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How is the situation in Hawaii?

There are like no cases here. It’s corona free, which is so weird to be in. I was in Panama, and things there are not as good as here. It’s just rough, especially cause we’re a third-world country, so our hospitals don’t work well. It’s crazy. When I came here, they opened the airports and now there are twenty cases. Now they closed them again, but a month or two ago, there were no cases.

You live in a corona-free world, wow!

It’s really weird, but I’m really happy to be able to have this experience. I was going crazy back home. I live in a small apartment with my mom, my sister, my dog, and my cat and we couldn’t go for walks. That was really difficult.

You just started your career, but it blew up really fast. Did you ever expect that it would go this fast?

No! I don’t see myself as someone that blew up. I did think I got super lucky with my debut single. We put the song out, not expecting anything of it. I liked it, my manager liked it — it’s kind of a weird song, and we didn’t expect people to dig it that much. It did it really well.

Especially in a year like 2020. Isn’t that strange?

Yeah, a lot has happened. It’s been really bad and hurtful for everyone, but 2020 was a year that everything I wished for happened. So, in a way, it was kinda balanced out.

You released some music in the middle of a pandemic. Did you hesitate to release it?

I don’t like performing that much, but I know that’s something I have to do. That’s where the money is, so I had to release it. For me putting out my song and see things grow and happen without me having to perform was really calming. It made the process slower, it just made things feel easier. It was more organized, not all at once because then I would go crazy. I like the way it went.

So you’re living your dreams?

In a way. It doesn’t feel like it, but when I think about it … yeah. I’m very dramatic, but when I write down all the things I have and compare them with all the things I’ve wanted, I see that a lot of it has been happening. It’s hard to comprehend sometimes because reality is so different than a dream.

Is the artist’s life different than you expected?

Hmmm, not at all. It’s how I thought it was. I know what it is in a pandemic! Right after I was getting signed, I was doing so much, and I was so tired. Exhausted. I thought, “Sofía, you haven’t even started!” but I was already braindead. I didn’t get how all the other artists did it, and I remember being very scared.

What’s the main vision of your music? The singles you’ve released sounded a bit different. Are you still finding your way?

“Little Did I Know” is the type of music I write the most. “Handful of Water” is a song like I write in the sessions. It’s always kinda melancholic-dreamy sounding. Very melody-driven. I do feel like I know what my sound is. The EP is a collection of songs that I wrote in the past four years, but the next EP is way more clear. I have an understanding of what I want to do. This is my first time, so it was all new.

I’m excited to make a bigger piece of work. Putting more time in the type of pictures, the videos, the art behind it, and things I want to put in the songs. I just want to see the entire project.

What do you like most: singing in Spanish or English?

It’s weird because I grew up listening to music in English. When I was 15, I moved to Michigan and then to Liverpool, so the past few years I talked more English than Spanish. To be honest, Spanish is not easy to sing. I haven’t tried it that much, but I want to sing in Spanish. A lot of people in Panama and Columbia are texting me that they want something in Spanish — maybe I’ll do a cover or something.

A cover of ROSALÍA?

I love ROSALÍA so much!