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Hey Anna, this week we get to interview Linda Roste.

I know you're really excited about this one, Fields.

Oh my gosh. You can't imagine.

Triste caravan of records for my mind to pass. my gosh, you can't imagine. Mid career, she took a stand and reclaimed her culture

because not many people knew that she was Mexican-American from Tucson

while she was making all her pop music.

And then in the 80s, she made these mariachi albums

that just completely blew the lid off of contemporary

mariachi music.

Which is really fascinating because I feel like in today's world, we're seeing this happen

all the time now.

This has now become like the cliched story almost where you have like pop queens like

Selena Gomez, Christina Aguilera, all these people who do the mainstream pop thing for a bit. And then

here's the Spanish language album. But during Linda's time, I don't think anyone was doing that, right?

It was a rarity and I think mostly because during that time,

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