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Colombo's originated in Deep South Texas

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during the late 1920s they provided a

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musical respite for working-class

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tejanos at outdoor and indoor dance

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venues rigid gender roles and machismo

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dictated the kwanghoon tile ensembles be

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virtually all-male tradition and lore

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also suggested that only men could play

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the accordion

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while some females provided vocals

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virtually all were excluded from playing

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musical instruments thus if a young

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Donna wished to pursue a musical career

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her most acceptable choice of instrument

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was the piano this changed however when

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a baby girl was born on Brighton Avenue

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in San Antonio Texas

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her name was Ewa Ibarra and throughout

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her life she has challenged canto

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tradition from an early age and through

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all her peaks and valleys as an

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accordion estheban continues to break

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new ground her talent dedication and

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resiliency have earned her the

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endearment la reina de la Corleone and

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when you listen to her music you

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understand why what follows is her story

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I Barbara was one of eight children born

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to pedro and maria luisa Ibarra as a

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three-year-old migrant she worked in the

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fields and soon learned what she did not

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want to do for the rest of her life

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coincidentally during the same years he

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bara discovered what she did want to do

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become a musician she reminisces yeah I

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was born in San Antonio Texas and my

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parents are from close to San Antonio

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it's a my father Pedro Ibarra he's from

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he was from great town Texas and my mom

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from this vo-tech --ss I'm from San

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Antonio I didn't get to pick cotton but

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I hope to Olympia yeah but uh I was very

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little to to you know be picking cotton

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but I wasn't I was there you know

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helping like some of my oldest brothers

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and sisters it was hard you know but I

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didn't want to be a a migrant

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you know worker I wanted to be somebody

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you know I always had my little radio

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here when I was you know hoeing and I

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said dad I don't want to be home I'm

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gonna be somebody I want to be recording

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like others and in in my dad said one of

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these days my father my brother my

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oldest brother he he played the

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accordion the oldest and I follow him

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but he never taught me how to play the

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accordion so my mom told me this and I

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almost remember I was like four and she

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said that I said a mom can you turn on

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the radio and she put yeah and she put

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my little just two little chair and I

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was learning from the radio I was

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learning to get in the nose no but it

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just mean how to put the hit here it put

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your finger here by listening I remember

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I heard don't let the stars get in your

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eyes don't let them on back at the

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melody

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I feel like then soon Ibarra was playing

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at venues in Arizona their Ranchero

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named Sarah Victor noticed her talent

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and told her father that this little

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girl should not be in the fields and he

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agreed I was five we didn't have to work

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because I was making money he took us to

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baseball fields and to restaurants and

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you know they're little and eat us the

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Indians they were crying yeah that was

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very little in and I told my my mom and

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my mom I can't they cry didn't like my

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music and my mom said no he heard they

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appreciate your music you think so she

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said yes because you're very little my

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dad all the time he said I want you to

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lose your I did not be afraid playing

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you know when you're gonna start

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professionally he took me everywhere my

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mom too

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they support me and sometimes I cried

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because they didn't let me play the

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accordion and they say we already have

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there our arrangements and Chicken Utley

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and I start crying

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my dad said one of these days daughter

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you're gonna be somebody you're gonna be

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lorena say you think SOPA you say yes

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her parents had differences of opinion

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about what instrument Ibarra should play

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although her preference was the

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accordion these differences at times

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placed the young musician in an awkward

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position she took me for piano lessons I

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was like nine years old I didn't start

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very little like the accordion and she

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said I don't want you to play the

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accordion ever that's a mom I like the

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accordion no you're gonna hurt yourself

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you're gonna hurt yourself your lungs I

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don't know if that or maybe she was she

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thought this was a man's instrument so

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no no I'm gonna buy your piano and you

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start playing piano the right way how to

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play the music and I say okay well buy

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me a piano but

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I said I like piano but I like these two

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and then my you know privately my dad

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said Ava here listen

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the piano is not for you your key is the

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accordion there's a lot of good pianist

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that's out there I said but you've gotta

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stick to the accordion I said yes I like

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it I like it

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hey my buddy it wasn't there she didn't

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want me to play you know everybody

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called me when I was a recording they're

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not to play me chicken and everything

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here there and my mom got the phone is

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it she's not going over there no where I

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want to be somebody

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I'm your daughter mom but I belong to

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the audience being a touring musician

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has many challenges but for Ibarra

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female and leader of a consult oh these

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challenges were compounded at times the

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pressure was overwhelming they didn't

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appreciate it they treat me wrong and I

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feel bad because I'm a lady I've been

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having a hard time and it's not you know

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it's very complicated to be a lady

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playing leading a group I respect men

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but they don't accept a lady to you know

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make arrangements and direct them and

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but the group that I have right now

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they're very kind they they might make

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what I say say they do those let's do it

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but the other was I had a hard time

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they're not bad I mean like I don't want

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to mention name but Mingus of Liberty he

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told me where here am i and he mentioned

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in articles he said hey I don't want to

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play in front of you and and then one

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guy told me you know what I mean cause I

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told me he said what say that whoever

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doesn't come and there was a letter

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another another guy they said everyone

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the I don't want to mention and he was

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right

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no listener but but they said you know

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he's good according this to like mingle

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and he said ever I was afraid of you and

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I was playing in front of you they make

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me feel good they're good guys I started

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I'm not ashamed to say this because I I

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started playing in bars cantinas but I

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never drink never smoke never do drugs I

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I didn't like it they they offer me some

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drugs I mean you know cocaine and

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everything they here here's a lie I say

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well well not right now maybe next time

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it said let him then not to feel bad so

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and then never got it and then and when

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I played in in in bars like lounge like

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it's a kitty cat you know this is the

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worst that I got met the ladies when I

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came into play there was a guitar two

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guitars and me and say we don't want the

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accordion we just want the guitars they

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make me they pissed me off and I got out

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and I cried and then when we went and I

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told the gas and we I was doing I was

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mad and I was crying say stop stop ever

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well then they to make me you know feel

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bad

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that's the worst and there's another one

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that that said that we don't want heard

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she doesn't know how to even hold a

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Korean ladies you know there's a lot of

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people that take advantage of ladies I

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went to what happened to me and I'm not

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a I'm embarrassed to mention this

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because thank God and the pressure of my

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mom nothing happened to me but when I

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went to a purple

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Rico I I wasn't the show of 80 Chicana

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and at that time and this guy tried to

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rape me he knocked on my but he was the

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manager I want to call me and he said

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what do you want I want to talk to you

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about that we're gonna and who Macau and

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listen there's I do it with mariachi the

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best money actually that company you

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know et Chacon and and I said okay and I

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made a mean and um and he was talking to

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me and this is there and then and then

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he pushed me to the bed and tried to and

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he was choking me and tried to you know

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to he wanted to take me my clothes off

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and and everything and I said no please

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please

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I know that you're a good man you

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believe in God and I think aim for that

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I came to perform and you're choking me

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and he said you believe in God I know I

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know I was crying and he's in and then

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and he said you know what I'm gonna let

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you go this is the first young lady that

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I let go

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thank God prays on my mom she didn't

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want to let me go would you say she was

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right ever Ibarra is also an

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accomplished vocalist who sings with an

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energy and strength few others have I

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started to record it with the first I

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think recording was with fluorescein a

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record my brother sent me were playing

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in a dance hall and I was playing the

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accordion and promontories and he he

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told my dad I like the way she plays and

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she weighs I'm gonna record her and he

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was with rip playing with recording

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Gilberto Vegas at that time only our

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guest us and and then I read he said but

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I like ever and we I'm gonna give it one

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year contract like we were you know that

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and he said every selling you know I

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want to give another year on and and

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they gave me another year and but and

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then when I started a recorded another

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labels like fellow

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play-doh from Florida well Delray mr.

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mr. treviño and I went to play to form

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over there at the race Florida and then

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I see in the records when I recorded

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with Dena records too the good thing is

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that then I recorded for rounder records

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and I went to Puerto Rico and I went to

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Seattle Washington I went to Chicago

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when I went to New York played with the

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Ethel quartet and in the middle of the

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concert I had a standing ovation it same

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happen in Chicago they were super super

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honest and I accompanied Shelly lattice

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and other you know singers and in and

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the other one was playing record roll

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and you know put in her you know the

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rodia's in play in it and then I start

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playing a song that I did for my little

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net and this it's call amenda I started

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you know and then the people got few

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notes the innovation in the middle and I

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feel proud thank God they think that

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audience I love that my audience and

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that's what I have the good things in

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the hard I'd never forget like coastal

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fog came in and said this el dinero por

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no se le por donde la Pira para sus

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applause applause oohs es una los llevo

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conmigo

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hasta la muerte and that's what I feel I

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don't care about money I care about the

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people that's what's in my heart I

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Barbara is also a music teacher and is

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taught in Washington and Texas I teach

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there for one year they wanted me for

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six months only but I and they said ever

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you want to stay another six months and

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I say yes and I wanted to come home to

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San Antonio

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I miss my time hometown but there was

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pretty pretty beautiful over there but

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uh I'll say yes yes and I teach

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different you know races

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like not not a Mexican or Texan to

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handle mm-hmm and they learn they

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learned how to played and we make a

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group and they I call it Space Needle

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yeah and they play they perform there

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was a lot of girls and a lot of you know

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guys and I teach also the bear I teach

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the bajo sexto and the bass the

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accordion and get that one but no

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maestra every vara is still an accordion

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instructor at the world Luca Cultural

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Arts Center in San Antonio I remember I

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first hired her she was the first woman

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that I hired to teach accordion they

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bought one hyena one Olympic coach large

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star back in the mid 80s I think the

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late 80s on the stuff I in is what I

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love the Cultural Arts Center and always

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felt that if we had a female accordion

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maestra that that would attract more

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young women and women of all ages to

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learn how to want to learn how to play

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the button accordion but guy and I kill

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advances in in the late 80s there

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weren't all that many women and girls

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playing the button accordion so I wanted

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to get more involved and sure enough

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when she started teaching the accordion

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we did have more women come to the

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classes and learn so I think that's one

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of the big contributions of having a

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Vivaro teach accordion and still

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teaching at the whether Luca Cultural

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Arts Center almost what almost 30 years

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later and also had a vibe era when I was

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a professor of music in Mexican American

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Studies at Palo Alto college I hired

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away yatra to teach there at Palo to

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college she was an adjunct faculty and

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taught accordion for about seven years

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with me so it's a big benefit to have la

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vara to teach accordion and every every

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coordinates every maestro has their own

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style and

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ewa has her distinctive style time in

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but I think the main impact she's had is

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that because of her more women and more

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young women have learned how to play the

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button accordion has studied with her

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Ewa Ibarra is Sahana by birth culture

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and music and is proud of it

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well the henna means that I'm proud of

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my hometown because I was born there you

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know and in Senator Texas and it makes

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me feel like I'm a real Kahana

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true musician Ahana and the music is not

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only my blood and I love being to Hannah

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I'm not ashamed being and being tejana

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when they say they're and I feel very

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proud because there's a lot of good

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thing honest Ibarra has performed in the

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Rio Grande Valley on various occasions

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Valley audiences appreciate respect and

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welcomed her the audience of here I

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don't want to talk about of other

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because they I've been having standing

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ovations in the middle of the concert

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Chicago Porto Rico Austin and I

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appreciate them - I love them I love the

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audience have everywhere not even if

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they don't make me tell you know Asia or

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somebody but I love the people from here

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because they're very you know they they

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love the music they feel the music and

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they make you feel the music - and play

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and I don't know one time I came here

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and the people gave me a lot of you know

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applauses and they were appreciating my

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music and I even wrote a song for the

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san benito I'm here because I love the

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people from here to be Barbara is

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compassionate and caring

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sometimes even toward total strangers I

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love people and I care for people I care

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if I see somebody in the streets then

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they what they need like money and I

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only have like five dollars this

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happened I get and give the money to

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them I care for people I love people I

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believe and

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when human being I believe in them I

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loved him and I don't like it one time

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there were two little girls in a

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restaurant with their mom and one one

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was again in the mom was mad with the

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other one and they would gave her food

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to eat

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the other one was crying and all food

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and and I was crying and just by seeing

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her I care for the other girl she needs

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to eat too and I was crying there you

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know I don't know I couldn't have my

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open I don't like that that you know

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like people to be you know take

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advantage or being rude with little kids

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or grown-ups the one that beat another

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one and I don't like that like that I

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feel bad I'm gonna pray that traditional

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way and then my way so they play like

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this

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but I would play every Barbara's legacy

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is marked by achievement and longevity

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as a woman and as a Gordian player that

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she wanted to distinguish yourself from

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other people now you hear that amongst

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musicians when they say well you know we

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are different because we do this too

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style of music and we do it different

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even though the traditional sound is

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Bacchus XR Corleone she's in her

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accordion playing she will infuse you

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know other types of music like the rock

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jazz blues which again makes it a little

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bit more different which again always

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recalls they'll hold on when they used

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to say like you know you can't dance to

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this don't hold on because he keeps

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injecting all kinds of other sounds into

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his accordion but on the other hand this

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is who they are I mean it's cool yeah

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that's why they're different that's why

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they were important and that's why she's

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remained she's probably superior than

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I'm now I don't want to exaggerate but

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she's got some look some some ways of

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playing it did a lot of good popular

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musicians would not explore because like

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I said she gets into some riffs that are

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not common in conjunto because of a lot

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of influences from a lot of music that

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she's been listening to in San Antonio

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so I would I would rate her if it

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percentages of top 20 25 percent of

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musicians that are making a living off

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of

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music every beras place in the history

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of quantum music is that for me she's

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the best female accordion Asst without a

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doubt in the history of choral music but

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not just a choreo nice Toshi's she can

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play bajo sexto she plays guitar on

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she's a great powerful vocalist and she

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just happens to be female because

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actually she knows a lot of música and

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she's better than then most of us vato

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accordion east us so it's not just that

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she's the best female accordion because

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she knows a lot of music and she's

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better than most most of the men

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accordion east does that I know so she's

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had a tremendous impact well actually

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I'd go back to the first time that I saw

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which is back probably in the early or

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late seventies something or trying we

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were kind of riding around in a breeze

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just having fun picking up some six-pack

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because I'd like then we were always

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drinking and driving and we pulled over

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to this ice house and in Sun on

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Southside San Antonio and in the back

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there was a some patio air and there's

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some music biker so we go there and all

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of a sudden you see a woman a young

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woman I think what the heck is this

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about you know I'd never seen anything

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like that included it so such a

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male-dominated music that I had never

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seen and it was very attractive ish and

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that's the first time I saw her and and

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it was like shocking because I was just

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like everybody else I assumed that it

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wasn't a place for women you know you

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just do you have that ignorant approach

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to that stuff in spite of being what we

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call open-minded sometimes we get into

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those ruts

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the center is 26 years old

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so we bar to the first clinic winter

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festivals are on 2002 2003 so that's

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when I first met her we called her to

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play a festival she was one of the

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lineup

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one of the most important ones because

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we had read about her I had read about

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her in terms of her work and well their

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little is written about her there was a

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few excerpts here and there she had some

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rounder records that were out and so we

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brought her she had been playing into a

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little bit for numerous years and very

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impressive I mean she's obviously the

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the Reina an accordion she definitely

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started as a youngster never left it she

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always played her family was musical she

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never went and got another job she

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dedicated ourselves to that particular

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type of work so that was the first time

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when she played the festival here

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somebody

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since

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once a month and on stage I throw myself

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I feel like a rain and I feel like very

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honored do you know if there's somebody

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there I'm somebody I love music I love

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me I marry with a music I think I feel

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angels surround me and give me energy

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strength I feel them those that know

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ever Ibarra and her music understand

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that she has left a legacy of talent

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perseverance and spirit that will endure

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long after she is gone

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and so without you

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