Jose Gonzalez
Jose Gonzalez
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 July 1978
CountrySweden
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I really regret my decision of not playing,
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I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
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I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
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I love you, Mommy, you're going to be okay. I'll be waiting for you here, okay?
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I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
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It lends itself (to hiring illegals) certainly more than at an office desk somewhere. The contractors understand and know it and are willing to take the risks. Not because these folks want to break the law, but because they have no alternatives.
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Once we saw the families suffering, being separated, that's really when we started becoming involved in this movement.
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This day is celebrated 40 days after Christmas and marks the end of the Christmas season for us. It celebrates the day baby Jesus was presented at the temple by Mary and Joseph.
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I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
playing strings
I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.
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It pretty much makes it virtually impossible for a thief to steal your car without the correct key.
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I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
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But there's a lot of eyes out there now, with the (Army) Corps of Engineers and all the contractors, so I suspect if something happened again, we'd know pretty soon, ... Then we'd get busy mobilizing our people.
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It's almost exclusively the jobs ? people are going where the jobs are.