Her Way: How an Obscure Mariachi Singer Went from Quinceañeras, to the World Series, to Kendrick Lamar

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre

News, Government, Sports, Sports News

4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Deyra Barrera was playing birthday parties and restaurants and funerals in Los Angeles when she got the call: Kendrick Lamar wanted her to sing on his new album, GNX. And now, if we’re lucky, she might be a guest at the Super Bowl 59 halftime show. But today, we find out why there is no better soundtrack for her rise — from a tiny town in Mexico to the World Series, with the Dodgers — than the musical genre she’s mastered: mariachi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.9	If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky.
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1:04.3	Hold on, let me close the door.
1:05.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06.1	Okay.
1:13.3	This is really cool for me to have you on the show, Deira, Barreira, because, you know, I've been walking around, I live in New York City.
1:14.2	Okay.
1:17.3	And I've been walking around listening to your music for a couple weeks now.
1:21.0	You've been the soundtrack to my everyday life.
1:22.6	Thank you for the invite.
1:25.0	Thank you for having me in your podcast.
1:26.0	I'm very happy. And nervous because nervous because like I've been telling everybody
1:30.5	my English. Like Celia Cruz used to say, my English, no, nobody good looking. So I'm going to
1:39.3	try to do my best. And well, I'm happy to be here. Your English is beautiful so far. I've been practicing.
1:49.2	It speaks, though, to how crazy I imagine your life must have been since November.
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