I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

Before I cook, I always have to put on music that parents listened to while cooking. I remember waking up in the morning and seeing my dad making breakfast with music and cutting up the tomato and singing to it and just handling food with such care. So when I cook, I put on salsa, vallenato, cumbia, or anything that reminds me of Colombia.

I am conscious of the community that I'm representing and don't play into stereotypes.

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