wrote her first song at age seven, she thought she might be a superhero

Sincero,” the salsa track was dedicated to a boy who didn’t like her back

finished writing it, I was like, ‘Wait, did I just create something that didn’t

through music came easily to the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, who grew up surrounded by artistic

is also a musician — who, along with his band, performs at local events

always free to experiment,” says the 29-year-old, who’s written songs for artists such as

learning to perform professionally at Escuela Libre de Música, her father had been preparing

to make me perform every single time at every family reunion,” GALE says

tell me, ‘If this is what you want to do your whole life, you need

like, ‘I just want to go play hide and seek with my cousins!’ But then