NYC Rock Princess with Pretty Sick Vocalist Sabrina Fuentes
Going Mental with Eileen Kelly
Eileen Kelly
4.8 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sabrina Fuentes is the leader singer and bassist of the American indie rock band Pretty Sick. With over 300k monthly listeners, the band has been compared to a modern day Hole and the Pixies. Pretty Sick was created in 2014 in New York City when Sabrina was only 13 years old. They are signed to the record label Dirty Hit and are currently based out of London but tour all over the world. Sabrina discusses her creative process, switching music genres, the anxieties of putting out music so young, and songwriting as therapy.
You can follow Sabrina on Instagram @sickysab and check out Pretty Sick's music videos on YouTube @PrettySick.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been going mental I'm losing my mind |
| 0:07.0 | because you're on and all of the time |
| 0:12.0 | I've been going mental but I'm feeling just fine. |
| 0:17.0 | Going mental all of the time. I'm Eileen Kelly and you are listening to the going mental podcast. On today's |
| 0:30.7 | episode I'm joined by singer-songwriter Sabrina Fuentes. |
| 0:34.0 | She is the lead vocalist and bassist of the indie rock band Pretty Sick. |
| 0:41.0 | They boast over 300,000 Spotify listeners a month and have been |
| 0:46.2 | compared to a modern day hole in the pixies. The band was originally |
| 0:49.5 | started in 2014 in New York City when Sabrina was only 13 years old. They are signed to the record |
| 0:54.5 | labeled Dirty Hit and are currently based out of London and regularly tour all |
| 1:01.9 | over the world. I'm actually a good friend of |
| 1:05.7 | Sabrina's and she did the music for the Going Mental podcast. |
| 1:11.9 | Welcome to Going Mental. Hi. Welcome to going mental. |
| 1:14.1 | Sabrina can you introduce yourself for my listeners? |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, my name's Sabrina Fuentes. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm the lead singer and bassist of Pretty Sick. |
| 1:22.1 | And I'm a native New Yorker who now lives in London and |
| 1:25.7 | tours full-time with my band and guess what she you did our music I did I did the |
| 1:31.2 | jingle yeah so the jingle I so the jingle and going mental is all you. |
| 1:36.2 | Okay, so when I was sitting down to write these questions, |
| 1:39.1 | I was like, well, I remember first meeting you when you worked at V files. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, we've known each other for a really long time. |
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