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“We were talking about doing something bicultural, bilingual, bi la, la, la,” Romero, 83, says.

"We are a multi-cultural society built on a bicultural base - something that cannot be altered."

“I feel like us Mexicans have always been romantic. I think the most romantic songs are in Spanish,” he says after I asked why, as a bilingual and bicultural artist, he chose to record in Spanish over English.

Garcia’s second album, “Cha Cha Palace,” delved further into what it meant to be a Chicana growing up bicultural in the San Gabriel Valley — a quintessentially American experience, yet a very individual one.

Both experiences arose from Jackson’s bicultural birthright.