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Podcast: Life in Spanglish
Episode: Many Lives, One Legend Con Daphne Rubin-Vega
Description: Daphne Rubin-Vega, a true Broadway icon, actor, singer, producer, wife, and mother who's lived many lives and still keeps evolving. Daphne gets real about her journey — from arriving in the U.S. alone from Panama at just 3 years old, to becoming a defining force on the Broadway stage as the original Mimi Marquez in RENT. We dive into how playing a troubled sex worker and addict etched a lasting (and sometimes complicated) association between her and the character, especially back home in Panama. We talk about de todo: Latinos in acting bonding together, dealing with imposter...