English to Spanish Other Music

Hola,
sé lo que significa la expresión pero me pregunto si se dice de alguna manera específica en el ámbito musical.
¿Podría ser sacarse las castañas del fuego?
Gracias.

When we started of course you know, we weren’t doing well financially you know, we had to do everything ourselves.

I think those are what you call musicians say pay your dues, and that’s definitely what we did.

Talk about paying your dues, they just played anywhere they could play, anywhere they could make a buck and She was always the front person. And eventually, it didn’t take long for people to notice her.