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Here we are in Central Park,
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and this is as Latino as it gets
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in my world, right?
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Because I love Central Park,
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I love New York,
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you love New York, right?
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I love New York.
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There you go, so that's
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what makes it us, you know?
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Yeah, it's where every culture meets.
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I think that's what
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makes New York so magical,
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is that you can find Un Chín
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of everywhere in the world,
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right here, you know?
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Everywhere you look,
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there's a little corner of the world
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just there, I think it's beautiful.
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So talk to me a little
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bit about your project
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that you're working on right now.
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Yeah, I mean, my project
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of life is creating music,
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and that's the large umbrella,
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and a lot of things
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fall under that umbrella.
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Right.
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But my favorite moment of
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creativity is the conception,
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writing a song, either
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by myself or at the studio
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or with another artist.
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And then I love to be
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involved in all the steps after that.
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So my Amori and my
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music project is my life,
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and I've just always grown up with music,
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listened to music, paid close attention
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to lyrics and the message.
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So I'm a songwriter at heart.
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I think that songs are a way of taking
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pictures of a moment,
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and I feel really privileged and alive
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when I am doing that, writing songs.
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So, yeah.
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So just talk to me
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about when did you start,
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a little bit about your story,
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so that our audience
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knows who you are, yep?
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Yeah, well, I grew up in Puerto Rico,
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so my parents,
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on the east of the island,
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Juncos, Puerto Rico,
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which is near the rainforest.
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So I'm a mountain, suburbs girl at heart,
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and yeah, I grew up listening to music
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and that's in such a way,
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and I think a lot of people
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from Puerto Rico will say this,
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there's no silence in Puerto Rico.
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At night, you have
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crickets and cookies and birds,
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and during the day, you have loud music
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coming from cars and businesses.
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So I didn't know a
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difference between music and myself.
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I've just always been
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in it and immersed in it
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and always felt
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called to sing and to play,
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and from a very early age,
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I really wanted to play the piano,
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and I just became
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obsessed with playing the piano.
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So when my parents finally got me one,
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being a YouTube kid, I just
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would spend hours every day
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A YouTube kid?
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Just learning chords, learning songs,
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trying to write my own, at
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that time, really bad lyrics,
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but I thought they were the best ever
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because I was just
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writing a song that I loved,
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and it just never stopped.
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So in a lot of ways, I'm
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still that YouTube kid,
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just making it up as it goes.
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You look like a YouTube kid.
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I hope that's the compliment.
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That is a compliment,
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you look like a kid.
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You know, that's a good thing.
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You still play.
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I still play the same way.
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I haven't lost this wonderment,
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and I'm always awestruck when I can
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finally play some songs
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and learn that song that I love,
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and it's been a slow
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journey because I taught myself,
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and I've just been
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crafting and growing my art
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just by myself, slowly and steadily,
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but I honestly
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wouldn't have it any other way
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because it feels very intimate.
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You should know I have eight siblings.
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So I grew up in a loud
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house, kind of like New York,
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and music was my space.
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It was my town on the piano.
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This way, so you get out
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of the street a little bit.
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Keep saying, so music was your space?
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It was, I didn't have to share music.
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I shared a room, I shared a
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school, I shared all my toys.
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I didn't have any moments of solitude
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with so many siblings,
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and when I would sit on the piano,
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it was just me in the silence,
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and that feeling is
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why I started doing it,
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why I kept doing it,
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and why I still do it
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because especially now as I've gone older
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and there's more stimulus coming our way
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and life has changed
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and we have a
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supercomputer in our pocket,
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there's not a lot of time to just exist
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and just sit with yourself quietly,
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and music does that.
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Music does that for you.
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Yeah, and I think for everyone too.
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People who listen to it are
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also taking the time to stop
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and pay attention.
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You could say it's meditative,
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you could say it's therapeutic,
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you could say it's just a pause,
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but yeah, I think any time
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you're listening to music,
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engaging with music, you
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are stopping for a second.
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You're existing with yourself,
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some emotional part of yourself,
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some excited part of
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yourself, sad part of yourself.
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I think it depends, and
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that's what makes it so beautiful.
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What type of music do you listen to?
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It depends a lot on where I wanna arrive.
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If I wanna arrive somewhere
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really excited and pumped,
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I love listening to like,
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(speaking in foreign language)
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modern urban, talking
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Caroli G, bad bunny,
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I love some top 40 urban if
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I'm trying to get all excited.
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But in my core, when I'm by myself
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and just trying to
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make sense of the world,
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I just love,
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(speaking in foreign language)
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the traditional song,
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the traditional folk song,
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storytelling, through a
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song, capturing a moment,
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capturing a feeling,
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and inviting people in.
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And I think if a song works
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with just a guitar and voice,
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it'll work, produced.
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So I think it's the truest testament
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of like the intimate feeling,
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if a song can impact you
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with just a voice and guitar.
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Musicians inspire
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visual artists all the time.
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My studio is always like,
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I'm gonna tell you one songwriter
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that I think maybe you like, Roy Brown.
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Mm-hmm, a classic.
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To me, that song,
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and I think we both know
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what that song is, right?
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Has always inspired so
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many images in my mind
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and when I sketch, right?
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Does that do that when
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you listen to other artists?
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Do you, does it
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inspire to create songs or?
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Totally, I think
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there's so much to be learned
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from compositions that already exist
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because in the way that
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I approach songwriting,
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you have, it's a two-part, right?
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You have the melody
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and you have the harmony.
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The harmony is the base for the song,
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the chord changes that you're making,
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and then the melody is
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kind of this floaty idea
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that sits on top.
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And the harmony part of it
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all is very, it's very emotive.
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It's like kind of, if you
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make a change in a chord
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from a major to a minor,
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to like, put it simply,
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but there's a million variations of that.
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Those relationships of the
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notes and the frequencies
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that you choose to
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support your melody over
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can really like move people.
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That's why if you listen to genres,
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there's specific progressions that are
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common in that genre
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because the emotion is kind of similar.
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You wanna feel either happy
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or sad or, you know, nervous.
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And so I love to take
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inspiration and say,
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okay, when I listen to
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this song, how do I feel?
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Especially at that bridge,
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you know, in this bridge,
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it's like this chord opens and I just
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wanna like start running.
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And I like take a
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look at the progression.
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And I love to like pull
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inspiration and create, you know,
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my own mosaic with
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borrowed harmony, borrowed ideas
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that through my lens become my own too,
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because there's only
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so many notes, you know?
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And there's only so many chords.
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So every variation of everything has
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already been played,
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but it's a combination
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and the own experience
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and then the melody added
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to that and every artist,
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especially if you're a vocalist,
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you make your own
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stylistic melody choices too.
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And yeah, there's endless inspiration.
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I'm sure this happens
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for visual creatives too,
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any sort of artist.
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We're just like standing
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on the shoulder of giants.
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We've been doing this
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for so long before us
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that I almost feel
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like an insatiable thirst
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that I'm running out of time
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because I will never be
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able to listen to all the music
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that I wanna listen to
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and like learn everything
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from everybody that inspires me.
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Well, I can tell you what I want.
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I would like to take a pause.
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Yeah.
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And we can stop somewhere.
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And maybe you could
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show us a little bit about
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any feelings that you wanna show us.
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Yeah, I'd love that.
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All right, so we're gonna
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be back in the whole chain.
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Oh, never.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Oh my God, thank you for having me.
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Thank you for having me.
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What was the name of the song?
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"Presentimiento."
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From the same name, right?
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Yeah, the EP is also
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called "Presentimiento."
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You know, we were talking about our
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bilingualism earlier
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and something that is also very magical
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is that there are
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certain feelings and words
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that don't translate.
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So you have no choice but
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to write it in one language.
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And "Presentimiento" was that
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because it's a word that
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doesn't really exist in English.
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You could say premonition
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You could say pre-feeling
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But you know, Spanish, presentimiento
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something more than that.
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It's like something that you know
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before the information
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has been given to you.
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So that's what the song is about.
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It's like Un Chín
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Exactly, Un Chín
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