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Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian, and today I am here with the fantastic

Kendall Yokoyama. Hi! Hi! How are you? I'm great, how are you?

I'm wonderful. I've had a little bit of a stressful, I was gonna say a stressful week, it's Monday,

but I'm happy to be sitting down with you. I mean Monday is a stressful day, or it's my day off,

so I guess it's supposed to be less stressful, but it can be stressful. But you never know. Kendall,

before we continue, can you tell me your pronouns please? Yes, she, her, hers. Great, thank you. So

you're a swing on the Angelicator, you cover all three Skylar Sisters? Is that correct? I do, yes,

I cover all three Skylar Sisters and an Ensemble Woman 5. Amazing, yeah. I want to hear everything

about you because you've had a pretty fascinating life, I want to hear your life story, I want to

hear your Hamilton story, I want to hear about your thoughts on the importance of representation,

and like your activism, and all of this. Yes. So tell me your life story, you started performing

at a pretty young age, is that right? Yeah, I started performing at my old dance studio,

Academy of Performing Arts, Kappa for short, since I was three years old, and I was doing everything,

tap, ballet jazz, you know, all those things, and I was dancing until, well I mean I guess all

through, but there I was dancing there, and I was competition dancers, so all the way until I was

about 14, and at about 10 I started singing, and I was introduced to vocal lessons at my dance

studio, and then I had my two mentors Maggie Danielson, who was my tap teacher, and then Vanessa

Townzo, who was my vocal coach, had both done Broadway, both done theater, and they were like,

you should do theater. And I was like, no, I still want to be a ballerina, or I still want to be

a dancer, and then I realized maybe not, and then I auditioned for my first show at 14 in a

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