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ER: Like the Bronx in New York - kind of run down - you know, that kind of stuff? A

lot of people don't get out of there easy, and in my case, what makes a difference with
me was that God gave me that ability to sing. That's what took me out of there.

BiTS: We in Britain are not very familiar with Hispanic culture or performers because

it's a long, long way away from us, but most people know Gloria Estefan and possibly
Freddy Fender and maybe one or two others, but what is the big difference in the
music as far as you're concerned?

ER: What, Hispanic music?

BiTS: Yes.

ER: Well, it has changed so much lately. I don't know exactly, but anyway, I would say

I think people, the Spanish culture is more like romantic, more romantic or danceable.
You know, they resolve everything dancing [chuckling].

BiTS: I see both those things in the music. How did you find music? At school, was

it?

ER: No, no, no, no. In Mexico, we don't have the programmes about music like here
in the United States or over there where you are. It's more like for rich kids, you know,

that they have the chance to have piano lessons or something else.

But in my case, I grew up going to a public school where they
don't have that kind of programme. So it really was my

mother who encouraged me. She took me to my first
casting when I was nine years old, when I really didn't

know if I had the ability to sing. I just discovered it
there, you know [chuckles]. That was the truth. My first
recording going to a studio, it was around that age,

and they start to say, oh, look, she can sing. She's in
tune. Even I was doing some harmonies and so I
really discovered these things

doing them. So the saxophone
really came many, many years
later. I just start at first singing and

acting and then I was like around 19,
almost 20, when I start to have some contact
with the saxophone.

BiTS: So you really started off as a singer? Well, how
old were you when you started playing the saxophone?

ER: Like I said, around 19/20. Around there and I spent a few years just having the

saxophone as a hobby, honestly, but then when I moved from Mexico City, I moved
to Playa del Carmen. I don't know if you are familiar with the place, but it's on the