upbringing
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His music, ranging from songs like “Melting ICE” and corrido-hardcore fusion “El Corrido del Maton,” is inspired by his immigrant household upbringing and interest in Chicano studies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
"Maybe it's a double standard and down to my upbringing, but I still find it attractive."
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
He simply wrote it at a different time, when he was most famous, still, as a memoirist for Hillbilly Elegy, the story of his chaotic Appalachian upbringing.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
Like her upbringing, Mary’s connection to her heritage is complicated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Odile did not mind this predilection, seeing that it went along with, and probably helped, his emancipation from the dullness of his Northampton upbringing.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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