In conversation: How YEИDRY uses music to bridge worlds
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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| 0:00.0 | From a pure music, this is all Latino, I'm Felix Contreras. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Ana Maria Sayer. |
| 0:09.4 | Let the cheese sway begin. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay, Ana Maria Sayer or Carmen San Diego, where have you been recently? |
| 0:18.8 | What have been some of your favorite spots? |
| 0:20.4 | Because you are all over. |
| 0:21.4 | I can't even keep track of you. |
| 0:22.9 | Okay Felix, well, I love everywhere that I've been but if I had to pick one, one that's |
| 0:28.6 | popping into my brain right now is Bogota and Colombia. |
| 0:31.9 | I went for Bimei, a music conference back in May. |
| 0:36.0 | So I had an amazing time, sang my hard out of karaoke, met a ton of people from all over |
| 0:42.3 | the Latin music world and I love going to conferences like this because it really does |
| 0:47.4 | feel like the whole family is there. |
| 0:50.2 | You know, you really get to feel that sense of like, wow, this community is so big and |
| 0:55.2 | so diverse. |
| 0:56.2 | And it was just a really special experience because of that. |
| 1:00.0 | That's one of the things I like about this gig is being able to connect with people from |
| 1:04.0 | far-flung locations at these conferences and then make those connections and see how |
| 1:08.9 | it's interpreted in the music. |
| 1:10.5 | I know you do always talk about that but you know what I did find really interesting is |
| 1:16.3 | that I had so many conversations where somehow being between two worlds came up, you know, |
| 1:23.2 | people talk about that like I had a friend from Bogota who moved to the US at 18 and then |
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