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" How did you get started on your music career? It kind of all started on YouTube. I was posting covers on the Internet. I posted a cover of &amp;quot;Otis&amp;quot; by Kanye West and Jay Z and I shot a music video. A week and a half later I got a phone call from RCA. They offered me my first record deal. Now I&amp;#039;ve been working on an album ever since. My EP is coming out this summer and now I&amp;#039;m a COVERGIRL\u2014its just so awesome! What was it like to have Jennifer Lopez be featured in your &amp;quot;Becky From the Block&amp;quot; video? It was a dream come true. JLO is someone I&amp;#039;ve looked up to since I was in diapers. This is a Latina idol, so to have her even listen to my song was amazing. It was amazing to get to meet her and to hear her say, hey let me be in the music video.  What is your advice for Latinas trying to make it in the music industry, especially in the rap scene? We&amp;#039;re women living in a man&amp;#039;s world, so it&amp;#039;s really important to try to stay strong. You still have to mentally and physically and prepare yourself. Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, thats all that matters.  What was your initial reaction when you learned you&amp;#039;d be a COVERGIRL? I&amp;#039;m smiling right now just thinking about it. To be able to say I&amp;#039;m a easy breezy beautiful COVERGIRL is a dream. The first makeup I ever bought was COVERGIRL. It&amp;#039;s just amazing to be part of a brand that represents powerful women and empowering women like Pink, Sofia Vergara\u2014it&amp;#039;s amazing to be part of that roster.  What are some beauty products you can&amp;#039;t live without? I&amp;#039;m all about eye makeup. I don&amp;#039;t like leaving the house without mascara and eyeliner. If my makeup is done, I can be in sweatpants and still rule the world. Ink it eyeliner from COVERGIRL is great for a cat eye. And I love the Flamed Out Mascara for people like me who don&amp;#039;t have thick, long eyelashes. It brings out and combs out every single lash.  Who is your biggest inspiration? My beauty inspiration is my mom. I grew up watching her put on her makeup. In music, people like Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Selena and Shakira\u2014all very powerful women.  What can we expect from you next? My EP comes out this summer. My fans helped me come up with the name because I wouldn&amp;#039;t be here if it wasn&amp;#039;t for them. It&amp;#039;s called Play it Again, because you&amp;#039;re gonna play it again and again and again. I&amp;#039;m also performing at Premios Juventud (on July 18) and my album will come out the beginning of next year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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