Cristela Alonso

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989 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 29 Dec

Cristela Alonso’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Comic Cristela Alonzo · 29 Sep 2025 podcast

I'm still friends with them.

I've always said it's like without Mr. Honnell, I don't know what I would have done.

Yes.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

I wanted it so much.

Couldn't afford dance classes.

Couldn't afford singing lessons.

So I took it upon myself to just record movies that I could get off the TV on my VCR and

I learned their dances.

Then when I got to high school and started auditioning for college, they were like, oh, you can sing.

And I was like, I can?

I had no idea.

And yes, I wanted to be on Broadway.

But you ended up in stand-up comedy.

Well, you know, I wanted to do Broadway, and then a voice teacher when I was 18 years old told me that as a Latina, I could do West Side Story and Chorus Line, and then I was kind of done.

And it was weird because at that moment, I felt like somebody had said that my dream was limited and I had no chance to do it.

And I ended up doing some kind of theater, but I couldn't get auditions.

And I stopped doing theater.

And then I decided to move to L.A.

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