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Reggaeton icon Ivy Queen and icon in the making Tokischa joined forces at 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week on Wednesday (Oct. 22) for a candid conversation about feminism, sexuality and music \u2014 also marking the first time the Dominican breakout star and Puerto Rican icon met.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of perceptions of who you are, how you present yourself. What do you feel when people put a label on you without knowing you?\u201d Ivy Queen asked Tokischa.<\/p>\n
More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI recently went to the dermatologist who says she\u2019s religious,\u201d Tokischa said. \u201cShe started talking to me about God and told me that I had a very big name, Altagracia [her middle name]. I understand what it means. It\u2019s the name of the virgin, a message from God. People don\u2019t expect me to be a person who believes in God, who prays, who gives thanks, who asks for forgiveness. I\u2019m a firm believer in God, and I know what that name entails.\u201d<\/p>\n Amid the conversation \u2014 during which they bonded over breaking stereotypes in the music industry, having things in common like being Pisces, and talked about relationships \u2014 Tokischa opened up about the ultra-personal album she\u2019s working on.<\/p>\n \u201cI finished my album mid-year. I worked on a super intimate project, spending seven months in the studio all day,\u201d she expressed. \u201c[On the album] I\u2019m talking about my story \u2014 beyond being Tokischa la perra, la bellacal, I\u2019m raw and honest, in terms of all the traumas I\u2019ve overcome, from my years as an addict. I had an unstable moment because I had to uncover all those traumas and record. In my career, I\u2019ve had to start over from scratch twice.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s normal. It\u2019s happened to me a lot. If it\u2019s about being reborn, I\u2019m a phoenix,\u201d Ivy Queen said, sharing encouraging advice. \u201cThis business takes the best of you. You have to ride the wave while it lasts, and when the sea is rough, know how to balance yourself. I considered myself an ugly duckling in this industry, and I had to blossom. You are blossoming. You\u2019re at a stage where you\u2019re enjoying being human, and I want you to keep rocking it, to continue being you.\u201d<\/p>\n Spanning 36 years, Latin Music Week is the single largest gathering of Latin artists and industry executives in the world. This year\u2019s event \u2014 which also features Carlos Vives, Car\u00edn Le\u00f3n, Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Net\u00f3n Vega, Ozuna, Pablo Albor\u00e1n, and Xavi, among others \u2014 hosts panels, marquee conversations, roundtables, networking and activations, in addition to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo showcases.<\/p>\n Latin Music Week also coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air Thursday, Oct. 23, on Telemundo and Peacock, where Bad Bunny will be honored as Top Latin Artist<\/a> of the 21st Century.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reggaeton icon Ivy Queen and icon in the making Tokischa joined forces at 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week on Wednesday (Oct. 22) for a candid conversation about feminism, sexuality and music \u2014 also marking the first time the Dominican breakout star and Puerto Rican icon met. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of perceptions of who you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2107593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[350441,367996,394543,313551,398962],"class_list":["post-2107592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billboard-latin-music","tag-candid-conversation","tag-ivy-queen","tag-latin-music","tag-tokischa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ivy-Queen-Gives-Tokischa-Her-Flowers-at-Latin-Music-Week.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107594,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107592\/revisions\/2107594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}