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Speaker 1: Hey Latino USA listener, comestas, we have a special treat
Speaker 1: for you today. A few weeks ago, Futuro Media collaborated
Speaker 1: with WNYC here in New York City to hold a
Speaker 1: live event to celebrate Futuro Media's new podcast. It's called
Speaker 1: Our Thing, The Birth of Salsa in Nova York. It's
Speaker 1: all about the legends behind salsa music and the label
Speaker 1: that defined it, Fina Records, often called the motown of Salsa.
Speaker 1: On today's episode, you'll get to hear a portion of
Speaker 1: a conversation with the host of NYC Now, Janey Pierre.
Speaker 1: She sat down with Venezuela and born Ella Brick, a
Speaker 1: two time Latin Grammy winner whose music takes her classical
Speaker 1: training and uproots it with Afro Venezuelan rhythms, jazz and
Speaker 1: contemporary Beats. She also was the composer for Our Thing.
Speaker 1: Janey speaks to Ella about the recent earthquakes in Venezuela,
Speaker 1: how her career changed after winning a Grammy, and where
Speaker 1: she sees salsa history in New York Today. And dear listener,
Speaker 1: you are in for a treat because the episode is
Speaker 1: not only a conversation. Ella Brick performs four songs live
Speaker 1: in a duet with Cuban pianist Camille Cordina. So grab
Speaker 1: a snack, your favorite, maybe that, and settle in. Here's
Speaker 1: Jenne Pierre of NYC Now with Ella Brick.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, good evening. Come on, you can do
Speaker 2: better than that. That's right, you brave the heat to
Speaker 2: be here. Give it up for yourselves.
Speaker 3: You look so good.
Speaker 2: Good evening, everyone, It is so nice to have all
Speaker 2: of you here at the green space here at WNYC.
Speaker 2: My name is Jeanne Pierre. I host NYC Now. That's
Speaker 2: WNYC's local news podcast, And if you haven't heard about it,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a moment to tell you. Basically, it's
Speaker 2: a show for everyday New Yorkers. We make sense of
Speaker 2: the city for the people who live here and for
Speaker 2: the people who want to stay here now. I don't
Speaker 2: know about y'all, but I'm feeling like a little groove.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling like, you know, we don't have enough space
Speaker 2: to dance, but you can move your shoulders, right, ma'am,
Speaker 2: you got it all right?
Speaker 4: Just back here.
Speaker 2: Just want to do a shoulder check over here. Everybody's
Speaker 2: feeling good, Okay, cool? Because I am really in the
Speaker 2: mood for some music. And I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: but I could sure use some live music. I wonder
Speaker 2: if anyone has a piano or a trumpet. Wow, when
Speaker 2: did you get there? All right, y'all, I want to
Speaker 2: welcome to the stage now Venezuelan born musician Ella Brick
Speaker 2: two and Ella Good. All right, So before we get started,
Speaker 2: I just want to know what's the first song you
Speaker 2: have for us?
Speaker 3: We have lamonica?
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's do it.
Speaker 3: I want to decay this song to the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 5: Yes hm.
Speaker 4: Ha se navi.
Speaker 6: Soma pari go komorna love roma condesseba to pessaro sin
Speaker 6: coolpania boomas been the therefore to rege d regard the
Speaker 6: musimplement sal gongol free vagabona prend delvia o Yama, Lina
Speaker 6: get the bars sabola notes a gel mongada hilasi pretas
Speaker 6: set a basel colo and to Nova aran n why
Speaker 6: are you and doesn't know the canto dampna.
Speaker 4: Health yea.
Speaker 6: Conta meli in Daganta contwn mel In da Canta, countdown mel.
Speaker 3: In Nakanta.
Speaker 6: Emporers, So come down, Melinda Canta, countdown, mill in Dakanda,
Speaker 6: condown Melinda Gandakikandara.
Speaker 3: Superbody.
Speaker 6: Tell me Linda Canta can't tell me. Linda Canta can't
Speaker 6: tell me. Linda Ganda she can't.
Speaker 3: So can't tu me.
Speaker 6: Linda Canta can't down me. Linda Conda can't damn Melinda Ganda.
Speaker 6: Candary to super what.
Speaker 2: Beautiful? That was beautiful?
Speaker 7: Ella?
Speaker 2: Thank you you were born and raised in Venezuela. Before
Speaker 2: we get deeper into this conversation, you know our hearts
Speaker 2: are with your family, your loved ones, and all of
Speaker 2: Venezuelans impacted by the earthquakes on last week. I'm wondering, like,
Speaker 2: how did that news unfold for you?
Speaker 3: I heard voice notes from my mom saying that she survived.
Speaker 8: Thanks because she was She did a special prayer and
Speaker 8: that gave her enough time to buy time to take
Speaker 8: her dogs my brother to run to.
Speaker 3: She's a an eighth floor and she have enough.
Speaker 8: I'm surprisingly to go down and wait for whatever is
Speaker 8: gonna unfold after that. And then the second earthquake impact
Speaker 8: her while she was on the street already, and many
Speaker 8: of my family members saw buildings falling next to them,
Speaker 8: many kids trapped in the moment, many people very confused,
Speaker 8: not understanding what's going on. They didn't know if this was,
Speaker 8: you know, related to something else. And at the beginning,
Speaker 8: everybody was like, Okay, one building fall here, But then
Speaker 8: as the time started passing, we start receiving devastating news
Speaker 8: about the whole country being affected by this. It's pretty much,
Speaker 8: according to our reporting and the CNN, a mix of
Speaker 8: nine to eleven, and the image is similar to well
Speaker 8: being seeing happening and in other parts of the world.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry to hear that. How's your mom now?
Speaker 3: She's just good. Most of my family lost a lot,
Speaker 3: but they're good, better than the rest.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: We tried to meet up over the weekend to hang
Speaker 2: and you were running around getting donations. So if folks
Speaker 2: here want to help you, you know, get donations out
Speaker 2: what should they do?
Speaker 8: They should follow on Instagram and Instagram. I'm posting about
Speaker 8: two campaigns that I'm supporting. I'm supporting in the local restaurants.
Speaker 8: At the moment, they are sending medicine and local aid
Speaker 8: to sending trucks full of medicine being sent to Venezuela,
Speaker 8: which it should arrive on this Wednesday. So basically we're
Speaker 8: raising funds to cover the cost of sending those strocks
Speaker 8: to Miami and making sure that the medicine and the
Speaker 8: food's gonna arrive on time.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine being a daughter so far away from
Speaker 2: home during natural catastrophe like this. How does music help
Speaker 2: you cope in times like this?
Speaker 8: I feel like music always helps, But during this moment,
Speaker 8: I recognize that I have to remind myself that I'm
Speaker 8: a human being first, and I have to allow myself
Speaker 8: to feel the anger, the grief and allow myself to
Speaker 8: try to be present for them, trying to do the
Speaker 8: activism using the platform that I have available at the
Speaker 8: same time of knowing when to stop and do meditation,
Speaker 8: prayers and try to send as much as prayers to
Speaker 8: those who are still affected and.
Speaker 3: You know, suffering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, tell us about, you know, your musical background.
Speaker 2: I saw you pick up that trumpet so quickly, like
Speaker 2: it it just came to your hand. Like you guys
Speaker 2: have spent a lot of time some years together. Can
Speaker 2: you tell me about your background.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I come from a musicians or family. I come
Speaker 3: from a family of musicians.
Speaker 8: My uncle was one of the saxophone players for Mario
Speaker 8: Balsa t Puente.
Speaker 3: His name is Rolando Risa, and yeah, but perhaps to him.
Speaker 8: And he left a lot of impact on my dad's
Speaker 8: although that they didn't grow up together. He came to
Speaker 8: New York City very very early, and my dad, you know,
Speaker 8: he took a different route, staying in Venezuela, and that's
Speaker 8: where I came. And yeah, my dad never stopped talking
Speaker 8: to me about jazz and about.
Speaker 3: The importance of you know, knowing your roots.
Speaker 8: And he did a lot of like mixing, and then
Speaker 8: that's pretty much how I got involved in music. Also,
Speaker 8: Venezuela has an amazing program name and systema where we
Speaker 8: were exposed at a very young.
Speaker 3: Age, exposed to classical music. And that was my training, right.
Speaker 8: He started with classical music, then I switched to jazz,
Speaker 8: and then I started improvising, and I started mixing with
Speaker 8: all the genres pop music, and I start producing music.
Speaker 2: Also, let's talk a bit more about classical music, because
Speaker 2: mixing that into the fold it's a lot. How does
Speaker 2: that influence your overall sound?
Speaker 8: Well, I feel like thanks to classical music, I allow
Speaker 8: myself to have a good technique and the instrument trumpet
Speaker 8: is a very physical instrument that requires a lot of discipline,
Speaker 8: a lot of techniques, and I use a lot of
Speaker 8: like the formations of classical trumpet players, just as Marise
Speaker 8: Andres and a lot of big names who have paved
Speaker 8: the way for for us to be able to build
Speaker 8: a solid career as trumpet players. Right, and then I
Speaker 8: took a different route, But I feel like the switch
Speaker 8: between classical music, it adds something else to the voice
Speaker 8: that I wanted to develop as a musician.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 2: All right, so we have a whole set list to
Speaker 2: get through. What's the next song you have for us?
Speaker 3: I think we are going to start with.
Speaker 8: The funny thing is that this music is the music
Speaker 8: that we created specifically thanks to you Montalbo, who.
Speaker 3: Gave me this gig.
Speaker 8: Yeah for the podcast, Yeah, and for the podcast, And
Speaker 8: it was a big responsibility to write music for for
Speaker 8: a podcast that is talking about the funnial all the starts,
Speaker 8: but we we we try to honor them and get
Speaker 8: closer the most I can with the tools that we
Speaker 8: were given.
Speaker 3: So I think we're gonna do U Should we do Rombo? Okay?
Speaker 6: We we were.
Speaker 3: I was very lacy in naming the tracks.
Speaker 2: So they still have the trucks seven and I was like,
Speaker 2: is it called team seven?
Speaker 3: So we don't have a percussion is today?
Speaker 8: But we have the beautiful and amazing genius right from
Speaker 8: Coula Camilla Cortina.
Speaker 9: She's us today.
Speaker 2: Day, take your time.
Speaker 4: Girl, over and over.
Speaker 6: And him.
Speaker 1: A coming up on Latino U s A. A. Brick
Speaker 1: talks about leaving Venezuela's.
Speaker 8: Like, You're going to New York City to get your
Speaker 8: ass kicked, and I'm like, damn, okay, I need that.
Speaker 8: And then I came to New York City and exactly
Speaker 8: how she said, and it makes me a better human being.
Speaker 3: See with Us Yes.
Speaker 5: Hm, whole podcast, see the Uta Elbasi long, the Guta
Speaker 5: Ela to.
Speaker 3: Vitoria and Tony podcast format, the podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey We're back. We're going to continue with an excerpt
Speaker 1: from an episode of NYC Now with host Janey Pier.
Speaker 1: We recently collaborated on a live event at w NYC
Speaker 1: here in New York City, and now she continues her
Speaker 1: conversation with two time Latin Grammy winning musician Ela Brick.
Speaker 1: Here's Jena Pierre.
Speaker 2: Linda Barcinio. You've used that name throughout your career, and
Speaker 2: now you're going by Ela Brick. Why the change?
Speaker 3: The changes?
Speaker 8: Because I'm very in a good sense. I'm a prideful
Speaker 8: and independent woman.
Speaker 6: Come on now.
Speaker 8: And there comes a time where a lot of people
Speaker 8: were associating me only as the daughter of or the
Speaker 8: niece of, and I wanted to create a name by
Speaker 8: myself doing things that neither my uncle or my dad did.
Speaker 3: And then I was able to.
Speaker 8: Discover the music of Ella Viziceral and I'm like, what
Speaker 8: a beautiful story and how hard it is, everything that
Speaker 8: she went through and the figure that you represents, I
Speaker 8: feel like this figure represents me. I would like to
Speaker 8: call my name Ella and cut my last name in
Speaker 8: half and create my own last name, at least artistically,
Speaker 8: and show the world that yes, I will always honor
Speaker 8: my ancestors. But at the same time, they're gonna hear
Speaker 8: something new coming from these veins.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I love that, you know, breaking away to
Speaker 2: make a name for yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was it like leaving Venezuela and how old were
Speaker 2: you when you did it?
Speaker 3: I left Venezuela when I was in my twenties, similar
Speaker 3: to Camilla. We were talking about the way that we
Speaker 3: left our countries, and it was very similar.
Speaker 2: What impacted that decision.
Speaker 8: Social issues in our countries. Coula and Venezuela share a
Speaker 8: similar political history. Sorry, and I wanted to do other things.
Speaker 8: I wanted to eat the world, and what best way
Speaker 8: to eat it? By going to the place that has
Speaker 8: an apple eat it?
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 3: So I arrived here.
Speaker 8: I got a full scholarship, the same as Camilla. It
Speaker 8: was very hard at the beginning, but you know, I
Speaker 8: was blessed and I always had got by myself, by
Speaker 8: my side, and a lot of people who helped me
Speaker 8: get through this, and every single musician who gave me
Speaker 8: jobs for the first time, the shady gigs, the good gigs,
Speaker 8: and here I am.
Speaker 2: You know, what's the difference between the music scene here
Speaker 2: in New York City and the music scene back and Caracas?
Speaker 3: The scene is not much different.
Speaker 8: I mean the scale New York City is three point
Speaker 8: zero like this mega right, But the musician's culture is
Speaker 8: very similar. People here is very ambitious, very disciplined, and
Speaker 8: you come here to be going to become a better musician.
Speaker 8: I remember when I was in Venezuela and not going
Speaker 8: busing a great clarentist.
Speaker 3: She's like, you going to.
Speaker 8: New York City to get your ass kick, and I'm like, damn, okay,
Speaker 8: I need that. And then I came to New York
Speaker 8: City and exactly how she said, and it makes me
Speaker 8: a better human being. But at the same time, I
Speaker 8: came also prepared because Karakas is also a very competitive
Speaker 8: city where a lot of great musicians are coming from
Speaker 8: great training.
Speaker 3: Same as Cool as well.
Speaker 8: And I feel like also Venezuela has a big culture
Speaker 8: of salsa music. We have cardeleone, We have a lot
Speaker 8: of important figures, you know, like in Manziel Latina, a
Speaker 8: lot of people who also pave the way.
Speaker 3: So I come also from from that background.
Speaker 2: I talked a bit about the way you sort of
Speaker 2: mix all these genres together, but when I've failed to
Speaker 2: mention was pop classical meats pop. How do you do that, Like,
Speaker 2: what's the thought process?
Speaker 8: I feel like, yes, I am a big consumer of
Speaker 8: pop music. Because America music the Cable arrived in Venezuela.
Speaker 8: We were always connected to America music and especially black music.
Speaker 8: Right We were visited by Michael Jackson and a lot
Speaker 8: of big figures of black history.
Speaker 3: Jazz musicians also came here.
Speaker 8: I think Ella came to New York to Caracas as well,
Speaker 8: so we always were surrounded by great influence for Americas.
Speaker 8: But I feel like the way that I interpret pop
Speaker 8: was very different from the pop that was happening in
Speaker 8: the two thousands. Pop meaning for me, r within and
Speaker 8: fire when I was twelve. When I was twelve, my
Speaker 8: people they were consuming Brittany and all of those stuff
Speaker 8: which I also learned, and syn Koreraphism and all of that.
Speaker 8: But I feel like that was my closest expression of
Speaker 8: understanding that necessarily what people is consuming is a reflection
Speaker 8: of what our communities are at the moment, and trying
Speaker 8: to work with that and do something with it that
Speaker 8: also transcends, and also allow myself to honor ancestor and
Speaker 8: the music that came before me.
Speaker 2: You know, talking about music that transcends as we mentioned
Speaker 2: you composed a lot of the music for our thing,
Speaker 2: the Birth of Sousa and Nueve York.
Speaker 7: Like, how do you how do you do that?
Speaker 2: Like, it's so much music, so many different themes right
Speaker 2: that you have to touch on. You have something upbeat,
Speaker 2: something somber. What's your approach?
Speaker 8: I feel like I had a lot of help from
Speaker 8: the team of Futuro, especially Jian Montalbo, because they gave
Speaker 8: me very specific references, and I try to be as
Speaker 8: much as respectful with those references, not to appropriate, not
Speaker 8: to copy anything, but at the same time using the
Speaker 8: same rhythms, like this, we want this song to have
Speaker 8: the feeling of bongaloo.
Speaker 3: We want this to be a roomba. We want this
Speaker 3: to be an op tempo.
Speaker 8: We want this to sound a little bit more like
Speaker 8: Actor Lao or also represent Aleto made by Lalupe in
Speaker 8: this case, which was the composer. So I tried to
Speaker 8: mix all of those ideas and try to honor that
Speaker 8: and give also my my contribution, and that's how that's
Speaker 8: how it came. I also need to mention that this music,
Speaker 8: you know, whoever left the Funny Time, they live the
Speaker 8: best golden years of music because not many people is
Speaker 8: recording this music as used to be.
Speaker 10: There.
Speaker 8: Most of the rangers who are wrote arrange and orchestra
Speaker 8: for these big orchestras. They are no longer with us,
Speaker 8: and there is no enough people investing money so this
Speaker 8: music can keep working and keep existing as it used to.
Speaker 8: So I relied on a team of Venezuela musicians who
Speaker 8: were back home, who we're interested in making this with
Speaker 8: a little budget that we have available. I mean, it
Speaker 8: was amazing to have people back home recording this. So
Speaker 8: what you heard is a team of full Venezuelan's trying
Speaker 8: to make it work, and it came amazingly.
Speaker 2: You know, it sounds like you had a really cool
Speaker 2: homework project of shit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a big challenge, but it was a
Speaker 8: lot of fun, right, It was a lot of fun
Speaker 8: and a lot of learning experience and home mumbee. And
Speaker 8: it humbled me because I still am learning rhythms, different
Speaker 8: types of montunos and my musicians. I always surround myself
Speaker 8: with great musicians and they are patient enough to understand
Speaker 8: that I had the mind of a producer. I'm not
Speaker 8: necessarily the most virtuoso musician, but I can make things happen,
Speaker 8: and that's how it came.
Speaker 2: All right. I think we're ready for Team seven.
Speaker 3: Team six, actually six hopefully after today. You guys can
Speaker 3: help me give a decent name to these pieces.
Speaker 2: One of them Jane's favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: And also consider that it's a big challenge to create
Speaker 8: all this music that was recorded with a big percussions
Speaker 8: instruments from bone. So we did a big challenge today
Speaker 8: by reducing.
Speaker 7: This to do it.
Speaker 3: So I hope, yeah, I know, I mean not. I
Speaker 3: feel like we're uplifting it.
Speaker 9: Th the thing?
Speaker 6: How many.
Speaker 4: Got me?
Speaker 3: Not gonna do now?
Speaker 2: Anybody?
Speaker 6: I was great.
Speaker 2: Shout out to my shoulder shakers over here.
Speaker 3: I see you, ladies.
Speaker 6: We'll be right back.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Let's wrap up the conversation between La
Speaker 1: Brick and Jane Pierre.
Speaker 2: You know, La, you wear a lot of different heads.
Speaker 2: You're a producer, songwriter, trumpeter. Which of these roles feel
Speaker 2: more at home to you?
Speaker 3: And why ah singer song writer.
Speaker 8: I feel like I was telling a Camilla that I
Speaker 8: have to wear so many hats that I would like
Speaker 8: to think that in the future I can become someone
Speaker 8: like Patano Eloso but doing Venezuela music, you're.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so big, big, big difference.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 8: I still need to have ninety years old to become that,
Speaker 8: so I have a lot of things to experiment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's top of mind right now?
Speaker 3: It's not stopping me right now.
Speaker 8: I feel like I have the full blessings of surrounding
Speaker 8: myself with great musicians and producers who are allowing me
Speaker 8: to become that. One of my co producers, which is
Speaker 8: a great producer from Honduras, Truco, is with us today.
Speaker 8: He's a genius and he's helping me find my sound,
Speaker 8: mixing Afro Venezuelan music with current sounds, and I feel
Speaker 8: like we are in the in the in the search
Speaker 8: of finding that enlightenment.
Speaker 2: Artistically, Yeah, we talked a bit about how your work
Speaker 2: bridges Afro Venezuelan traditions with jazz, electronic music and Latin jazz.
Speaker 2: I wonder though, like what's your inspiration?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 8: Music wise, I feel like, I, oh, that's a good
Speaker 8: When they asked me what's your favorite song, it's very complex,
Speaker 8: like where do you pick from? I feel like I
Speaker 8: feel passionate about musicians who live in mark with social justice,
Speaker 8: such as Nina Simon is like a big influence mixed
Speaker 8: with yeah big perhaps Nina Simon at the same time
Speaker 8: with I don't know. I love b orc music as
Speaker 8: well as much as I love the songs of you know, like,
Speaker 8: I feel like there are a lot of places to
Speaker 8: pick from, but I feel like if you have the
Speaker 8: chance to, you don't have never the chance to perform
Speaker 8: for the same hundred people. So we are impacted lives
Speaker 8: from one hundred to hundred. So we have the platform
Speaker 8: that a politician will die to have. So I like
Speaker 8: to think that we are using that the best way
Speaker 8: that we can to impact and make a change in
Speaker 8: the world.
Speaker 2: When it comes to mixing all of these genres together,
Speaker 2: what challenges have you faced.
Speaker 8: I feel like the challenge I mean as a producer,
Speaker 8: we represent the one or two percent in the recording
Speaker 8: studios as much as engineers. Female engineers, we face a
Speaker 8: lot of misogyny in the studios. Also in the music
Speaker 8: industry is very challenging for us as well as women. Right,
Speaker 8: that's the first one, which it's sad to recognize twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six and there's still those things happens, right, Having
Speaker 8: so many movements in pro women right, But unfortunately those
Speaker 8: things still happens, and it is our duty to keep,
Speaker 8: you know, giving visibility to do that and try to
Speaker 8: create a change. I feel like the challenge also as
Speaker 8: an immigrant woman is always finding the right space to
Speaker 8: create this music at the same time of surviving a
Speaker 8: city that is kicking out immigrants constantly and is becoming
Speaker 8: more expensive and unaffordable. So in the a of in
Speaker 8: the age of AI as well, it's very challenging to
Speaker 8: understand where the music is gonna go if these machines
Speaker 8: are taking and stealing music from.
Speaker 3: Creators like us.
Speaker 8: So it's a conversation that needs to happen, and I
Speaker 8: feel like that's what concerns me the most, and it's
Speaker 8: gonna be the challenge for us to understand how to
Speaker 8: receive the technology and use it for the good at
Speaker 8: the same time of not losing and protecting creators to
Speaker 8: keep doing this music and creating more spaces for us.
Speaker 2: Now, I wanted to share a secret with you all.
Speaker 2: It's really not a secret, but it's it's old news. Homegirl,
Speaker 2: Ella here is a Latin Grammy Award winner.
Speaker 7: Can we give it up for that?
Speaker 2: It's a big deal, Okay, a big deal. First woman
Speaker 2: to win Producer.
Speaker 5: Of the Year.
Speaker 2: Flex all right, So I have to ask, because I
Speaker 2: have never had a conversation with a Grammy winner, what's
Speaker 2: it like? I mean, take us all back to the moment.
Speaker 3: It was amazing.
Speaker 8: It was amazing because especially the Latin side of things,
Speaker 8: especially with the Latin grammars is, it's always it has
Speaker 8: a tendency of I mean, the AWAR is supposedly to
Speaker 8: give the award to someone who leave a really big
Speaker 8: mark on the music in Latin America, right, and what
Speaker 8: we've been consuming as audience has been you know, new rhythms,
Speaker 8: reggaeton and all of those things. So I came nominated
Speaker 8: in that category where I was competing with someone who
Speaker 8: produced something for Lava Posini, someone who did something for Residente.
Speaker 8: Many huge producers who were the spacific producers were nominated
Speaker 8: there and I was nominated with two independent projects and
Speaker 8: Rememblades used to it happened to be in one of
Speaker 8: those projects by luck, and they decide to give the
Speaker 8: award to these two honest and very independent projects.
Speaker 11: And I feel like it was.
Speaker 8: It became not about me. He became a conversation worldwide
Speaker 8: about women in the studios and the importance of creating
Speaker 8: spaces and amplifying those voices. And it really changed me.
Speaker 8: And I'm grateful and humble that it was given to me.
Speaker 8: And I'm hopefully rooting for my teammates to keep you know,
Speaker 8: being nominated. But at the same time, more than we
Speaker 8: need their work in the future is that they can
Speaker 8: create a less hostile environment in the recording studios and
Speaker 8: can make a living of what they are doing, you know, yeah,
Speaker 8: for sure, you know.
Speaker 2: Naturally, I want to ask, like, how has receiving the
Speaker 2: award changed your career or helped your career, But I'll
Speaker 2: also want to know how has it helped your peers.
Speaker 8: It helped my peers, and it didn't make a big change.
Speaker 8: I thought I thought it would change my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what the in the in the checks.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, But it didn't. And and it's okay because
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 8: My heart is in not compromising the creative process just
Speaker 8: to follow the the algorithm or the or how music
Speaker 8: is being released more in the business side of things.
Speaker 8: Maybe that's why you don't see my music being in
Speaker 8: playlists or big million listeners monthly. Because I have decided
Speaker 8: that I want to allow myself, as an immigrant woman
Speaker 8: who has different challenges every day in New York City,
Speaker 8: to create music when I want to create it, and
Speaker 8: trying to like be sure that my music is going
Speaker 8: to have the integrity that I wanted to have and
Speaker 8: hopefully that can connect with the people, whether they discovered
Speaker 8: me today on this amazing event or whether they discover me.
Speaker 3: On a random playlist of someone in Japan.
Speaker 2: You know, all right, we have another another jam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is our last jam, which is Google.
Speaker 2: Oh this is the last one.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how much time we have, how
Speaker 3: much I don't know.
Speaker 2: No one ever weighed me down.
Speaker 3: I think we can do this forever.
Speaker 2: I have tires.
Speaker 3: I have time for one more because we don't want
Speaker 3: the people to fall asleep.
Speaker 2: That's right, This is right.
Speaker 3: This is I've been here listening, and you know, I
Speaker 3: like to make to keep it short. But yeah, you
Speaker 3: guys want one more?
Speaker 6: You more?
Speaker 3: This is my favorite one, by the way, mm hmm hmmm.
Speaker 9: The gamestadt the b Staver, other things.
Speaker 4: Back the things at.
Speaker 3: About La Cordela.
Speaker 7: Nina sing with us, Oh now you hear me?
Speaker 11: Now is our time to sing how about that. Can
Speaker 11: we all sing collectively?
Speaker 3: Just let'sting.
Speaker 7: That again.
Speaker 10: That's it, and now you're going higher, next one.
Speaker 3: And then on this side, well it's a little less.
Speaker 3: People do a bead, bad.
Speaker 7: Bad, oh my god.
Speaker 11: Okay to the dead, and then they finished the song.
Speaker 7: Alabs, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
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