How I Made It: Francisca Valenzuela

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Society & Culture, News, Documentary

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Chilean singer-songwriter Francisca Valenzuela takes us on her life journey, from moving from the U.S. to Chile, breaking into music, and creating a Latinx feminist music collective.

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0:00.0	This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Culture.
0:12.2	It's Latino USA. Welcome to Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa.
0:15.7	We bring you stories that are underreported, but that matter to you. Overlooked by the rest of the media.
0:21.3	And while the country is struggling to deal with these problems,
0:23.4	we listen to the stories of black and Latino students.
0:26.0	A united Latino front, a cultural renaissance.
0:29.5	Organizing at the forefront of the movement.
0:32.9	I'm Maria Inojosa.
0:34.5	No se bayan.
0:37.3	Querido, querida. Kedido,
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0:39.2	Keditex,
0:40.2	Latino USA listener.
0:41.8	What's up, what's up?
0:43.3	You know what I love?
0:44.3	I love our archive.
0:46.5	Here's a story from it.
0:48.1	I really didn't have a musical community
0:50.7	until maybe I was like 17 or 18 years old in Chile
0:53.3	because growing up it was really more me and my own world, spending time in that kind of wonderment with music, whether it was like Spiced Girls or Keith Jarrett or Sweet Generis and Charlie Garcia.
1:19.6	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa.
1:21.3	Today, Francisco Valenzuela,
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