How Joy Huerta Learned to Embrace Life's Curves

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4.8 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Grammy-award winning artist, half of the Mexican sibling pop duo Jesse & Joy, is taking on a new role: as co-composer and lyricist for the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves. Joy shares how music “literally saved her life,” the complexity of being raised by a machismo father who wanted her to be independent, and reflects on the curves life has thrown her way (early professional success, a wife, two babies, and now, a chance to be the first Mexican composer of a Broadway show in over 40 years!). To watch a special extended version of this interview, visit us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@latinatolatina During preview performances (April 1 - April 26) use our special discount code (LTLPODCAST) at the box office or online at Telecharge: https://www.telecharge.com/Real-Women-Have-Curves-tickets?AID=BWY001451633&MC=LTLPODCAST&utm_source=discount&utm_campaign=RealWomenHaveCurvesSS&utm_medium=other&utm_id=BWY001451633

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0:00.0	Big news. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also watch it on YouTube.
0:05.6	And if you would like to see Real Women Hub Curbs the musical during preview performances
0:10.0	that is April 1st through April 26th, you can use our special discount code, LTL podcast
0:16.3	at Telecharge.com. Or, for my New Yorkers, at the box office of the James Earl Jones Theater.
0:23.1	Both links are in the show notes.
0:37.2	Joy Wertha has spent most of her adult life traveling the world as half of the Grammy Award-winning Mexican pop duo Jesse and Joy.
0:45.0	Now she's taking on a new challenge as the co-composer and lyricists for the new Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves.
0:52.8	As many of you know, I am co-producing the show, so I had a million
0:56.4	questions for joy about her inspiration, the shift that happens in a home when the kids become
1:02.1	the breadwinners, being a self-described late bloomer, and how the curves life has thrown her
1:07.4	and form every note in this beautiful show.
1:24.6	Joy Wertha, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me.
1:26.0	So I get an email a few months ago from Barry Weisler and it said, I'm Barry Weisler. I have a project I'm working on. I think you'd be great for you. You get on the phone. I'm a failed theater kid. So first I think my little brother is just punking me. Okay. So then I'm like, sure, we can get on the phone. and I half expect my brother to get on the phone with me. And it's like, Barry.
1:27.8	So he's like, sure, we can get on the phone. And I half expect my brother to get on the phone with me. And it's like, Barry. So he's like, Alicia, he's like, I've got a project. And I'm like, okay. I'm like half thinking he's going to let me star on Broadway. And he's like, would you? It's real women have curves. You ever seen the movie? And I'm like, of course they've seen the movie. And he's like, well, I'd love you to be a co-producer on it. And I, it was like a dream come true.
2:03.1	It was a good dream come true because I love the story. I love any project that puts a bunch of
2:10.5	Latinas on stage together. I wonder for you, when you get the initial call or the initial email, is your first thought I've never done this before, or is your first thought I can do that?
2:24.4	I didn't understand what they wanted at the very beginning.
2:28.3	This is new to me.
2:29.6	Like literally, it's a new thing for me.
2:32.2	And one of the producers, Jack Knowsworthy, was trying to reach out from either our management,
2:38.2	then I think our PR.
2:40.7	I was getting this information from a lot of places.
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