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How Buscabulla’s Raquel Berrios Wrote Her Way Back Home In Regresa

Latina to Latina

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Latinas, Lantiguawilliams, 519788, Aliciamenendez, Society & Culture, Latinos, Entrepreneurship, News, Hispanics, Entertainment News, Business

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

That's Vamano by Buscabuya, and that dreamy voice belongs to Raquel Berrios, half of the indie pop duo.

0:20.0

The other half is her partner and co-parent, Luis

0:22.7

Alfredo del Valle. The couple started making music together while living in New York, but after

0:27.9

Hurricanes Maria and Irma hit Puerto Rico, they decided it was time to go back home. That return

0:33.7

and the very meaning of home inspired their new first album, Regresa.

0:39.8

I am not a native Spanish speaker and so I had never heard the word Wuscauja and so I loved it

0:46.0

and I love the definition being a troublemaker. Are you by nature a troublemaker? I mean, I would say no.

0:56.5

But I do like, I kind of like what it implies in a way.

1:02.3

I do think that I'm always curious.

1:05.5

I don't know.

1:06.5

I feel like I do have maybe a troublemaker sort of nature when it comes to maybe like making

1:12.3

music.

1:12.9

Like I like to take two worlds that are not supposed to come together and bring them together.

1:18.7

I like to create and work with tension.

1:20.9

So maybe in a way that's why I was very much drawn to the name.

1:26.7

Growing up in Puerto Rico, what kind of music was on at home?

1:30.9

On my dad's side, a lot of salsa, calypso, trio music, rock.

1:37.4

He loved rock.

1:38.7

And on my mother's side, my mom was more like an MTV head.

1:42.1

Like, she just loved Madonna, Charday she was like more like

1:49.3

mainstream so I think that she always was more drawn to English like English spoken music

1:55.6

than Spanish music so we heard a lot of that and that's mostly what Puerto Ricans here. Like we,

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