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I don't come from a family of musicians.
However, my mother always loved music.
My grandmother, on the other side,
would always sing me songs.
She would take me with her record shopping at antique stores.
We used to go all the time...
I have very beautiful memories from childhood, my grandmother, spending the afternoon with her listening to Cuban music.
I would listen to Elio Revés, Mercedita Valdés... I loved that.
And that was my natural approach [to music] on the side of my family.
But it was officially me that began that tradition.
I got into music through a school friend.
Since we were such good friends, she told me: "Look, I know someone who gives piano lessons. We can go together".
I thought it was a very good idea. I was 7 years old and I thought it was very interesting.
I repeated all the sounds,
I was always watching television, repeating the songs.
And so this man, named Juan de Dios,
was the one who told my mom that I had a talent for music,
and to not let it pass, and to take me to [music] school.
My mom listened to him and took me to a school.
That's where I met a lot of girls and we found that we had musical affinity.
With those girls I matured, I grew.
And when we were 14, we formed a group called Sexto Sentido.
One of the opportunities we had as Sexto Sentido
was participating in Interactivo concerts and album collaborations.
And I was just blown away with that way of working, with that spontaneity.
Until later, in 2010, looking to evolve,
from both a professional and personal point of view, I decided to leave Sexto Sentido
in order to open up to other musical horizons. And Interactivo seemed like the best option for that.
Because it's a group that's constantly creating, giving artists and musicians the opportunity
of opening and expanding their horizon.
It challenges you.
It's a group that marked me, changed my way of conceiving music,
of expressing music.
'Que no para el pare' is the name of my first official song with Interactivo.
When I wrote the lyrics, I tried to avoid making them revolve around a specific subject.
If you have the opportunity to open your eyes and to wake up and see that you're whole,
that it only depends on you to do or not do, then do it...don't miss out on it, do you understand?
It doesn't matter what surrounds you, what stops you or limits you.
It's in your hands to do what you'd like.
So I worked with this song, I went with a pretty clear idea,
and I told [Roberto Carcassés], "Look, Roberto, this is what I came up with." And he loved it. We recorded it right away, within 3 days,
because it was the moment when the album was recorded.
I'm already telling you, it was a constant flow of ideas, actions... To me it was like a beginning,
it was a door that opened up at that point in my life
and that I still benefit from.
When you say, "I'm going to stop doing what I'm doing" or "I'm going to open a new path",
door open up in an incredible way, because in that same year 2010 when I left Sexto Sentido
I began working with Interactivo and I also started doing cinema.
I showed up for the casting and I was chosen for an Italian production
from a director called Serena Corvaglia, where I play the role of a girl called María.
She's a student with a passion for funk music.
And it's the story of that misunderstood girl because it is often said that in Cuba we only make traditional music.
This opened up a new facet and led me to the film '7 Days in Havana'.
I'm also very happy because Cubadisco is going on
and my first solo album is nominated just like my last album with Sexto Sentido.
So I know it is a very good moment in my career, because I'm closing a period with an accolade
and opening up another one with an award.
I think the future must reserve me very good things because I already benefit from the effort of working,
of being connected, of doing things, that's what I'm doing.
Trying to move forward with music, and to keep working on my acting.
May many projects come my way. Let them come, let them come...I'm waiting.
That's how it is!