Her first YouTube channel was called CaritoGCol, which she started in 2010 and uploaded only three videos there. She studied at Calasanz, a religious female school in Medellín. She just turned 30 years old and wears blue hair, just like when he was in school. And in 2020, his song 'Tusa', which is part of his new album KG0516 (2021), debuted at # 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Song chart. In 2018, the Colombian won the Latin Grammy for best new artists. (Read more: Greeicy Rendón will premiere a new song with Alejandro Sanz). “Someday there will be a whole audience going to a place for me”, she told herself one of the first times that she introduced herself as a backup singer for Reykon 'el líder', a Colombian reggaeton singer, more than ten years ago. Today, she remembers the moment, many years ago, when she envisioned that scenario. “ Dice que por otro man no llora, pero si le ponen la canción ”, she sang.įurthermore, she was nominated in three categories on that year, including best recording of the year by 'Tusa'. Harpist, drummer, bassist, cellist, and violinists reaffirmed Tusa as anthem of the year in the middle of an evocative setting of Mount Olympus where she, Karol G, was a mythological figure: the ‘Bichota’. On that same year, Karol G attended the Latin Grammy gala with a pink Dolce & Gabbana dress with a slogan: “Un hombre le pagó mal, ya no se le ve sentimental.” Moments later she did one of the main numbers with a band composed exclusively of women. In 2020, as the world was reeling from the pandemic, she reached an important throne with her song 'Tusa', a song alongside Nicki Minaj, which debuted at # 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Song chart and became the number 1 streamed song of 2020. She is an omnipresent musical figure in Colombia. In Medellin, it is not uncommon for one of these songs to be a cell phone ringtone in a pharmacy, or for younger children to sing it while carrying a cell phone in any popular neighborhood.
Her last megahits, 'Bichota' and 'Ay, Dios mio', were certified with 5 and 6 platinum albums, respectively. Today, she is the #1 Latina in the world for the second consecutive year (20), according to Billboard, the most viewed singer on YouTube, and one of the most listened to on Spotify, where she has 33 million monthly listeners and an accumulated of more than 2,200 million streams, at least by the end of 2020. All this after a persevering career that put made her the first woman to succeed as a soloist within the new generation of reggaeton, singing openly sexualized lyrics just like the men in the business. (A recomnendation: The most notorious infidelity scandals in the world of Hollywood).īy then, Karol G had been signed to Universal Music for two years, the same record company of big stars of the urban genre like J Balvin, Daddy Yankee, and Don Omar. Opening of the interview with Karol G in the printed edition of Revista Bocas. “I want to share this with this man here, who is 99 percent of the success of my career: my dad!” To which he added: “ To the Academy, to the Latin Grammys, and to everyone in the industry: thank you for believing in our project and God bless you”
Something that the two of them understood when they hugged in Don Francisco Te Invita, in 2018, when the veteran host welcomed him as: “He is the father of Karol G!” as he entered the set and she, a 27-year-old artist with a successful studio album (Unstoppable, 2017), greeted him proudly.įour months earlier, in January 2018, Karol G had won the Latin Grammy for best new artist and took her father on stage with her. She says her career had to take “ the slow route”.
Her father, Guillermo, an empirical musician, assumed very early – stubbornly like a good paisa – her career, which is why today everyone knows her as Karol G and him as Papa G. Although that time he told her to leave the meeting after she was asked to be a songwriter and not the main star. When she was five years old, he became the promoter, manager, and coach who took the young artist to sing at village fairs, to a children's reality show, to sign her first contract at age 14 and even to the United States in 2009.
(You could be interested: Anuel AA asks Karol G to come back in full concert). She was the youngest of three daughters in a wealthy middle-class household who showed promise from early on. Carolina Giraldo Navarro (February 14, 1991) was born and raised in Medellín. Her career began as a child as soon as she demonstrated a charming voice and a fascination for any family setting that involved songs and an audience. In fact, it was the big project of the Giraldo Navarro family. Karol G’s career was a family affair from the beginning.