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Jan 2023
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Reyna Tropical: How Fabi Reyna learned t...

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Anamaria Sayre sits down with Fabi Reyna of Reyna Tropical to talk about the process of trusting yourself, how music saved her life and moving forward after losing her creative collaborator Sumohair.

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