Whether you fell in love with Abasa as the voice of Dolores Madrigal and Encanto, or you have been a longtime fan of her reggaeton career.

There is so much more we need to talk about,

like how she manages her amazing career and her seven children,

and the life-altering illness that nearly derailed it all.

Thank you. Adassa, thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited.

I am so excited.

And like the voice of every parent everywhere, your voice is in my head literally all the time these days.

But I want to start at the beginning.

Adessa, tell me who was the first person who told you you had talent?

The first time I had somebody tell me that I had talent was my parents.

I started singing very early in church and they used to do a lot of ministering.

You know, they go to different churches and sing and do that kind of work,

and that's when I knew I wanted to be a singer.

But when the Little Mermaid came out in 1989, and I heard Jody Benson sing, part of that world.

I knew it. That's when I knew I wanted to be part of that world someday.

When you go to your parents and you say, I want to be a singer, what do they say?

They were concerned at first when it wasn't just Christian music with do rights. Sometimes I

took left and rights, you know, as I was finding myself. And then I found how much impact music has

on everyone. So it's not just what you want to do, but you have to think about what is an

influence that I'm leaving

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