- Hey, what's up everyone?
My channel is called All Things Adrienne
because I literally want you to know everything about me,
so we're about to get personal.
I'm taking it way back, all the way to the beginning.
Here's my life story.
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My mother was a special ed teacher's aide
and my dad was a lab technician.
Crazy thing is, my dad actually started out being a singer.
He came from Ecuador with a dream.
He sang cumbia salsa music and that's how
he actually met my mom, in a club, a salsa nightclub.
He was the singer of the band in Queens, New York.
I have siblings.
I have one sister named Claudette,
she's older than me, three years older than me.
We're best friends and soulmates, we say.
And I have five stepbrothers.
Elvis, Jorge, Joey, John, and Eric.
And I actually didn't get stepbrothers
until I was about 14 or 15 years old because that's when
my parents got divorced, then re-married.
I grew up singing in my house constantly.
My home was filled with music.
I grew up in church, in a Pentecostal church,
where we did these elaborate church plays,
and I tried to star in every single one of them.
And I grew up just with a passion for the arts,
singing, dancing, acting,
and I would say that that was the preparation
for the time when I got my big break.
When I was 14 years old in high school,
I actually went to a medical high school
cause I thought I wanted to be an obstetrician.
I guess I was gonna sing the babies out.
I actually did an internship at Beth Israel
and this guy named Reggie walked up to me
and he's like, "Yo ma, you sing?"
Yes, I do, what do you want to hear?
I got songs ready to go.
There's no such thing as luck,
it's preparation meets opportunity,
and when I tell you I was prepared, ask my neighbors.
They were hearing me sing every single day
from the moment I woke up to the time I went to bed.
My mom was like, "We're about to get evicted, Adrienne.
"Nobody wants to hear you hollering
"La India, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion."
So when that moment came, I had songs prepared and ready,
and he actually was who introduced me
to my first manager, who managed 3LW
and was putting together a girl group.
Although I was auditioning for a pop R&B girl group
with 3LW, I actually auditioned
singing Marc Anthony's Preciosa.
I literally sang in Spanish for an English girl group.
(laughs)
I don't think anyone thought
3LW would take off the way it did.
With our first single, No More,
it went to the top of the charts,
we had a number one video on TRL,
which was insane cause literally,
I used to cut school, kids, don't do this,
and I actually used to stand in Times Square
with posters for my favorites, Britney Spears, N-Sync,
and to now be standing inside of the studio audience,
all my friends came out and supported us,
my family was standing out there with posters for 3LW,
and it just took off.
We ended up going on the TRL tour,
opening for Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson,
Eve, Nelly, it was insane.
And crazy thing is, one day we heard
that Disney Channel was auditioning
for a movie about a girl group.
My first audition for acting ever.
Guys, I messed up so bad on my audition.
Do, you're a Cheetah girl because of who's in your heart.
Holds her tightly and hugs her close.
I read the directions on my audition.
So embarrassing.
I thought right then and there, oh my God, this is over.
Like, that's it. It's the end.
And crazy enough, I thank til this day the producer
of the film, the executive producer, Debra Martin-Chase,
who saw something special in me from the start.
When I ask her now, "Why did you let me do it again?"
She said, "I knew from the moment that you walked in
"that you were our Chuchie,"
which was my character from The Cheetah Girls, Chanel.
We went on from doing one movie to two movies
to three movies, and then having three tours
that were insane, probably some of the best experiences
of my life happened while touring with The Cheetah Girls
and just being a part of it.
It's probably something that I'm the most proud of
and just being a part of the Disney Channel family
for me was such an honor.
I'm so proud of who I am, I'm so proud of my culture,
I'm super orgulloso, and I think
the fact that for the first time,
they had a Latina character that young girls
could look up to and be like,
"Oh my God, she looks like me, she sounds like me."
It was so meaningful for what it was doing
and how groundbreaking it was for Latinas in television.
I am like the perpetual girl group member.
I was in 3LW, Cheetah Girls,
and now I'm in another girl group called The Real.
And I can't express how much I love
working with those women.
I think that there's something to be said
about women that work really well with other women.
Girl power.
I love the fact that we're live now
and that you never know what's gonna happen.
Somebody's weave might slip out,
a ponytail might fall out, you might slip and fall.
And I think that's what makes the show so special
is that we are just real and authentic.
I think the greatest a-ha moment I had on the show
was completely not prepared, they had us open up these bags
and it was questions that they wanted us
to answer on the spot, and I opened this little bag
and opened up this crumpled little paper
and it said, "Why don't you sing anymore?"
I got so emotional in the moment,
I never would've thought I would have,
but I had a really honest moment
about what I thought about my voice
and something that so many of us feel,
we can be our biggest roadblock
in making our own dreams come true,
and I talked about the fact that I love to sing,
I absolutely love, love singing,
but I didn't love the sound of my own voice.
I think even for our fans, that was a really big moment,
especially since I later ended up
coming out with a Christmas album.
And I sing on the show, I feel like,
all the time now and I kind of have been freed
from that fear that I used to have.
So many people reached out and showed so much love,
saying how much they wanted me to get back to singing,
and that was awesome.
So here I am at 34 years old.
I'm like a daytime talk show host,
I can't even believe I can say that out loud.
I have a husband that I'm so in love with.
I'm married, I'm a stepmom, I love my family.
Looking forward to expanding my family in the future
and turning this amazing house into a home.
What I'm hoping for my channel, All Things Adrienne,
is one, that you guys get to know me a whole lot more.
I can introduce you to my family.
This gets really, really personal and I love that.
I think I live my life like an open book
and this is just another opportunity
for me to delve in and let you guys in.
I also want you to know that I heard you guys.
I absolutely love all of you
that have loved and supported me throughout my career
and I know you've been asking for makeup tutorials,
house tours, you want to know about fashion,
what I've been wearing, everything.
You guys have so many questions and this is the place
where I can actually answer all of that.
My favorite color is gold.
My favorite singer is Selena.
My favorite pump-up song would be Kirk Franklin, Hosanna.
Let me hear you make some holy ghost crazy noise.
(laughs)
That's my jam.
I swear we listen to it in my dressing room
all the time before shooting The Real.
My very last meal would be crab legs
dipped in garlic butter, heavenly baby Jesus.
The movie that makes me cry is Steel Magnolias
and it's one of my favorites, I love Julia Roberts
and I know every single word.
My colors are blush and bashful.
My dream vacation destination is Bora Bora.
I just want it for the gram.
Like, I want to take a bomb picture in the hut
with the see-through floor, seeing the little fishies
under me, I want to go to Bora Bora.
I do have a hidden talent.
(gurgling)
My teachers would be like, "Turn off that toy.
"Who has that toy?"
And I'd be doing work like...
(gurgling)
Yeah. It was bad.
So there you go, that's my life story in a nutshell.
But I really want to hear what you guys have to say.
I want to hear what you want to see on my channel.
Make sure that you comment, ask questions.
I'm so excited about getting to know you guys
just as much as you're gonna get to know me.
So let me know, make sure you comment in the comments,
and subscribe to the channel.
See you next time.
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