September 2, 2025 • 36 mins
This week, Cami and Meli welcome singer/songwriter Gale to the pod! They talk about everything… from Gale's childhood in Puerto Rico and moving to the States to her experience working with some of the biggest names in music, including Shakira, Anitta and Juanes. The 3x Latin Grammy nominated artist also discusses how journaling and therapy have helped her, how she came up with her “sound”, and she even sings a little bit of a song she wrote when she was only 7 years old! And come back next week for part 2 of this amazing conversation!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What is up everyone?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Alis Ortiz, I'm Gamila Ramon.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And this is a comin and I are in Miami,
so you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That means a lot of heartburn for me because I'm
eating and golas getting out the airport and I'm like,
immediately I feel like coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But it's all paired with joy per usual.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Except for not my Tita's like, I'm my boobs are
sweating down here, oh my god, more than it did
in New York. I'm not gonna lie. I'm just gonna
put it out there.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I will say I almost passed out while I was
running yesterday. I decided it was a good idea to
we'ren at ten am in Miami.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, crazy, and I.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Couldn't finish the last mile. I was like, I lost
all my.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Miami outdoor running humidity clout and I'm not sure if
I'll ever get it back.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But I think you'll get it back, but maybe in January.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Facts Bax backpacks, you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We actually have an incredible guest in the studio today.
Her name is Gale, and I'm so pumped to talk
about all things new music authenticity. She is somebody that
shows up as she is, and it's something that I
love and have loved to see that. It's so refreshing
in the music space. We're diving into her music, her
writing and what it felt like to open up for Shakira.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That is right. So this is asta drop the beat?
All right? So Galle is from Puerto Rico. We have
a Boiqua in the house. She is a three time
(01:36):
Latin Grammy nominated by Linguo Singer Songwriter. Let's just drop
some names here by the way, Shaquira, Christina Gui, Lera, Anita,
Manuel Torriso, Juanez, Farah Williams, Cardi b Levis. Bad guys,
I'm running out of breath because hello, Gracie, Paul and
Mike Towers. We seen e Yandell drop the mic.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That was.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But welcome talcome.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Wow is that introm So happy and honor to be
here with you today.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We're happy to have you. We're happy to have you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Okay, So before every episode we kind of like catch up,
have a little girl talk with our cafcito that we
have right here. We want to know what your morning
routine is like normally, maybe what you had for breakfast today.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh my god, I like this questions a lot. Okay,
so I didn't train this morning, but I usually train.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I go to a sweat for forty class and then
I walk at night.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Every day I do.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I do like it.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I used to do a forty five and it was
awesome too, but they closed where I live.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We gotta get you on some peloton though.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I would love that. I would literally love that, seriously.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
But yes, I just had my cafecito.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I usually do macha.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like later in the day, even though my therapist told
me try to keep it one coffee a day.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Really, yes, the therapist would not be happy with me.
With me, she'd be like, I think that not a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I guess I am, but but yes, And I write
every day in the morning, and I like slow mornings
a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I make myself.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Breakfast and it's a big breakfast, like two eggs, cuttage, cheese, toes.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We're thirty hams spinach. Wait, that's also like my breakfast.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Now thirty grams of proteins.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Let's go. Literally, she knows.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Trying to hit that protein intake. Now what I'm mean?
You know what I'm mean.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's a struggle.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It really is like doing girl math in my mind.
I'm like, and then later on I'm like, I want
like a I don't know when ice cream. I'm like,
but I did have that extra cottage cheese this morning.
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Balance.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's all about balance.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It is all about balance.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a question.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
When you write in the morning, are you journaling or
you're writing things that come to your head about like
like of things for music.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I do free writing, So I set up a timer
for like ten minutes or fifteen minutes, and I just
like write and I usually do it like that, like
without it, like with the timer by myself, or I
have some prompts and I just pick one and I
just write for two minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wait, wait, so what does exactly that mean? Even for
our audience? You know, when you free write and there's
a prompt, what cand of prompt me?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, so these prompts I have, I have a couple
because I love doing this and I've been doing it
for years.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
But there's ah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Nah, I'm a Rupiya is aya is and I follow her.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah she's great.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So she released this prompts and this is like a
selling win and she had like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll send I'll send.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It to you.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's either that or completely free writing, which I like
doing that without the prompt as well, because you get
to just be free, like just write and the rule
is to not edit anything. Even if you make a mistake,
you just continue and.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
It's really cool because you just.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Let things out and usually when you go back and
you read, there's something there that you like. And in
my case, I use it for songs, for music or
just as a form of releasing and connect with your emotions.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, how long have you been doing that?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
For years?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But I started journaling since I was six years old,
so I've been very so that type of journaling. I
do it not every day, but a lot too when
like since I was six, which is whenever I want
to write about anything.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I'm gonna practice a not editing bit.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
If the people on our pod that have been listening
our listeners there, they know that I journal a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But I like circle and I scratch and.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I like go.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Like for me, it's like a big thing. So I
like that you don't edit.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I love that and I do do that, but like
in my regular journal, but free writing, no because it's
more like a creative Yeah, like a subconscious thing, like
you just need to let it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Out and first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yes, wow, yeah, I love that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Actually, I think that's the first time we we've heard that,
like we've had a guest on the pod that does
it in the morning. Obviously there's journaling and journally at nine,
but that's awesome. Yeah, free writing.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I'll send you a couple of prompts so you can't
try it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh please, it.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Would be nice.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And we can also share some prompts with our listeners too.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, that would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
The last one that I did it was something I'll
send it that. It was when I'm eighty and I
look back, I want to feel like and you feel,
oh my god, and you feel in the blank like
something like that, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
My god, if I ever get to eighty. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Ten minute ten minute timer and then just writing.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I love this one. Last about this morning routine. You're well,
it's actually a whole day, I guess because coffee. How
do you do the coffee? Yeah, I want her macha
or yeah, that's where I'm getting.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh my god. The macha. I enjoy it so much.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I usually do the macha later in the day.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Is like my second therapist.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If you're listening to this, please just delete that premiere memory,
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But yeah, the macha situation is so nice. This morning
I did a cappuccinoitoresolechita. I like the milk, the Almond Milk.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Brand so good.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But I'm also like a foodie, So.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Any moment that I have with food or desito or
macha or cafe, it's like it's it's not like so
much a routine. It's like a momento. And I love
cooking too, so it's every you know, every meal is
(07:58):
like a little moment, even if it's not like a
whole thing. You know, I just made my regular breakfast,
but it's like with so much love, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
This is so nice.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm nurturing my body. That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
With the macha. What what is? How do you prepare it?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
With the macha?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Is system ceremonial macha And by the way, that comes
with you know, you you buy a kit and it's
this little thing where you like put you're.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Supposed to put like two. I used to do four.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I used to be like fun and that's why you
had anxiety exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's why your therapist was like caffeine day.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So now I do it right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I only do two of those things.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I add cinnamon and I do the hot water and
I do the c thing the w not around or whatever,
and yeah, I enjoy it so much. Also with almond milk,
and I like it warm. But if I am buying
so macha a right now in Miami, like it just
(09:01):
needs to be cold.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Okay, yeah, because it's hot as fun.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Is hot like crazy, and I was just in Mariid
in Spain and over there the heat is also.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
My god, is very very harsh.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's hot and it's dry. But here I feel like
i'm more. I'm used to this type of heat because
I'm from Puerto Rico and I like similar. But yeah,
I macha yeah in Madrid or here.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Respect girl like the sun and the heat hit different
in different parts of the world. Like you say you're
from Puerto Rico, I'm from South Florida coming from Miami.
My husband's from Puerto Rico as well. We just went
to Japan and this guy was sweating bullets in Tokyo
because it was hella hot and the sun just hits
so hard, and I'm like, boy, I thought you were
from the islands.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
He'd be like, yeah, but it's different. Were okay, and
we're so hot.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And how long have you been living He's been living
away from ten years yeh, until he was twenty five.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
So yeah, we were not used to it anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
We want the ac yeah yeah, yeah, but you said,
obviously you're from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
What town in Puerto Rico can you describe it to us?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Of course, I'm from Arecio, which is in the center
north of the island, and it's like right there by
the beach is so nice.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
My whole family is from there. I moved to some.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Jue with my mom when my parents divorced when I
was ten, so we always went back to Adicio. I
went to spend the weekends with my dad. So my
whole family is still there. Mmmmm, I'm here love.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What's something that you missed the most about it about
Puerto Rico? Yeah, okay, Puerto Rico, or about.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Puerto Rico My family and the food again, the food,
but yeah, my family. It was one of the hardest
decisions that I had to do, which was like to
move here by myself pursue doing my dream of becoming
an artist, a singer, and uh and I did it thankfully.
(11:06):
My godmother was living here, my my sister, my mother's
younger sister, and I lived with her for a couple
like missus.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Roommates. And that's how I was, like.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How old were you when you moved here by yourself?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I moved here. I mean I went to college, I
did the whole thing. I prepared myself. So mem I
mean he's being there, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you see Mohamed, So now you're Miami based.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I am Miami based.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What's your favorite thing about Miami.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I like having the beach close, Porque.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Mess Puerto Rico, Mocho, and I'm like very nostalgic, even
though I'm a very happy person, but I'm also very nostalgic.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Definitely like a contradiction.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I've always been like that, and having it's like it's
like it feels nice, it feels like home, which is awesome.
But I also love the food. I love the groquetta mesas.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Anything that reminds me about Ntina. I'm like, I want
to be close to it. Like it just like pulls
me back to my family and everything. What's your least
favorite thing about Miami.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The heat during the summer.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, it's harsh.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Your back just be wet.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's insane, even though everything inside has like a c
which is good to me now that I expeary in
Madrid in this summer. But but but still, like you
leave your house and you get in the car and
that little.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You're like you're going to publics and you're like literally
like your back, like your hair's ruined.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I feel like I'm a walking zombie every time I
stepped from car to public so like this.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, also I will say every time I come back
to Miami, the lizards are fatter, Like I don't know
what's happening, but they are growing or they're eating the
little ones and then the big ones are coming in.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's an environmental delazards are in my opinion.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
The lizards are getting worse, as is the traffic is true,
the traffic and the people driving. That's another thing that
I am a little concerned concerned about.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, driving, No literally when someone Latinos like Miami and
chokun like I told my friends. I remember I told
my friends are like, do you think I could drive
in in Arghandina? Like my friends that are like maybe
from like the record d R. And then I'm like, no,
just uber or like take a taxi And then they
(14:05):
get there and they're like, yeah, I would literally die
if I had to drive in Argencina.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's like a free for all. There are no lines.
Nobody respects anything.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But if you're a pedestrian, whereas you're playing hopper and then.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We come to Miami and we're like, oh ship, you
know what's what's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The speed limit?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And the stuff sign it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Like another thing that I love the most about here
is melting yea Eamvacina, Like I have friends from everywhere, Colombre,
Columbela and.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, me too. That's what I've realized since moving here
compared to New York. Obviously New York is a big
melting pot. But I do feel and love like the
Latin culture here that you feel stepping out the door.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So nice you can find the.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I got it. You are deemed one of the most
compelling voices in contemporary Latin music, and you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You woke No I'm dancing for the people listening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And you mentioned that you spent your summer in Spain touring,
and I did do a little bit stalking, and you
did perform at my team's, my favorite team stadium in Metropolitan.
Let's go. So tell us how that tour was or
how it came about first, and then what it was
like performing in these huge stadiums in front of all
(15:40):
of these people and just really showing your music and
your talent.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh my god, it was a dream come true because
I've always dreamed of bijahar Mundo connect with people with
my music, and yeah, it was my first. I did
a tour with Juanis like three.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Years ago, so in Spain. I love him too. He
is incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
She's calling me and she's like, I don't even need
to say, it's.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Already part of it.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, he's incredible, and he's like one of my friends
and mentors I think too in this career. And he's
always believed in me since the beginning of my artist career.
And we did this tour together and I was opening
for his shows.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
But now this time it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Was me like my like a festival tour in Spain,
which is one of my favorite places in the world,
and I got to, you know, go around and get
to know these places and meet all these people. And
for the first time I experienced like seeing the audience
like singing my songs and I was like, oh my god,
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you know this and people will be singing.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
It was so fun. It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And then we.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Because i Ope and the Iitana's Stadium tour a show
and in Metropolitan and Mari that was incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Now, when you are on stage and you hear and
see fans singing your songs, how does that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
An inner child situation happening. Because I love being on
stage and I feel so like empowered and like this
is my thing, this is what I came.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Here to do.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Everybody always asks me, do you get nervous, and it's like, no, give.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Me the mic, give me the people, and I'll perform
like I.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Love it so much, And of course I get nervous,
but it's you know, these type of nerves that is normal.
It's like I want everything to salid Superman, but I
just want to have fun. My My last thought before
going on stage is like, let go and really just
do your thing. Like, that's what I mean about the
(18:02):
inner child situation, because this has been my dream since
forever and it's the only thing I've always wanted, and
every time I have a chance, I really really really
come on lua Provicho, and I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I love that you talk about having fun because one
of the things that we talk about very often on
this podcast is like when you put so much pressure
on yourself sometimes that you're not able to enjoy the
beautiful moments and the things that are happening to you
because maybe you have imposter syndrome or you're like nervous
about it, or you're worried about all the negative things
that could happen, when in reality, things are happening for you,
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and you know, the world in general like wants to
see you succeed. No, like, yeah, whatever, there's haters online
or whatever, but the reality is like if like you're
killing it, and like it's just so nice to see
that you are going on stage with that purpose and
that intention to have fun and to enjoy yourself. Was
it always that way for you or did you sometimes
struggle with that? Like diving a little bit into your music.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Now, thank you I love that, and I feel like
I am a little bit of a perfectionist, and I've
worked on that a lot in therapy too. So now
I feel so grateful that I've learned to like vibe
with this feeling of I'd rather fuck it up and
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have the time of my life.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm rather gay.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'd go, like, you cannot control everything.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
When you learn to laugh at yourself, literally myself, it's
so nice, all great.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I'm like I learned that a little bit later in life,
but like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
No, like I I love that and that's okay. But
sometimes it's like you want you're thinking of the people,
like you're thinking like you want to be the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Best for them, but they're there for you.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It's all good, Like it's fine if something happens.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's so true. It's being like unapologetic. I've realized that too.
Like in broadcasting, when I met Stop on live television,
I'm just like, well, okay, like I just kind of
like laugh it off because whatever everyone yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
What are you going to do? Get dadai?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And because it went no, it happens to everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I have a question because you've mentioned working with a
therapist over the course of years three years. Three years. Okay,
that's the answer to my first question. How long and
what made you start working with a therapist?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Uncertainty like that, which is normal and everyone likes part
of life.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
We don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So this thing and inner battle of trying to control
everything and you know, look ganse and the future and
kind of living in the future. I have a song
about this called easy Landia and and that's a term
that she she.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
In a therapy session. Okay, just.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
C podcast accidentals in a MS gallet sister, Oh my god,
I have this whole life and.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're like, I know the color of the fence, the
front door. I have a castle there.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Do you have dog, a dog or a cat? Oh
my god, an land I have a farm, a farm,
and oh my god, no, but my dreams to have
a golden retriever, Like that's my dream.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah, I have her name already. It's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's adorable.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He started like doing the like I wanted to be
connected and not living in my thoughts or in you know,
that anxiety of everything.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And what's the before and after of that of starting
to work with a therapist.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
What has that been, Like, it's incredible. I mean I
love it and I feel like I always recommend it,
and I feel like it's also finding that person you
know and clicking.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But I had the.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Laste that's not always the case.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I remember when I was in California, like I found
a therapist that I loved, and then when I had
to move to a different state, Oh my god, it
was like a my relationship. Like I had a break up.
I was so sad, and I haven't been able to
find somebody that I have clicked with, like I clicked
with her, But I'm in the process of like finding
someone new now because I'm like.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I need to talk to somebody. No same And that's normal.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And by the way, we can talk like do a
little do you send like podcasts a voice it's to
your girlfriends in need of a therapist.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You have you surround yourself with your friends.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, I want to talk to you, to you a
little bit about we talked about your inner child and
like making her like so proud when you're on stage
or like kind of like fulfilling that dream. Can we
(23:27):
like take it back to when you were six, seven
years old, you started doing your free writing, your journaling,
all that stuff, and then you eventually started songwriting right
at the age of seven.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yes, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Wow, I did.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I've always been very connected to music, Like I've always
knew that this is what I wanted to do. I
feel like when you're growing up, you go through these
different phases, like some some kids they want to be
a doctor, and then they want to be a surgeon,
and then they want to be an astronaut, and then
you know, but I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
To have a pet hotel.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Look at that so cool.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, that's the slides for the dogs and everything. That
is still a good idea that you can't know for real.
Also here, I feel like in other places, coming Columbia,
they have more. But Ana, we'll talk about that business.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
If you want to invest, I'm accepting applications.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're getting.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Great.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I always knew that this is what I wanted
to do. So every decision I've made in my life
is like, how can I be a little closer, How
can I get a little closer.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
To my dreams, to my goal?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
And when I wrote the song, I was seven but
it's the chic.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Where is he now?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I think he's in New York.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Actually, really, oh my god, he's going.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
To be a doctor.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I was hoping, like, you know, like a bad star,
like oh no, no, no, it was great.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It was it was this type of the people, the
study of day. When I was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Crushing on him, he wasn't, and then when he was
crushing on me, I did it, and and then.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It was like that. It was like that since kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was like a cute and that's what you wrote
the song about.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I wrote the song about yeah, about him, because I
was like, oh my god, it's called that mort since
I was like a dramatic you have it, yeah, I
have it seven years old, say a little.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Bit, yes please, yes please.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I'm gonna remember that every action forever.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But I'm just so sure that you still remember the song.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I remember a part of it, so just a little
part of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
It was a salsa too.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Really, the drama.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Just needs to be released. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Sin seroit going to de Guero permessi. You could conte.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
When you were seven.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You wrote that.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's insane. Are you kidding me? It's so dramatic something,
but it's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I started got like, if I were to hear that seven,
I think I would cry, I would fall in love.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you send it to him?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (26:24):
No, I.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
My grandma would always pick me up in school, and
and then when my grandpa arrived, I sang it for
for them, and my grandpa.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Were like, did you write that?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That's cool?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And I thought I had a superpower. I was like,
oh my god, I mean to create it.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Kind of it's true and I don't take it for granted.
But I was like, well, I can't create an idea
and something that doesn't exist, and I can like think
of a melody and chords. And I didn't play guitar
in that moment, so I just thought of melodies. And
I started learning the guitar when I was nine. Wow,
And then it was easier.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's easier, you think, to compose if you play a
guitar and instrument, right or no?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yes, because it's an awesome tool that helps you bring
those ideas to life in a more common mass. But
I don't think it's It didn't stop me. I was like, okay,
so I'm gonna create.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Clearly, I'm so okay, we're at seven years old, we're
writing bangers. I mean, hello, literally amazing your parents? What
were what would your parents say back then?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They encouraged me. So my dad, he's also a musician,
and he does it more like a hobby. He had
and still has a music group where they play in
Bullas in Puerto Rico. And and and they both My
mom loves music and she used to do theater back
in college.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And you know, she's also very like come on, so
it's pity. I'm like.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
My dad is like more shy but still like a bajasso,
but like he's more shy. Ian tonsays. They encouraged it.
They were they were like they saw that, and they
took me me my mama Deevo which is a music school,
a great music school in Puerto Rico, and it's like
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a college even though it's from seventh grade to doc
into senior year, but it's it has two schedules, so
it's music schedule and academic and then you're there from
seven thirty am to five thirty pm every day. And
each student has a different instrument. So my instrument was
guitar for the first two years, and then I switched
(28:54):
to Canto classico, so that that's where I learned a
lot of the things that I know musically.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
It's a it's a classical school, but I love it
so much that.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Er that is incredible. And just one quick question about that.
To go to that school, do you need to audition?
But then after that is a school, you know, like
a public school? It's free or is there like a
(29:29):
tuition like a private school? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It is a public school. I feel like I want
to give back so much to that school because right
now Puerto Rico is it's deficient. Problem is the first
thing that they want to cut the first arts and
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creative and but the professors are so good, Like my professor,
he was a professor here in Juilliard, New York.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
He was there and I was like, prof are you here?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He's like, he was like, God wants me to be
here for the reason Yeah, for the same reason you
want to get back to exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I was like, yeah, and still is one of the
projects that I have in mind. But a lot of
talented people are there, and yes, this is a is
a especially so you have to audition and then keep.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
See and then keep.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The grades yeah, that's impressing.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What was your audition song? Do you remember? You have
such great memory.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I do, but maybe because I write about all these things.
But oh my god, I remember the day of the
audition and everything. And since I audition for guitar, I
performed and I sang something and I can't remember what,
but they made me perform happy Birthday.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
They made me say.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
So.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, it was like like four hours of additional because
then you had like examine the temple, like you know,
if you didn't know an instrument you need, they needed to.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So yeah, it was such a young age too, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
It was so scared.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I bet four hours, It's crazy. Okay, So you started
with Clearly was your first track, and.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
I was a pop girl and in my heart I was.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I don't know why because it came out of the pain.
I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But now, how would you describe your evolution and your
transition into the current genre that is more like pop
punk kind of like?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Okay, so I grew up with boleros because my dad
he was obsessed, obsessed still with boleros.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And so in La Casas in Prera Milan, Armando man.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Norio Triolo Panto and my mom, eighties Rock Papa and
Wow Akira, Belinda Selena, Christina Lea and says that was
(32:35):
like my core. So I figured that when you are
doing and you want to defend there something that it's yours,
you need to go back to your roots and your essensia.
So in my case, when I listen to me Mikra,
soon go back to that essensia. I come from the
boletros Okay, those lyrics that are like, oh my god,
(32:58):
it's so romantic and raw and like beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
But I love pop.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I'm a pop girly at heart. And then all this
rock influence that me and mam and Elin Rock Perrosa,
the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Joe Cocker influence, and that
(33:24):
says Joko, even Levina, I had.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Them all it, Yes, she did.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
I need to see.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I look like as oh my god.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
In the day imagine from a top words like yes
and the banks.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Yes and on my Space yeah, profile picture, high contrast, only.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Stars as the background.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I have a disch camera here. We should take one
like a photo from the top. Yes, of course that angle.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Is absolutely I think it's coming back.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Of course, I mean, let's do it, but yeah, I
used to love that, so that's why I make the
music that I make now.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I was like, I want this Anglo influence sound but
in Spanish because it's what I like and I want
to create the music that I want to listen to.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I have to say I play prolemas like I don't
know how many times in class, like I play all
the time. If you take it out of the saddle
for the chorus and then you just bounce around, bop around.
It's like as a girl who also clearly had a mullet,
I was an emo pop girly in the two thousands.
I would like love everything like Avril Lavigne, but also
(34:50):
like fall Out Boy, all those things. So and also
from Nanina, so the rock influence is huge. I'm also
like a pop.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Girl, so I have range. I'm like an onion.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
We know this.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I have to of course from being from Puerto Rico,
of course.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
But I I I'm told so much by your music,
Like I I feel like it's a world that I
also like want to live in too, because it's like
so approachable. It's different from what a lot of people
are doing right now. And it's also like the lyrics
are like raw and like vulnerable and fun and quirky
and like fuck you you know what I mean, Like
that's just so much to love about, like what it
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is that.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You're doing so like respect honestly, thank you so much.
I do have to and I always when I play
in class, I'm like, this is Galley.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Remember the name.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I like the song. I tell them you can ask
the people that take my class class. Yeah, love to
and thank you and and for running too. I played
a running class the other day.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's so wait wait, wait, this conversation is I literally
could talk to Galley for forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
No, for real, we need to turn this into a
two part aer We absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
So stay tuned because the next part of our two
part conversation with Gallet with so Many.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Gems will be dropping next week. Catch It On.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Is an iHeart women's sports production and partnership with Deep
Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
For more podcasts, listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
What is up everyone?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Alis Ortiz, I'm Gamila Ramon.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And this is a comin and I are in Miami,
so you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That means a lot of heartburn for me because I'm
eating and golas getting out the airport and I'm like,
immediately I feel like coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But it's all paired with joy per usual.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Except for not my Tita's like, I'm my boobs are
sweating down here, oh my god, more than it did
in New York. I'm not gonna lie. I'm just gonna
put it out there.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I will say I almost passed out while I was
running yesterday. I decided it was a good idea to
we'ren at ten am in Miami.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, crazy, and I.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Couldn't finish the last mile. I was like, I lost
all my.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Miami outdoor running humidity clout and I'm not sure if
I'll ever get it back.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But I think you'll get it back, but maybe in January.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Facts Bax backpacks, you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We actually have an incredible guest in the studio today.
Her name is Gale, and I'm so pumped to talk
about all things new music authenticity. She is somebody that
shows up as she is, and it's something that I
love and have loved to see that. It's so refreshing
in the music space. We're diving into her music, her
writing and what it felt like to open up for Shakira.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That is right. So this is asta drop the beat?
All right? So Galle is from Puerto Rico. We have
a Boiqua in the house. She is a three time
(01:36):
Latin Grammy nominated by Linguo Singer Songwriter. Let's just drop
some names here by the way, Shaquira, Christina Gui, Lera, Anita,
Manuel Torriso, Juanez, Farah Williams, Cardi b Levis. Bad guys,
I'm running out of breath because hello, Gracie, Paul and
Mike Towers. We seen e Yandell drop the mic.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That was.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But welcome talcome.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Wow is that introm So happy and honor to be
here with you today.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We're happy to have you. We're happy to have you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Okay, So before every episode we kind of like catch up,
have a little girl talk with our cafcito that we
have right here. We want to know what your morning
routine is like normally, maybe what you had for breakfast today.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh my god, I like this questions a lot. Okay,
so I didn't train this morning, but I usually train.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I go to a sweat for forty class and then
I walk at night.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Every day I do.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I do like it.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I used to do a forty five and it was
awesome too, but they closed where I live.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We gotta get you on some peloton though.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I would love that. I would literally love that, seriously.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
But yes, I just had my cafecito.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I usually do macha.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like later in the day, even though my therapist told
me try to keep it one coffee a day.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Really, yes, the therapist would not be happy with me.
With me, she'd be like, I think that not a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I guess I am, but but yes, And I write
every day in the morning, and I like slow mornings
a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I make myself.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Breakfast and it's a big breakfast, like two eggs, cuttage, cheese, toes.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We're thirty hams spinach. Wait, that's also like my breakfast.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Now thirty grams of proteins.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Let's go. Literally, she knows.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Trying to hit that protein intake. Now what I'm mean?
You know what I'm mean.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's a struggle.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It really is like doing girl math in my mind.
I'm like, and then later on I'm like, I want
like a I don't know when ice cream. I'm like,
but I did have that extra cottage cheese this morning.
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Balance.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's all about balance.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It is all about balance.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a question.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
When you write in the morning, are you journaling or
you're writing things that come to your head about like
like of things for music.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I do free writing, So I set up a timer
for like ten minutes or fifteen minutes, and I just
like write and I usually do it like that, like
without it, like with the timer by myself, or I
have some prompts and I just pick one and I
just write for two minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wait, wait, so what does exactly that mean? Even for
our audience? You know, when you free write and there's
a prompt, what cand of prompt me?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, so these prompts I have, I have a couple
because I love doing this and I've been doing it
for years.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
But there's ah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Nah, I'm a Rupiya is aya is and I follow her.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah she's great.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So she released this prompts and this is like a
selling win and she had like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll send I'll send.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It to you.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's either that or completely free writing, which I like
doing that without the prompt as well, because you get
to just be free, like just write and the rule
is to not edit anything. Even if you make a mistake,
you just continue and.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
It's really cool because you just.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Let things out and usually when you go back and
you read, there's something there that you like. And in
my case, I use it for songs, for music or
just as a form of releasing and connect with your emotions.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, how long have you been doing that?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
For years?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But I started journaling since I was six years old,
so I've been very so that type of journaling. I
do it not every day, but a lot too when
like since I was six, which is whenever I want
to write about anything.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I'm gonna practice a not editing bit.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
If the people on our pod that have been listening
our listeners there, they know that I journal a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But I like circle and I scratch and.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I like go.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Like for me, it's like a big thing. So I
like that you don't edit.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I love that and I do do that, but like
in my regular journal, but free writing, no because it's
more like a creative Yeah, like a subconscious thing, like
you just need to let it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Out and first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yes, wow, yeah, I love that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Actually, I think that's the first time we we've heard that,
like we've had a guest on the pod that does
it in the morning. Obviously there's journaling and journally at nine,
but that's awesome. Yeah, free writing.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I'll send you a couple of prompts so you can't
try it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh please, it.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Would be nice.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And we can also share some prompts with our listeners too.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, that would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
The last one that I did it was something I'll
send it that. It was when I'm eighty and I
look back, I want to feel like and you feel,
oh my god, and you feel in the blank like
something like that, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
My god, if I ever get to eighty. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Ten minute ten minute timer and then just writing.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I love this one. Last about this morning routine. You're well,
it's actually a whole day, I guess because coffee. How
do you do the coffee? Yeah, I want her macha
or yeah, that's where I'm getting.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh my god. The macha. I enjoy it so much.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I usually do the macha later in the day.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Is like my second therapist.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If you're listening to this, please just delete that premiere memory,
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But yeah, the macha situation is so nice. This morning
I did a cappuccinoitoresolechita. I like the milk, the Almond Milk.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Brand so good.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But I'm also like a foodie, So.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Any moment that I have with food or desito or
macha or cafe, it's like it's it's not like so
much a routine. It's like a momento. And I love
cooking too, so it's every you know, every meal is
(07:58):
like a little moment, even if it's not like a
whole thing. You know, I just made my regular breakfast,
but it's like with so much love, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
This is so nice.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm nurturing my body. That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
With the macha. What what is? How do you prepare it?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
With the macha?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Is system ceremonial macha And by the way, that comes
with you know, you you buy a kit and it's
this little thing where you like put you're.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Supposed to put like two. I used to do four.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I used to be like fun and that's why you
had anxiety exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's why your therapist was like caffeine day.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So now I do it right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I only do two of those things.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I add cinnamon and I do the hot water and
I do the c thing the w not around or whatever,
and yeah, I enjoy it so much. Also with almond milk,
and I like it warm. But if I am buying
so macha a right now in Miami, like it just
(09:01):
needs to be cold.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Okay, yeah, because it's hot as fun.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Is hot like crazy, and I was just in Mariid
in Spain and over there the heat is also.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
My god, is very very harsh.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's hot and it's dry. But here I feel like
i'm more. I'm used to this type of heat because
I'm from Puerto Rico and I like similar. But yeah,
I macha yeah in Madrid or here.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Respect girl like the sun and the heat hit different
in different parts of the world. Like you say you're
from Puerto Rico, I'm from South Florida coming from Miami.
My husband's from Puerto Rico as well. We just went
to Japan and this guy was sweating bullets in Tokyo
because it was hella hot and the sun just hits
so hard, and I'm like, boy, I thought you were
from the islands.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
He'd be like, yeah, but it's different. Were okay, and
we're so hot.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And how long have you been living He's been living
away from ten years yeh, until he was twenty five.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
So yeah, we were not used to it anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
We want the ac yeah yeah, yeah, but you said,
obviously you're from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
What town in Puerto Rico can you describe it to us?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Of course, I'm from Arecio, which is in the center
north of the island, and it's like right there by
the beach is so nice.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
My whole family is from there. I moved to some.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Jue with my mom when my parents divorced when I
was ten, so we always went back to Adicio. I
went to spend the weekends with my dad. So my
whole family is still there. Mmmmm, I'm here love.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What's something that you missed the most about it about
Puerto Rico? Yeah, okay, Puerto Rico, or about.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Puerto Rico My family and the food again, the food,
but yeah, my family. It was one of the hardest
decisions that I had to do, which was like to
move here by myself pursue doing my dream of becoming
an artist, a singer, and uh and I did it thankfully.
(11:06):
My godmother was living here, my my sister, my mother's
younger sister, and I lived with her for a couple
like missus.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Roommates. And that's how I was, like.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How old were you when you moved here by yourself?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I moved here. I mean I went to college, I
did the whole thing. I prepared myself. So mem I
mean he's being there, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you see Mohamed, So now you're Miami based.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I am Miami based.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What's your favorite thing about Miami.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I like having the beach close, Porque.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Mess Puerto Rico, Mocho, and I'm like very nostalgic, even
though I'm a very happy person, but I'm also very nostalgic.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Definitely like a contradiction.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I've always been like that, and having it's like it's
like it feels nice, it feels like home, which is awesome.
But I also love the food. I love the groquetta mesas.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Anything that reminds me about Ntina. I'm like, I want
to be close to it. Like it just like pulls
me back to my family and everything. What's your least
favorite thing about Miami.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The heat during the summer.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, it's harsh.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Your back just be wet.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's insane, even though everything inside has like a c
which is good to me now that I expeary in
Madrid in this summer. But but but still, like you
leave your house and you get in the car and
that little.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You're like you're going to publics and you're like literally
like your back, like your hair's ruined.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I feel like I'm a walking zombie every time I
stepped from car to public so like this.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, also I will say every time I come back
to Miami, the lizards are fatter, Like I don't know
what's happening, but they are growing or they're eating the
little ones and then the big ones are coming in.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's an environmental delazards are in my opinion.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
The lizards are getting worse, as is the traffic is true,
the traffic and the people driving. That's another thing that
I am a little concerned concerned about.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, driving, No literally when someone Latinos like Miami and
chokun like I told my friends. I remember I told
my friends are like, do you think I could drive
in in Arghandina? Like my friends that are like maybe
from like the record d R. And then I'm like, no,
just uber or like take a taxi And then they
(14:05):
get there and they're like, yeah, I would literally die
if I had to drive in Argencina.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's like a free for all. There are no lines.
Nobody respects anything.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But if you're a pedestrian, whereas you're playing hopper and then.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We come to Miami and we're like, oh ship, you
know what's what's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The speed limit?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And the stuff sign it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Like another thing that I love the most about here
is melting yea Eamvacina, Like I have friends from everywhere, Colombre,
Columbela and.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, me too. That's what I've realized since moving here
compared to New York. Obviously New York is a big
melting pot. But I do feel and love like the
Latin culture here that you feel stepping out the door.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So nice you can find the.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I got it. You are deemed one of the most
compelling voices in contemporary Latin music, and you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You woke No I'm dancing for the people listening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And you mentioned that you spent your summer in Spain touring,
and I did do a little bit stalking, and you
did perform at my team's, my favorite team stadium in Metropolitan.
Let's go. So tell us how that tour was or
how it came about first, and then what it was
like performing in these huge stadiums in front of all
(15:40):
of these people and just really showing your music and
your talent.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh my god, it was a dream come true because
I've always dreamed of bijahar Mundo connect with people with
my music, and yeah, it was my first. I did
a tour with Juanis like three.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Years ago, so in Spain. I love him too. He
is incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
She's calling me and she's like, I don't even need
to say, it's.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Already part of it.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, he's incredible, and he's like one of my friends
and mentors I think too in this career. And he's
always believed in me since the beginning of my artist career.
And we did this tour together and I was opening
for his shows.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
But now this time it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Was me like my like a festival tour in Spain,
which is one of my favorite places in the world,
and I got to, you know, go around and get
to know these places and meet all these people. And
for the first time I experienced like seeing the audience
like singing my songs and I was like, oh my god,
(16:51):
you know this and people will be singing.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
It was so fun. It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And then we.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Because i Ope and the Iitana's Stadium tour a show
and in Metropolitan and Mari that was incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Now, when you are on stage and you hear and
see fans singing your songs, how does that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
An inner child situation happening. Because I love being on
stage and I feel so like empowered and like this
is my thing, this is what I came.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Here to do.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Everybody always asks me, do you get nervous, and it's like, no, give.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Me the mic, give me the people, and I'll perform
like I.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Love it so much, And of course I get nervous,
but it's you know, these type of nerves that is normal.
It's like I want everything to salid Superman, but I
just want to have fun. My My last thought before
going on stage is like, let go and really just
do your thing. Like, that's what I mean about the
(18:02):
inner child situation, because this has been my dream since
forever and it's the only thing I've always wanted, and
every time I have a chance, I really really really
come on lua Provicho, and I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I love that you talk about having fun because one
of the things that we talk about very often on
this podcast is like when you put so much pressure
on yourself sometimes that you're not able to enjoy the
beautiful moments and the things that are happening to you
because maybe you have imposter syndrome or you're like nervous
about it, or you're worried about all the negative things
that could happen, when in reality, things are happening for you,
(18:39):
and you know, the world in general like wants to
see you succeed. No, like, yeah, whatever, there's haters online
or whatever, but the reality is like if like you're
killing it, and like it's just so nice to see
that you are going on stage with that purpose and
that intention to have fun and to enjoy yourself. Was
it always that way for you or did you sometimes
struggle with that? Like diving a little bit into your music.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Now, thank you I love that, and I feel like
I am a little bit of a perfectionist, and I've
worked on that a lot in therapy too. So now
I feel so grateful that I've learned to like vibe
with this feeling of I'd rather fuck it up and
(19:21):
have the time of my life.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm rather gay.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'd go, like, you cannot control everything.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
When you learn to laugh at yourself, literally myself, it's
so nice, all great.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I'm like I learned that a little bit later in life,
but like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
No, like I I love that and that's okay. But
sometimes it's like you want you're thinking of the people,
like you're thinking like you want to be the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Best for them, but they're there for you.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It's all good, Like it's fine if something happens.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's so true. It's being like unapologetic. I've realized that too.
Like in broadcasting, when I met Stop on live television,
I'm just like, well, okay, like I just kind of
like laugh it off because whatever everyone yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
What are you going to do? Get dadai?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And because it went no, it happens to everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I have a question because you've mentioned working with a
therapist over the course of years three years. Three years. Okay,
that's the answer to my first question. How long and
what made you start working with a therapist?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Uncertainty like that, which is normal and everyone likes part
of life.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
We don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So this thing and inner battle of trying to control
everything and you know, look ganse and the future and
kind of living in the future. I have a song
about this called easy Landia and and that's a term
that she she.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
In a therapy session. Okay, just.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
C podcast accidentals in a MS gallet sister, Oh my god,
I have this whole life and.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're like, I know the color of the fence, the
front door. I have a castle there.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Do you have dog, a dog or a cat? Oh
my god, an land I have a farm, a farm,
and oh my god, no, but my dreams to have
a golden retriever, Like that's my dream.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah, I have her name already. It's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's adorable.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He started like doing the like I wanted to be
connected and not living in my thoughts or in you know,
that anxiety of everything.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And what's the before and after of that of starting
to work with a therapist.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
What has that been, Like, it's incredible. I mean I
love it and I feel like I always recommend it,
and I feel like it's also finding that person you
know and clicking.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But I had the.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Laste that's not always the case.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I remember when I was in California, like I found
a therapist that I loved, and then when I had
to move to a different state, Oh my god, it
was like a my relationship. Like I had a break up.
I was so sad, and I haven't been able to
find somebody that I have clicked with, like I clicked
with her, But I'm in the process of like finding
someone new now because I'm like.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I need to talk to somebody. No same And that's normal.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And by the way, we can talk like do a
little do you send like podcasts a voice it's to
your girlfriends in need of a therapist.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You have you surround yourself with your friends.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, I want to talk to you, to you a
little bit about we talked about your inner child and
like making her like so proud when you're on stage
or like kind of like fulfilling that dream. Can we
(23:27):
like take it back to when you were six, seven
years old, you started doing your free writing, your journaling,
all that stuff, and then you eventually started songwriting right
at the age of seven.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yes, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Wow, I did.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I've always been very connected to music, Like I've always
knew that this is what I wanted to do. I
feel like when you're growing up, you go through these
different phases, like some some kids they want to be
a doctor, and then they want to be a surgeon,
and then they want to be an astronaut, and then
you know, but I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
To have a pet hotel.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Look at that so cool.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, that's the slides for the dogs and everything. That
is still a good idea that you can't know for real.
Also here, I feel like in other places, coming Columbia,
they have more. But Ana, we'll talk about that business.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
If you want to invest, I'm accepting applications.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're getting.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Great.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I always knew that this is what I wanted
to do. So every decision I've made in my life
is like, how can I be a little closer, How
can I get a little closer.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
To my dreams, to my goal?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
And when I wrote the song, I was seven but
it's the chic.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Where is he now?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I think he's in New York.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Actually, really, oh my god, he's going.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
To be a doctor.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I was hoping, like, you know, like a bad star,
like oh no, no, no, it was great.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It was it was this type of the people, the
study of day. When I was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Crushing on him, he wasn't, and then when he was
crushing on me, I did it, and and then.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It was like that. It was like that since kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was like a cute and that's what you wrote
the song about.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I wrote the song about yeah, about him, because I
was like, oh my god, it's called that mort since
I was like a dramatic you have it, yeah, I
have it seven years old, say a little.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Bit, yes please, yes please.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I'm gonna remember that every action forever.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But I'm just so sure that you still remember the song.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I remember a part of it, so just a little
part of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
It was a salsa too.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Really, the drama.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Just needs to be released. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Sin seroit going to de Guero permessi. You could conte.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
When you were seven.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You wrote that.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's insane. Are you kidding me? It's so dramatic something,
but it's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I started got like, if I were to hear that seven,
I think I would cry, I would fall in love.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you send it to him?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (26:24):
No, I.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
My grandma would always pick me up in school, and
and then when my grandpa arrived, I sang it for
for them, and my grandpa.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Were like, did you write that?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That's cool?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And I thought I had a superpower. I was like,
oh my god, I mean to create it.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Kind of it's true and I don't take it for granted.
But I was like, well, I can't create an idea
and something that doesn't exist, and I can like think
of a melody and chords. And I didn't play guitar
in that moment, so I just thought of melodies. And
I started learning the guitar when I was nine. Wow,
And then it was easier.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's easier, you think, to compose if you play a
guitar and instrument, right or no?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yes, because it's an awesome tool that helps you bring
those ideas to life in a more common mass. But
I don't think it's It didn't stop me. I was like, okay,
so I'm gonna create.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Clearly, I'm so okay, we're at seven years old, we're
writing bangers. I mean, hello, literally amazing your parents? What
were what would your parents say back then?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They encouraged me. So my dad, he's also a musician,
and he does it more like a hobby. He had
and still has a music group where they play in
Bullas in Puerto Rico. And and and they both My
mom loves music and she used to do theater back
in college.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And you know, she's also very like come on, so
it's pity. I'm like.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
My dad is like more shy but still like a bajasso,
but like he's more shy. Ian tonsays. They encouraged it.
They were they were like they saw that, and they
took me me my mama Deevo which is a music school,
a great music school in Puerto Rico, and it's like
(28:34):
a college even though it's from seventh grade to doc
into senior year, but it's it has two schedules, so
it's music schedule and academic and then you're there from
seven thirty am to five thirty pm every day. And
each student has a different instrument. So my instrument was
guitar for the first two years, and then I switched
(28:54):
to Canto classico, so that that's where I learned a
lot of the things that I know musically.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
It's a it's a classical school, but I love it
so much that.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Er that is incredible. And just one quick question about that.
To go to that school, do you need to audition?
But then after that is a school, you know, like
a public school? It's free or is there like a
(29:29):
tuition like a private school? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It is a public school. I feel like I want
to give back so much to that school because right
now Puerto Rico is it's deficient. Problem is the first
thing that they want to cut the first arts and
(29:53):
creative and but the professors are so good, Like my professor,
he was a professor here in Juilliard, New York.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
He was there and I was like, prof are you here?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He's like, he was like, God wants me to be
here for the reason Yeah, for the same reason you
want to get back to exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I was like, yeah, and still is one of the
projects that I have in mind. But a lot of
talented people are there, and yes, this is a is
a especially so you have to audition and then keep.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
See and then keep.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The grades yeah, that's impressing.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What was your audition song? Do you remember? You have
such great memory.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I do, but maybe because I write about all these things.
But oh my god, I remember the day of the
audition and everything. And since I audition for guitar, I
performed and I sang something and I can't remember what,
but they made me perform happy Birthday.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
They made me say.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
So.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, it was like like four hours of additional because
then you had like examine the temple, like you know,
if you didn't know an instrument you need, they needed to.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So yeah, it was such a young age too, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
It was so scared.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I bet four hours, It's crazy. Okay, So you started
with Clearly was your first track, and.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
I was a pop girl and in my heart I was.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I don't know why because it came out of the pain.
I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But now, how would you describe your evolution and your
transition into the current genre that is more like pop
punk kind of like?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Okay, so I grew up with boleros because my dad
he was obsessed, obsessed still with boleros.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And so in La Casas in Prera Milan, Armando man.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Norio Triolo Panto and my mom, eighties Rock Papa and
Wow Akira, Belinda Selena, Christina Lea and says that was
(32:35):
like my core. So I figured that when you are
doing and you want to defend there something that it's yours,
you need to go back to your roots and your essensia.
So in my case, when I listen to me Mikra,
soon go back to that essensia. I come from the
boletros Okay, those lyrics that are like, oh my god,
(32:58):
it's so romantic and raw and like beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
But I love pop.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I'm a pop girly at heart. And then all this
rock influence that me and mam and Elin Rock Perrosa,
the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Joe Cocker influence, and that
(33:24):
says Joko, even Levina, I had.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Them all it, Yes, she did.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
I need to see.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I look like as oh my god.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
In the day imagine from a top words like yes
and the banks.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Yes and on my Space yeah, profile picture, high contrast, only.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Stars as the background.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I have a disch camera here. We should take one
like a photo from the top. Yes, of course that angle.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Is absolutely I think it's coming back.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Of course, I mean, let's do it, but yeah, I
used to love that, so that's why I make the
music that I make now.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I was like, I want this Anglo influence sound but
in Spanish because it's what I like and I want
to create the music that I want to listen to.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I have to say I play prolemas like I don't
know how many times in class, like I play all
the time. If you take it out of the saddle
for the chorus and then you just bounce around, bop around.
It's like as a girl who also clearly had a mullet,
I was an emo pop girly in the two thousands.
I would like love everything like Avril Lavigne, but also
(34:50):
like fall Out Boy, all those things. So and also
from Nanina, so the rock influence is huge. I'm also
like a pop.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Girl, so I have range. I'm like an onion.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
We know this.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I have to of course from being from Puerto Rico,
of course.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
But I I I'm told so much by your music,
Like I I feel like it's a world that I
also like want to live in too, because it's like
so approachable. It's different from what a lot of people
are doing right now. And it's also like the lyrics
are like raw and like vulnerable and fun and quirky
and like fuck you you know what I mean, Like
that's just so much to love about, like what it
(35:31):
is that.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You're doing so like respect honestly, thank you so much.
I do have to and I always when I play
in class, I'm like, this is Galley.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Remember the name.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I like the song. I tell them you can ask
the people that take my class class. Yeah, love to
and thank you and and for running too. I played
a running class the other day.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's so wait wait, wait, this conversation is I literally
could talk to Galley for forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
No, for real, we need to turn this into a
two part aer We absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
So stay tuned because the next part of our two
part conversation with Gallet with so Many.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Gems will be dropping next week. Catch It On.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
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