from California State University San
Bernardino its local  matters
first-generation college students and
musicians hello
I'm Anthony Perez and welcome to local
matters featuring stories from across
the Inland Empire and I'm Amanda Romero
being the first in your family to attend
college can seem intimidating at first
although there are obstacles it is a
proud moment for many when they achieve
their dreams reporter Adriana Contreras
converses with first-generation college
students as to why higher education was
their chosen path to achieve or not to
achieve is the question for many
first-generation college students
although it may seem impossible to
achieve the impossible it's not my
family is from Mexico my mom is from
Durango Mexico and my father is from get
a tow vehicle here they they moved here
for probably like maybe 20 years ago our
parents were together there was not so
much of a struggle but when when they
separated when I was like 15 they then
you know I had to you know work could to
help out my mom and everything so that's
when the difficulty came because you
know going to school working at the same
time started here I started doing a
music major and but more in the
engineering engineering side situations
at home and situations at school can be
difficult for many students but to
overcome the obstacles and chase your
dreams is the greatest reward both my
parents are from the city of Mexico both
my sisters went to college although they
didn't finish it completely so they kind
of had high hopes that I would I'm
studying environmental science with a
concentration in ecological restoration
passionate about going out there and
making the world a better place although
at times it may have seen impossible to
achieve a four-year degree for these
students it wasn't impossible they
achieved the impossible to achieve or
not to achieve for local matters I'm
Adriana Contreras pursuing music as a
career takes dedication reporter Yahaira
Morales talks with a local musician to
learn more about what it takes to be a
musician and I would have shaped them as
a person music has a way of moving
people and in surprise I'm sure amazing
music artists Adrian Cabella lets us
into his life and the journey he's had
with music my music journey began
between eighth grade year middle school
and freshman in high school
and it all started just because I was
always interested in music and then over
the years that kind of got into the idea
of creating my own and at first I
thought it would be ridiculously
expensive to be able to pay for like a
studio and all this stuff in the
equipment and then you just I would come
home from school every single day
and just do research on making beads and
what equipment to buy and what it took
to make a song and how to get better at
producing instrumentals and I mean over
the past 11 years I've kind of just
developed the art more and the quality
of everything and it's brought me to
where I'm at right now
one of my favorite moments that I've
experienced all the shows and just
different places that I've been able to
go to and the people that I've met
solely based on the fact that I decided
to do music all this because I have a
lot of moments where I'm just like gay
like this is really dope I'm doing this
right now and had I not decided to stay
consistent with doing music I wouldn't
be in the situation make sure you keep
an eye out for a dream you might just be
your next favorite artist for local
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