How I Made It: Francisca Valenzuela

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Chilean-American singer-songwriter Francisca Valenzuela has always forged her own path in music. Born and raised in California, Francisca began her career after moving to Chile with her family. Even when major labels and venues wouldn’t open their doors for her, Francisca recorded and performed on her own terms until she became one of Chile’s biggest stars. Francisca went on to release four studio albums, start her own music label, and create Ruidosa, a Latinx feminist collective for women and non-binary voices in music.

In this episode of our "How I Made It" series, Francisca Valenzuela revisits her early days as a young woman building a music career in Latin America, and takes us down the road that led to her latest album, La Fortaleza.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides.
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0:39.5	I really didn't have a musical community until maybe I was like 17 or 18 years old and
0:44.4	chile because growing up, it was really more mean my own world, spending time in that kind
0:49.0	of wonderment with music, whether it was like spice girls or Keith Jarrett.
0:55.6	Or sweet generalies.
1:00.3	And Charlie García.
1:08.3	From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inojosa.
1:12.0	Today, whatever how I made its segments, with Francisco Balensuela, the Chilean American
1:18.2	singer-songwriter, author and entrepreneur.
1:30.5	Francisco Balensuela's musical identity was shaped in two countries, the United States,
1:36.0	where she was born and spent her childhood.
1:38.6	And Chile, her family's homeland, where she moved to in her teens.
1:43.9	He was there in Santiago, Chile's capital city, that her prolific career as a bilingual
1:49.8	pop rocker would begin.
1:54.5	Francisco's music career is a testament to Chile's thriving DIY music scene.
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