Ok, fixed that.
I’m not sure what the author of this piece is trying to say. Isn’t Yara supposedly raised in the US? I’ll concede that she definitely sounds like an American- but how, exactly does she sound like an white American..? How was she not Brazilian enough? Did he want her to have an accent..? Dance a samba..?
I’m getting that familiar feeling I get when someone tells me I don’t “sound or act” like a Cuban, despite being born there.