There was nobody that I could look up and say “That’s somebody like me”. Which is probably why I’m now known in my community as ‘ La Pionera ’, or the Pioneer. I really don’t think of myself as a role model. But it turns out that I am to a lot of the Hispanic community. Not just in show business, but in life. But that’s what happens when you’re first, right?

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"Huele las rosas. Huele el café. Lo que sea que te haga feliz."

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"It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people."

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"It is through art that we will prevail and endure. It lives on after us and defines us as a people."

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"I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn."

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"The easiest way to prove them wrong is to do what they say you can’t."

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