Carla Morrison: How a break from music and a move to Paris led to a personal rebirth

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Felix Contreras sits down with Carla Morrison to talk about her new sound, the importance of mental health and the art of the Parisian non.

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0:00.0	Does the idea of listening to political news freak you out?
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0:17.4	Take a deep breath and give politics another chance with the NPR Politics Podcast,
0:22.2	available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:25.5	From NPR music, this is Out Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:29.7	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisme begin.
0:33.5	I'm,
0:34.5	Desperte a day, sin sentier, ganas to care to continue. That is the sound of rebirth.
0:43.3	Specifically, the sound of Carla Morrison's rebirth.
0:47.3	Carla is a vocalist who, well, I don't know, she's honestly more than a vocalist.
0:53.3	She's kind of the stuff of legends.
0:55.9	No doubt.
0:56.5	Her clear and compelling vocals give her an honest and affecting sound that has all of us gripped since we first heard her music here or not Latino in 2010.
1:06.1	I saw her at Viva Latino in Mexico City a couple of times.
1:11.7	And I was so impressed with how her audience hung on every word.
1:19.9	But that is and was her power, right?
1:23.8	The Carla that I grew up with is a Carla who said, literally,
1:28.6	dehan me en yorad. And I was like, seriously,
1:31.4	dehan me in yorad, like Carla. Like I felt that emotion. I felt that depth. And I think we all did.
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