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By the way, if you can tell, I am under the other I don't feel the best, but I am a profession now and no matter what this is, this is basically what we're gonna be talking about today. This is what it takes, no matter how you feel, no
matter what you're going through in your personal life. Part of being an artist, a celebrity, or not just that, but actually making it in the industry is being able to put your big girl panties on no matter how you feel, and push through and come through every single time.
But because I am, you know, a little bit horse and I'm going through it, I wanted to have my friend, my partner, my producer, Alex come in today and you know, be that other half, that other half of me, that other part of my voice is God I'm exhausted because my girls barely let me sleep. I've been traveling so much between my real estate and being here doing music videos.
I did this amazing red carpet in the Dominican Republic that took so much from me, just doing so much stuff, and my voice just said, you know what, I think. It's not just my voice. I think it's like your body saying you need to rest, you need to stop. It's kind of hard when you have so much responsibility, but that's part of making it in the industry. You know, people look at it and it's such a beautiful thing from the outside, and it looks so much better on Instagram.
But the truth of the matter is that not all, not all survived, not all can take it, not all can deal with the pressure of what it is to be in the spotlight, whether you feel good or not. So let's get right into it, because we have touched on this topic before, and today we should, I feel like, dive a little bit deeper in it. Let's talk about might come up in the industry as an artist, and not just the musical side, but also on TV, radio,
in movies and everything else that I've done. I think it's important to you know, not just see the ameronada is on the podcast right now or Amonada on TV, but just see the overhead of you know, the zig Zac. So you have to go through to actually make it, the struggles to become a recognized artist, and the hoops that you basically have to jump through in certain places and in the industry, especially as a Latina, an Afro Latina, and then on top of that being a woman alone,
it's even more pressure. I also want to share and just talk a little bit about these three amazing talented women. They're sisters, I mean, Alice, you know all about them. Yeah, let's do this. I'd like to share the story of three amazing talented women, sisters Keisha, Fiona and fyodor La Sanchez. But I don't know as the Mussas who discovered their love for performing as young girls. We had a chance to talk to them and get their come up story, just as the one you're going to share with us
today I did. I started as a child star. I started when I was four years old in a very well known TV show called Salahie with Don Francisco. I was there every Saturday for six years of my life. Then I became a background dancer for the network, dancing for Graham, He's all all those things. It was such a beautiful experience. Um, now I understand the importance of value of the stages I got to perform at such
a young age. It's, you know, such an honor. I was able to perform one of the biggest icons and legends of my life, which is Selia cruz Oca. I mean, the list goes on and on, and yeah, I started very young, which, by the way, I haven't criticized a lot too because people are like, um, you're trying to take your daughters into the same path. You know, you're kind of like copy pasting your life onto them. What about they don't want to be you know, celebrity babies.
What You're screwed because I'm your mother, So this is a you know, and later on they're like, oh, Mom, I want to be a scientist, I want to be whatever. It's fine. I just feel like I am creating a path for you that a lot of people wish. I am creating a brand for you. I am creating a financial financial stability for you at such a young age, and you could do whatever you want with it because Obviously, being in the spotlight gives you many opportunities, but it
also comes with high responsibility. So at a young age, I remember the one thing that I do sometimes feel guilty about or miss is that I miss a lot of my childhood. You know, I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't how to skate. I don't know how to swim, I don't I don't recall too much playing with dolls and stuff because it was from school to dance classes, acting classes, modeling classes, this audition that I remember, this rehearse that it was just so
much pressure. It did definitely give me work ethic, you know, on the professionalism side, but as a kid, you want to be able to be a kid. And I definitely want my girls to enjoy their childhood. I still want you to work and make your own money, but I want you to enjoy your childhood. So there's a lot of great things that people see. There's a lot of things that people don't see that happen behind scenes. And I think that that's what we also see the Britney Spears.
It's justin biebers and Mighty Sires. We see so many childhood stars, celebrity babies that later on just can't take the pressure. It's a lot breaking into the industry. You can break in when you're four, you can break in when you're fifty, whether it's as an actress. Some people work in a supermarket and all of a sudden there's this director that comes in. It's like, your face looks perfect for my movie. Have you ever acted? No Boom and you became you know, a well known artist or
you know actress at fifty five. Like breaking into the industry can happen at any point in your life, so never give up or feel like it's too late. However, you know, obviously breaking in was very hard because there's a lot of competition. Everybody wants to be famous, everybody wants to be rich, everybody wants to be known. Everybody wants but there's just so much responsibility and hard work that comes with it, and not so much in this era per se. I'm talking about like more in my time,
but in this era you have social media. I have to do is be funny, do a couple of skits or videos or maybe rap, sing a song or do with TikTok dance, and you have followers and you have become popular. Right, They've cut out the mentalman. Social media has cut out the metal man. I wanted to ask you about that. For you coming up and your mom putting you on television like this on SAWA and becoming your performer, what was your thought process? Did you want
to continue? Was something that your mom pushed on you? Because eventually, you know, you went on to writing music and becoming a musician on your own. So how was that transition for you? You know what, I am always grateful to my mother that she believed in me, she saw the vision as she supported me, because if it wasn't because of her, I wouldn't be here today. I'm grateful that you pushed me. You know, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Sometimes you're gonna miss
out on things I missed out on my childhood. I now someone I'm trying to relive it through my children, and that's it. You know. I don't think you can have everything in life. I know we all say that, but I don't necessarily think it's true. And you got a family now, like that's something you know you look forward to later in life, right to teach and and help your kids, and you know, you're doing almost what
your mom did. You've learned so much because you've been in the industry right that you can actually help your kids and educate them later on. Were there any problems along the way in the journey with managers, producers, anyone, or anything that you can talk about and share with the world that would basically help anyone who's listening right now and getting up and going into the world of entertainment. Make sure you have a good attorney, make sure you
know in the process you learn about the industry. One of my biggest mistakes has always been not being that person who is very business you know, savvy. Till this day, I'm honest to say, that's not my forte. I'm good at being an artist and entertainer. I work on, you know, perfecting my craft. That's fine, but the technical part of it has never been my forte, and that is the
most important part. You have to be on top of your own business, be on top of everything that's happening in your life and your career, in your business, so I think that's important. You know, never trust someone too much, and all money is not good money just because they come and they bring you let's say you've never seen twenty and fifty thousand dollars put together at the same time. Just because they give you that, it doesn't mean that it's a good idea, because you have to see you
have to believe in yourself. You have to believe in yourself. You have to believe in what you're capable of doing. And even if nobody else can see it, if you can see it for yourself, within yourself, that's the most important part, because just because you're here today doesn't mean that tomorrow you'll be there if you take If you take these twenty right now, you don't know if tomorrow
you're worth two million. But you accepted the twenty at an early point because you yourself didn't believe you were capable of becoming bigger. So never settle, never think you know, don't don't low ball yourself. That's the one thing I definitely learned. All money is not good money. As disgust at the beginning of the show, it is now time for a segment we like to call shining Stars. Now.
Both are Lean and I, as producers of the show, recently had the pleasure of sitting down with a talented girl group Musas without further ado, here's a conversation with them. All right, ladies were so excited to talk to you. Please introduce yourselves. My name is Fiela and I'm nineteen and I am the bass player and the rapper of the group. My name is Fiarella. I am seventeen, and I am the chanist. I am I'm Kasia, I am twenty one, and I'm the vocalist slash producer engineer of
the group. Yes, I know y'all came together during the pandemic, but was there always a love for music before you started creating it. We started singing, dancing, acting since we were super young. I was trained in musical theater for a really long time, and I mean we've been in the arts since forever since we can remember. So the pandemic came and we were like at home, We're like what should we do? We're kind of bored, and then we we came together with the group. Tell us more
about the name of your group. How did y'all decide on the name Musas? So our name is Musas, and in Greek mythology, Musas is like the muses of Hercules. I don't know if you guys have heard about it or watch the movie. So we thought because they were always singing and they have this really positive energy, we
thought that was like a great idea for us. But we kind of went back and forth with a couple of names m because we weren't sure we should use musas And then everyone kind of just came together and was like, let's just do with us. Do you find it harder to try to keep being original? Right because you're in you know, you're listening and um, you know you're in the world of tittok now right, everything is like all these songs and everything are are back older songs,
like ninety songs for their old you know. So, like, do you feel like a little bit harder to, um, stay original to yourself or are you kind of taking bits and pieces of what you've you're hearing to write your music and play your music. I think it's a
maxture of both. I definitely think that our music, you know, since we like, I started writing music at a very young age, so my style was already very original in itself, and I kind of grew on it and I like matured and you know, the sounds stayed the same, but the lyrics matured. And the chords. Yeah, so I think, you know, we do stick to some of the music that we listen to now, some of the music that we listened to from back then by growing up. Yeah, and then we, like Kasha has said, we put our
own twist to it. I also think that sometimes it is good to appeal to the audience. It is good to do stuff that is mainstream, you know, but just putting it. We always like to put our own twist in it. You just released a new single last month called Fantasy. What is the writing process like for you all?
A lot of the music is composed by Firella, and you know, she'll have the cores and everything ready, and she's like, I have this idea and da da da da da, y'all sing this, y'all sing this other thing, and she has it all here in her head. And sometimes it's the other way around, where we write something and then we put it on a on a beat. How do your parents feel about you know you? I mean, you said you start at a very young age, So
did they encourage you to write? Like? How did that process begin where you guys started as such a you know, twenty one, nineteen and seventeen, like that's that's like dedication. You're giving up a lot of your your time. You're not doing the normal things that kids your age are doing, you know, and the Skeisha twenty one. You know, you guys, you guys are are doing like you guys are taking a lot of time and putting it into your future. Right. So for me, my question is your parents, how did
they feel? Are they how encouraging are they? What's what's happening there? Um? I think as the oldest sister, I think, I mean, I've seen my parents process since I was born, um, and the way they raised us and with you know,
values and everything in dreams. I mean my mom she through her parents, Um, she's she was actually in a band when she was younger, like my age or actually younger, she was like sixteen I think, yeah, And and she used to play the keys, just like Farrella, and you know, those dreams kind of come to an end when you start having kids. And then she at us and I think that she I don't know that word in English, kind of passed that on. Yeah, she passed that on
to us. Like if you guys want to you know, make our If you guys want to sing y'all can do anything y'all want, and the same with my dad. Through his family, we also have a lot of musicians, So it was kind of like we kind of were bound to make music because both of our both sides of the family our musicians, and they were always very supportive. They were like, if you want to dance ballet, you dance ballet. If you want to be an engineer, you
be an engineer. They did tell us, they were like, if you want to do this, you could do it, but take it seriously, like we will support it, but we're putting you in classes. We're pretty inquired. We went we were in a gospel enquire Yeah, like take it there. Please tell us all about this album you're working on our EP, we're working on it. We have a couple
of songs. They're really amazing. I think that Fione also talked about how each of us put our own experience into our music and our lyrics, and I think it's going to resonate with a lot of people. We also released a couple of months ago our single Patients, and
that's also about experiences. You know, we're kind of aiming to that audience where you know, sometimes you don't know what to do, you're looking for something, and then you can stumble across our music because we are like young, I feel like we're trying to make it very relatable to other people, but still making it true to ourselves. So I think that's something that you're going well, all of you guys are going to be able to see when you listen to our EP. Where can people find
you and listen to your music? Our music is on all streaming platforms, whichever one you prefer, and you can find us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok at, Mosa, Underscore Official, Underscore Well, thank you all so much for being here. We really appreciated. That was so amazing. Oh my god, it's so good to know that the industry is growing
and gaining some really incredible young talent. I hope that we can get them back on the show and see where they're at, because they definitely can count with my support. I am here for them one hundred percent. I feel we could continue to bring in amazing talent and showcase here obviously on the show, which, by the way, if you are an artist, or if you have a cousin, a sister, or somebody who's talented. Feel free to hit me up on my Instagram or exactly I'm out of
or go to the YouTube channel. It's fine to matter and just be like listen, I would love to be on the show. I want to showcase my music, my art. I want to give people opportunities. I've been blessed to be here and I want to bless somebody else, So I would definitely want to showcase here on the show. More of the Latina women, Latina Latino men out there that are really doing something the industry, that are really making it happen in the scene. So here's where you
can take home. Just being true to yourself, you know, don't let society make you feel as if you're not good enough that you have to change who you are. Don't try to fit into society standards of beauty either. Be you being you really can make a difference. Use your voice, use your platform. Never feel that your voice is not strong enough to make a difference, because it is.
Don't give up with your dreams. If you want to do something and you have a vision, that's because God gave you that vision for you, so it's possible when you can make it happen. I would I get your butt up and take your ass to work because it's the only way you can make it happen. Give up and never feel like you're too old. Never feel like it's too late. It's never too late. While you're still alive, you can still make it happen. Don't overthink it. Just
get up and do it. Get up and make it happen. With that being said, once again, thank you, thank you so much for always checking out exactly I'm outa for subscribing, for giving me those five stars, for being my supporters, for being friends, my family. I'm so grateful for all of you. I am more than thankful to Alex for joining me. Thank you guys so much for listening to
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