Madi Diaz
Related BILL HADER My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol... JAKE EPSTEIN Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap... MADI DIAZ I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff. TAMMIN SURSOK I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin... PHIL ANSELMO I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. ... HILARY DUFF I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing... RONALDINHO I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her... JANE WIEDLIN JESSE MCCARTNEY I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ... BLAKE MICHAEL I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash.... ADAM HICKS I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too exc... KARA DIOGUARDI I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ... KIM DICKENS When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio... AGNES OBEL I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I ... BRIAN WELCH My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma... SKYLAR GREY My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal... BEN HARPER J. D. SOUTHER I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou... BEL POWLEY My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their re... GABRIELLE APLIN LUKE BRYAN I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an account... ZARIN MEHTA A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa... RUSTY ANDERSON My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would... JAMIE XX FAITH HILL I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and m... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu... GREG KURSTIN TOM WAITS AARON NEVILLE MAISIE WILLIAMS I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met i... KING TUFF I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ... (I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor... SAM BARRY I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan... JOHN TESH HUGH HEFNER I've always been a fan of Johnny Cash. I grew up in the country picking cotton. ... All we had was a... GARY LOPEZ I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country... KACEY MUSGRAVES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Thei... BILL WALTON It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer g... BILLY SHERWOOD I grew up in (trucking). My dad was a trucker and still is. My grandpa was a trucker also. MIKE BALDWIN I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu... SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of... ERIK HASSLE When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Ve... MANIKA LORDE CHELSEA CLINTON My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gyps... CYRILLE AIMEE I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music. GARY COLE My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the ra... MADELEINE PEYROUX HEIDI KLUM My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. ARTO LINDSAY Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; R... CHRISTINA RICCI BAHMAN GHOBADI SANDRA CISNEROS I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my ca... BELLA HADID MARTINA MCBRIDE ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. RICHIE SAMBORA My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict h... TY SEGALL ISAAC HAYES I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those wer... CASSADEE POPE If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly g... ERIC SAN DAVID HAREWOOD LEONARD COHEN My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena... CECILIA BARTOLI YUNA CAT CORA GWEN STEFANI My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafti... JUDE DEVERAUX I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. BEN HARPER My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ... SHREYA GHOSHAL KELSEA BALLERINI AVICII I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My... JAKE OWEN I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr... JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME WINONA RYDER Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin... JAMES NESBITT SAM HUNT I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York... BILLY EICHNER Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they play... BRONAGH GALLAGHER I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatbal... JOEY FATONE I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac... SHAMIR AMY CHUA Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love ... JOJO BRITTANY SNOW I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard ... SARA PAXTON My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ... CYRILLE AIMEE ROBERT SMITH My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfathe... CHRISTIAN CAMARGO Michael and I met through music. We were fixed up on a blind date. . . . I was teaching in New York,... DEBORAH CHARNESS JILL SCOTT
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life. MADI DIAZ Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and th... MADI DIAZ I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers. MADI DIAZ I use Shazam all the time. MADI DIAZ There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect reco... MADI DIAZ I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabi... MADI DIAZ My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician b... MADI DIAZ My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five. MADI DIAZ Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap... MADI DIAZ It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that... MADI DIAZ When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to gra... MADI DIAZ One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting th... MADI DIAZ I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving,... MADI DIAZ It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a tim... MADI DIAZ I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact th... MADI DIAZ When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally go... MADI DIAZ Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe ... MADI DIAZ When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Pat... MADI DIAZ He must have a magical dick because there’s no way I’d keep dating someone who cheated on me eve... SKYLA MADI CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy.... NATE DIAZ I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy. NATE DIAZ Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn'... NATE DIAZ Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful. NATE DIAZ I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in se... NATE DIAZ I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.... NATE DIAZ There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I... NATE DIAZ Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest pay... NATE DIAZ If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now. NATE DIAZ I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whateve... NATE DIAZ People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to ... NATE DIAZ I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press.... NATE DIAZ I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of the... NATE DIAZ My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classro... NATE DIAZ I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight. NATE DIAZ I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over pe... NATE DIAZ If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to... NATE DIAZ If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. ... NATE DIAZ I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun. NATE DIAZ I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around p... NATE DIAZ I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be deal... NATE DIAZ Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ... NATE DIAZ I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody. NATE DIAZ I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there... NATE DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law fi... MELONIE DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter ... GUILLERMO DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple. RICHARD DIAZ I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward. GUILLERMO DIAZ It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying... NATE DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ The best way to find anything is to look with an opened mind. RICHARD DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ The rules are tricky and you have to be careful so you don't have to start all over. You really have... CARMEN DIAZ We're hoping to start a new tradition. CARMEN DIAZ We're trying to keep the tradition alive. Many don't celebrate it anymore. CARMEN DIAZ We've participated in so many festivals and activities in the community. It shows we're a growing co... CARMEN DIAZ Look, I'm in the moment. CARLOS DIAZ It's been crazy. I've got a new job, we're looking for a home in Vegas and, in the middle of all of ... CARLOS DIAZ I?m sad. I?m sad for (the Rodriguez) family. I?m sad that my family had to go through this, ... The ... CARLOS DIAZ My wife and I were so protective of him because of the acquittal, ... I was always on top of him. Th... CARLOS DIAZ I took the T-shirt off him, and it was like a hose inside his chest. Blood was everywhere, CARLOS DIAZ We march today because we are immigrants, we work hard and we love the USA. CARLOS DIAZ a monster that breeds monsters. CARLOS DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ Believing in the person you love, first you have to make sure they believe in you too. SANDIBEL DIAZ He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship ... MIGUEL DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we'v... MANNY DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ I've been off a year and I'd like one more fight before we look to a real big fight, but I'm game to... JUAN DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug, MANNY DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more... MELONIE DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ Their starting pitcher had two really tough pitches. His fastball was moving all over the place, and... DANNY DIAZ I would venture to say that it was about the political situation. RICARDO DIAZ As a father of a 3-year-old at that time, I was left to question the sanity of this world and the pe... FRED DIAZ was not really after the significance of the documents but by the manner these were obtained. RICARDO DIAZ It feels like Scott and I are now even after this one. He helped me win in Mexico City and now I've ... LUIS DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ I am just trying to recoup some of the pieces. I have a very hard time understanding people that tak... ANGELICA DIAZ Chuck was bohemian at heart. He loved what was happening there. He became a part of the family. ANGELICA DIAZ Harry Reid is not an honest broker in this debate and has proven he will manipulate the issue at any... DANNY DIAZ I told her, 'I'll ground you.' I didn't know it was slang for flow. JESSE DIAZ They never say they realize what they did was wrong. ARMANDO DIAZ They know what the rules are but they still skip around. ARMANDO DIAZ We are talking with MTV about filming here this year. Getting on television is extremely important. AVILA DIAZ The bad publicity about the pollution here has affected the destination. But Mexicans as well as for... AVILA DIAZ Acapulco now has high-end shopping malls and excellent night life. AVILA DIAZ Some people might second-guess us leaving him out there. He's one of those seniors who you have to p... DAVID DIAZ It seems to me if she exceeds the $50,000 that the prudent thing to do would be for her to come befo... DAVID DIAZ Those are the kinds of cases that raise questions, even if they don't seem that serious. DAVID DIAZ NY1's goal was not just to be a little brother or sister to what the other stations were doing. They... DAVID DIAZ [Left with $100 in his pocket, no food or clothes other than those on his back, and no gasoline in h... DAVID DIAZ Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, som... RICHARD DIAZ I don't know if you actually knew, but I don't think you're surprised, ... Was it prevalent in the l... DAVID DIAZ We need all the facts. It is our duty to look after the expenditures of money that comes from the pe... DAVID DIAZ I don't think you should sign a check just because it's put in front of you. As CFO, he needs to be ... DAVID DIAZ A lot of families hear that if you've got problematic credit issues, you're not going to qualify for... DAVID DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ He's definitely risen to an extremely important position of outreach that the movement hasn't had fo... JESSE DIAZ
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... 
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... 
She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the video... 
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. 
My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did. 
Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... 
It's the music of my youth. It's the music I grew up with. It's the music of my dreams. 
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... 
My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker.... 
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha... 
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one af... 
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the... 
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot... 
I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of mu... 
We've had those elements, and now it's just kind of catching up to us. So it's a nice thing. And I l... 
I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and ever... 
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... 
I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row... 
I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe... 
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ... 
(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, ... 
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the... 
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. 
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... 
I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things ... 
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had ... 
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday pa... 
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ... 
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had m... 
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procras... 
I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing g... 
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a ... 
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no a... 
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold... 
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. 