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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
Miguel
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Miguel
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.
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