Alisa Amador

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Singer-songwriter Alisa Amador joins Rhett to talk about her newly released album, Multitudes. She and Rhett discuss what she learned from making the album, her songwriting process, and the challenges of being a full-time musician. Alisa discusses the significance of sharing songs in Spanish, the importance of setting boundaries and advocating for herself, and she asks Rhett to divulge some of his own survival tips. Alisa Amador is a bilingual singer-songwriter and the winner of the 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Alisa Amador’s music is a synthesis of the many styles she’s voraciously absorbed: rock, jazz, funk, and alternative folk, all wrapped in the spirit of the Latin music she grew up with. Alisa has opened for artists including Hozier, Lake Street Dive, Madison Cunningham, Watchhouse, Hiss Golden Messenger, and countless others. Her soulful singing, poetically incisive lyrics, and syncopated rhythms are likely to make you cry, laugh, and dance all within one set. Follow Alisa @alisaamador Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Wix is on a mission.
0:02.0	I want to make this and sell it.
0:04.0	He's creating a protein bar.
0:06.0	This is ultra-processing.
0:07.0	That could potentially kill you.
0:08.0	I want the maximum amount of each harmful ingredient while staying within the legal limit.
0:12.0	So just how ridiculous the food system really is.
0:15.0	Joe Wix, Licensed to Kill on Channel 4.
0:18.0	Stream now.
0:20.0	Osiris. Welcome to Wix to kill on Channel 4. Stream now.
0:22.0	Osiris.
0:28.7	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:30.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:33.4	That's when it got wheels off.
0:36.0	We started on and we ain't gonna stop.
0:39.3	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when they got wheels off.
0:42.3	Alisa Amador joins me for this episode of Wheels Off.
0:47.3	Her new album Multitudes, which can also be pronounced multitudes as it is a Spanish-English Cognate.
0:57.7	We discussed that on the show. I'm not actually that smart. She schools me on a lot of stuff in this
1:03.7	conversation, and I love it. I'm blown away by the people that I get to meet recording these
1:10.3	conversations for Wheelsoft.
1:12.1	Some of them I've known ahead of time, but obviously the people that come into my life from this
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