Sheila E.: On how faith and family shaped the drummer's eclectic music career

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Felix Contreras sits down with percussion icon Sheila Escovedo, aka Sheila E., to talk about the influence of the Bay Area on her music, holding her own in the face of music industry sexism and why drumming is a language of its own.

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0:24.6	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino.
0:26.5	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:27.7	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:29.7	Let the Chisemay begin.
0:34.2	Okay, Anna, you know, I'm a drummer, and you know, I'm always talking about drumming, listening to rhythms on records before the lyrics, just drums, drums, drums, drums, drums, right?
0:44.1	I don't know if people realize how obsessed you are, Felix.
0:49.0	Like, I need people to know that I think every morning when you wake up, the first thing you think about is drumming,
0:56.3	and every night when you go to bed, it's the last thing. It's like when people talk about the super
1:00.2	romantic thing of like, you're the first and the lot. Like, that's you with drums.
1:10.4	It's pretty close man
1:11.7	which is why this week I'm pretty excited
1:16.3	because I had a chance to talk to a musician
1:18.1	who has carved out a place for herself
1:20.8	and other women in the music industry that followed her
1:23.4	also happens to be a drummer
1:25.7	Sheila Skavito or Sheila E?
1:50.5	I saw her perform with her dad when she was 16 years old in Davis, California, UC Davis.
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