Video: Tatianna Córdoba Sings 'Flying Away' from REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
Feb 18, 2025
Real Women Have Curves is getting ready for Broadway! Check out a sneak peek video as director and choreographer Sergio Trujillo takes the stage at BroadwayCon to introduce 'Flying Away,' performed by Tatianna Córdoba.
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Our show celebrates family and power and resilience and the beauty of women who dare to dream beyond the limits placed on them
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This show, this story was based on a play by Josefina Lopez, which was then an HBO film
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that starred a newcomer, America Ferrara. But, you know, more important, this show is incredibly important to me
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because it celebrates all of the women in my life, all of those wonderful women who have made so many sacrifices
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so that I could have the life that I have. And it's also, it allows me to celebrate the power of women of all of you
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So I am The show I'll just reiterate a little bit more
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It said in the summer of 1987 In Bow Heights, Queens And it follows
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Anna Garcia An 18-year-old First Generation Mexican-American woman As she navigates Her family expectations
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feminism And her dreams of attending Columbia University I should have told them
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Then and there Now I've made myself a mess. And really what the hell is wrong with me
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Why do I always second guess? They gave up so much so I could have more
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But if I don go what was all of it for Flying away the wind on my side
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taking a chance on me, looking ahead for the first time. But can I fly away without her on my side
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Summer heat and summer sweat dragging me down
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What's the point of having wings at all? If I never leave the ground
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Won't settle for less I'll impress them and show I belong skyward bound
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Flying away, doing it all. If I can prove her wrong, maybe my dreams wouldn't have to be small
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I'll find a way to get them on my side. Fly to the edge of it all and rewrite
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my story show them I'm so much more than a face in the crowd and the fact that I reach is the reason they're proud
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Maybe then she would give me her blessing if I could be brave enough to show I can fly
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flying away I make her see that I going to change the world and still be the daughter she wants me to be
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Could I fly away with the wind on my side? I hope that I'll fly with them on my side
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Take your shirt off
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Comey, not gonna happen. Show some skin. She can handle all of us
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Let your body. With these arms look like a hammock. Breathe it in
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Tu'er is a fray. I am. Some of us got stretch marks
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Some say you light Some of us got both And that's all right
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We all got the same The same what? That voice inside The fire that makes us survive
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No matter what light throws our way We can bend, we can dance, we can rick a shake
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When a Vila gets hard we know what to say Real, real women, women have curves
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Real, real, women, women have curves. I see. We work harder and get painless
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Come home burnt out, then clean their mess. I see. We've all been daughters
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Some will be alive. We all been fighting just to live our lives We all got the same That boy inside the fire that makes us survive No matter what curveballs they grow
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we can't dance, let the music flow. The vizas la cumbia that we all know
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Real, real women, women have cursed. Real, women have cursed. Let's go Pacha, go Pacha
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La Lina de la Planchia So I'm once in the palisades track with the other maids
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Felt up with sweat like a heat from the Evelacea wanted a son but I decided to run
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So I roll at Lincoln Heights have advice with my son Real, real women women have curbs Yeah
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Yeah, real women have curts Let's go I see sir When I'm in the house I get out the curbs you need
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I can dance, I can throw And I know how to leave I'm an entrepreneur, yes sir, I'm a designer
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I make a dress to impress nobody finer Yeah, man, I'll blow like Pancho Villa
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You mess with me, I'll leave you like a chicken quesaria. Woo
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My name is Carmen, I know I don't thought me, no, I always learn as I go
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Came from Mexico to boil high sacrifice. Follet light drag me down
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I'm the queen of this town. La Lena! Call me la ching gona, I'll be sipping macrona. Yeah
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No matter what curve balls they throw. No matter what they throw
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We can learn we can dance, let me dance, the music flow
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La Villas la cune that we all know Real women Women have real
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Real women have real women have curse Real women have curse Real women have curse
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