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Sheila E. · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario.
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  Speaker 2: Lopez Tebel Mario Lopez joining now on Zoom. Grammy Award
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  Speaker 2: winning musician and actress at Queen of Percussion, Shila. How
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  Speaker 2: you doing, Sheila, I'm great.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? I'm well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you congrats. I know earlier this year you won
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  Speaker 2: your long overdue first Grammy Award for the song Bela.
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  Speaker 2: That must have felt incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Huh it yeah, it still feels incredible. It's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: amazing forty years later after being nominated, you know, forty
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and finally won.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome and I love that Gloria Stefan, who
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  Speaker 2: missed such a sweetheart, is featured on the song. That
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  Speaker 2: must have been a great recording session, A fun one, it.
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  Speaker 1: Was, except I wasn't really there when she recorded her
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  Speaker 1: out that's her part. You can do it? Yeah, exceparate now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the only reason was because I was in Spain filming
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  Speaker 1: a TV show, and so I had the other co
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  Speaker 1: producer go and do her vocal. But I was on FaceTime,
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  Speaker 1: so I was still able to see her say hello,
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  Speaker 1: you know kill it. She was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this is amazing. So it still worked out and we
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  Speaker 1: videotaped it. So it was awesome, awesome, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've released the deluxe version of your album
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  Speaker 2: A Lot, which of course featured the song, and it
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  Speaker 2: has a few new songs for the fans, right, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Added three new songs. Well, one is old but new
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  Speaker 1: Glamorous Life Latin version, so I redid Glamorous Life with
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  Speaker 1: a Latin twist on it. Yeah, pretty amazing. We had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing it. Actually, the story behind
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  Speaker 1: that real quick is that we were in rehearsals and
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  Speaker 1: Gloria we were going to do a live show and
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  Speaker 1: for the release of the album with all the entire album,
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  Speaker 1: and she said, you got to do this song. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what song you gotta do my song?
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  Speaker 1: I was like what Glamorous Life? Yeah, and I'm like, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do it because we're doing all those
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  Speaker 1: songs on the record. She goes, we got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So we ended up doing it in the show and
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  Speaker 1: recording it live, and that's what you hear on the album.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great, And you're about to ye road for
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  Speaker 2: a tour.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going out on tour doing some stuff and
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  Speaker 1: promoting a little bit of this and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that, and and the second album. We did uh,
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  Speaker 1: I released two albums. The second album a week later,
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  Speaker 1: I just released as Sheila Ian Friends by our Instrumentals,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a little bit of both. I also
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  Speaker 1: added different artists on the instrumental version, so I added
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Body, Marcus Miller, Kirk Whaleam, like a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different artists that would not normally play salsa music.
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  Speaker 1: So it was fun doing that as well. And I
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  Speaker 1: love this.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing a cruise in September, the Super Legends cruise
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  Speaker 2: you Los Lobos, Isisley Brothers, Lonely Boys. Oh that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be crazy. Yeah right, yeah, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Have you worked with any of those artists before. Don't
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  Speaker 2: want a cruise.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, Not on a cruise. No, we've played together
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  Speaker 1: on the same show or with you know, different shows,
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  Speaker 1: or I've sat in with them or whatever, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not on a cruise. This is the first time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm really excited about it. And they're like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're oh geez, we're gonna go hang out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I love all that music right there,
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  Speaker 2: So congrats on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Sheila.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to talk to you and listen everyone, be
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  Speaker 2: sure to check her out the deluxe version of a
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  Speaker 2: Grammy nominated album by lod wherever you stream music. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: so much for checking in. Thanks man, see you later,
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  Speaker 2: all right, take care with Mario Lopez