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hermanita!

Thank you!

How do you do that?

Do you have a

name for a kid?

A kid, yes!

I'm a kid!

So

you were born here?

I was born in

New York City, yeah.

Okay.

Then I moved to

DR for a

few years

and then grew up

in Miami.

How's the career

going as far as

all the things that

you're doing?

I mean, I think

I'm doing well.

You know I'm not

where I want to be,

but I'm much closer.

And I've started

building all

these things.

But if you ask my

bank account,

it's not

going well.

(laughs) My bank account

says it's

going badly,

but my spirit and

my calendar says

it's going

really well.

It's going

to change.

It's oil

right now.

We're in

Venezuelan Salsa,

which is the

Venezuelan

hot dog spot.

Very fun place.

I'm wearing Bushwick,

which is where I live.

Okay.

And yeah,

it's my...

I would say it

feels like my home.

Okay.

Because it's a

good mix of both

like art culture

and artistry and

also like Latin culture

that I love.

And also all

kinds of

cultures too.

Your content,

your comedy,

where does it

come from?

Yeah, I mean,

you know, it's...

Again, like

I said, everything

is un chin

Like I studied a

little bit of

everything

and I like for my

comedy, my art to

come from who

I am, you know?

And I'm a very

like well-versed,

world...

I think, right?

Worldly person

who has a lot of

different

interests

and that like

represents

my comedy too.

Like I talk about

what it's like to be

a single woman

in New York

and also like

politics and news

and pop culture

and internet.

So I like to try

to talk about all

of that.

Acting.

I love the scenes

that I've

seen you on.

Thank you.

I really love it.

Yeah.

I think that you

have an

amazing talent.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think

like acting is

interesting

because so much

of it is

embodying a

character that's

not yourself

or really feeling

these emotions

and, you know,

and

letting it come.

So I've just...

I've always like

thought about

like how can

you express

and also like how

someone behaves

and acts

like on camera

versus on stage

versus this

versus that.

Like it's all

kind of

interconnected

and like it's a

new different thing

that I like.

But it's also

challenging

because like

you're at the

whims of the

director,

the writer, the

this, the that.

So I try to like

get as much

control as I can

and be something

substantial,

which is hard

with live comedy.

One of the things

that I feel is

I feel like I just

met you, but I

feel like family.

Yeah.

And a lot of the

people that we

have in common

told me the

same thing.

Once you meet

her, you're going

to feel like

that's

your sister.

You're a

crazy sister.

Talk to me

about it.

Does that

something that

you always get

from all

the people?

Well, I have one.

I'm one of

six kids.

I have five

brothers and

sisters.

I have five

thousand cousins.

And also my mom,

when I was

growing up, she

always had

hair salons.

Yeah.

And she always

had like a really

big customer base

of people.

And it's not

necessarily like

all other

Dominicans

either.

She had a lot of

Haitian

customers, black

American

customers,

Jamaican, like

Caribbean in

general.

And I was always

there washing

hair, pantering

the phone, all

that stuff.

So I feel like

all those skills

really made me

like enjoy being

around people and

connecting

with people and

all of that.

So I always

really

enjoyed that.

That was your

first stage then?

Yes, exactly.

And also like

first way to hear

gossip, first way

to hear all

that stuff.

For sure,

for sure.

And yeah, like,

and that was also

in college.

You know, I

studied abroad in

Japan and state

taking Japanese

and meeting

people in Japan

and all that.

Like I just love

being able to

connect.

Finding someone

you have nothing

in common and

like trying to

find that common ground.

Like that is very

much my nature.

And I like work

hard at that too.

So mommy taking

you to the salon

and having you

there, train you

for this

experience.

I think so.

Yeah, for sure.

And train me for

a lot of things

that I probably

shouldn't have

been trained for.