How I Made It: Rodrigo y Gabriela

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the late 90's, Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero embarked on a one-way trip to Dublin, Ireland. While they were originally heavy metal musicians back home in Mexico, they traded their electric guitars for acoustic ones and became street performers in Ireland to sustain themselves. Eventually, they started getting more recognition. In 2006, they put out their first album, which debuted at number one on the Irish Albums Chart. Their latest album "Mettavolution" has earned them their first Grammy. In this “How I Made It,” Rodrigo and Gabriela take us back to the origins of their band and tell us what keeps them going after more than 20 years.

This story originally aired in December of 2019.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa and I am Penileira Mides.
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0:39.0	So we both have a struggle with anxiety for all these years.
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1:01.0	From FuturoMedia, it's Latino USA.
1:04.0	I'm Maria Inojosa.
1:05.0	Today, Heavy Metal on acoustic guitars.
1:10.0	In the late 1990s, after they'd played in a lot of different heavy metal bands for many years, Rodrigo Iga Briella, best friends, decided to ditch their native Mexico and embark on a European journey.
1:33.0	They settled in Dublin, Ireland, where they swapped out their electric guitars for acoustic ones and they became street performers.
1:46.0	The band has come a long way since.
1:48.0	In 2006, their self-titled album, Rodrigo Iga Briella debuted at number one on the Irish album chart.
1:57.0	Their work has appeared on Hollywood films and television shows from AMC's Breaking Bad,
2:04.0	to DreamWorks, Puss & Moots, and Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tights.
2:14.0	In this How I Made It segment, Rodrigo Iga Briella take us back to their band's origins and tell us how heavy metal influenced their acoustic sound.
2:33.0	My name is Gabriela. I'm a musician. I play guitar and I play in a band called Rodrigo Iga Briella.
2:41.0	My name is Rodrigo and I am a musician and composer and I play guitar as well for Rodrigo and Gabriela.
2:48.0	I grew up listening to all sorts of music but not Mexican music at home.
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