<div><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);font-size: 12px;font-family: Arial;"><em>Photography </em>– Lucía Alonso<br><em>Model </em>– Catarina Cruz<br><em>Photo Assistant </em>– Lilit Danielyan<br><em>Stylist </em>– Sleiman Dayaa<br><em>Local Stylist </em>– Sara Soares<br><em>Stylist Assistant </em>– Ana Rosendo<br><em>Hair &amp; Makeup </em>– Elodie Fiuza<br><em>Video </em>– David Naingkom<br><em>Lighting </em>– Dominik Falke<br><em>Venue </em>– Palácio do Grilo</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239,238,230);font-size: 12pt;font-family: Satoshi;"><br></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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The Revival Issue - Featuring Catarina Cruz

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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You&rsquo;ve evolved from being a digital personality to a music artist, how has your relationship with creativity changed along the way?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the beginning, my creativity felt very external. I was getting immediate feedback not just on what I created, but on who I was, and that felt overwhelming. I took everything personally, like I was sharing my deepest self and it was being judged or rejected in real time. It felt like I was walking through a world of distorted mirrors, trying to prove which version of me was actually real. At a certain point, I had to step back and quiet everything. That&rsquo;s when I realized the work I needed to do wasn&rsquo;t outside of me, it was internal. I had to learn how to trust myself without constant feedback. As I started looking inward, my relationship with creativity changed completely. It became less about being seen and more about understanding myself. I stopped creating to prove something and started creating because I&nbsp;wanted&nbsp;to. Now I trust my instincts more. I use my emotions as fuel instead of something to hide. And that shows up in everything I do, whether it&rsquo;s music, talking to a camera, or even something small like cooking a meal that brings me back to a feeling or a memory. It all comes from the same place now, and that&rsquo;s what makes it feel real.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Fame came quickly and very publicly for you. How did you learn to define your identity beyond the noise of social media?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve fully learned how to escape the noise yet, but I have learned not to take everything so personally. For a while I was only looking at myself through other people&rsquo;s opinions, and that got really&nbsp;overwhelming. I had to take a step back and figure out who I really am when no one is talking or listening. That&rsquo;s still something I&rsquo;m working on, but I try to give myself grace, and also remember everyone has their own perspective. We&rsquo;re all just figuring it out.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your music often feels introspective and emotionally honest, what draws you to vulnerability in your work?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It&rsquo;s not something I have to force, it&rsquo;s just how I process things. I think that&rsquo;s why I always come back to music in different seasons of my life, it&rsquo;s where I feel the most like myself. I&rsquo;ve always felt things really deeply, and I&rsquo;ve found that when I avoid that in my music, it doesn&rsquo;t feel honest. Vulnerability is uncomfortable, but it&rsquo;s also the only way it actually connects.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>In an industry that constantly demands reinvention, how do you stay grounded and authentic?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There&rsquo;s a difference between reinvention and growth. I think we&rsquo;re all just growing. I&rsquo;m not trying to become a different person every day, I just want to be honest about where I am in my life. Staying grounded for me means not rushing that process or changing just to keep up. It&rsquo;s about being okay with evolving at my own pace, staying open, and accepting that you can&rsquo;t control everything.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You&rsquo;ve grown up in front of an audience, what has that experience taught you about control and letting go?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It taught me very quickly that you don&rsquo;t really have as much control as you think. You can control what you put out, but not how people interpret it. I used to try to manage that, and it actually pushed me further away from real connection. My intentions started shifting from connecting to trying to be a version of myself I thought people would want. Letting go of that need for control didn&rsquo;t mean not caring, it just felt like the natural next step as I became more aware of how much I was trying to be accepted by people who don&rsquo;t really know me.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>How do fashion and visual storytelling play a role in expressing who you are today?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It&rsquo;s another creative outlet. It&rsquo;s not all of me, but it&rsquo;s definitely a big part of me. It&rsquo;s a way to express things without having to explain them in full detail. Some days I feel more put together&nbsp;and other days&nbsp;I feel more raw, and I like visuals that can reflect that. It&rsquo;s less about following trends and more about mood and energy. Sometimes I take fashion risks that might only make sense if you really understand my world, and that&rsquo;s where I get to show the full spectrum of who I am.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What challenges have shaped you the most behind the scenes, that people don&rsquo;t usually see?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A lot of it has been internal. I was living half my life in my head. Most of my inner work actually started from things long before I was ever online. I had to face the truth that you can&rsquo;t build anything on an unstable foundation. I had to go backwards and reconnect with parts of myself I didn&rsquo;t fully understand. At the same time, everything in my life was changing so quickly. There was pressure, expectations, and this feeling of being overexposed while still trying to keep it all together. I had to take a step back and do real inner work. There were moments I felt like I was falling behind,&nbsp;but it was then that I started to feel a level of self-trust and self-love&nbsp;that&nbsp;I never had before.<s>&nbsp;</s>I&rsquo;m still learning to trust myself, even with outside opinions. And I&rsquo;ve had to become okay with&nbsp;not onlybeing misunderstood,&nbsp;but also&nbsp;with people only seeing the end result without understanding what it took to get there.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Looking ahead, what kind of legacy are you hoping to build not just as an artist, but as a voice of your generation?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don&rsquo;t really know yet. I&rsquo;ve always had big dreams of helping people, creating a better world to live in, and being a positive addition to society. I don&rsquo;t see myself ever doing just one thing or having one single purpose. I just want to be honest in what I put out into the world and hopefully make people feel less alone in whatever they&rsquo;re going through. If anything, I&rsquo;d want people to feel like they don&rsquo;t have to have everything figured out to still be moving forward.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>There&rsquo;s a constant dialogue between public perception and personal truth, how do you navigate that tension in your daily life?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It&rsquo;s definitely something I&rsquo;m still learning. I think the biggest thing is separating what people think from what I know is true for me. Not everything needs to be ignored, but not everything needs to be taken in. It&rsquo;s about finding a balance between connecting with people&nbsp;while&nbsp;maintaining personal boundaries. You just have to do what makes sense for you in the moment, try not to overthink everything, and not dwell on mistakes. Just learn and move forward.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>If you could strip everything back&mdash;no platforms, no expectations, what kind of artist would you choose to be today?</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Honestly, probably the same, just with less pressure. I would still be creating, maybe getting to try new things with a more gradual start would lessen some of the self-doubt. But I try not to spend too much time thinking about what could have been. I believe I&rsquo;m where I&rsquo;m supposed to be, even if it doesn&rsquo;t always make sense right away. Stripping everything back wouldn&rsquo;t really change my purpose.</span></div>
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