Thanks for joining us. Welcome back to Latina to Latina. On this podcast, I talk with Latinas about how they got to be so amazing.

Whether you grew up watching her on Univision's Sabado Gigante, know her from her recent fame on love and hip-hop Miami, or have her songs on your phone on repeat, you know

Amara la Negra. We sat down in Miami to talk about all the ways she's complicating the narrative.

Amara, thank you for doing this.

Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

When did you realize you had star power?

This is going to sound a little corny somewhat, but okay, that's who I am. So I was born

being a star. I was just naturally very, like I said, simpatic, very charismatic. I was never

really shy to showcase my artistry. So, you know, I think that some people are just born with it and some others

develop it. I was born knowing that I was born to be great. So now that you're in the moment,

does it even feel that strange to you? No. No, no, no, it doesn't. Only because I've been working,

see, like, for those that are just getting to know me, a lot of them are just getting to know me through love and hip hop.

But before love and hip hop, I already had a big, a huge fan base in the Latin community,

mainly in the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.

But before even that, I studied when I was four years old preparing myself for this day. So it wasn't

something like, oh, you know, this is new to me. No, I work knowing where I wanted to be. I just

didn't know how I was going to get there. Who would you say discovered you? My mother.

My mom was really the one who discovered me. I would put all my teddy bears in the couch, and I would sing to them, and I would perform

for them, and I would go to the supermarket, and anybody that wanted to see me perform,

those long hallways in the supermarket was, like, my runway show, and I was always very, very

talented, so my mom was really the one who saw it.

She saw her friends commenting to her.

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