June 30, 2025 • 3 mins
Grammy award winning singer and songwriter Sheila E. joins us to talk new deluxe album, Summer tour and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lopez Tebel Mario Lopez joining now on Zoom. Grammy Award
winning musician and actress at Queen of Percussion, Shila. How
you doing, Sheila, I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How are you? I'm well?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you congrats. I know earlier this year you won
your long overdue first Grammy Award for the song Bela.
That must have felt incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Huh it yeah, it still feels incredible. It's a pretty
amazing forty years later after being nominated, you know, forty
years ago, and finally won.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was awesome and I love that Gloria Stefan, who
missed such a sweetheart, is featured on the song. That
must have been a great recording session, A fun one, it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Was, except I wasn't really there when she recorded her
out that's her part. You can do it? Yeah, exceparate now. Well,
the only reason was because I was in Spain filming
a TV show, and so I had the other co
producer go and do her vocal. But I was on FaceTime,
so I was still able to see her say hello,
(01:00):
you know kill it. She was like, oh my god,
this is amazing. So it still worked out and we
videotaped it. So it was awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And now you've released the deluxe version of your album
A Lot, which of course featured the song, and it
has a few new songs for the fans, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Added three new songs. Well, one is old but new
Glamorous Life Latin version, so I redid Glamorous Life with
a Latin twist on it. Yeah, pretty amazing. We had
a lot of fun doing it. Actually, the story behind
that real quick is that we were in rehearsals and
Gloria we were going to do a live show and
(01:39):
for the release of the album with all the entire album,
and she said, you got to do this song. And
I was like, what song you gotta do my song?
I was like what Glamorous Life? Yeah, and I'm like, seriously,
I wasn't gonna do it because we're doing all those
songs on the record. She goes, we got to do it.
So we ended up doing it in the show and
recording it live, and that's what you hear on the album.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh that's great, And you're about to ye road for
a tour.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, we're going out on tour doing some stuff and
promoting a little bit of this and a little bit
of that, and and the second album. We did uh,
I released two albums. The second album a week later,
I just released as Sheila Ian Friends by our Instrumentals,
so we have a little bit of both. I also
added different artists on the instrumental version, so I added
(02:24):
like Chris Body, Marcus Miller, Kirk Whaleam, like a bunch
of different artists that would not normally play salsa music.
So it was fun doing that as well. And I
love this.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You're doing a cruise in September, the Super Legends cruise
you Los Lobos, Isisley Brothers, Lonely Boys. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's gonna be crazy. Yeah right, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Have you worked with any of those artists before. Don't
want a cruise.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Like that, Not on a cruise. No, we've played together
on the same show or with you know, different shows,
or I've sat in with them or whatever, but I'm
not on a cruise. This is the first time. Yeah,
so I'm really excited about it. And they're like, you know,
we're oh geez, we're gonna go hang out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, that's why I love all that music right there,
So congrats on everything.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Sheila.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Always great to talk to you and listen everyone, be
sure to check her out the deluxe version of a
Grammy nominated album by lod wherever you stream music. Thanks
so much for checking in. Thanks man, see you later,
all right, take care with Mario Lopez
You're on with Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lopez Tebel Mario Lopez joining now on Zoom. Grammy Award
winning musician and actress at Queen of Percussion, Shila. How
you doing, Sheila, I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How are you? I'm well?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you congrats. I know earlier this year you won
your long overdue first Grammy Award for the song Bela.
That must have felt incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Huh it yeah, it still feels incredible. It's a pretty
amazing forty years later after being nominated, you know, forty
years ago, and finally won.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was awesome and I love that Gloria Stefan, who
missed such a sweetheart, is featured on the song. That
must have been a great recording session, A fun one, it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Was, except I wasn't really there when she recorded her
out that's her part. You can do it? Yeah, exceparate now. Well,
the only reason was because I was in Spain filming
a TV show, and so I had the other co
producer go and do her vocal. But I was on FaceTime,
so I was still able to see her say hello,
(01:00):
you know kill it. She was like, oh my god,
this is amazing. So it still worked out and we
videotaped it. So it was awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And now you've released the deluxe version of your album
A Lot, which of course featured the song, and it
has a few new songs for the fans, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Added three new songs. Well, one is old but new
Glamorous Life Latin version, so I redid Glamorous Life with
a Latin twist on it. Yeah, pretty amazing. We had
a lot of fun doing it. Actually, the story behind
that real quick is that we were in rehearsals and
Gloria we were going to do a live show and
(01:39):
for the release of the album with all the entire album,
and she said, you got to do this song. And
I was like, what song you gotta do my song?
I was like what Glamorous Life? Yeah, and I'm like, seriously,
I wasn't gonna do it because we're doing all those
songs on the record. She goes, we got to do it.
So we ended up doing it in the show and
recording it live, and that's what you hear on the album.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh that's great, And you're about to ye road for
a tour.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, we're going out on tour doing some stuff and
promoting a little bit of this and a little bit
of that, and and the second album. We did uh,
I released two albums. The second album a week later,
I just released as Sheila Ian Friends by our Instrumentals,
so we have a little bit of both. I also
added different artists on the instrumental version, so I added
(02:24):
like Chris Body, Marcus Miller, Kirk Whaleam, like a bunch
of different artists that would not normally play salsa music.
So it was fun doing that as well. And I
love this.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You're doing a cruise in September, the Super Legends cruise
you Los Lobos, Isisley Brothers, Lonely Boys. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's gonna be crazy. Yeah right, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Have you worked with any of those artists before. Don't
want a cruise.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Like that, Not on a cruise. No, we've played together
on the same show or with you know, different shows,
or I've sat in with them or whatever, but I'm
not on a cruise. This is the first time. Yeah,
so I'm really excited about it. And they're like, you know,
we're oh geez, we're gonna go hang out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, that's why I love all that music right there,
So congrats on everything.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Sheila.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Always great to talk to you and listen everyone, be
sure to check her out the deluxe version of a
Grammy nominated album by lod wherever you stream music. Thanks
so much for checking in. Thanks man, see you later,
all right, take care with Mario Lopez
Host
Mario Lopez
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