Notes From Her

Notes From Her's season 1-episode 6 features MOC Leyla Hoyle Guerrero. Leyla is a reputable and prolific studio recording artist in the Spanish and English music industry. She is also a worship leader at Shepherd Church Woodland Hills location. Listen to this episode to hear Leyla share her story of her life from Peru to the United States, her career, and her walk with God. She gives advice on networking in the studio recording industry, professionalism, maintaining your identity and morals in and outside of the church walls, worship leadership/ministry, the significance of being a Latina worship leader in an English speaking mega-church and how to use your God given talents to serve others. After listening to this episode, I invite you to ask yourself: what is your God given purpose in this life? And here’s the secret, it’s not just one purpose or calling, it can be a few or multiple! The way you can begin exploring this is asking yourself a few questions: What do I like or love? What do I not like? What am I passionate about? What makes me happy? What makes me upset or sad? Who inspires me? What are the things I am good at, gifts that I have, or things I enjoy doing? How can I use my talents to serve others? Don’t worry if you can’t answer all of these questions right away. Sometimes realizing these things and what value you possess takes some time to realize. I encourage to pray and meditate on these questions.Follow Notes From Her @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook! Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review, and leave a comment!Follow host @xochitlmilkaaa on Instagram and Twitter!

Notes From Her's season 1-episode 5 continues Suzanna's interview with Part 2! You heard her speak on her background, now Suzanna speaks on her road to the biggest opera house in the US-the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and staying true to herself in this cut-throat business. Listen to this episode to also hear Suzanna addresses issues such as discrimination, the Me Too movement, Latinidad identity, career and audition tips, and applying one’s craft to serve social issues and movements around us. For more on Suzanna and her upcoming performances, be sure to Visit www.suzannaguzman.com. After listening to this episode, what are some things you're passionate about? How can you can use your voice to speak and sing words of change for different social issues that you may be passionate about? Maybe you’re not a singer like Suzanna, but remember we all have unique gifts that we can use to serve others and help bring about change and I encourage all of you to explore that this week. Follow Notes From Her @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook! Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review, and leave a comment!Follow host @xochitlmilkaaa on Instagram and Twitter!

In Notes From Her's season 1-episode 4, I sit down to interview Mexican-American international opera star, actress, broadcast television host, radio host, teacher and arts advocate Suzanna Guzman. In this episode Part 1 of a 2 part interview, Suzanna speaks on her background, Latinidad, and how she found her voice.Visit her website http://www.suzannaguzman.com/Follow Notes From Her @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook! Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review, and leave a comment!Follow me @xochitlmilkaaa on Instagram and Twitter!

In Notes From Her's season 1-episode 3, I sit down to interview 2019 Miss America Nia Imani Franklin! Listen to Nia's story to hear her talk about what it means for a young, Black opera singer/composer to be Miss America. She gives insight concerning racism towards beauty standards for African American girls, and staying tenacious in resiliency and perseverance in this industry. Nia is also a huge music and arts education advocate. Click the following links to find out more on Nia's projects and social arts advocacy and how YOU can make a difference:For Sing for Hope: https://www.singforhope.org/news-details/miss-america-and-sing-for-hope-bring-hope-and-healing-to-young-patients/For her personal website: https://www.missamerica.org/titleholders/2019-new-york/For her Compose Her project (follow on instagram @composedbyher): composeher.org/blogBuy tickets for her upcoming Piedmont Opera debut: https://piedmontopera.org/event/the-king-i/And be sure to follow her @niaimanifranklinAfter this week's episode, what is one thing you could learn this week about your cultural heritage or world around us? How can YOU contribute to music education for ALL? STAY CURIOUS! Follow Notes From Her @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook! Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review, and leave a comment!Follow me @xochitlmilkaaa on Instagram and Twitter!

In Notes From Her's season 1-episode 2, I sit down to interview composer Juhi Bansal! Listen to hear Juhi talk about being born in India and raised in Hong Kong, as well as her road to becoming a musician, and composition techniques for composers. In Juhi's interview, we also have a great talk about what it means to be multicultural and how we can embrace our multicultural identity or unique background to use as our strength in our art and life.For more on Juhi Bansal, upcoming performances, and to listen to her compositions, visit her website https://juhibansal.com/Juhi Bansal will be premiering her piece "We Look to the Stars" February 13th, 7:30pm with the Pasadena City College at The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. For ticket and event information go to https://www.huntington.org/events/music-program-we-look-stars?sd=1581651000&ed=1581658200Visit Los Angeles Opera's website to find out more about the opera Eurydice and the Eurydice Found Festival at https://www.laopera.org/community/eurydice-found/Music (listed below in order of feature) used in this episode is all by Juhi Bansal. -Begin-Sirens-Where Shadow Chases Light-JaggedAfter listening to this episode, how do you think you can use your unique identity or intersectional multiculturalism as your strength?Follow Notes From Her @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook! Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review, and comment!

Welcome to the Notes From Her Podcast; the podcast that encourages women and others to embrace their inner multicultural melody hosted by Xochitl Hernandez! This first season of Notes From Her features interviews from women MOC's (musicians of color). Episode 1 of season 1's first female MOC is opera conductor/director, professor, and pianist Mercedes Juan Musotto. Tune in to hear Mercedes talk about her life in Argentina and move to the United States, her journey as a musician, and her career as opera director at California State University Northridge, Santa Monica College, and Center Stage Opera. Listen to also hear Mercedes give great advice and career tips for women in music, conductors, Latinas, how to combat machismo and so much more!Features music clips from Mercedes conducting the opera Serse by George F. Handel and "The Can-Can" from the opera Orpheus in the Underworld by Jaques Offenbach.Follow @notesfromher_ on Instagram and Twitter and like Notes From Her on Facebook. Mercedes will be conducting:Suor Angelica by Puccini and Don Giovanni o sia Il Convitato di Pietra by Giuseppe Gazzaniga at California State University Northridge on March 26-29https://www.facebook.com/CSUN-Opera-982258528633306/Faust by Charles Gounod January 25-26 at the Madrid Theatre in Sherman Oaks,https://losangeles.eventful.com/events/gounods-faust-/E0-001-133055643-5https://www.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1152485The Tales of Hoffman by Jaques Offenbach May 8-9 at Santa Monica College.http://www.smc.edu/ACG/Marketing/Events/Pages/Tickets.aspx