A singer, songwriter, guitar player who was first discovered by GRAMMY Award-winning artist Kenny Loggins. She has partnered with multiple GRAMMY Award-winning producers Humberto Gatica and David Foster and has toured or shared the stage with country stars Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Jake Owen, Rascal Flatts, Cole Swindell, and more. Her debut single quickly climbed to a Top 40 spot on the Billboard Country chart and accrued over three million streams on Spotify alone, a platform that she has almost 55 thousand monthly listeners on. Plus, the videos on her YouTube channel have combined for more than two million views.
“I was actually going to school to become an attorney and then all of my classes started taking up with songwriting classes and I got accepted into the Music Academy of the West in Montecito and I trained opera there and so my life, the trajectory of my life, was already changing.”
“So, I went to class, my song got picked, I sang it in front of Kenny (Loggins), and he said, ‘I am not telling you to drop out of school. But I’m telling you to pack your bags and move to L.A. … and you have a future in music’.”
“I called my mom and dad and I said, ‘I’m dropping out of school and I’m moving to L.A. to pursue music’.”
“Country music listeners have always kind of been influenced by the Mexicana culture, they just don’t know it yet.”
“When I was on a previous label, they just said it wasn’t the time to focus on being Latina, Mexicana. Let’s focus on being a cowgirl.”
“I’ve lived in Nashville for the last eight years, but then before the wild west showed up and the world shut down, I moved back to California ‘cause I just figured, why be in Nashville, away from my mom and dad, away from my family, when I can’t do what I’ve come here to do. So, I’m making the move back to Nashville currently, back and forth from California.”
“The GRAMMYs named me one of the Top 5 Latinos Changing the Face of Country Music. And then they also asked me to be a part of the Power of Women in Country Music GRAMMY exhibit.”
“It’s wild for me to say, my clothes are hanging in the GRAMMY Museum, when I … almost didn’t move to Nashville… and also all the times that I’ve wanted to quit, ‘cause it’s not easy. This is not an easy road. It’s not an easy career.”
“When I’ve set out to write a song, I’ve always wanted to be the soundtrack to somebody’s life.”
“When I was on the road with Brad Paisley, I had 25 minutes… to win a crowd over and continue to earn my spots on those stages. So, I was like, ‘I’m gonna get all that I can in these 25 minutes.’ And I packed in seven songs in 25 minutes. And you can’t go over because the changeover is so quick for the next artist to come. And he can’t go over because then you go over on the headliner.”
“I’m not good at going with the flow, but I’m learning to go with the flow. I just wanna know when the flow starts.”
“Once you feel like you have arrived, it’s over.”
“I’m currently writing another EP. I’m going to do a duet with a really awesome actor that, he has done some really, really cool stuff and he’s an incredible singer. And I was able to write his whole record with him. So, we’re going to do that and I’m bringing in the Latino influence into that.”
“Once Upon a Time in Mexico”
“Vaquera and the Cowboy”