From NPR Music, I'm Ana Maria Sayer and this is all Latino. Let the cheese may begin.

I am many asking for it. I am many asking for it. I am many asking for it. I am many asking for it. I am asking for it.

So, Mihenfei, it's just me this week. Felix is out on some well-skinned but definitely well-deserved long vacation.

While I'm doing the work and holding things down, I'm taking a little bit of this ganso myself.

I'm talking you off from my aunt's house in the rainforest in Mexico, enjoying some family time in the place where it all began.

No spot felt more perfect to intro this week's guest. Fabi Reina, Reina Tropica. She is an all-star performer, activist, organizer, and honestly human.

I fell in love with Reina Tropica's smooth tropical beats and striking lyrics.

And I had no idea that Fabi was shredding for bands like Slater Kinney and running her own magazine. She shreds.

A magazine dedicated to women and gender non-conforming gdars and basis. And she was doing it all at the same time.

I couldn't imagine how one person had it in them to make it all happen. To be on their own path and following their own dreams.

And during our conversation, I was lucky enough to learn that for her, it's all intuition, believing in the swineos of her ancestors and her own power to execute them.

She's mad connected to her reises and uses that as fuel for her to advocate for the things she cares about and find peace in her own choices.

This vision that you have is that something that's always been present in your life. I mean a lot of these things.

You started playing guitar really young. You started sheet treads really young. A lot of the work you've done as an artist, as a community builder, even I would say started really early for you.

Is that something that just always felt natural? It was always inside of you?

Even a few years ago, I maybe would have answered this differently or maybe I wouldn't have had a clear answer, but in connecting more with myself and my ancestry and listening to my intuitive movements, you know, that have sort of led me to learning more about Meshika culture.

And my ancestors from the homelands, currently known as Mexico, the Meshika people, their study was their dreams. They migrated and moved with their dreams, you know, and listening to that.

Their relationship to their intuition was what dictated their movements, you know, where did they decided to go and how they decided to leave.

Now that I'm studying that, I'm realizing like that's me. That's always lived in me. That's part of my lineage, you know, that's what I understand how to do.

And I feel more than anything like the question to me is how did I know how to follow that? How have I always known? Yeah, how to follow that? I don't know. But I have.

Ever since I found music, the guitar, and found a way to express myself, I've always listened to my intuition, and I've always listened to other types of communication other than words, you know, and been like, okay,

something about the music industry, about media and the representation of women and black and indigenous and people of color, and this media doesn't feel right, you know, met with the collective intention of when those people come together to create.

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