Kali

Becky G, Xavi, Sech, Mora, Jhayco, and more are also slated for the beachside event This year’s Baja Beach Fest in Rosarito, Mexico will feature headliners Peso Pluma, Kali Uchis, Fuerza Regida, and Rauw Alejandro. Uchis will be the first woman to headline the annual event. The festival will also feature Becky G, Xavi, Sech, Mora, Jhayco, Latin Mafia, Yandel, Chencho Corleone, Jowell Y Randy, De La Ghetto, Alvaro Diaz and Omar Courtz, and Snow Tha Product among the a-list lineup. The fest,…

You could describe Kali Malone’s sixth album as her most approachable to date, but it’s perhaps wise to give a bit of context if you do.It is, after all, the follow-up to 2023’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy, which contained a grand total of three tracks – all versions of the same piece – and lasted over three hours. Featuring Malone playing a sine wave oscillator accompanied by cello and guitar, Does Spring Hide Its Joy was in itself substantially more approachable than, say, 2018’s Arched In Hysteria, a composition…

Kali Uchis‘ genre-jumping career has so far been evenly divided between Spanish and English-language albums, which feels about right for an artist who was born in Virginia but spent chunks of her childhood in her father’s native Colombia. “When you aren’t just one thing and you are as multidimensional of an artist as I am,” she says, “I think it’s a lot harder for people to figure out how to sell me as a product. But I think they don’t realize that being multidimensional is a lot of different people’s experiences… I’m…

Kali Uchis’s last outing, 2023’s dreamy, romantic Red Moon in Venus, earned the supple-voiced Colombian-American bouquets of praise. Orquídeas – her Spanish-language follow-up – was recorded alongside Red Moon and feels very much like the yang to Red Moon’s immersive yin.Upbeat, party-flavoured and featuring a hot, pan-Latin-American slew of collaborators, from fellow Colombian singer Karol G (Vevo’s most-watched artist of 2023) to Mexican artist Peso Pluma (YouTube’s most viewed artist of 2023), Uchis’s second…

F ew artists can set a scene like Kali Uchis. Each of her albums has proven that she’s a master of mood boards and a queen of aesthetics: Her 2018 debut album, Isolation, was a lush world of retro R&B best enjoyed on a heart-shaped couch; 2023’s Red Moon in Venus included cosmic, shape-shifting pop songs to be drunk up during a lunar eclipse. Across each project, she’s stitched disparate sonic textures together like fabric swatches and placed her voice front and center — allowing it to gently guide her…

Kali Uchis has played many different women in her 29 years on Earth.In the lead-up to her 2018 debut, “Isolation,” the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter made a name for herself as an edgy soulstress who could rock with Bootsy Collins, Damon Albarn and Juanes — in both English and Spanish — without missing a beat.In her 2020 follow-up, “Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)” — her first primarily Spanish-language LP — Uchis played a cosmic siren who stepped into her star power with her colossal breakout hit, “Telepatía.”…

The singer shared snippets of Orquídeas' "Tu Corazón Es Mío" and "Diosa" Mamá Uchis has a nice ring to it. On Thursday, hours before she’s set to release her Spanish album Orquídeas, the Colombian star revealed that she’s expecting a baby with her partner Don Toliver in a music video featuring the LP’s songs “Tu Coarzón Es Mío” and “Diosa.” “Starting our family ❤️‍🩹 don’t take too long to get here little pooks, mom & dad can’t wait to share our life with you,” Uchis wrote on Instagram.…

No one could accuse Kali Uchis of wasting time. The tour to promote her third album, Red Moon on Venus, ended a matter of weeks ago – with a performance at Camp Flog Gnaw, the festival curated by her sometime collaborator Tyler, the Creator – and yet here is its follow-up. She announced its arrival – or rather she announced a “new era” for her music – back in July, a mere four months after Red Moon in Venus came out.The artwork for Orquídeas.Perhaps, like persisting in calling new albums “eras”, this is just the way…

Most of us love a good juicy mystery book. The twists, the turns, the suspense and then finally the reveal – we love it, enjoy it, and indulge in it ever so often. The book that I enjoyed the most this year was not really a mystery book but, for me, it was also nothing less than one. It held a surprise on every spread, at every page turn. THIS IS NOT AN ART BOOK by Ra jKamal Aich is a collection of amazing visuals by an extraordinarily talented creative individual, with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working.…

As the lines between private and public spaces became ever blurrier, the music of 2023 pondered the meaning of self — who creates it, who defines it, who controls the rights to manipulate it. Here are our 20 favorite albums of 2023, in descending order. 1. SZA, “SOS”Technically, it came out at the tail end of 2022. But SZA does so many things so well on her instant classic of a second studio album — plush R&B slow jams, boom-bappy hip-hop, manicured bubble-grunge pop — that perhaps she knew we’d need an extra…