Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/bilingual-rock-star-julieta-venegas-feels-in-spanish Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Latin American singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas grew up in Tijuana, a Mexican city just across the border from the United States. Fluent in both Spanish and English, she chooses to write her own songs in Spanish because, she explained, her emotional life always occurred in Spanish. Art Beat met up with Venegas during her Los Momentos tour.