 It was very hard to find black women in anything around pop punk especially. Girls especially too, like we only had Healey Williams to look up to really. There wasn't any of that and so when I found them, it was so important that I was a part of it because it felt like it was gonna be something and it felt super important. It was so awesome, I felt like two girls that like what I like. I see myself in them too and it was like, I couldn't let go of that at all. I think a lot of people find familiarity in us because we represent so many different walks of life. It makes people feel comfortable to love us and comfortable to come to our shows. So many girls have walked up to us and been like, this is my first time like mashing. It's really amazing and I'm really happy we're able to do that with our band because people don't really feel welcome but they feel welcome with us and that's amazing. I remember being on my computer just like on YouTube and I always say that it's fate that I'm here and that we're together because I didn't look anything up. It was just a video in my recommended videos and it was out of this video that she posted called I'm on a band and we need a singer. And I was like, I'm gonna be in this band. It was the last thing I do because I felt so connected to them because they're girls, they're girls of color, they're around my age and we all liked like the Warped Tour culture and like email and pop hung and that was so hard to find and I didn't want to be in a band of white dudes at all, I wanted like the familiarity of them felt very close and very important. There's been so many parents who have brought their like little girls and we know how much that would have meant to us. Especially like we'll have them come up like in front of the barricade and stuff and we'll like make sure to interact with them. We'll give them like we have these pairs of converse that we doodle on and just give away and like it just means the world to see their little faces light up. I love Made Me at the Altar specifically because it's so badass to see in all of them rock and roll group. Someone that looks like me, people who I can identify with but also just have such a great message of women in these punk spaces. It's incredible to see our fans for the first time that I come in and see us and it really makes like, you feel like all the openings lots we did were so worth it because we've gained a lot of fans from those. So I grew up in a town called Davenport, Florida. Didn't really have a strong music scene growing up. Kind of just like stuck to myself and listened to like this script and the fray and like as time went on, I really started getting to like Paramore and like Blake 182, the starting line. It wasn't until I met out of that that I like really got into pop-punk which was like in that deep knuckle plug at the story so far. But I remember getting a guitar for my seventh birthday. It was my first electric guitar and I would just sit in my garage and have the radio going and I taught myself how to play by finding the notes that I was hearing on the guitar. I would watch music videos and I would pause and look at the guitarist's hands and just recreate the shape on my guitar and that's how I learned. I grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey. It's mainly a predominantly Hispanic town. I'm Hispanic, my family is. All of the friends I made were through the internet. Like everything one of them was just how it was until like high school. Tana found a drum cover that I made and contacted me through that and like instantly became friends and then instantly we just started the band. Not even knowing it, whatever that meant. We're just like, yeah, we're a band now. Like just two people in completely different states. It's cool to see how representation can really change someone's lives and I went to a Paramore show in 2014. It was their tour of Fall Out Boy and seeing her on the stage made me realize that that is what I wanted to do. Like I could be up there too, why not, you know? And then here we are. Who knows where we would be if we had something more direct to like that we really, really saw ourselves in and it's cool that we get to be there. Haley Williams had to go through so much being like one of the first like women to really break out into the scene and we have experienced that ourselves with just how it is to be treated as a woman in the industry. And she was so young. She was like 16 when they started. So she really paved the way for a lot of women in the scene and in rock and I don't know, she's just very inspiring. It's really cool to be able to connect to an artist and feel like they understand what I'm going through and to feel less alone and to have something to kind of jam out to when I'm feeling low and to kind of boost myself up a little bit. I feel like maybe the altar is changing the face of Fun Brock. We have such a diverse fan base and I love that like our show is like a safe space like a melting pot. Everyone is there. So there's not really like a set demographic and I love that. I think they're fans of like a lot of different types of music because I think our music has a lot of different influences from different genres and they're like metal, Paul, they're like, they're music lovers, I think. The All Girl Mosh Pit is just so filled with energy, charisma, excitement. There's honestly nothing like it. I was always scared to get in the pit. I've been punched in the face many times but like some huge dude. So there's no dues and I tell everyone to move away and all the girlies get in the pit and the breakdown starts and they're moshing. It's so sick to see you all in real pit. It's so cool. For our debut album, Pass for the Future, we worked with John Fields and we went to John Fields because he produced like all of our favorite early 2000s records like Jonas Brothers, De La Lado. He had a pink record, Switchfoot. It's a really big one too. And we wanted that raw like familiar production but also still keep it very new. I think he was a perfect person to go to. Edith is so amazing and so amazing at harmonies. And I mean, to be fair, a lot of younger acts don't have what she has, which is like this just the ability to just turn on just incredible emotion but also just minute detail to how you're gonna scoop up to a note, how are you gonna fall off a note? It was a complete pleasure working on the vocals with her. So, I mean, I was blown away. I mean, they were asking me a lot of questions about this song or that song. And I think it was just kind of cool for me to actually meet like professional musicians at this point who were influenced by something I had done that long ago. Just their excitement and exuberance like in the studio. To me, it's the best thing about being a producer is working with young new acts. Even lyrically, we really focus on honesty and I feel like he helped us bring that approach to the recording aspect too. We're talking about a world-class act that has just kind of gotten started and this is, I can't even imagine where they're gonna go from here. I just hope to get to work with them in the future and hopefully we have a cool bond like that and they trust me again. We definitely wanna play arena tours. Like that is a huge thing for us. More festivals with which we've been getting a lot of those recently. Hopefully radio one day, that'd be really cool. A movie soundtrack. It's so important because like looking up to just like male voices kind of like, oh, like yeah, like we love it. But then it's also great to see like my story. Like instead of like just seeing it from the guy's point of view, there's also my point of view. The more people looking at you, the more opinions you have like to read and everything. And we wanted to be like, you know what? We see your comments and you, basically. Like it's crazy. Like we get like industry plan comments all. That's the biggest one. And then people would say like, we were the most organically formed band ever. Yeah. Yeah. We're so young too. We were 14 as like industry plans. I know. Playing a tiny people a night like, come on. The advice we have for young musicians is don't think too hard about it. Just do the steps. You're gonna have to work very hard to get to where you want to be. But that's all part of it. And manifest, try, make good decisions. But don't doubt yourself for sure.