We were lucky to catch up with Mila Miranda recently and have shared our conversation below.

Mila, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Women’s Freedom Festival! This past June 3rd was my first time co-headlining next to Madame Gandhi, which I admire and appreciate her work so much, for this particular show, I wanted to create unique tracks, songs that the audience haven’t heard before, it took endless hours of work, not just on my part but my sound engineer Margaux which is such a trooper spending crazy hours in the studio with me getting the levels ready for the show. This music isn’t out yet, but it will be really soon, I remember telling myself, I’m gonna design everything from the outfits to the visuals to the music, lyrics everything, I think a couple weeks before the show I started to practice with my fit on and I realized the shoes didn’t really look as crazy as everything else, so I stopped and grabbed pieces of plastic and started melting it down with a heatgun and created this wet melted look for the back of the shoes, I added transparent hot glue with a left over sparkling makeup from Anastasia Beverly Hills ( that’s Definitely not for shoes) , and after around 8 hours I felt complete! It was done! Then sharing this look with my makeup artist Benni, which you should’ve seen her face!! She loved it and she got my vision for my makeup right away! I think my entire team was meant to be found the way that it happened everyone aligned so perfectly. Energy, love and passion for the art of performing and music.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started in the entertainment industry when I turned 16, back in my hometown Trujillo, Peru. I started as a dancer and worked on different events as a performer/choreographer/tour dancer /TV commercials, you name it! My mother never agreed to what I was choosing to do with my life or my dreams, so that became my force to keep pushing, to save my money and move out of my home, at 17 I moved to Lima and started to work on several different projects and my ambition for knowledge took me to take the next step, I moved to Argentina when I turned 18 to study music and discovered many a different level of love for Art, a year went by and the opportunity to move to the USA came along and I never thought I was gonna make it to Los Angeles, but I did! I worked as a performer for the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim with cero English, thankfully they assigned me a translator for a few months to help me get settled. My life has been crazy from there on, my love for music took me to learn music production, and everything that comes along with it, to be honest lyrics are not my strongest but sound the actual feeling that you find on a line of melody is what inspires me to make music. In the past 5 years I have learned editing, sound design, project development, graphics, set design, lighting design. It’s Los Angeles you have to know it all! I’m currently studying Architecture & Design. I’m always hungry for knowledge! I love people seeing people happy and enjoying themselves, with music space and good energy.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I think the main resource that I wish I new sooner is that… It’s okay to ask for help! Everyone tells you you have to battle alone! But it’s not true ask for help all you will get is a NO or YES after that just move on! And keep diving, also be YOU unique! Being YOU is already unique because out there there’s NO One Like you!

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

When I see people enjoying themselves on the dance floor! To me is like in my family no one has ever recorded a song so the fact that my children will listen to some of my tracks and say that’s my mom or my nephews will be like hollyyyyy cow my auntie made it to the USA and performed her best on several stages makes me so happy, because I’m a Peruvian girl that had a dream that everyone in her little town thought was crazyyyyy! And now I’m here still doing it and hopefully this will make other artists from my town believe in themselves. It doesn’t matter if I win a Grammy or if I get millions of streams! All it matters to me is the fact that I’m actually doing it and making it happen.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milamirandaofficial/?hl=en
• Youtube: https://youtu.be/nja0c6VhXn0?si=JhIkDJuAFNtV6-pk