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Presenting Alt.Latino: Carla Morrison on Latinx mental health and her new sound

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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From our friends at Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras sits down with Carla Morrison to talk about her new sound, the importance of mental health and the art of the Parisian non.

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From a VR music, this is Outlatino, I'm Felix Contreras.

0:05.0

And I'm Ana Maria Sayer, let the cheese may begin.

0:18.0

That is the sound of rebirth, specifically the sound of Carla Morrison's rebirth.

0:23.0

Carla is a vocalist who...

0:26.0

Well, I don't know. She's honestly more than a vocalist.

0:29.0

She's kind of the stuff of legends.

0:31.0

No doubt. Her clear and compelling vocals give her an honest and affecting sound

0:36.0

that has all of us gripped since we first heard her music here in Outlatino in 2010.

0:41.0

I saw her at Vivi Latino in Mexico City a couple of times.

0:47.0

I was so impressed with how her audience hung on every word.

0:52.0

But that is and was her power, right?

0:59.0

The Carla that I grew up with is a Carla who said,

1:03.0

literally, dejanme an yorad and I was like, seriously, dejanme an yorad, like Carla,

1:09.0

like I felt that emotion, I felt that depth and I think we all did.

1:13.0

I think that's why people gravitated towards her.

1:24.0

She was this artist who put everything out there in whatever she was feeling in whatever moment

1:31.0

and whatever kind of emo tohika energy we were feeling at the time.

1:38.0

We could channel into that emotion with Carla and she would be there right with us.

1:44.0

And that was really powerful and that was really important.

1:47.0

But then all of a sudden she stopped. She went away.

1:52.0

She stopped performing. She didn't release any new music.

1:56.0

She was kind of just a blank slate there for a while.

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