Angel Peaches shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Angel, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What do you think is misunderstood about your business?
People think an artist’s big break comes from meeting the right person. The truth is no one has the “keys” to your career but you. It’s every self-tape, every late night, every song you keep rewriting until it finally clicks, and leaning on the people who help you bounce back every time. Before my latest release, I wrote a song called “You”, about how it all really does come back to you and the people who push you forward. For me, it’s my family who inspires me to keep going. If you build your career from passion and persistence, no one can take it from you.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Angel Peaches aka Angel Michel Juarez, a singer, songwriter, and filmmaker born in Los Angeles with Mexican and Guatemalan roots. I grew up between three countries, and that mix of cultures and surreal experiences fuels everything I create.
Music is in my blood, my mom sang with the Original Sonora Dinamita de Lucho Argain, which inspired me from a young age, but acting and film are where I carved my own path. Right now, I’m releasing new music like my single Quédate which I wrote with Rob Jimenez (Anchor Music), starring in films like Angels May Cry (which premiered at London Short Film Festival and won the UNICEF Young Adults Award in Italy), and finishing my own short film as writer and director. Everything I do is about turning love and chaos into art people can feel.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a kid, I thought I couldn’t write a song to save my life. I was too shy and embarrassed of anything I would write down, especially growing up as an ESL student.
Now I know creativity doesn’t live in perfection, it lives in courage. Being bilingual gives me two beautiful worlds to draw from, and every lyric, script, and story I’ve written has come from leaning into the fear instead of running from it. That’s the heart of Angel Peaches: alchemizing what once made me insecure into the very thing that defines me.
What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
Losing my home as a child shaped everything. One day I was 10, watching SpongeBob in my Inglewood home, and the next my family was packing everything we owned into boxes. We bounced between apartments, houses, and shelters, and there were moments I thought I’d have to give up art completely.
But every time life knocked me down, an “angel” appeared in the form of a teacher, a friend, or even a beautiful stranger who reminded me there was a path just waiting for me to find it again. That resilience, and my family finding stability, became the foundation of Angel Peaches. My art was always alive inside me, but was being held back by situations I couldn’t control. Now it stands as living proof that beauty can grow from chaos, and that if we love something deeply enough, it keeps finding us, guiding us back to our own uniquely divine path.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Whom do you admire for their character, not their power?
I admire my mother, Doris Montenegro, for choosing love over power. She is the most talented, shining star I know, and she navigated an unforgiving industry while refusing to compromise her integrity. Coming from a single mother of eight in Guatemala, she rose on pure talent and became a star there.
When she crossed into Mexico, she was told early on that she’d need to find a patrocinador, essentially a sponsor who would “support” her career, but with expectations that went far beyond her music. She was repulsed by the idea, and instead chose to keep singing on her own terms, guided only by her voice and her drive. That strength carried her all the way to joining the legendary Sonora Dinamita de Lucho Argain, not because of anyone she “belonged” to, but because of her own talent. She showed that saying no to the wrong path can still lead you exactly where you’re meant to be. She’s the reason Angel Peaches exists today.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I’m absolutely doing what I was born to do, and that’s why Angel Peaches exists. People told me to pick one path, but I’ve chosen to create both music and film. I may be introverted in life but art is the vessel that lets me express every part of who I am. Making music fulfills me, and acting lets me time-travel and play like a child. In the end, money comes and goes, but love and art remain. Someday I hope to create a song or film so beautiful it brings people the joy art has always brought me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.angelpeaches.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angel_peaches/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533945348
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0Xfbb02tc&list=RDyF0Xfbb02tc&start_radio=1
Image Credits
Oscar Moreno insta: @Oscar.gomorepro
Juan Avila insta: @Juanavilaphotography
Fabian Montes insta: @cinebotfilms
Owen Galicia insta:@galician_photography
