- And now, our 2019 Rising Star presented by Honda, Rosalia.
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- Wow, thank you so much.
(speaks in foreign language)
Wow.
Okay.
First of all, people,
thank you so much.
You know, it's an incredible honor,
something like this is an incredible honor for me.
For somebody who makes music in Spanish,
and I feel so grateful.
Thank you.
Also, thanks to my friend, Hunter.
Thank you for coming tonight to join me, I love you so much.
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And you know, I was born in Barcelona,
and well,
in a very matriarchal family.
There was a lot of women in my family,
they were super strong.
My mom, I remember, she used to do so many things,
like I don't know how did she do so many things
at the same time.
She was amazing.
And also, my sister and I,
we used to play a lot
when we were teenagers.
We used to, (speaks in foreign language) costumes.
You know, like crazy costumes.
We used to take pictures, one to each other.
And we used to create looks, I remember,
and honestly Billie,
I'm not proud of all the looks we did.
But that's another story, okay?
Also, I met my manager,
it's been very important for me, Rebeca,
two years ago.
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And it was kinda (speaks in foreign language) to meet you,
Rebeca.
You are the bravest.
Sorry for my English.
I do my best, you know. (laughs)
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But you know, with Rebeca we had this clear vision.
We wanted to create a whole team made up of women.
And that was so important for us, you know.
And, yeah, we couldn't have done,
I couldn't have done everything I did without you.
Thank you, Pilar.
Thank you, Billie, Rebeca, Cayetana, Jennifer,
Erica,
Diana, Noe,
Sam,
Vivian.
Oh my God, there's so many names.
Yeah, all these names are important to me.
And thank you, thank you for all your support,
for everything.
Jody, thank you.
I don't know where you are, Jody, but thank you.
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You know when I was, when I was 15, 16,
I started going to the studio and my inspirations,
my biggest inspirations were women, you know,
like Lola Flores from Spain or Janis Joplin or Patty Smith.
And I remember going to the studio and I was like,
"Okay, so the engineer is a man
"and then the producer is a man too?"
And I was in college, studying music
and all the musicians were men too.
You know, which is, it was cool,
but not, not, you know,
come on, come on.
And I will never stop till I find
and I see the same number of women
as men in the studio.
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(speaks in foreign language)
As simple as that.
And we are here, thanks to the other women
who came before us.
And we gonna be here for all those who are coming.
Thank you so much.
Good evening. Enjoy.
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