WEBVTT - Meet My Mom, Mami Ana La Mamá 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:07.200 Alright, alright, alright, because Google's problem with your girl, and 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.159 you're listening to Exactly a Mata a production of My 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.720 Heart Radio. You already know that every Thursday, we're super 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.919 excited to come with you, to come with some new episodes, 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:23.120 some new podcasts FO in today's occasion, and I'm more 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.640 excited because OI thing o Elenora, I have the honor 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.479 and the pleasure of being able to have my mom, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.440 Mama Mama as my guest today. I know that you 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.559 guys have seen her on Love and Hip Hop Miami. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.480 You've seen her on my social media platform. You've seen 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.760 her in my concerts. You've seen her every single piece 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.000 that I go, you go, we seen my mom. So 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.000 today we're here in the office at the crib being 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:52.440 organ the real real and UM, and I just want 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.840 you guys to get to know me a little bit better. UM, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.320 get to know Exactly a Mata, but get to know 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.960 me from my mom's perspective, from my mom's point of view, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.319 getting to talk about the way that she raised me, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.880 my career, UM, how difficult it was for me. Um. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.800 Something that was really important that I wanted to touch 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.440 today was on how was it for her as an 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.200 immigrant mother to come, you know, to the United States 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.039 and raise me and still made sure that I spoke 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.160 spanis that I didn't lose that I always knew that 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:28.240 I was Dominican, even though that I was born in Miami. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.720 That's why today I have my mom on the show. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.319 But before I officially present to you guys, my mom, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.840 I have to have to have to bring along my 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:43.400 co host TV NOONEZ. Oh my god, I'm so excited 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:48.120 about this episode because we're taking it. You said that really, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.840 really nicely. But we have seen everything on TV this season, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.400 so um, let's not forget about that. Let's not forget 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.440 to address the elephant in the room. How we have 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.480 seen more of your mother this season in your personal 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:07.480 life as well as your dad. Um, and so much 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.320 more so how important it was. But like a Mamiana, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.000 she wanted to have you come to this country for 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.480 the American dream and this is like the perfect topic. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:27.680 So mommy de man, it's down to the world. What 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:38.440 tell me a la super super uyosa exactly Ama Stevins 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:56.120 and mucha felic program guyosa mouen contenta pore content. Yeah, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:04.679 it's a sacrifical who in two, but I complete your 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:26.840 locomo tambien in a costa mucho sacrificio in cala calias 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:34.600 caladi a true farmers. Oh she's so cute. Thanks Mom, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:52.280 were fast um ja stepa voce case sister fasting migrants 0:03:54.640 --> 0:04:16.920 Mexico reficimu problema pero perfect proposita la to Savia kama 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:28.840 Okay to Savia tokay yellow ground or to said no, no, no, no, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:38.799 yea yeah, I said, you know. We have said also 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:55.719 un artista, yea artista the control como microphono ceponiello, lota 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:04.920 total tot to all a way in the characters okay 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:24.400 to artista, no person madeoque lomasa familia and Don Francicola 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:57.880 felicitas Sabina the suprematosa looking along call top your no. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.240 So basically what we have asked Amada's mom Momi Hanna, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.480 like what does she see and for the future of 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.240 Amanda and she just wants her to just keep going. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.880 We asked her about like when she was first on 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.920 TV on Don Francico or anything, how did the family 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.359 react to that. She's super happy for Amata and ask her, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.120 did you like really think that she was gonna be 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.280 this big or did you think she was gonna be 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.560 a teacher or or a doctor? She said no, Since 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.480 she was younger, she would grab the first hair comb, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.000 she would have grabbed anything, and just started saying she 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.200 knew that she was going to be a star. And 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.760 I'm outa How does that make you feel? How does 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.840 that make you feel? Well? To be honest, I'm very 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.960 proud of my mom and all her accomplishments. UM, I'm 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.520 proud of the fact that I come from a hard 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.480 working woman. She taught me, you know, everything that I know, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.680 my work, ethic, um, just the way that she raised me. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.760 She sacrificed a lot for me. And I'm grateful for 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.520 those things because, UM, not a parent, not a lot 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.560 of parents have the opportunity. Not a lot of them 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.880 would have. But thanks to all the things that she 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.200 she did, I'm here today and I am a success story. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.880 I am part of the American dream. Um, and it 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.400 feels good. It feels good to know that she's happy 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.800 with with what I've done, because I must admit, you know, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.640 for those that may not understand or may not know, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.560 being part of the entertainment industry is like playing the lottery. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.600 You know, everybody wants to make it, not everybody does. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.840 So for me to have been able to make it 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.560 all the way to where I am and I'm not 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.880 even halfway through all the things that i want to accomplish. Um, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.119 you know, I'm it's very satisfying. And I've been able 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.120 to become now a provider for her, for my mom 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.640 so that she no longer has to work. You know, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.360 she's had three restaurants in this country. She's done many 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.320 things that, you know, with a lot of work and sacrifice, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:08:01.360 anything truly is possible. I'm no Mommy has her Instagram, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:15.800 her followers, Mammy's famous. I remember her selling stuff. Yeah, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.520 she has hair products and everything. She sold um in bananas, 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.280 she had her ba Alicious shop. Actually he's doing nails. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:50.760 She's doing nails now as well. Seems hello. Okay, so 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.440 how about this. You know, I've always gonna have this opportunity, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.439 and I'm also gonna take it from you CTV to 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.760 ask my mom a couple of questions. Okay, so here goes, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:05.079 here goes nothing. Okay, So guando replica, I want to 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:15.439 take you back, okay. Mental Republic Nicaud Panama because you 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.360 lived in Panama for ten years as well. Go to 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:27.719 the Panama Temple, dificile gando fruit taviandas and puertos ya 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:35.960 and lovely markets and movemental principle Miami momentum. To maintain 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:51.720 has to happen vistas yea happen mementos bueno inclusive in Panama, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:10:06.520 Embardi and bardio. Your long body, persona, the body your 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:30.040 coming toldo plata no, the product, the they I don't know. Second, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.800 come with me a little picnicana. You know, once you 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.160 left the Dominican Republic, right, you had to sacrifice and 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.000 you had to have many jobs. Can you talk to 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.559 us a little bit about the jobs that you had 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:53.760 once you came out of your country. But the naasas 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:12.719 kakondo meter metok metoca familiar talo sings in papells in 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:43.200 migrante media personal okay, so maybe mete okay, commu processaia 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:57.280 cosinando restauran market loco. You may come from bang there 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:12.160 is a central yeah ilamna meda even coro contra yell 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.480 the memeric We're okay, cha mean you're continuing their flooring 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:41.840 in Bendia, Floridambia yeah, the holiday color, all the heron 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:51.000 regular florid flyers and lukaro f cosa. Yeah, we we 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.400 for those Amena understand but basically I know they don't 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.280 have to recap, but I think it would be great 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.480 for those that those big Spanish that we have a 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.960 lot my mom. My mom was basically saying that, um, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.839 she we ended up selling flowers in the in the 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.360 corners and the stop signs, passing out flyers, cleaning houses. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.240 You know, when I was very, very young, she ended 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.920 up living Insteade, one of those homes where she's talking 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.959 about how humiliating it was because they knew that she 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.960 didn't have any papers and they would consistently make her 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.360 work and then not pay her. I mean, she went 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.640 through many things, um as an immigrant woman in this 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.680 country with a small child, nonetheless a child that eventually 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.559 wanted to become an artist and become famous, which put 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.000 a lot of pressure on her. But I always said 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.079 that I'm grateful because she supported me instead of telling me, no, 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.400 find something else. She figured out other ways to support 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.240 my dreams, my goals and aspiration as an artist and 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.760 found actually other jobs. And part of that is like 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.480 and I told you oh, mommy, I want to be 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.719 an artist. I want to be famous. Was that a 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:04.480 lot of pressure for you? But you said family like, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.400 so you see so like at the place. So I'm 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:27.760 the tsona tista. But I think I'm oh, well, that's 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:37.520 a influence a taste, don't I know? Campo class, piano 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:45.160 lo class they smbol with me into. Drove me crazy. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.200 She drove me crazy. But I'm so grateful because if 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.440 it wasn't because she put me in all these classes 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.960 and and I started taking classes when I was about 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.480 four four years old or so ballet and hip hop 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.200 and all those type of things, and she said it 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.280 having me in singing classes. And if it wasn't because 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.160 of all the pressure that she put at me at 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.440 an early age and doing beauty paget and all those things, 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.360 I wouldn't be worried today. I wouldn't have the professionalism 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.320 or the work ethic that I was able to have 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.280 throughout the years because of all the pressure. And when 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.880 she says that she put me in singing class and 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.920 she really did, like she oh deed on all these 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.760 damn classes that I don't I don't even tap dance anymore. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.720 She hasn't even giving me advice. She's like, you need 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.440 to do this. You didn't do that. If you're gonna 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.280 be here, you need to be in Miami. Needs to 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.040 do this, you need to like she has the formula 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.000 minds me of like Michael Jackson's dad and like the 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.120 good parts and stuff like that. But they w I 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.600 have a question for both of you, guys, because like 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.480 when you, guys, I saw that you reposted the border 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.520 patrol agents when they had horse and whips and I 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.520 guess the Haitians trying to cross the border, How did 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:16.360 that make you feel? Amara? And okay, like how did 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:27.160 you feel? Not I get starting in lapil in persona, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:45.120 in lamente persona, pero it is your pills, okay, you 0:16:45.280 --> 0:17:08.120 traformers maybe too, Pa Marsala, you Cala, Cassie and them. Yeah, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:13.600 it makes me feel I'm gonna be completely honest. I 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.800 am very passionate. I think maybe as the liber in me, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.119 maybe is the spirit of my ancestors within me. I 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.080 don't know what it is, but I hate injustice and 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.879 me coming from an immigrant mother, me seeing all the 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.919 sacrifices that she did, um me understanding as an adult 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.200 now that the reason why she left her country. Wasn't 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.520 because she wanted to be away from her family, wasn't 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.520 because she wanted to explore the world by herself at seventeen. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.440 Was because of necessity when you find yourself in a space, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.080 especially right now, like when I saw the Haitian community, um, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.680 you know, protesting and just you know, in the borders 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.880 of of just watching the way that they were being 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.399 mistreated really made me feel connected to them. And this 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.399 is not even if their Haitian or if they're this, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.920 if they're human beings, not even animals deserve to be 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.240 treated that way. Where there's children, pregnant women, elderly people, women, 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.680 child them, I mean men, there's all types of people, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.960 and they're leaving because every so often their country has 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.879 gone through some type of worldly earthquake, hurricane, something that 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.760 has been out of their control. There's been so many 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.800 people doing these go fund you know, go fund me 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:30.640 and all these fake as foundations to profit and financially 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.720 benefit out of these terrible occasions and things that have 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.159 happened to them too, then just keep the money and 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.119 not support and help them back. And just seeing the 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.000 way that they were treated only made me think of 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.040 God forbid if it would have been my mother, and 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.320 it would have been my mother, you know, sacrificing her life, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.680 because it's a sacrifice to go through that, through through 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.520 that river, to go through that standing in the sun 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.280 all day, to just go through all those things, just 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.760 looking for a better future. Because you're looking for food, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.440 they're looking for shelter. They're not looking to steal, they're 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.040 not looking to harm, They're looking for help, for assistance, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.680 no scare. I am saying pro illegal immigrants. That's not 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.520 what I'm saying. I'm not saying that, you know, the 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.359 country should just be feeled like that, that that there 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.520 shouldn't be some type of filter where people have to 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.040 do some type of documents and do it the legal way. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.560 I understand that part. But when you see twelve thousand, thirteen, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:31.320 fifteen thousand people running and rushing asking for help, this 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.480 is about like, this is a state of emergency. This 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.440 is they're asking for help. This is not that they're 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.440 just coming here because they want to take over the 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:48.639 United States. You can talk about this over and over again, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.800 and this topic you go for a very long time, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.320 but the point is that this country was truly made 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:59.159 from the sacrifices of immigrants and um, you know, they 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.800 worked very hard to build this country. So to just 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.680 throw people out as if they're not human, I think 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:14.680 that is extremely unfair. Lobalmen Gusto VI como persona, como 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:26.600 Lobelicaiano ikuano i Colombiano. That's the other thing. It's not 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.560 just Haitian people that are there. I had to comojo 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:46.879 j mel and tifico as conte to m it's a 0:20:54.359 --> 0:21:05.119 come on place peripara gona com rio and trevida c 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:19.960 vido look longo la difficult ties cimp con at rizalatera 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:55.320 e grande rand do brando kan Silesia, no conco, no 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:14.680 pass fronto, no price, see your visist, Okay, come come 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:29.119 afay boto co met co may nona nalana cruz ri 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:44.879 contract persona cora practice. Maybe we don't know. It's not 0:22:53.280 --> 0:23:16.600 persona your gut don't don't yes yea nor music cancer 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:44.800 in caminar conception pasoa leko being the pesces agrificio considered 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:56.560 Medican and repulica Menicano geno toc lu like. Have you 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.240 had the opportunity of living the American dream? Do you 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:18.360 think it was with pavajo meal. They mysell cancella campany 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:49.440 princip consider Americano porking to time and to com tomato, 0:24:52.880 --> 0:25:07.120 you know in America opero them. No, wait wait because 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:17.520 I want to ask her question. Yes, um about vida Come, 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:40.159 oh my god, I know this your your medicina meda, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:26:01.960 you're okay, your boy, your money yellow me that you 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:14.040 know that pielt i mama, but I mean, but I 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:20.639 mean InLu like she rushed me to the emergency. They 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:25.240 pumped my stomach all types of thing and they didn't 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.080 find anything. I was just tired and sleepy. But I 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:31.240 had just opened up all her hydeblood pressure pills and 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:34.240 threw them all over the van. And I remember she 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:44.600 was stressed out. Well there was that you go in 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:57.359 and no kids come, no, no, not complaint. I know. 0:26:57.480 --> 0:26:59.520 I used to see her saving her legs and everything 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:01.600 all the time time and then she would plug her eyebrows. 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:03.000 So I just feel like if I got the razor 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:04.600 did the same thing my mom, then I could do it. 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.840 And I just literally just took off my whole eyebrows off. 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:28.600 Um you know, kids, dot tropitalo I anything grip now 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:53.879 bel meicina, benling your being the note counter you. My 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:58.879 mom was always very a segment emergency but ever your 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:23.879 pec pro Okay, the den wentlin bueno. As a child, 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:26.120 you know, I did a couple of things. You gotta 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:33.720 it's regular, it's normal. But you think you think I 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:44.080 was a bad kids. Yes, yes, that's what kids do. 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:47.360 That's regular. I you know, I used to have fun, 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:49.000 not so many the fact that I was was an 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:51.360 only child, so it could get slightly boring, and I 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:53.880 was just looking for ways to find entertainment. Come on, 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:06.120 come Minicana, come on, latin Na. I'm so grateful that 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:08.760 my mom pushed me so hard to learn Spanish. She 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:12.520 would have me reading the newspaper, she had pe in 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:17.120 the house all the time, she would have mil, she 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.400 would have like she has so much latin influence in 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:23.280 the household that I knew when I was going home, 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:27.080 I'm Dominican, I'm Latina. Obviously, once I went to school 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:29.160 and I was out that it was like, okay, so 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:32.880 here I'm more American. But my mom always made sure 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:52.480 that I knew that I was latinae Latina behind place 0:29:53.200 --> 0:30:13.880 same prey mea and to say maxim in English Multicultura 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:24.960 and to a movie by and defeasive problem at MT 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:36.280 English to the American is salo and coma casa contella music, Yeah, 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:47.840 Ami pies practical being oh there a Dominican co Dominican 0:30:47.920 --> 0:30:58.600 and turning you a no nada to say yo. Then 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:03.640 met conte but we used to have a lot of 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:05.200 issues and we used to fight all the time because 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.520 I felt like I'm American. I don't have to speak Spanish. 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:10.720 I was born here, I don't have to speak Spanish, 0:31:11.000 --> 0:31:14.440 and I hated talking Spanish like I'm talking about like 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:17.840 I'm ten years old and I'm still like a barbecuite 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:20.040 to list me all. I'm not doing that. Leave me 0:31:20.040 --> 0:31:23.040 a little mom like I used to go through that 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:27.920 stage and I remember my mom beating my ass so hard. Kelly, 0:31:27.960 --> 0:32:11.240 pisy you okay, no, no, just Americano, sa little. It's true. 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:14.360 I got my first I got my first TV opportunity 0:32:14.400 --> 0:32:16.320 as a TV host when I was twenty years old 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.600 in this network called me. The show was CALLEDAO and 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:24.520 they were doing auditions and once they showed me how 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:26.800 much they were gonna pay, they were like, have you 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:28.920 ever been a TV housset? And I was like, yeah, sure, 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:31.720 never in my life, I had never done it, but 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:33.959 I just wanted the opportunity and I knew that if 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.040 I was messing up, it was gonna be a learning 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:39.160 experience for me. So then it really was grateful that 0:32:39.320 --> 0:32:41.640 my mom pushed me so hard to learn Spanish, because 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:43.200 if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have been able 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:45.560 to get that gig. And that gig led me into 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:51.200 working later on with Vika Santos and uh Santos and UniMas. 0:32:51.280 --> 0:32:53.400 Then I got to do so many other opportunities that 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:56.520 came through that, and personally I wished it, and you know, 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:58.960 the language, because my my thing is that I always 0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:01.360 want to grow. But I'm grateful that no matter what, 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:05.000 my mom always maintained the Dominican culture, of the Latino 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:10.560 culture in the household. Lom you know, she always um 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:14.480 would play a ligno nacional. She would have me read 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:18.160 the newspaper. She would do that. She would make sure 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:22.360 that I in your country, in your country, because my 0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:24.680 mom always made it feel like, this is your country, 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:27.800 the Dominican Republic. You're born in Miami, you're American, but 0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:33.000 in your country we black. I know, this is who 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:36.560 you are, this Sclatto, and I think that that part 0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:39.240 is important. I'm being because you have to be proud 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.000 of where you come from. You have to be proud 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:44.040 of your ancestries and all those things build you up 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.360 and make you who you are. Like if you're Puerto Rican, 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:55.800 you have to know about where you come from. These 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:58.320 are your people. This is a connection that you have. 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:01.760 If you're not with your future, it helps you with 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:04.040 your future because sometimes he asks us a lot of questions, 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:06.720 why you act like this, why you're like this one? 0:34:06.920 --> 0:34:16.560 These are generational things. Mommy, Francisco Como como police trial 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:29.800 Don Francico, Like that was the biggest, mom like the biggest. Yeah, Okay, 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:40.839 Corama como como Amara and show they do Francisco. Look, 0:34:45.920 --> 0:35:07.080 can you're being a commercial? Ela Curio being being being 0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:14.560 compromat return consultell Alguenia. You can go, they say the 0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:33.959 hell yeah when you India, come Condomonito, I say, don't 0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:37.920 need to have to serve to pass Upasa Intel City. 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:56.280 You can people vitorial you like condo recommend in Numeroo 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:24.320 contntrol Lady Violet, Yes ahead, I know, yeah, yeah, perfect, 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:40.400 come on maybe yes yeah, the rest was history. I 0:36:40.560 --> 0:36:45.120 got to um after that, I actually want CHICKI Tika UM. 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:47.520 And then once that one, Don Francisco put my mom 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:49.600 to aside and asked her if she would be interested 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:51.520 in having me in the children panel that they had. 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:54.680 So I was there for six years every Saturday. I 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:59.719 basically got to grow up in Don Francisco. Um. Then 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:03.000 from there I became a background dancer for Elkhana for 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:08.080 the channel, and then they had a show called said. 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:10.480 I did so many things that were you know, basically 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:13.960 on the network. And after that then it was just okay, well, 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.279 now I want to try music, and I'm like, I 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:18.479 already know how to dance. I'm already comfortable on TV. 0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:20.360 I want to try music. Then my mom for me 0:37:20.440 --> 0:37:23.680 in like singing classes. I started doing music. Um, I 0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:26.520 did my little Deno. I just did so many things 0:37:26.640 --> 0:37:29.440 that one thing led to the other, and I think 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:31.360 it was all a build up. It was all like 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:34.000 meant to be because it led me to where I 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:46.359 am today. Okay, mommy real men your second I okay, 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:54.320 I might have started loving hip hop. No, okay, so 0:37:54.680 --> 0:38:10.360 you know pro rama in reality the too, you know, 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:30.839 republica lad, some me in my transparent nihaa platform I did. 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:41.960 I told people personam, I told people they are tastasia yesterday, 0:38:42.040 --> 0:38:55.719 I young cosa I personata. So my mom don't care 0:38:55.719 --> 0:38:59.239 about it. That okay. My mom is like, and the's 0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:01.600 gonna bring you some she shouldn't be all politically correct. 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:03.200 Let me tell you. My mom is like, look, if 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:04.600 this is gonna bring you some money, if this is 0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:06.800 gonna give you a platform where you can share your music, 0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:11.200 it's exactly see where you can share your music, expose 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:15.120 who you are and gain gain opportunities and fans. My 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:18.600 mom is like, go for it, you know. Let me 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:21.040 tell you something. Since my mom was like, exactly a 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:24.880 matter watch this, Mommy, would you be mad at me 0:39:24.920 --> 0:39:30.000 if I have an only fans fans? No? Se you 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:34.040 see yo. Let me tell my mom is like, you're young, 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:36.680 this is your time to do it. What the world 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:38.680 has to say, you do what you gotta do. If 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:42.160 it was it's funny because my mom is the one. 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:44.920 I'm more conservative, believe it or not. You see my 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:47.920 plea out like I want to cover myself up. I 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:49.360 don't want to do too even though I have a 0:39:49.400 --> 0:39:51.879 big personality. My mom is the one that he said 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:53.759 give up that away in singing. You see, you're the 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.239 poet for you're young, so you know, but I can't 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:07.040 co even if it's oh, I can send a mass 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:21.319 open hello MARIEO artistical la personal partner can also my plicito. Okay, 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:45.480 so I mommy, and plus you know it's a sad 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:49.120 idea meal. You spoil me, mommy, But it's okay. I 0:40:49.239 --> 0:40:53.640 know that I'm because do you make top you know, 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:57.200 you make sure that we are good attack omego. She's like, 0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:19.840 but a yes, come on, Losa, yeah un Losa. I 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:21.640 want you guys to go follow my mom at her 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:25.960 social media platform, which is Mammiana La Mama one, Mammy 0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:29.080 and Mama one on Instagram. I'm gonna be posting it 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:31.279 so you guys can go follow support and then she'll 0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:34.680 be putting some behind the scenes some BTS stuff there too, 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:36.839 so you guys can go check it out. Stevie, give 0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:38.719 your social media platform so they can follow you too. 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:42.040 It's Stevie noonez as t e v E y n 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:43.920 E w n e C. And it's funny because whenever 0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:47.040 I'm with Mammyana, we be going him. I'm gonna have 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:57.920 to go visit cam told followed me at a madela 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:01.040