El Paso singer featured in music video for nationwide movement, ‘Call Me a Dreamer’
El Paso, Texas-- An El Paso woman has a dream to sing at the White House and she's joining a nationwide movement, "Call me a Dreamer," to make it a reality.
Connie Blue-Puché is the creative songwriter behind the song, "Call me a dreamer”. A song created to inspire and give hope to DACA recipients, or immigrant youth known as “Dreamers’
“It was years ago when I began working on the song," said Blue-Puché, "The song was born in English even though I’m hispanic and I express everything that I lived.”
The song speaks of Blue-Puché's experience of living in this country as a Dreamer in the 1970’s without knowing that that term would become what it is today, and that a whole generation would go through what she faced growing up.
After years of perfecting the song, Blue-Puché knew that it was time to record the song but she wanted to include more than just her voice.
“Who better than the Dreamers themselves to sing the song,” said Blue-Puché.
She teamed up with Carlos Bravo to create a music video which featured Dreamers from all over the nation.
"We were trying to make something very intimate. We wanted to do something during the pandemic and we wanted to get a piece of what the Dreamers were going through in their life and how they shared their dreams within their place of life," said Bravo.
The music video includes one Dreamer from right here in the borderland.
“It was truly a blessing to hear this song and I truly connected with it,” said El Pasoan NIA Del Angel.
Blue-Puché and her team reached out to NIA Del Angel through Instagram and asked her to participate in the song.
The music video was especially meaningful to NIA's mom.
"She started crying her heart out mainly because my family has gone through a very tough fast few months," said NIA, "My grandma, who I was not able to say goodbye to, passed in February so in the beginning of the video there’s a picture of me and her.”
The end goal for writing this song is about more than just about bringing awareness.
“I closed my eyes while I was writing the song and I said we’re going to the White House and we are going to sing it everywhere,” said Blue-Puché.
And the team of Dreamers hopes our country can use this song as a way to celebrate our nations diversity.
“Because that’s the power of music," said singer Saba Nafees, "The fight is not over. We have a long way to go when it comes to getting the dream act passed, but as people in the movement continue to work hard in that front we’ll continue in this front where we’re gonna touch people with song and with music.”
A GoFund me page was created to help the team of musicians raise enough funds to fly to the White House in hopes of singing the song for members of the White House.
