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From lawyer to Latin Grammy winner, Mexican singer and songwriter Paloma Morphy shares what it feels like to be the "new girl in class" and how her law studies inspired her new single “la mexicana.”

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00:00I studied Derecho and I came out of my job as a penal lawyer

00:06to give me a chance to music, which was my dream of a little girl.

00:11I feel like the new salon,

00:13with all the artists that I see from my house.

00:17It's like for the first time seeing them outside of the screen.

00:20It's quite shocking, but I'm very happy,

00:24very emotional, nervous,

00:27something like the Impostor Syndrome.

00:32But no, the truth is,

00:36it's a fulfilled dream.

00:39The truth is that all of us who are nominated

00:42to Mejor Nuevo Artista,

00:44I was scared, before coming,

00:47I don't know, to feel like I was full competition,

00:50that I would have to wear bad faces,

00:54and all of us,

00:57everyone,

00:58we shared it very naturally,

00:59and obviously we were nervous,

01:01trying to put our best face,

01:03and,

01:04for all of us,

01:05since our first time here.

01:07So,

01:08there was a lot of support in that side,

01:12and we realized that we were all at the same time.

01:15We didn't have any idea of how I was going to be this week,

01:18and,

01:19but we were all happy,

01:21and emotional to meet the others,

01:24and,

01:25supporting us.

01:26The truth is cool.

01:27They're all good.

01:28They're all good.

01:29Yeah.

01:30I think you just said,

01:31you're going to sing a song with a message to Mexico.

01:35Yes.

01:36How are you going to speak to Mexico?

01:37Yes.

01:38The Mexican,

01:40it's the last song that I saw in a few days,

01:45and it's a song that I wrote for a while,

01:50and it was just,

01:51I just,

01:52I just,

01:53I started,

01:54I started,

01:55and,

01:56I started,

01:57I started,

01:58I started,

01:59I started,

02:00I started,

02:01I started,

02:02I started,

02:03I realized,

02:04I was going to give you two years,

02:05I did what happens,

02:06but,

02:07I wrote,

02:08I wrote this song,

02:10because,

02:11in the federal courts,

02:12and the time I worked on that,

02:14I realized that,

02:15I realized that,

02:16many,

02:17the most,

02:18that were presented about gender violence,

02:20they didn't even get to the investigation stage.

02:23And I think that all the minimum women that I know

02:28have some history that has marked us in this sense.

02:34So it's like from that place I wrote a song to Mexico

02:38as if it was a person that I love.

02:40Because I love my country,

02:41my country makes me beautiful in so many ways.

02:44But I said in this song to Mexico,

02:51why don't you want me as I love you?

02:55And it's a little bit about that.

02:57But in the last days,

03:00with everything that I've been doing in the country,

03:03it changed the meaning.

03:08It was addressing more things.

03:10Because I realized that I think

03:12it's a common feeling that we have the Mexicans.

03:14Everybody loves Mexico.

03:16We love food.

03:18We love the humor.

03:20We love how we support each other.

03:23But the governments have deceived us

03:27election after election.

03:29And I don't know,

03:30it's a song that...

03:32It's like my way of raising the voice.

03:34But it also...

03:38It made me think of how we really do a change.

03:41Is it that the change really starts from the society?

03:46Or how do these problems come from our country?

03:53And that's the Mexicans.

03:56No, but you know,

03:57it's very interesting and important too,

04:00because aparte,

04:01that you can play a song

04:03and know exactly what's happening.

04:06You're not someone who invented a story.

04:09No, you don't have to see it.

04:11Yes, the truth is that...

04:15Well, yes.

04:16I suppose that for something like that

04:18the things were done

04:19and for something like that

04:20I shot five years of that boring career.

04:26But yes,

04:27it gives me another perspective

04:29and aparte that

04:31all my songs,

04:33I make them from the experience.

04:35it's like I want to say

05:04even though it doesn't matter.

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