In conversation: How Camilo Lara is Mexico's musical 'double agent'
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | From your music, this is Al Latino, I'm Felix Contederas. |
| 0:03.2 | And I'm Ana Maria Sayer, let the cheese spin begin. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay Ana, every week we talk on Zoom and I recognize the background, |
| 0:29.0 | but now I'm seeing something I don't recognize. Where are you? |
| 0:33.7 | Surprise, I'm in Mexico City. |
| 0:40.1 | What are you doing there? |
| 0:41.7 | Okay, well everyone has been constantly telling me that if I want to have the most beautiful, |
| 0:48.2 | diverse, amazing musical experience that I have to get myself to Mexico City and so that's |
| 0:53.8 | precisely what I decided to do Felix. |
| 0:56.6 | Okay, I'm cool with that, so what have you heard so far? |
| 1:00.1 | Well, very excited to share that one of my first stops here was actually to visit an old friend |
| 1:06.4 | of yours Felix Camilo Lara. |
| 1:20.3 | Camilo Lara is one of the nicest guys in the music business and he's also one of the most |
| 1:24.0 | prolific music producers out there. |
| 1:27.2 | I had to go there first because everyone has always talked to me about the famous Camilo Lara |
| 1:33.6 | studio here in Mexico City. It's like the home base for so many artists. They come, it's in the heart |
| 1:40.1 | of La Roma, so many people have gone through those doors, worked on their albums, created something |
| 1:45.6 | special, so I had to be there. |
| 1:48.4 | My conversations with him in the past have always been centered around what he creates in that |
| 1:53.3 | studio. I've always been impressed by the fact that he has big ears as people in the music business |
| 1:58.5 | say. He listens to a lot of different types of music and he produces a lot of different types of |
| 2:03.0 | music and I think that's reflected in how he grew up there in Mexico City. |
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