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Spanish - Musician Born: February 20, 1996

I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'

Eyes Me Lie Remember

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

Feel Creative Person Want

'Finders Keepers' is guaranteed to create a vibe. If I'm having a difficult show, then I know I've got that song at the end to turn it around, and the phones will come out.

Song End Know Will

I went to Glastonbury when I was 14, and that was really fun.

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

Good Writing Heartbreak Relationships

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

Me Things Happened Songs

I've been making music since age five.

Music Age Making Five

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

I Am Parents Musicians Who

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

Myself Woman Feel Like

I think knowing where you came from and where you want to go is really important.

You Think Go Important

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

Art Me Respect You

I want people to really care when I release an album.

People Care Want Album

I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.

Beautiful Music Me People

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

Music I Can Sharing Stage

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.

Black Identity White Confused

Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something.

Good You Always Something

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

Girl Woman Talking Want

I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?

Love Good Dance Down

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

Love Music Control Why

I can't believe that I'm MTV's Brand New for 2018. Big love to MTV for even giving me this opportunity and to all the fans for voting.

Love Me Opportunity Believe

I think the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a role model; I think placing that sort of title on myself is too much. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on something.

Best Myself Think Know

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

Child Hill Destiny Listen

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

Myself Women Trying Young

A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks that'll last me a while.

Me Looks Talk Big

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

Me People Challenge Chance

Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

You People Appreciate Being

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