1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: My voice feels like like a book that I'm never 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: going to stop writing. It feels like a collection of 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: all the lessons I've learned and all the memories that 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: I've had. But it also surprises me. It surprises me 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: sometimes what I can tap into and what I'm capable of. 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: From futro media, it's leat you know us say, I'm 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: Marie Noosa today. The world's within the voice of Angeli 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: Ga Garcia, a Los Angeles based singer songwriter. 9 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 3: Do Angli. Ga. 10 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: Garcia's music is as eclectic and colorful as the collages 11 00:00:58,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: she likes to make. 12 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: I guess that's what I am. I'm a mix of everything, 13 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: so whatever the heck that is, that's me. 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 2: So there are pictures of family members. 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: I really love the images of my grandmother's a young woman, 16 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: and then I have the image of like my mom 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: as a young mom, and I'm a little girl. Right there. 18 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: Scenes of Elmonte, the predominantly immigrant city in Los Angeles 19 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: County where Ahilica grew up. 20 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: I love this street because if you just look down 21 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: the street, you just see the mountains, and that's really beautiful. 22 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: And everybody's got oranges and women's. 23 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: As well as just little bits and pieces of her 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 2: everyday life. 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: I keep everything. If it has a cool number, I'm like, 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: that's my number, and I don't throw it away because 27 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, order number twenty seven, Yes, that is me. 28 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: I was supposed to be here. I was supposed to 29 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: get disorder. I'm such a backgroun. 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 2: And although Angiliga's life has had twists and turns, her 31 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: connection to her voice has been an anchor through it all. 32 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 4: One day I'm gonna be Isla is a big magnolty 33 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 4: timmanacome math to me, her little burn. 34 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: When Anhiliga was seventeen, her family moved across the country, 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 2: away from the neighborhood parties and guava trees of California, 36 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: all the way. 37 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 3: To the East Coast. 38 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 2: It was in Richmond, Virginia, that Anghiliga released her first project, 39 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: Medicine for Birds, of folk and blues inspired record that 40 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 2: tells stories about fleeing the nest and shedding expectations. It 41 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: was in her second record, Chacha Palace, released in February 42 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: of twenty twenty, that and Helica paints a loving and 43 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: fibrant portrait of her upbringing in and Monte, while also 44 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: reflecting on issues from patriarchy to gentrification. 45 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 5: A perfect view understood what come the hell they were 46 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 5: getting into. 47 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: Her latest release, Echo Electrico, is a five track EP 48 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 2: which Ahiliga single handedly arranged and produced in the middle 49 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 2: of the pandemic. She interprets Ranchera classics that she grew 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: up listening to with an electronic twist. Today, Angeliga shares 51 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: the story of her voice, the memories it carries, and 52 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: the lessons it's taught her as an artist. 53 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: Here's Ahlika. 54 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: I am Angelica Garcia. I am a musician and songwriter, 55 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: and I'm from Elmonte, California, and this is Almonte. There's 56 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: like a family gathering in the front yard. I love 57 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: how many people take care of their gardens out here too. 58 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: My grandma has a way yava tree and a lemon 59 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: tree and avocado tree, and she has chili peppers. And 60 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: even though I haven't always lived here, I've orbited here 61 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: my whole life. For somebody that's moved a lot, it 62 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: feels like home because of that, you know, because it's 63 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: the place you always come back to. If I'm being real, 64 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: I think my first memory of singing probably has to 65 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: do with being at a family party. Family parties in 66 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: a monte. I just remember having so much fun with 67 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: my cousins. I remember little kids running around, cake and 68 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: balloons everywhere, like my uncle crawling up on top of 69 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: the shed hang the pinata for us and my uncle 70 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: you'd always come and show up with the guitar and 71 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 1: start singing granchetta music. My mom and my aunt would jump. 72 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 3: In allodia, the bum. 73 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 6: Job, the na who e e made you, suso hitos 74 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 6: loose sister. 75 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: My mom has a very bright voice, and she smiles 76 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: when she sings, so she really has like an energetic 77 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: ray madss. I remember just like always looking at my 78 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: mom and she was always so confident and she was 79 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: so happy to sing, so I would fun. She would 80 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: have favorite songs, and when my mom likes the song, 81 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: she will listen to the same song like fifty times 82 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: on repeat, and then if you interrupt her for anything, 83 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: she'll actually start it again from the top and make 84 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: you listen to the whole thing. So I have a 85 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: lot of memories of her, like teaching me her favorite songs. 86 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: She listened to a lot of fem musicians and singers 87 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: and interpreters, and I kind of got that in my 88 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: ear very early on. The music that influenced me is 89 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: a combination of a lot of things that like really 90 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: produced energetic pop things that my mom liked, but also 91 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: like the traditional run chetdow music that my family loved. 92 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: And my grandmother knows all the words just so many 93 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: it don chedd As even though she saw Dorian like 94 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: she loves Ranchetto music. My stepdad, he was always passionate 95 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: about songwriters, like his particular taste was folk and country. 96 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,559 Speaker 1: What I always took away from him and the people 97 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: he loved was just lyrics, lyrics, lyrics, and it kind 98 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: of showed me the similarities between like country lyrics and 99 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: then ranchetta music lyrics, which is basically like Mexican country. 100 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: Right when I was probably like teen pre teen is 101 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: when I first discovered alternative rock and rock within my 102 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: friend groups at the school. And I actually went to 103 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: an arts high school in downtown LA. It was like 104 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: a magnet high school. You audition and they let you in. 105 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: You get to like take music classes as well as 106 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: your normal academic classes. And my stepdad was actually she's 107 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: the one that was advocating for me to go to 108 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: this school. It was like telling my mom, like, you 109 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: should let her audition, and my mom was like. 110 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 3: La, ninya, she can't go. 111 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: She had to take the bus. No, And my dad 112 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: was like, it's fine, she can handle She'll have a 113 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: cell phone. And thank God for that, because I really 114 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: loved that. I learned so much. I actually trained my voice. 115 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: It was so interesting to get like anatomical descriptions of 116 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: what was going on in my actual body. I actually 117 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: remember being in the living room at my grandparent's house 118 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: when I first kind of understood the full power of 119 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: my voice, because your voice is physical, right, and it's 120 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: scary because you can't see it. But I remember I 121 00:08:49,040 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: had to learn some opera song my teacher was describing 122 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: when you take a deep breath, you actually had to 123 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: fill your chest with air and then you push through 124 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: your stomach and then that's how the air goes through 125 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: your throat and out your mouth. And I remember being like, what, 126 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: I don't understand. But the first time that I actually 127 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: did that and I achieved that extra push that I 128 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: hadn't been able to do was really amazing, and I 129 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: was like, Wow, I didn't know my body could do this. 130 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: It was at that time that I had some classmates 131 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: in high school that were like, hey, look, we're gonna 132 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: sort a band and we want you to be the singer. 133 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 3: And I was like, what mean, no way. 134 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: I was such a shy kid in high school. At 135 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: that school, I didn't necessarily feel like I fit in, 136 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: Like I remember just like eating lunch with like a 137 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: couple of friends, you know, like but just kind of quiet. 138 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: So that was my first time being kind of thrown 139 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: in front of people, like, oh, you're in a band now, 140 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: and you're singing at a club now, and they're at 141 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 1: least two hundred people here. Once I saw that people 142 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: actually liked my voice and we're responding to my songs, 143 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: it was kind of like, well, I'm never going back. 144 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: This is clearly what I've got to do. I was 145 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: seventeen years old when I moved to Virginia with my 146 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: mom and with my stepdad. My stepdad is actually an 147 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: episcopal priest, so we got to live on this big, 148 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: old house that belonged to the church. So I remember 149 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: the night that we pulled up, it was like a 150 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: super stormy night in the fall. These gigantic trees that 151 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,599 Speaker 1: never seen trees as big, and they're blowing in the 152 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: wind and there's lightning. And then we pull up and 153 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: there's this huge brick house and I was like, what 154 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: this is crazy. It's like out of the Haunted mansion. 155 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 1: And it was just such a shock, especially because like 156 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: the last place we lived in La it was like 157 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: I could reach out and touch both ends of my 158 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: room with my hands. 159 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 4: Bliss Virginia, ellan disy, I'm not from here by. 160 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 3: Us till. 161 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,599 Speaker 1: There was a building behind the actual sanctuary, on the 162 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: other side of the lawn from the house, and it 163 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: was like a hall where they would have dinners and 164 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: youth group and most of the time it was actually empty. 165 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: So I used to go there a lot because there 166 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: was a piano in there. It was nice because I 167 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about whether I sounded good or 168 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: not because nobody could hear me except for myself, and 169 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: I would sit there on my laptop and practice recording 170 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:57,719 Speaker 1: myself and this elephant make three. When I think of 171 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: Cha Cha Palace, I think of a collection of memories, 172 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: and I wanted it to stand like a photograph, this 173 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: picture that would remain constant because something I found about 174 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: living on the East coast was like I couldn't always 175 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: come back to California like I wanted to. And every 176 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: time you come back, it's like your cousins are a 177 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: few inches taller. The people, the families that have been 178 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: here forever, like the elders will pass and the homes 179 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: look different. Certain parts of Edmont there being like really developed. 180 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: It filled me with sadness to like feel like I 181 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: was missing that my exaund as. 182 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 5: A chain sense, a backyard, bloody plays, my cousins and 183 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 5: I used to spend the days jry walk into the 184 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 5: corner store. 185 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: I still felt such a deep connection to this place. 186 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: Even though I was far away, I still felt like 187 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: I was from Elmonte. I'm very connected to my grandparents. 188 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 1: There's a lot of little scrapbooks in here. There's like 189 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: photos of family members. There's a lot that my grandmother lost. 190 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: She was an orphan in Edisa, Vada. And you know, 191 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot that my grandfather had to give up 192 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: coming here. And I think about all those like little stories, 193 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: those last little nuances, and those things that I wish 194 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: that I knew about them. That's why I want to 195 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: remember everything. I wanted my chance to document the way 196 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: that the family made me feel the way that I 197 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: saw my sisters and my mom and my aunts navigating 198 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: through the world. I wanted to comment everything from iconography 199 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: to like gentrification through the album Ah see but. 200 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 4: Gama Dad. 201 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about patriarchy and how that manifests 202 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: my life growing up here. 203 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 7: Matriarch since fourteen all the grown men been don't want 204 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 7: me grab it with the mystery swimming and questions ways deep, 205 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 7: I was looking up to the gods when it's odd, 206 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 7: saying ah. 207 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: That weirdness of like how I have this sacred space 208 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: for these religious icons but at the same time I 209 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: don't connect with them as well, and trying to unpack 210 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: all of this within Cha Chab Palace in a way 211 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: that was still kind of me, which is super youthful 212 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: and queer and kind of like all over the place 213 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: and experimenting and everything. So that is Checha Palace. That's 214 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: why it's such a big collage. It's like because that's 215 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: what it felt like. It just felt like the hodgepodge 216 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: of everything our The Arosa is actually one of my 217 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: favorite songs on Chacha Palace. I wrote Rosa like in 218 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: my room in Richmond, and it was at a time 219 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: where I felt very alone, like no one around me 220 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: could answer these questions for me, because no one around 221 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: me had that experience that I had had, like what 222 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: is Latinidad? Like what the heck is this thing? Because 223 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it's what I was told it was. 224 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: And I don't know that a lot of people in 225 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: my family even know what it is either, So how 226 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: can they begin to teach me. 227 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 4: What it is? You know? 228 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: And do I have to go teach myself? And so 229 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: it makes sense to me that I was writing a 230 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: song basically seeking counsel. So that main vocal is what 231 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: I think to be the voice of the Guranderra. 232 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 5: You are the blood lines of the between. 233 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: And these responding voices you hear are actually almost like 234 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: ancestral voices coming through her and to me. Sometimes I 235 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: just don't totally know what I want to say yet, 236 00:16:53,880 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: because I'm still going through it. Something I would do often, 237 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: which I think is like a form of meditation, is 238 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: like I would actually make a loop, but a super 239 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: kind of ethereal loop, like a wash of sound almost. 240 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: I would get in my room and just create this 241 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: texture of voice and rhythm and just kind of sit 242 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: there and as the music would repeat, really honing in 243 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: on those thoughts that kept coming back into my mind 244 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: and then trying to sculpt them, really meditating until I 245 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: got to where I wanted to be. Maybe I hear, 246 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: like the subtlety and the way that I'm singing something 247 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: that kind of shows me, hmm, Okay, that's grief or 248 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: hmm that's anger, or this is a questioning, this is empowering. 249 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: When the pandemic happened, I just realized that even though 250 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: I had like a solid support system in Richmond, I 251 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: still felt very alone in many ways. Not having that 252 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: connection to my family, into my roots was really getting 253 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: to me, and ultimately that's part of what made me 254 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: decide to move back to California as well. There was 255 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: a lot of sitting in my room with my laptop, 256 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: and honestly, there was a lot of grief, but it 257 00:18:51,800 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: was essential that definitely fueled the next album. I just 258 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: put out an ef. 259 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 3: You recently and song so I wanted. 260 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 2: So. 261 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: I wanted to do one of those two. 262 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: Doom Doom Da Da Da Doom Doom da Jah Yeah 263 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: Echo Electric. I knew for the longest time that I 264 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: wanted to do that I actually had a show it 265 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: and I had to fulfill like an extra five to 266 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: ten minutes more than I thought I had to. And 267 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, it's like thinking what can 268 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: I do? 269 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 3: What can I do? 270 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: That's to add I'm like, Okay, then I guess I 271 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: should play something that I know. 272 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 3: And I was like, what do I know? 273 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: Like the back of my hand, and I was like, oh, Yorna, 274 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: like I've been singing this since I was a kid, 275 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: you know, And I remember just like being in this 276 00:19:53,400 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: little room and coming up with this arrangement. That was 277 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: when I was like, oh this, I need to do this. 278 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: I accidentally stumbled upon something that seems very true to 279 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: me and who I am. 280 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 3: Massive Misson. 281 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: Palo is a song that I always get asked to sing, 282 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: and I just loved cham La Vargason, like that was 283 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: the first time I heard anybody singing it was her. 284 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: Same again for Makarina. I found Makarina on my own. 285 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't one that my family had played, but I 286 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: love that it's like this very sensual song to a woman. 287 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: And I actually try when I write love songs to 288 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: write them for women and fem because I feel like 289 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: I love writing a poetic love song that isn't necessarily sexualized, 290 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: and if it is, it's like super romantic, or it's 291 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: like super colorful and detailed. And I love Makarina for 292 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: that reason, like like your mouth is a blessing of ripe, 293 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: Like what wow? I want somebody to tell me that, 294 00:21:51,400 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: you know, come on, come on, y'all get better. I 295 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: have been working with the looper since about twenty thirteen, 296 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: and the first time I ever saw this vocal looper 297 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: used was actually this artist named Kimbra, in which she 298 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 1: was building a song with her own voice. I think 299 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: it was a Nina Simone song like playing gold Ring. 300 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 3: Oh. 301 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: I remember showing it to my parents and like talking 302 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: to them about it one day. And I graduated community college. 303 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: I got an AA in twenty thirteen, and that was 304 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 1: actually a graduation gift from all the people in the parish. 305 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: The chipped in from the church. That gift was from 306 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: all of them from the community. 307 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 7: Whoa, whoa. 308 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: Oh, it's such a tricky device. What happens if I actident, 309 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: we forget how something goes. Do I redo it? Or 310 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: do I continue on with the mistake and make it work? 311 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: I love that risk, and I think that's a huge 312 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: factor in using the looper. It's it's all about your 313 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: expression and what you can capture in that moment, in 314 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: that time, with the people around you, and with whatever 315 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: you have in your body that day. My voice feels 316 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: like like a book that I'm never going to stop writing. 317 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: It feels like a collection of all the lessons I've 318 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: learned and all the memories that I've had. But it 319 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: also surprises me. It surprises me sometimes what I can 320 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: tap into and what I'm capable of. And I'm not 321 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: always the most confident person, but it reminds me that 322 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: I am powerful and that I do have things to 323 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: say and to contribute. And I'm always going to be 324 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: grateful because i feel like that's my biggest blessing on 325 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: this earth and it's the most powerful lesson that I 326 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: need to learn always. 327 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: You can listen to on Heilica Garcias Music on all 328 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: streaming platforms and on Hailicat. We'll be releasing a new 329 00:24:48,640 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 2: project later this year. 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