(25 Apr 2025)
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Mexico City – 23 April 2025
1. Various of Mexican artist Vivir Quintana singing one of her new corridos songs against gender based violence
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 23 April 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vivir Quintana, Mexican artist:
"My new album is called Things that Surprise the Audience and it is a record of ten songs that are ten stories of ten women who defended themselves from their abusers and unfortunately were sent to prison. And it seems to me something very unfair, telling women in our country you cannot defend yourself, because if you defend yourself we will put you in jail. We must understand that women have the right to defend themselves."
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Mexico City – 23 April 2025
3. Various of Quintana singing
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Mexico City – 23 April 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vivir Quintana, Mexican artist:
"The difference with "narco corridos" is that here women are protagonists of their own stories and they explain the reasons behind the violence they have been experiencing. No, they are not re-victimizing themselves, but they are not inviting you to a lifestyle either. And I think that the "narco corridos" invite you a lot or promote aspiration to a way of life. And here we just want to tell you what is happening so that you know how you can help in a way that gender violence does not continue to spread."
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Mexico City – 24 April 2025
5. Quintana getting ready for a concert in the backstage
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Mexico City – 23 April 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vivir Quintana, Mexican artist:
"Well, with this album I hope there is a change in consciousness that sometimes cannot be seen instantly, obviously, but gradually permeates. But there has already been change, for example, starting with myself, by understanding what legitimate defense is about or understanding the defense of women."
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Mexico City – 24 April 2025
7. Various of Quintana talking to her all-woman team and band in the backstage UPSOUND (Spanish) Vivir Quintana, Mexican artist:
"You obviously as an artist want your music to be heard and spread and you want your music to get a lot of plays but the message we are going to give today is very strong."
8. Quintana talking, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Also to tell men that we need them to work so that the gender based violence that exists in our country is eradicated."
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Mexico City – 23 April 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vivir Quintana, Mexican artist:
"It’s kind of shocking. To see so many stories, right? And to understand that not all of us share the same reality is very harsh, right? Sometimes we speak from our own reality, nothing else. And we need to understand that there are many realities and that we (women) are all very diverse and very different. And that we are all necessary and that we all have something important."
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Mexico City – 24 April 2025
10. Various of Quintana with her all-woman team and band backstage
STORYLINE:
Two days before her new album was launched, music icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico.
The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women incarcerated after defending themselves and, in doing so, killing their abusers.
Their stories became part of "Cosas que Sorprenden a la Audiencia" (Things that Surprise the Audience), Quintana’s latest album, released Thursday.
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