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From NPR music, this is Alt-Latino Latino I'm Anna Maria Sayer Felix is out this week and I'm once again on the mic solo but not quite I've invited a very special guest to share the host here with me. Hello, hello, hello. I think it's good. Yeah.

Ella Brick is an amazing Venezuelan trumpet player living in New York. In recent years, she's positioned herself as a prolific producer on the rise in the Latin music space. In fact, in 2018,

she won a Latin Grammy for producer of the year.

And she says her art comes from a place of her curiosity about the state of the world and a desire to reflect that.

Music This month, we've been looking at the music of Venezuela from a lot of different angles.

So I invited Ella on to walk us through her personal playlist. Ella grew up in a migrant rich town in Venezuela called San Antonio de Los Altos,

and she grew up surrounded by culturally minded, socially conscious community.

A city known for rappers and resistance, most of her friends were curious about sharing social commentary in their music.

It's something she still focuses on a lot in her collaborations today.

The collection of songs she'll share with us are ones she's identified as some of the

most socially, culturally, politically, politically impactful pieces of art to come out of Venezuela

really in the last half century.

So we'll jump around in time a little bit, but we're

starting in 2013.

The first one I wanted to start was the album Cera by La Vanda La Vida Boem. He's a Venezuelan rock band.

To say that it's a rock band is very small

because they do whatever they want to do.

But this album, Cera, is one of those albums

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