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Oct 2018
35m 8s

Gaby Moreno On Leaving Home And Making I...

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The Guatemalan singer/songwriter joins Stretch & Bobbito to talk about the ups and downs of navigating the music industry as an independent artist and what she's doing to help victims of the Volcán de Fuego disaster in her home country. 
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