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Brenda K. Starr: A Legacy of Music, Passion, and Perseverance · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Pennydellas, and
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  Speaker 2: this is Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls. We are back.
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  Speaker 2: This is another episode of Teach Me Something, presented by
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  Speaker 2: Berkeley College. I am Pro Style and I am Pennydellas,
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  Speaker 2: and we are twinning today.
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  Speaker 3: We are today, and we're sitting closer today. For those
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  Speaker 3: of you that are not watching, uh about Alba with
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  Speaker 3: my big broke?
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we are joined today by what you
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  Speaker 2: want to call celebrity, superstar, icon, global.
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  Speaker 3: Recording artist, a mother, a philanthropist, a trendsetter, or a
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  Speaker 3: trailblazer in her own right. There's so many things we
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  Speaker 3: could say, but I just want to jump into interviews.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited. Yes we have friends.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you excited to be on Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 2: So excited, and thank you for coming in because you
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  Speaker 2: know the traffic outside is discussing so it is.
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  Speaker 5: You know what it's worth. It's worth the traffic. But
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  Speaker 5: I think the heat is worse. You know how we
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  Speaker 5: complain about how cold it is, how cold it is,
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  Speaker 5: and now it's so hot. Have my hair already to
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  Speaker 5: go feel and fly. I got outside and poof, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, Oh, we're just gonna put it up in
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  Speaker 5: a little cliff. But thank god, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I'm I'm not going to knock you on the
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  Speaker 2: hair thing because I understand the pain with that now
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand personally.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to wait when we have to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's funny because I tell people of times like
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear anybody minus obviously because that
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  Speaker 2: complain about the heat after the winter we've had out here.
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  Speaker 1: That winter was.
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  Speaker 3: Rough, Bruto, that rough until you like sin of sitting
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  Speaker 3: snowing out your hair?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, can you walk outside? That's why I can't.
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  Speaker 5: It's crazy because I want to move to Florida so bad,
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  Speaker 5: but then I think of the humidity. So a lot
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  Speaker 5: of Florida days for me is just slick it back,
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  Speaker 5: you can't, you know, or curly like Penny because you
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  Speaker 5: know that beautiful curly hair and you know, and the
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  Speaker 5: latinas en us be sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so but I'm glad to be here and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Excited to have especially you know, the whole theme with
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  Speaker 5: the Berkeley College thing. As you know, Penny, when we
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  Speaker 5: first met each other. I talked about how on the
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  Speaker 5: Freestyle cruise, and you talked about how highly involved you
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  Speaker 5: were with the college, and it was just like something
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  Speaker 5: like that kind of made me look back on like
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  Speaker 5: how important it instilled so much to me.
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  Speaker 4: And I loved how your energy was.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's how we all cross paths and
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  Speaker 5: why we met and how this all came about.
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  Speaker 3: Called it the twenty week cruise that we were on.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't twenty weeks. It was nine days.
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  Speaker 4: It was seven days. It was it was seven days
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  Speaker 4: or long cruise. Well, people showed up three days I have.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of that's a lot of it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of days.
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  Speaker 2: My wife loves cruises, like we went on like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I went on like a two year rant
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  Speaker 2: with cruises, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I love cruises, but it was my first cruise.
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  Speaker 1: I so much.
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  Speaker 2: They would just tell me about the Freestyle cruise. It
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  Speaker 2: was Penny actually on the cruise making things work. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you were handling business.
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  Speaker 3: I did some interviews. You were just singing and drink.
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  Speaker 5: Gave me some marketing tips, interviews about marketing as an artist,
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  Speaker 5: and it just was really free up on her time.
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  Speaker 5: In terms of like giving some inspiration on things you
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  Speaker 5: can do, like in marketing, and always as an artist,
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  Speaker 5: you could always feel like too much information is not enough,
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  Speaker 5: so just getting some more info and some more insights
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  Speaker 5: about the business, because you can never take too much
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  Speaker 5: information and learn from it.
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  Speaker 4: So she was very like.
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  Speaker 5: Inspiring if that's the word inspiring, and just giving such
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  Speaker 5: great ideas. And you know, it's nice I met her sister,
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  Speaker 5: you know on that because you just meet a lot
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  Speaker 5: of nice people. And me, I'm I'm a partyer, like
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  Speaker 5: not party or like that way. I just love to party,
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  Speaker 5: have a good time.
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  Speaker 4: And it's.
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  Speaker 2: Very every guest we've had here we always agree on
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. And it's all about networking. Yes, that's
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  Speaker 2: whether you're in the office, on the street, on a cruise,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you're at.
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  Speaker 1: If you could grow your net, your your network.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was working on that cruise.
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  Speaker 1: She was. I was.
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  Speaker 4: I actually thought you were working.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, no, I came with my sister Sal I
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  Speaker 5: a Tello Fever record.
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  Speaker 3: Sal had me doing Facebook lives. We were working.
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  Speaker 4: He always got somebody to work for him, right, He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: can you give me a favorite a favorite turns into
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  Speaker 4: a job.
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  Speaker 3: But that's honest. And speaking of jobs, you have been working, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: since the age of thirteen thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I first did a movie when I was
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  Speaker 5: nine with Paul Chevino. John Gafflson shot a movie called
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  Speaker 5: Slow Dancing in the Big City and I played a tomboy.
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  Speaker 4: I played a.
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  Speaker 5: Girl named Punk and Bear Grant was the writer of
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  Speaker 5: the movie. So I did that first with Paul Chervino,
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  Speaker 5: and then I got offered another movie that, honestly, I
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  Speaker 5: don't even need to mention it was not my vibe.
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  Speaker 5: So I didn't do well, but it was something that
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  Speaker 5: I paid. I played a daughter, a sister of a
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  Speaker 5: girl who used to date some guy. It was not
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  Speaker 5: a great movie anyway. Fast forward, sheik Le yoga commercial
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  Speaker 5: I did at four thirteen, and and then after that,
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  Speaker 5: I just got my first record deal when I was
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  Speaker 5: almost fifteen. So I was in Beach Street at fourteen,
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  Speaker 5: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Are you trying to do your whole life? This is
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  Speaker 2: what you wanted to do? Be in an entertainment business.
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  Speaker 5: I always loved it. I always loved it. I lived
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  Speaker 5: in the Wife Tower projects and for me, I love
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  Speaker 5: to sing. My dad was in the group the Spiral Staircase.
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  Speaker 4: He was Harvey k. He was the organist.
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  Speaker 5: He was the founder of the group, and they have
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  Speaker 5: that song I Love You More Today Than Yesterday. And
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  Speaker 5: pad Upton most part of the group. And I always
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  Speaker 5: knew I loved to sing, and I wanted to be
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  Speaker 5: in the camera. I was always in the mirror with
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  Speaker 5: a brush, you know, in the mirror the spidio.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking God was all that. My mother would be like you,
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  Speaker 4: I'm all kinds.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have hair to have a brush, but no
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have to send you to Turkey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Not too long ago.
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  Speaker 2: I had, you know, my hair pulled back into a
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  Speaker 2: little like a man bunish. Yeah that's the grease.
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  Speaker 1: I that's my dad got good hair too, I got
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  Speaker 1: that gay.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I've been I've been working a lot. I've
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  Speaker 5: been working a lot since very young. Also because my
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  Speaker 5: mom was a single mother and I knew the struggles,
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  Speaker 5: and my sister and my brothers were in college and
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  Speaker 5: I just really wanted to help.
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  Speaker 4: And I knew that if God.
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  Speaker 5: Gave me a gift and my mom saw it and me,
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  Speaker 5: like kids for their birthday, would want to party it's
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  Speaker 5: my thirteenth birthday.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, what do you want to do for your birthday?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I want to go to a recording studio.
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  Speaker 4: And my mom's like a recording studio. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: want to make a record.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I remember hearing like Stacy Lattasol and listening
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  Speaker 5: to Tina Marie, Donna Summers, Barbara Streuisen.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I really want to like make music.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where I got the bug of wanting to
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  Speaker 5: really work and just really stay focused.
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  Speaker 4: And I've been working since I'm a kid.
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  Speaker 1: And you put out your first record from was Was Taken?
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty five?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's the first one that came out after the
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  Speaker 5: contract was avoided because I was under a production deal
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  Speaker 5: very young, and because I was young, I was taken
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  Speaker 5: out of that production deal and able to have it
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  Speaker 5: released at nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 4: But I've been recording since I'm fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen, Yeah, even nineteen eighty five, by the way, even
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  Speaker 2: to take it back to the early eighties or whenever
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  Speaker 2: it was right, Yeah, did you ever think that fast
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  Speaker 2: forward all the way to twenty twenty six, you'd be
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  Speaker 2: on cruises and still performing around the world and performing
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  Speaker 2: these records.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean you came straight here from Columbia.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 5: I was at Lima, Peru, and Cali to Italy, Spain,
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  Speaker 5: We're going to Chile, Argentina.
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  Speaker 4: But no, I mean I knew I wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 5: But if it didn't work, I had another game plan
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  Speaker 5: which I was going to go in andto. I was
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  Speaker 5: probably going to go into like the medical field or
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  Speaker 5: social working. I love working with kids and giving back.
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  Speaker 5: I've always done like after school programs and the gift
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  Speaker 5: of music. So I thought something would like a voice
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  Speaker 5: teacher or creating my own school.
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  Speaker 4: But did I.
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  Speaker 5: Think that this would be my future. I would still
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  Speaker 5: be doing what I'm doing now, I would hope so.
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  Speaker 5: Just because my worth ethics were always there. I wasn't
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  Speaker 5: the kind of person that wanted to hang out and
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  Speaker 5: be a with a bad crowd. My whole thing was
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  Speaker 5: in the studio every day, even on the weekends. I
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  Speaker 5: would go to take dance lessons. Like I just wasn't
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  Speaker 5: the kind of person that didn't have my head on straight.
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  Speaker 5: I knew to stay away from back crowds. I knew
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  Speaker 5: that if I wanted this I needed to be dedicated.
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  Speaker 5: So I think I was always dedicated and would hope
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  Speaker 5: that I still had it. There were times in my
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  Speaker 5: career that I didn't have a deal and I was struggling,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't give the faith. I didn't give up
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  Speaker 5: on faith because I believe that you know, all your
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  Speaker 5: caminos or your pathways can be open if you just
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  Speaker 5: stay optimistic. And I just pray on it a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and I know I'm not better than There's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of amazing talent out there now, younger cats killing it
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  Speaker 5: on YouTube on TikTok, and I say, wow, you know, like,
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  Speaker 5: how can I still be in this game? And some
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  Speaker 5: of them aren't even recognized. I always hoped that I
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  Speaker 5: would be doing this, but I didn't bet on it
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  Speaker 5: one hundred percent, because you're as good as your last hit.
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  Speaker 5: As you know, in the music industry, they'll love you today,
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  Speaker 5: a year or two years later, they'll get rid of
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  Speaker 5: you and bring someone else in. So I just prayed
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  Speaker 5: on it, and I'm really still doing it because because
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  Speaker 5: I am creating my better tomorrow, I don't depend on
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  Speaker 5: anyone to do it for me. I don't see myself
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  Speaker 5: as a superstar or a global sensation. As Penny says,
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  Speaker 5: I just feel that God has blessed me because he
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  Speaker 5: knows that I've stayed focused. I've been diligent in my craft,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I still make music music that could
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  Speaker 5: play in TikTok, that could play in clubs and may
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  Speaker 5: not play on mainstream radio. Maybe the classics play on
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  Speaker 5: mainstream radio, but a lot of my fans and the
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  Speaker 5: DJs that believe in me played in clubs, play it overseas.
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  Speaker 5: I just did they say, what's Betando? Which was my
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  Speaker 5: very first album in Spanish? I re recorded the whole
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  Speaker 5: album and I just put out the first single, No
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  Speaker 5: digas Nada is doing insane in Peru, in Colombia. Is
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  Speaker 5: it playing here in the US? It plays here sometimes
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  Speaker 5: but not on mainstream radio. But it's really the fans.
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  Speaker 5: But I did not think to date that I'd still
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  Speaker 5: be having this. You know, I've had ardent end jobs.
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  Speaker 5: Don't get it wrong, don't get it twisted. I mean
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  Speaker 5: I've worked at senior citizen homes. I've I got my
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  Speaker 5: license as a like a like a home attendant, and
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  Speaker 5: I just got it just something to fall back on
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  Speaker 5: because I needed insurance and being married.
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  Speaker 4: My husband had insurance.
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  Speaker 5: But with that being said, I knew that I had
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  Speaker 5: to feed my kids and I didn't want to depend
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  Speaker 5: on a man, and I knew I wanted the music,
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  Speaker 5: but I needed something to fall back on when going
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  Speaker 5: into that job.
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  Speaker 4: I end up.
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  Speaker 5: Teaching music therapy in the assisted living program and I
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  Speaker 5: started working with people that had dementia. So I went
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  Speaker 5: from being a home health aid and helping in the
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  Speaker 5: senior center to becoming a music therapist. So that helped
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  Speaker 5: me because I was still giving back to client foundations,
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  Speaker 5: and right the foundations were there. There were people that
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  Speaker 5: had dementia, and you know, the left side of the
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  Speaker 5: brain is where the you know, the music's of the
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  Speaker 5: music and whatnot. So I was just really singing old
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  Speaker 5: school songs to them and doing like a lot of
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  Speaker 5: cognitive and mode to school things with them in terms
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  Speaker 5: of but I did it musically. I bought old school
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  Speaker 5: music and people that didn't remember their families remembered the songs,
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  Speaker 5: so they love me there.
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  Speaker 4: So I stayed there for like a year.
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  Speaker 5: And a half, but then I missed it and then
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to go back into music, and I went
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  Speaker 5: back to that. I mean, I did vocal lessons when
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  Speaker 5: you know, when I was out of my dear after
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  Speaker 5: I left Sony. But I never thought in a million
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  Speaker 5: years that I'll be kicking sixty in October that I'm
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  Speaker 5: still here.
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  Speaker 4: Happy, bir Yeah, I'm gonna be. Oh God, Sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if it's happy.
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  Speaker 5: Or it's like yeah, you know, I guess and like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, can I see the transformation that Penny made
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  Speaker 5: and I look at her working so hard and I
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  Speaker 5: love to see other women wanting to better ourselves and
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  Speaker 5: she looks amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Pro and I have lost a combined way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We started this competition last year, and is it a competition?
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  Speaker 3: I'm winning, but it feels good.
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  Speaker 2: It crazy the amount of people that are in competition
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  Speaker 2: with you that you don't know and they still lose.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what, it's great when it's more crazy,
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  Speaker 5: just watching the transformation and looking in the mirror and saying, listen,
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at kids cats that are like in their
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  Speaker 5: thirties and looking at me almost six, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not that bad.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm not that bad, but I like you, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, it really makes you feel good about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do it for you. Everything we do,
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  Speaker 3: we do it for ourselves, feel self, love thing that
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  Speaker 3: we have, and your passion for music has never wavered.
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  Speaker 3: Right throughout everything you're saying and the different trajectories you've taken,
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  Speaker 3: it always comes back to music and pro and I
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  Speaker 3: have spoken about this in the past seasons of what's
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  Speaker 3: meant for you? Is there for you right because we
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  Speaker 3: always come back to kind of what we're doing and
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  Speaker 3: taking it back because you spoke about Savasa, you know
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  Speaker 3: there's some freestyle there, but taking it back to the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of your career because I do want to touch that.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know that I still believe was going to
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  Speaker 3: be the hit that it was?
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  Speaker 5: You knew it from the very first moment I heard it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, when I did get the song, it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: fully produced, it did have elements that I thought were amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I was in my first relationship and knowing what love
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  Speaker 5: was about, and I just.
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  Speaker 4: Really felt the lyrics.
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  Speaker 5: The bridge was a little different, and I changed it
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  Speaker 5: around to make it comfortable for me, and I love
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  Speaker 5: the way the way that I transformed it with your
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  Speaker 5: mere Diodato.
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  Speaker 4: But I literally heard the lyrics that.
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  Speaker 5: Antonine Armado wrote and I just was like, this song
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a smashed And after I heard
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  Speaker 5: the production and I knew that Diodato was doing the production.
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  Speaker 4: He worked with Cool in the Gang.
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  Speaker 5: He had all those amazing hits were Cool in the Gang,
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  Speaker 5: Cool in the Gang. And when he did the production,
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  Speaker 5: I came in to cut the demo. The first it's
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  Speaker 5: like a rough draft, and I did I still believe
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  Speaker 5: in less than two hours.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: I went and did the lead voke. When I remember
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  Speaker 5: he treated me to Chinese food. He was like, take
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  Speaker 5: a break. He's like, let's have food. And I was like,
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  Speaker 5: he was what your favorite food? I was like Chinese
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  Speaker 5: and he's like, all right, well, because you're gonna give
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  Speaker 5: me a number one record, we're going to order it
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  Speaker 5: and this on me and I was like okay. So
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  Speaker 5: then the next day I went into the last touch
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  Speaker 5: ups and within two days it was done. They mixed
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  Speaker 5: and mastered it. But when I heard it, and it's
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  Speaker 5: not about being cocky, but when I heard it, my
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  Speaker 5: hair stood up and I felt I felt that the
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  Speaker 5: song resonated with me because when I got home and
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  Speaker 5: heard it again on the cassette, because we had cassettes
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  Speaker 5: at the time.
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  Speaker 4: I cried. I cried because I felt that the lyric
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  Speaker 4: was so.
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  Speaker 5: It resonated with me, and I knew that a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people can identify with that song. But it's not
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: speaking like egotistically. But I knew that it was a
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: hit everyone from day one. Yeah, brought it up the
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: American Idol and her audition.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: It's funny how they did that, because they do a
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: long whole thing where they tell you, so, how are
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: you blah, and they talked about us, so what inspired you? Oh,
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: my mom's in music. My mom's name is Brenda Keystar.
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: And then that's when Jennifer's like, oh my god, I
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: know Brenda. We went to dance. You know. I used
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: to tell us teach me how to sing. I used
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: tell her to teach me how to dance. But it
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: made it seem like right away she just threw my
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: name in there. But I didn't get to see Jen
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: or any of the judges into the fourth or fifth
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: interview audition. This was a process. It didn't happen right
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: away from her behind the scenes.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: TV cuts it to sixty seconds.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, so, and I honestly did it.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: It's right that's right.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: I actually didn't want them to know she was my
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: daughter because I didn't want to see that there was
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: some favoritism.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: But after because I went under my.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Married name, and then finally people started saying, oh, Brendan gay,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: and it's like, oh, I didn't, and my daughter's like,
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: because I really don't like to my mom. It's the connection.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: I don't want people to think that I'm favored. But
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: she did make it to number ten, which our kist
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: was great. She's very talented, but I have to be
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: honest at that age, she was an X Factor at
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: thirteen and she made top forty, and then she did
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: idle and she made top ten, and I thought that
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: that was good enough for her because it's a very
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: hard business. Number one, number two, it's a lot of
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: wear and tear, and I didn't think she was ready.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: But I wanted her to do it for the experience.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't about because I can put a record
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: out on my daughter tomorrow if I want. She writes
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: and co produces all her music. At this time she
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: decided she loved it. But she did the summer program
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: at Berkeley, she did the writing school, she did the
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: there's a jazz program, there's a rock and roll program.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: So I think she did the songwriting and the pop program.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: With that being said, she loves it, but it didn't
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: love enough to have thick enough skin. So I felt like,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I don't want you to do something where you feel
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: it's going to drain you, where that you lose yourself.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: So she got into teaching. She's getting her masters, and
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: she works with kids in school. She's a teacher for
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: kids that have learning disabilities and she works with them.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: She's a sixth grade teacher. And she still writes. She
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: writes all her songs, and she occasionally puts stuff up.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But I don't I don't think she loved it enough
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: to make it a career.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: In today's you know, back then versus now is different.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's always been. You've always had to have a
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: thick skin to be in this industry, right, but with
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: social media these days, especially if you pay attention to it,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: you know, especially for new.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Artists, well now, because it's so it's so everyone.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Has an opinion.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, I get it all the time. I get it
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: But you know what, someone the other day talked about
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: my glasses that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I wear like, why do you wear such big glasses?
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Like they do horrible on a pair of seeing glasses.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I show you they're so big and she's like like,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: why would you do that? And I told that I said,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you don't like them, but I like them.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't have them with the there with a car,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: but I was like, but I like them. And it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: like that, or if I wear an outfit or if
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I look thick or heavy and a certain outfit, I'm like, listen,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: everybody's gonna have an opinion. You know what they say
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: about when you have an opinion, you know, keep your
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: opinions to yourself as long as it's it's.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: If that's not anymore right now, your opinions on social media,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that's you know, the commons.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: It's everywhere you turn.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: And for me, sometimes the things that they do say
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I take into account and like, oh, you know, it
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: didn't sound great.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: That show that night, Like a voice wasn't on point.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: It kind of.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Inspires me to say, Okay, I maybe need to work
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: on this song a little better. Because you're not going
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: to always have a good night. There are going to
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: be certain nights that you're off, Like I mean, I've
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: been traveling. My throat is tired. Now I go to
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: a vocologist. I try to get as much rest as
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I can. And sometimes it's tough on you because you
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: want to work and stay relevant. But how long do
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: we have to do this? I mean, there's a lot
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: of younger cats down there.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I was.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Proud of my daughter doing American IDOL. I thought it
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: was a good experience. It's something for her to remember
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: in her life that she could tell her children when
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: she's having her first daughter in July. Yeah, so this
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: will be my sixth granddaughter. I've only got girls and
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I only have one son, so we got no boys
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: in the family. My daughter got pregnant at COVID. She
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: dated her junior high school boyfriend. They got married. They
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: had three girls in COVID. She got pregnant, just go
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: maybe it's the boy. It turned out being another two
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: girls and it was a set of twins. So now
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: they got five and then the daughter that is now
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: getting married to a Colombian.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: They have been danny on and off since their fifteen
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: they're twenty seven and they're gonna have their first daughter.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Her name is Eleana, and they're gonna have her in July,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: so I'll have six granddaughters.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: It's a blessing you that I love.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I'm a house full of girls. I feel bad for
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: their dad. I feel bad for their dad, but you know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I have a house for the boys, so we'll just
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: bring them over there.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: And how ironic is that because my mother had five boys. Yeah,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: and me and my sister were the only two girls.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: So it's like, now I got coming my wife.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: We only have boys, me and my wife, right, really,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and she wants to have a girl, so she wants
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: me to she now she wants me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: She's like she would have a boy, and she's always
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: says it's gonna be a boy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: And then her family, she has a cousin who they
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: have have there's nine boys, but they had ten kids
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and they did have one girl and it was like
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the eighth kid or something like that, or the ninth kid,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and then they.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Tried to have some frog. Ten kids. That's a lot.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know when you get to a point
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: then your oldest start taking.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Helping out, but the other ones.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, But to rewind your conversation about performances, I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: wasn't there, but I heard you killed it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: At the iHeart Women's.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: It was a day where a lot of women got
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: together that were powerful, and it was really about talking
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: about how to love yourself. I wrote a song called
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: set Me Free, which is just basically a song about
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: my life and my trials and tribulations of not only
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: being in a relationship, being married, being in for thirty
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: two years and thirty one married, and how in relationships
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: and in jobs and just life overall and being accepted
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: and not learning how to love yourself and doing for
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: everyone else.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: So Set Me.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Free was a song of like freedom, a chance to
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: come within your own And I think the day was
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: basically women empowerment, and it was telling women that you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: it's okay to be okay in your own skin. You
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: shouldn't depend on anyone, and you should let go of
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: what's negative and learn how to recreate, you know, not
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: only yourself, but realign.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Your thoughts and just really learn how to love yourself.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: I think I've been such a mother, such a wife,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: such a la love I mean grandma, and I've been
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: pouring into them and pouring into my job that I
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: lost myself, and within losing myself, I just became so
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: mentally drained that after you lose yourself, you really don't
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: know how to love yourself at one point, so I
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: stepped away from all my situations, not as a mother,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: stepped away up in my marriage.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I never ever, you know, we're not divorced.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: We were separated, but we're the best of friends and
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: we still work at seeing whether it can work. But
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: it's a it's a time in my life where I
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: wrote this song where I needed to find my freedom
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: and spread my wings and fly and learn how to
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: know that I can't be codependent on this person because
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: for the rest of it, I didn't come in life
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: with him.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I came here alone. I'm going to go out alone.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: And it was just a song that really gave me
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: some substance of like, you know, Brenda, you're badass, bitch,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: like you know, learn how to love you again, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: your relationship should be a stem of who you are,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: but it should not be your crutch.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: And I leaned on it for so much.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: He's my manager, he's my best friend, he was my husband,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: he was this he was that you know, and I've
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: never spoke on it. Today is literally the first interview
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: that I've ever spoke about being separated and still working out,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: trying to see.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Where our paths will lead us.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: You never know, and I don't give up on love,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: but I have to remember I have to not give
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: up on me yourself, and that was.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: What the song was about.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: So I guess beforming it that day it made me
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: so emotional. And he was there at the shit and
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: you know, he works with me, so he's like, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: really felt weird when you did that, and I was like, well,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: don't be because what it shows is that, no matter
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: if you are in a place it's divorce should not
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: always be the first option. You can step away and
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: start working on yourself. You work on you while I
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: work on me, and whatever's meant to be will bring
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: you back together.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: So set me free.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I platformed it that particular day, Women's Day, for the
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: first time I ever performed it, so I think they
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: felt what I felt because I don't know. I try
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: to be transparent, but more than transparent, I just wanted
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: to let everyone know it's okay to not be afraid
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: of the space that you're in.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: If that makes sense, do you get me?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you for being so vulnerable open with us. It's
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: and you did that day, and you preface and you
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: shared a lot of this that day, and everyone was
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: emotional in the room as we're getting now. But it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: so important to be aware and to say it's okay
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: not to be okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: It's very hard.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: And we all go through our trials and tribulations, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: we spoke about my health and all these things, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: we bonded on that beach on the cruise, But we
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: all go through something, and I feel that this anthem
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: that you've created is going to resonate with everyone for
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: different reasons, right within their lives. And sometimes we're so
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: stuck in survival mode and we continue to let the
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: wheels turn and we continue and we continue, we continue
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: that we don't take a moment to sit down, breathe
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: and reflect, reflect and say okay, I need a second
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: because the world is so fast paced. So I love
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the chorus.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Sometimes it makes me sad because it's such an amazing
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: song and I wish I could get it played at
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: every station. But with that being said, I have so
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: many people that hear it on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I just shot the video and I think that little
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: by little it's stating presidents and it's getting what it deserves.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: And I think even the people that hear, like the
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: one kid that told me, you know, when I heard
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: set Me Free, it friendly gave me the chance and
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: gave me a little concept. I wanted to add it
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: in my video, but it was too late. About a
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: young boy who told his mother that he was gay
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and he was afraid she was going to disown him.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: And the father and the mother sat with him and
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: they said, listen, this is who you are.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: We love you. We want to meet who you were with.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: And he met them and he said it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: And the only reason why he did it was because
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: after hearing my song, it really sat with him and
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: he thanked me. He's like, thank you for writing this song,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: because it made me realize that I have to learn
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: how to live for me and not everyone else. And
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: that's what you do when not only as a mother,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: as a wife, as being afraid to come out of
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: your you know, come out of your I guess your shell,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: or come out of the closet the per se. That's
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: the saying. But for me, it's just about living life
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: and set Me Free. I think it's just a song
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: for not only vulnerability, but to be happy with who
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: you are.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Just be you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Be you, because tomorrow's never promised to anybody, so don't
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: live for everyone else other than yourself.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: That's also it sounds like this song is the culmination
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: of your career, right, because you've gone through so many transitions.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah right. You started off like let's talk about the ballads,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: and you went into freestyle, you went into satisa, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: through your trials and tribulations that you've been very open
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: about throughout your career, you've continued to persevere and you've
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: continued to motivate, empower and inspire, and this song seems
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to be the culmination of that.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I've had so many ups and downs. I
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: mean I've been on major labels, I've been on independent labels.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: I've wrote for companies and did like publishing deals with
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Sony Music. I mean I've been countless times, you know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: taking advantage of in terms of in the business. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: had to learn I how to be a one woman show.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: I had to be the agent. I needed to be
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: the artist. I needed to be the director. I needed
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: to be the producer. I needed to find the team,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: put the team together. It was exhausting. But I think
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: some people take it as desperate, or some people take
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: it as you know, like she's on a survival mode.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: It's I'm not doing it for them. I'm doing it
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: for me because I love what I do.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: But I've had so many doors closed, but I never
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: ever gave up because I had to push to prevail,
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: and that's what I do.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: It's like I think, if.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: I sit and wait for somebody to make it happen
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: for me, then it makes me lose the authenticity of
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: loving what I do. I do it because I love it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: I don't do it because I want to be a
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: superstar and I want to get awards from Grammys to
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: American Music Wars, Red Carpet. I'm happy where I'm at.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I'm doing music. I'm successfully being.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Able to.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Still live and have a beautiful legacy. But you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: it just goes to show. Like you said, I did pop,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I did freestyle, I did Saiysa, I've done musical theater,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: I've done commercials. Love music overall and that's my healing power.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: While Branda, we're gonna get controversial freestyle or salsa.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry every day, all day. I love I'm not
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: gonna tell you why I do love freestyle, But not
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: only was it not given the recognition it deserves, it's
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: and I'm not saying for the producers. I just feel
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: like we need to evolve with freestyle. We need to
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: do remixes of the originals so that the originals can come.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Back to life.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I feel like everything is still staying in a box.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: For me, I considered Saisa only because I have the
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: vulnerability of doing my music, expressing myself with my music.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I play thing ballads, I play gongas, I sing ballads,
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I sing Saysa, I do remakes of Selia, I do
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: La Lupe. But for me, I think freestyle is great.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: But if it wasn't so controversial, and it wasn't so
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: in a box and nobody lets it expand, it's not
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: given the it's I'm not giving the flowers it deserves.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: And it's not saying that it's not great music. It
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: is great music.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: But for me, I feel like I'm more and I
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: wasn't a freestyle artist.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: I was a pop artist. For me, Over and over
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: was closest to freestyle or so in love. I did
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: a remix with Tony Moran, I did do the demo
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: of Scars of Love. Originally I was the one who
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: did that. So I mean, I have a taste of freestyle,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: but I consider myself more of a pop artist. I
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: consider myself more like a Tale of Dane Lisa Lisa
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: top forty freestyle like it you say dream girl, you
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: do I dream girl, You're my dream boy, dreamgirl, Cynthia
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: and Johnny. That's a pop song, George Lamm that's a
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: pop song. Freestyle is put in a box. But that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: more like Latin hip hop. So it's not growing because
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: it doesn't have the support it deserves.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: You want to hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Hear it on TikTok, hear it on with Bad Boy Richie,
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  Speaker 5: hear it with Triple Threat Radio MDWRA. You know, like
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  Speaker 5: I love KTU all due respect, I love iHeart, but
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: it doesn't give it a platform enough to make it
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  Speaker 5: successful that where it should be as VERSAA. I get
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: all Latin radio. I'm everywhere. It's feeding my kids. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: do do some freestyle, So if I had to choose,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: you're gonna put me in the SASA because the SASA
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: is literally blown up for me. I won two Latin
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: billboards with that. I've done the Duds with as Victim. Well,
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: I'm getting ready to go into a studio with an
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: artist I can't even say who he is that I
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: can't even believe I'm recording with this guy because I've
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: been a fan. But I'm doing a Latin record with him.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: I created my own Latin label, Star Records. I do
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: some some pop, which is what I do. You know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: set me freeze pop record. It's a pop dance record.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: But no, I.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Don't disown my roots. I love freestyle. I've been traveling
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  Speaker 5: with TKA George Lamont. We did No Matter What together.
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  Speaker 5: We've done so many tours Sin THEA cover girls.
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  Speaker 3: But you need to get on these tours, you know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: not of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you actually perform. So
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you know about the one sixteenth Street Festival. Yeah, so
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Brenda will be there.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 4: That's strict I think that's strictly side. But I made
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: through a couple of freestyle.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a great, great stage because
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the artists that are surrounding you also on that. It's
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: you know, Champaul's doing it, Cataloona's doing it.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't even know that that's awesome.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And then we have some some other people doing it too,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I think, so versatility. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be great.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Hopefully the weather is nice
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and then be one hundred thousand people there.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, it's going to be packed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: I played I played the one sixteen Street Festival a
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: couple of years back for a Latin station out here
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: from the city.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: That brought me through for that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: But I mean, like, I'm doing another show in June
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: is where sat Sian beats freestyle, So the first twenty
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: five minutes is all freestyle, and then I'm going into
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: a whole Latin production. So I still try not to
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: abandon my mind I'm doing I'm doing.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Beatstock this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's freestyle.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I'm doing that freestyle pop pop. Yeah, they mix it up.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: They have hip hop artists.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I think Naughty by Nature is going to be there.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: We're doing Atlantic City November fourteen. I's got the mikasup.
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  Speaker 2: You know like that anyway, because even as a DJ,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: like I play everything, so it's like, why just be
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: in a box playing one thing?
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  Speaker 4: You know? Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather go to a concert and hear a mixture
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of music. You know, a nice reggae hip hop area.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We like everything.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Music is universal, That's what I say. It's healing, and
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: it should be.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: It should be able to give the opportunity for everyone
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: to love it. And I don't like to stay in
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: the box eating. So I mean, I'm going to be
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: in Florida for the Mikasuki Resort and Casino show on
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: July twenty fourth, a couple of days before my daughter
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: gives birth. So now I'm really losing it because I
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: totally forgot. My agent booked it, me and my husband.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: He booked it, and I'm like, and so now I'm
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: going to fly out and perform, and I'm leaving at
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: the five am flight to come back because I'm a
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: nervous wreck.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Hopefully she'll get birth after.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: But you know what, agentes and to our listeners, half
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: an hour is not enough with the Brenda case.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Because I talked too much of we're gonna have to
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: bring you back.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: No, we need to bring you back.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: We didn't.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: We didn't get into a lot of what we had
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: to cover, so we definitely have to bring you back
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: for a part two, which will be phenomenal. You'll be
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the first artist come back for a part two. But
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: you know what, We usually close our episode out one way,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: but I feel like we have to close it out
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: a different way this time.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You want to close it out today.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Give us a little bit of set me free, bron.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: That's what we're doing acapella of the song Oh my God.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: I don knows if I ever have a museum. Set
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: me free, let me go, Send me free. You never
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: know I was going with you well blind, No, I'm
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: taking back was mine. Let me be, Yeah, send me fee,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: set me free from all this pain, Let me breathe
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: don't speak my name. You said you love me, but
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: not the way I need you. Help me close. But
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: clip my wings had a time and we had a spark,
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: but I was fading in the dark. But now I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: asking baby, just let me be. I want to spread
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: my wings and fly, touch the stars. Light up this
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: guy normal hiding who I am inside?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: It's my time some let me rest, let me go.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I'm a little sick, but that's a little bit as
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I have a really bad upper respiratory infection.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I know it's no excuse, but if I knew I
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: was gonna do an acapella probably.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: You guys, don't hit a little cracking list. It's all rough,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: but semi freeze. It's a great song.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you so so much for stopping by. B Yeah, lad,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I love the bridge.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I like that stay.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I broke, I bled, you took my light and left
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: me dead. But now I'm dancing do the pain.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: You lost my game. I'm not the same seven free.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I feel like I hear all the claps.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: I just like not because I wrote it, but I
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: honestly feel that it's just it's I love it. Even
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: if it never made it the number one anywhere in
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: the radio or this or that on the billboards or whatever,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: it's number one for me because I finally have put
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: my words on paper that it's just something that will
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: always resonate for me to forever.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: It's beautiful baby Free.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I think that's how we're gonna close it out. Brent,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: thank you for being here with us. You can follow
• 35:47
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  Speaker 3: on pod dot. Teach me something pro. I want to
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: take us out.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: That's right till next time. Thank you for rocking with
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: us over here. I teach me something presented by Berkeley College.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I am pro Style, I Am Penny Dollas and the
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: amazing Brenda cay Starr.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you again, Thank.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: You guys for having me, stay tuned, keep listening in
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: to Teach Me Something.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Definitely worth it. We're keeping that.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Drop Peter all right, good time. Hey, thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 3: Tune in next week
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: For all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought to
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