Julieta Venegas: Why the Mexican pop icon wouldn't call herself a pioneer

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Anamaria Sayre sits down with Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas to discuss her role as a trailblazing female vocalist and mom to a daughter with impeccably cool music taste.

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0:30.6	I'm going to be good. This week to All right This week's to
0:50.9	You know
0:52.0	This week's guest is someone I've always wanted to talk to, so I'm really glad that you brought Julietta Venegas in to have conversation.
1:02.0	Oh my God, Felix. It was such a dream talking to her.
1:05.2	You know, it's hard to believe that her first album came out in 1997.
1:09.4	I can't even fathom that.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.1	That first album basically puts her in the context of the earliest days of Latin alternative music
1:17.1	when it was transitioning from what used to be known as rock in Hispaniol
1:21.1	and began incorporating more elements of pop, which she does really well.
1:26.3	Oh, that's what I love about her because she's pop, but she has that roquera soul.
1:31.6	All right.
1:32.4	All right. that's why I'm not mad
1:51.3	that you went out and did this interview with...
1:56.0	Okay, I'm glad because, you know, I was like asked for forgiveness, right?
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