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ladyO26 t1_it8kim1 wrote

I’m ethnically Hispanic/Latina, and as an actor, I tend to associate the indulgence of food with indulgence of emotion or feeling. Do you associate your cultural or ethnic food with your music?

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sandiegoopera OP t1_it8l9s0 wrote

Ohhhhh yes. My mentee composers laugh that I'm constantly using food and cooking metaphors.

I grew up in Berkeley eating "chifa" or Peruvian-Chinese food. When my mom was growing up in Piura and Chimbote, Perú in the 40s-60s, this was the food that her Cantonese-Chinese father wanted to see cooked in their household. So, the model of delicious cultural-fusion certainly normalized cultural fusion in my own music today.

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ladyO26 t1_it8wf1o wrote

I made cancha yesterday and sang to the beat of the kernels popping. Ya clearly this is how we roll. Thank you for your art!!

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