My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.