No, I think they were two totally different careers, because when I was acting, I was always impersonating different people, so it was never me—it was never myself. When I started to sing, I suddenly felt naked. I mean, I knew that was going to happen, because that’s the reason why I couldn’t do it before—when I was a teenager, I just couldn’t play in front of anyone at all—it was impossible, my hands started to shake, my voice was gone, and I was so self-conscious of what people would think about what I was doing. Because I didn’t know how to play songs that anybody knew—all I knew how to play were my own songs, and so I had this feeling of having my own chords and my own things that weren’t—I was afraid of being judged as doing nonsense music. But then maybe what the acting did to me was that I got more courage to do what I really wanted to do, even though I had all these fears that were still inside me.
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Juana Molina
Singer, songwriter and former television comedian
Argentina · b. 1961
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Argentine musician who was first known across South America as a television comedian, on the Antonio Gasalla show and in the series Juana y sus hermanas. She left television in 1996 to write and perform her own music, and has released a series of albums built from layered vocals, loops and field recordings.
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