lebayez and jj Carubin. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.080 Our marketing manager is Luis Luna. Our theme music was 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:31.080 composed by Zeer Rubinos. I'm your host and executive producer 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.280 Marino Rosa. Join us again on our next episode. In 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.959 the meantime, look for us on your social media and 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.760 as always, remember note maayes pasta a proxima jao. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:49.320 Latino USA is made possible in part by California Endowment, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.200 building a strong state by improving the health of all Californians. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.159 The Annie E. Casey Foundation creates a brighter future for 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:02.040 the nation's children by strengthening families, building greater economic opportunity, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:07.320 and transforming communities. And funding for Latino USA is coverage 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.120 of a culture of health is made possible in part 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.640 by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.280 It's hard with genres, you know that, I would say 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:23.480 In the main thing is like Latin alternative pop singer 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.120 songwriter confessional vibes.