(accordion playing) (Tatiana singing in Spanish) (accordion playing) (Tatiana singing in Spanish) (accordion playing) (Tatiana singing in Spanish) - I started performing in high school back when I lived in Traverse City, Michigan.

I was in two different choirs, and doing all the musicals, and performing in ensemble.

And then I started taking guitar lessons, and at the guitar shop there was an accordion, and I had to buy it.

So that's kind of when I started writing music and taught myself accordion.

And the first gig I ever did as a performer was at a funeral, and it paid me the exact amount that the accordion was worth so that week, like, I cashed out my check and I bought the accordion, and it turned into many days in front of the mirror and in the basement, back in Michigan, where we have basements.

Yeah, it was just hours of it sounding pretty terrible, I'm sure, until finally I sort of got it, and I was so eager to start writing with it.

And when I came out here to Arizona it was my mission to write songs that were bilingual, that were in English and in Spanish, or a set that had both elements to it so I could be understood.

The reason actually I moved to Arizona was because where I lived in Traverse City was very white, generally gentrified.

And I wanted to see what it was like to be bilingual in this country and to have this melting pot of cultures.

And I came out here and I was so amazed and so excited about the scene.

It really is a beautiful thing.

And there is so much Latin music.

We really are an amazing community of Hispanic players here, and it's an honor to be a part of that.

There's no more magical moment that I've felt than singing in a choir, for example, or singing with my band Las Chollas Peligrosas, and just having all of our voices poor out of us into the hearts and ears of people.

(accordion playing) (Tatiana singing in Spanish) (accordion playing) ♪ Shake the hand that feeds you ♪ ♪ Dare to unveil the truth ♪ ♪ Where your food comes from ♪ ♪ Find a hand that needs you ♪ ♪ Find a hand that needs you ♪ ♪ Hoarding friends of mine of mighty human kind ♪ ♪ Clean out your closets of stereotypes ♪ ♪ Don't dispose of me ♪ ♪ Have humility ♪ ♪ Let me live ♪ ♪ Let me live my life time and time again ♪ ♪ The powerful try to divide us ♪ ♪ Time and time again ♪ ♪ We threw away, threw away time and time again ♪ ♪ We threw it all away ♪ ♪ Threw it all away ♪ ♪ Threw it all away ♪ ♪ Threw it all away ♪ ♪ Threw it all away ♪ (accordion playing) ♪ Toxicity of mind ♪ ♪ Toxicity of heart ♪ ♪ Toxicity in the body ♪ ♪ Toxicity of mind ♪ ♪ Mighty human kind ♪ ♪ Toxicity in the body, body ♪ (Tatiana singing in Spanish) (accordion playing)