Back in 2013, Naya Rivera was on the cover of our Latin Hot List issue. She spoke with us about Glee and her pop star dreams as she released her debut single 'Sorry'
f Rivera has her way, soon Sean won’t be the only musical star in the relationship. She recently released a supercatchy single featuring her fiance called “Sorry” – with taunting lyrics widely interpreted as shots at his exes. It’s already cracked the Top 40 onRivera has actually been signed to Columbia Records for three years, since the first wave of-mania, but she’s just now finishing her debut album. “It took a long time to figure out where I wanted to go musically,” she says.
Rivera says she’s always been driven in her pursuit of stardom, ever since she started going to auditions at age four. “I remember feeling really important when I would wake up for a 5 a.m. call time,” she says. “I knew I must be doing something special if the sun wasn’t even up yet.”. “I was so focused on trying to book a show or get a record deal that I was really removed from the whole high school experience,” she says.
While both of Rivera’s parents are half-Puerto Rican, she says she grew up in the suburbs of L.A. without much sense of her heritage, not speaking Spanish. Even so, before, she was mostly offered more stereotypical Latin roles. “Once you break through on a show that is so culturally universal,” she says, “people stop looking at you for your ethnicity.”
Rivera is pretty laidback most of the time – but when she gets excited about something, you can see the off-the-charts energy that led her sister, model Nickayla Rivera, to nickname her “Little Sonic,” like the Sega hedgehog. Naya pulls up a video on her phone to show me what she means. It shows her caught on Fox’s broadcast cameras, celebrating when her brother scored his first professional touchdown. She’s dressed in a Raiders cap and a cut-off T-shirt, wildly waving her fingers in the air.
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