December 5, 2025 • 17 mins
Global superstar Karol G sits down with Emily Curl to discuss her album "Tropicoqueta,” discussing its intergenerational appeal and how it celebrates the diverse sounds of Latin music. She shares insights into her unique creative process for the album and her vision to bring a "Latina party" to life for the upcoming Tropicoqueta Tour. Karol G reflects on the cultural influences from countries like Mexico that have shaped her music and opens up about the importance of showing vulnerability in her Netflix documentary. Finally, she touches on what brings her joy, including exploring new cultures through travel and her recent experiences living in New York City y mucho mucho más.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, friends, it's your girl, Emily Girl back here in
our iHeart Radio Studios in New York City, and today
we are joined by global superstar Carol ge Is here
with this.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Can we show some love for Carol g in our studio? Wow?
Our whole time here, Thank you. We are so happy
to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What an exciting time. One month of Tropical Getta it
is out. The fans are loving, it's enjoying, and this
has felt like just such a celebration, such a fun
album cycle.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The press stores of performance is the outfits. Tell me
about the world. Yeah, tell me about this world. It
is a universe of who I am.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And I think that's the most special thing about this
album is to see all the things that made me
and shape me as a singer, as a woman, as
a person, as a Latina. So for me to have
this album out and just to see how it gets
its own life, because one thing is when I'm creating
it and the thing and when it gets to the people,
(01:02):
it's kind of the circle path of it. And I'm
super happy we're celebrating a month.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think I'm getting connected to my people in a
different way and I'm super happy about that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Tell me what it's like again a month of the
special project for you out seeing the fans react. Has
there been anything that's been surprising for you? What has
been like to see their reactions and their feedback to
the album.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
First, the most beautiful thing for me is to see
how it connects different generations, to see how like my
fans from now, like in really young ages, they're connecting
with their parents, their family, their aunts, uncles, and they're
just just shooting the video, dancing and get connected to
the music that we used to hear before.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So it's kind of now we can listen to a.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Karlgi song mixed with a Les Maloicos or this old
music that represents us too. So that's one of the
beautiful things that I love the most. And then I
think it's kind of to get the people to know
all of.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The different genres that as the Latinos we have.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's beautiful because I always speak about a specific moment
in my career last year where I was like having
in an interview and with someone that I was speaking
about like the Latina music.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It was just urban music. Yes, I read this, I
read you talking about this, and that shocked me.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A little bit because me, Carolina, myself, I love to
hear all the different genres of music that we have.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And I was in my home when you used to hear,
like to listen to everything. So I was like, you know,
let me explain you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And I was like trying, and I was kind of
frustrating to make him understand. But I understand too that
right now urban music in our Latino community is it's.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Popping up for the last years.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So I was like, let me do my homework and
let me take the place that I have right now
to show the people the universe of sounds that we
have and that we are. So that's why I I
love this album the most. And one thing that I
recognize is getting me two different people that I used
to have with my different albums, like right now when
(03:11):
I perform my songs live in different places that we
have done like different.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Actions with different platforms. It's crazy because I see new faces,
new people, different ages.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So I'm super happy, like open in my arms and
just getting the blessings.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I love that because it's one thing to do when
an artist loves an album, you can feel that as
a fan and like you said, this was this return
to your roots. You touched on this, But what were
those early sounds and artists that you feel like defined
the earliest version.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh, I think I could talk about like so many
of them. If I think about like some of them
right now, I can say like like India, Miria Bernandez
or one of them, Talia for sures, Helena for sure,
Juangariel ross In los Bagnatos Colombiano, like our columbianagenatos Cumbia.
(04:02):
It's crazy because I used to listen to everything salsata
and that's why I think this album.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is the perfect playlist of who I really am.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, and suddenly, like you said, it spans so many
of those Latin genres. Like you were talking about, what
was it like for you to go from a listener
and a lover of those types of music and genres
to creating your own to creating this album.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, this one specifically was completely different to what I've
done before in any different album that I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Also, give me the give me the rundown.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have to say that my last album, for example,
I was just doing music, trying to explain or trying
to put in in a song some words that I
couldn't say and I was sent able to speak. So
I was just doing doing, doing music. And then the
team was like, hey, we need an album.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We have like we haven't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Launched an album in soul so much time. So I
was like, Okay, let's put this together, and I put
the name was an amantra that I was having, So
so that was the album. But in this one specifically,
I started from nothing like writing down in a paper
what would be like the perfect album in this moment
(05:12):
of my career. So I put just moods, feelings, what
I was people to hear, what I want people to
hear to feel when they listen to this album.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
What were the earliest words, like I wish do you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Still have that? Like? Yeah? I was like, I'm like
I love to write things down.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I have like so many notebooks for different things, and
I love because if I put them in my phone, I.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Forget complete about them. So I love to do it
like in a notebook.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I wrote like memories, nostalgic, different generations, I don't know.
I thought a lot about my family and how our
parties used to be when it was a child, like
just waiting for my parents to have fun and me
with my cousins sittings in chairs or sleeping in chairs
on corners, waiting for all of them and what you know,
(06:00):
them having fun with the music. So I wrote down
all of the feelings and type of music, the genres
that I would love to have, and I went to
all of the different genres and tried to get how
they used to do it, Like they used to speak
this way, they used to to use this type of
the galensias. I don't know how to say in English,
the galensias in the music, like different feelings. And I
(06:23):
really wanted to sound really authentic. Now I would be
the modern way of it. No, I really wanted to
sound like that era, that moment of life. That that's
why I think when people listen to this album, they
feel that there's something that they already know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They're taken to that place exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think they listen to my album they are like, oh,
they sounds familiar to me. So that's what was the
most important thing with my album. And I loved the
process was like a university for me that I didn't
have never before, and to get to meet all the
decisions that I work with the different masters of the
different genres of music. To travel to the different countries
(07:06):
was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
When it comes to this album, are you already thinking
about how you're going to put this one on the stage,
what you're dreaming about for that stage?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
For sure, I think it was the hardest part of
everything because there's so many different genres in the album.
I'm going to say, in the best moment of my career,
I'm bringing so many different genres that they don't play
in anymore. So it was like a challenge how I'm
gonna put this together in a tour every day when
I like, I keep listening to it and I can
(07:35):
get and I get these ideas, and I speak with
the team and bringing the musicians, the band and everything.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's going to be a party.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I can imagine it's going to be a Latina party.
And I don't know what is going to happen, because
I really think it has to be on a specific
moment where I feel everything comes together and it's going
to happen. But for sure, I'm like writing down ideas
speaking with the team.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We have like so many stuff happening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
When it's going to happen, it's so exciting has there
been a country, or a city or a crowd that
really surprised you with how deeply they connect to your
music or show out for your shows.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Okay, I think one of the craziest things when I
was on tour and my last tour, I was like,
oh my god, I feel that I'm from all of
the places that I visit, not just being Colombia. It's
crazy because every place that I went people made me
feel so deeply loved that I was like I could
be from here too. Like every place that I went,
(08:34):
they were like so special. Even when I was in Europe,
people were bringing their flags for every different country, even
when I was here in US, and I was like,
I love that I made people feel proud of where
they are, where we're from. But I think if I'm
going to speak about a country that I get really
influenced by, it's Mexico. My of course, my country Columbia.
(08:59):
All of my traditions and who I am is I'm Colombian.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But I think since I was a kid, since I
was a child, I get.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Really connected with the Mexican culture because of the Noela
soap operas is I.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Think it's how you say it in area. But I
used to be like watching.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Noelas with my in my house and get together to
all the music that they used to play in Noela,
like Mariati, this Mexican five music.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And I think since Dan's moment, I.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Started creating this personal relationship that I have, and I
think I showed up a lot that with my music,
with not only your music, but we got a glimpse
of that. As you're preparing for tour, you're coming up
with this album and your Netflix documentary Carol G. Tomorrow
is Beautiful, which was such a moment for you to
release this before the sound came out. Why was it
so important for you to show your fans this side
(09:49):
of you and to show what goes on behind the
scenes of someone like Carol G as a singer, as
a public person. I think we get this pression to
show all the time the best side of everything. The
success is kind of you have to follow the movie.
You have to be on the movie all the time
(10:09):
because if not, you'ren't gonna get the excitement of the
people that it's needed. So for me, when I watching
social media things and I get confused how everyone is
so happy, how everyone is so successful, how everyone is
so perfect and how everything is so cool and so
nice when the world is bleeding in so many different ways.
(10:30):
So it was important for me to take advantage of
my platform and show how hard it is to be everyone,
not just me, Like it is hard to be me,
it's super hard to be you, and it's super hard
to be everyone because all of us we have like
something that is getting us, like it's putting us back
for any reason. So I think it was for me,
(10:51):
like super important to show the vulnerability of the things
the process to get the success. And it's not just
like showing ah, everything's perfect. This success just touched me,
no how hard it was for me to get in
that spot, the efforts, the hard work, the everything, because
(11:11):
people is going to understand more. There's gonna be efforts,
there's gonna be sacrifices, there's gonna be a sad moment
like bad situations, but everything's gonna be for our reasons.
So for me to have that documentary out to show
the realness of the process, it is super important.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And obviously you lived it right, that was your life,
so we could just see the sneak peek or the
other side of it. Watching it back, I can imagine
that's surreal because you're watching something that you lived your
life again, was there any other perspective that you gained
after that or anything that you saw differently?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think right now, if I think about my earliest years,
I'm like, wow, I've lived so many lives. Like if
I remember when I was a kid, and then when
I was in the school, and then when I started
working and looking for opportunities, and I was like, oh
my god, I've lived. I'm not that person anymore. I'm
the in person. But no, it's crazy to feel how
different lives I've lived and to have the opportunity to
(12:08):
make a stop and see what I come from. Because
I'm all the time thinking about the future, you know,
like what's next. I need to be ready, I need
to keep working on myself, and what's next always is
the future. But what about the past? What about all
the things I've done? What about the things that I
went through? And the documentary gave me that opportunity, and
(12:30):
that was like a really awake next moment in my
life to see maybe I'm super hard sometimes with myself,
and of course I want the future to surprise me
with great things. But right now I can see it
and I can say, like, wow, I've done so many Exactly,
I didn't expect that this was going to be that big,
(12:55):
and I'm super grateful about it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Not if you were to play traffical get that's year sixteen,
your old self in Columbia with your family.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What do you think that she would think of it? Oh? Crazy?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, crazy, Because like, I don't know what people think
about what I listened to when I'm in my car
with my friends or with my family. But I never
put like a playlist of one genre. At the same time,
I really love to put a playlist that is going
to surprise me and I'm going to buy with the mood.
So I'm going to be like super happy with an
(13:26):
idem song, but then I'm going to get this sad
moment that is going to bring a feeling that I
have there and I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But then it's going to be a party again and there's.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Going to be a dark, sexy specific and I love
that yes vibe exactly. So I think this playlist that
I created for my album can you feel, let me
give you a playlist that you don't have to change
a song you're going to buy with it and you're
going to have a party.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Because my mom, for example, she's always like, can we
listen to something different please?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We have listened to the same stuff for the last
hour or something where we're in different places.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And I'm like, oh, that's a good thing. I'm going
to create a place.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But it's not like just one thing where everyone's happy
with it exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I love everyone is going to be happy about it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I love that the music is out. We're hopefully going
to see you on a stage. I also love seeing
you on the screen. Like we expect more acting projects,
so love to yes.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And we love to I got some.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Invitations. Let's see what's going to happen. I don't know
that's the future surprises.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, I love that you bring so much story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm so curious before we let you go, what is
bringing you the most joy in your life right now?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
What is making you so happy?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Traveling in a different way, Like I traveled so much
during my work and everything.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's not vacation.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It's like I'm trying to know the places, but really
know the culture, the folkklore. I don't know, just to
get mused from some different stuff, you know, like, I
traveled so much, but I get this in a place
and one day and I have to do stop and
I have to live, so I don't really get to
know the place and the people and the culture.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So right now I'm trying to do that. Have spaces.
Where do you live? Right now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm going for the first time to Japan. Oh, and
I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Never been before, but I feel like, oh, that's amazing. Yeah.
I don't know, but people say that it is another world.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think people from Europe and Asia, if they go
to our Latino countries, they're going to feel the same way. Yeah,
because we're so different that it's a completely different world.
So it's an invitation for everyone that is in the
other continents to visit our Latina countries. Another world and
it's a different completely party, amazing, energy, vibration, spectacular.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But I'm super happy to know the other side.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, So yeah, Okay, give u us on your trip,
and I also have You're spending so much time in Europe.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We were chatting beforehand, where You're like, this is the
first time.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you really felt you got to like know the
city in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Because I used to live in Baldwin, No Islands.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I used to live with my aunt for a year
or some when I started English in here, so I
think at that time I couldn't know a lot about
New York. It was just living in a different place.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But my music gave me opportunity to know.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
More about New York than I was, like first coming
to Manhattan all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But I spent the last.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Five months in here like as my base, and I
wasn't was village, so I had like more a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It was like me having my.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Classes, doing my stuff, getting ready for the album, for
the launching of the album, but it was going out
like riding bicycle, running and it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And I loved that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The culture, it's a lot of inspol muse. Did anything
surprised you about New York like living here like for someone? Yeah,
I think the way that everyone for so many different
places and cultures get connected and they create like.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
A bibe in New York.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It's kind of a culture that is made for all
the different cultures. I get to know more about that,
and I loved it, and I'm ready to keep like
as a sponge, little sponge getting enough served all.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
The liten You come back anytime. Okay. We love having
you our say.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It just feels brighter here, carolge thank you so much
for being here.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Can we go out one more time for Carol Janners.
We love you Trving Okay, Al now you're on iHeartRadio.
You are the best. Thank you so much
Hi, friends, it's your girl, Emily Girl back here in
our iHeart Radio Studios in New York City, and today
we are joined by global superstar Carol ge Is here
with this.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Can we show some love for Carol g in our studio? Wow?
Our whole time here, Thank you. We are so happy
to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What an exciting time. One month of Tropical Getta it
is out. The fans are loving, it's enjoying, and this
has felt like just such a celebration, such a fun
album cycle.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The press stores of performance is the outfits. Tell me
about the world. Yeah, tell me about this world. It
is a universe of who I am.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And I think that's the most special thing about this
album is to see all the things that made me
and shape me as a singer, as a woman, as
a person, as a Latina. So for me to have
this album out and just to see how it gets
its own life, because one thing is when I'm creating
it and the thing and when it gets to the people,
(01:02):
it's kind of the circle path of it. And I'm
super happy we're celebrating a month.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think I'm getting connected to my people in a
different way and I'm super happy about that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Tell me what it's like again a month of the
special project for you out seeing the fans react. Has
there been anything that's been surprising for you? What has
been like to see their reactions and their feedback to
the album.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
First, the most beautiful thing for me is to see
how it connects different generations, to see how like my
fans from now, like in really young ages, they're connecting
with their parents, their family, their aunts, uncles, and they're
just just shooting the video, dancing and get connected to
the music that we used to hear before.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So it's kind of now we can listen to a.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Karlgi song mixed with a Les Maloicos or this old
music that represents us too. So that's one of the
beautiful things that I love the most. And then I
think it's kind of to get the people to know
all of.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The different genres that as the Latinos we have.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's beautiful because I always speak about a specific moment
in my career last year where I was like having
in an interview and with someone that I was speaking
about like the Latina music.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It was just urban music. Yes, I read this, I
read you talking about this, and that shocked me.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A little bit because me, Carolina, myself, I love to
hear all the different genres of music that we have.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And I was in my home when you used to hear,
like to listen to everything. So I was like, you know,
let me explain you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And I was like trying, and I was kind of
frustrating to make him understand. But I understand too that
right now urban music in our Latino community is it's.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Popping up for the last years.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So I was like, let me do my homework and
let me take the place that I have right now
to show the people the universe of sounds that we
have and that we are. So that's why I I
love this album the most. And one thing that I
recognize is getting me two different people that I used
to have with my different albums, like right now when
(03:11):
I perform my songs live in different places that we
have done like different.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Actions with different platforms. It's crazy because I see new faces,
new people, different ages.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So I'm super happy, like open in my arms and
just getting the blessings.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I love that because it's one thing to do when
an artist loves an album, you can feel that as
a fan and like you said, this was this return
to your roots. You touched on this, But what were
those early sounds and artists that you feel like defined
the earliest version.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh, I think I could talk about like so many
of them. If I think about like some of them
right now, I can say like like India, Miria Bernandez
or one of them, Talia for sures, Helena for sure,
Juangariel ross In los Bagnatos Colombiano, like our columbianagenatos Cumbia.
(04:02):
It's crazy because I used to listen to everything salsata
and that's why I think this album.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is the perfect playlist of who I really am.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, and suddenly, like you said, it spans so many
of those Latin genres. Like you were talking about, what
was it like for you to go from a listener
and a lover of those types of music and genres
to creating your own to creating this album.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, this one specifically was completely different to what I've
done before in any different album that I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Also, give me the give me the rundown.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have to say that my last album, for example,
I was just doing music, trying to explain or trying
to put in in a song some words that I
couldn't say and I was sent able to speak. So
I was just doing doing, doing music. And then the
team was like, hey, we need an album.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We have like we haven't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Launched an album in soul so much time. So I
was like, Okay, let's put this together, and I put
the name was an amantra that I was having, So
so that was the album. But in this one specifically,
I started from nothing like writing down in a paper
what would be like the perfect album in this moment
(05:12):
of my career. So I put just moods, feelings, what
I was people to hear, what I want people to
hear to feel when they listen to this album.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
What were the earliest words, like I wish do you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Still have that? Like? Yeah? I was like, I'm like
I love to write things down.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I have like so many notebooks for different things, and
I love because if I put them in my phone, I.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Forget complete about them. So I love to do it
like in a notebook.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I wrote like memories, nostalgic, different generations, I don't know.
I thought a lot about my family and how our
parties used to be when it was a child, like
just waiting for my parents to have fun and me
with my cousins sittings in chairs or sleeping in chairs
on corners, waiting for all of them and what you know,
(06:00):
them having fun with the music. So I wrote down
all of the feelings and type of music, the genres
that I would love to have, and I went to
all of the different genres and tried to get how
they used to do it, Like they used to speak
this way, they used to to use this type of
the galensias. I don't know how to say in English,
the galensias in the music, like different feelings. And I
(06:23):
really wanted to sound really authentic. Now I would be
the modern way of it. No, I really wanted to
sound like that era, that moment of life. That that's
why I think when people listen to this album, they
feel that there's something that they already know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They're taken to that place exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think they listen to my album they are like, oh,
they sounds familiar to me. So that's what was the
most important thing with my album. And I loved the
process was like a university for me that I didn't
have never before, and to get to meet all the
decisions that I work with the different masters of the
different genres of music. To travel to the different countries
(07:06):
was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
When it comes to this album, are you already thinking
about how you're going to put this one on the stage,
what you're dreaming about for that stage?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
For sure, I think it was the hardest part of
everything because there's so many different genres in the album.
I'm going to say, in the best moment of my career,
I'm bringing so many different genres that they don't play
in anymore. So it was like a challenge how I'm
gonna put this together in a tour every day when
I like, I keep listening to it and I can
(07:35):
get and I get these ideas, and I speak with
the team and bringing the musicians, the band and everything.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's going to be a party.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I can imagine it's going to be a Latina party.
And I don't know what is going to happen, because
I really think it has to be on a specific
moment where I feel everything comes together and it's going
to happen. But for sure, I'm like writing down ideas
speaking with the team.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We have like so many stuff happening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
When it's going to happen, it's so exciting has there
been a country, or a city or a crowd that
really surprised you with how deeply they connect to your
music or show out for your shows.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Okay, I think one of the craziest things when I
was on tour and my last tour, I was like,
oh my god, I feel that I'm from all of
the places that I visit, not just being Colombia. It's
crazy because every place that I went people made me
feel so deeply loved that I was like I could
be from here too. Like every place that I went,
(08:34):
they were like so special. Even when I was in Europe,
people were bringing their flags for every different country, even
when I was here in US, and I was like,
I love that I made people feel proud of where
they are, where we're from. But I think if I'm
going to speak about a country that I get really
influenced by, it's Mexico. My of course, my country Columbia.
(08:59):
All of my traditions and who I am is I'm Colombian.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But I think since I was a kid, since I
was a child, I get.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Really connected with the Mexican culture because of the Noela
soap operas is I.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Think it's how you say it in area. But I
used to be like watching.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Noelas with my in my house and get together to
all the music that they used to play in Noela,
like Mariati, this Mexican five music.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And I think since Dan's moment, I.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Started creating this personal relationship that I have, and I
think I showed up a lot that with my music,
with not only your music, but we got a glimpse
of that. As you're preparing for tour, you're coming up
with this album and your Netflix documentary Carol G. Tomorrow
is Beautiful, which was such a moment for you to
release this before the sound came out. Why was it
so important for you to show your fans this side
(09:49):
of you and to show what goes on behind the
scenes of someone like Carol G as a singer, as
a public person. I think we get this pression to
show all the time the best side of everything. The
success is kind of you have to follow the movie.
You have to be on the movie all the time
(10:09):
because if not, you'ren't gonna get the excitement of the
people that it's needed. So for me, when I watching
social media things and I get confused how everyone is
so happy, how everyone is so successful, how everyone is
so perfect and how everything is so cool and so
nice when the world is bleeding in so many different ways.
(10:30):
So it was important for me to take advantage of
my platform and show how hard it is to be everyone,
not just me, Like it is hard to be me,
it's super hard to be you, and it's super hard
to be everyone because all of us we have like
something that is getting us, like it's putting us back
for any reason. So I think it was for me,
(10:51):
like super important to show the vulnerability of the things
the process to get the success. And it's not just
like showing ah, everything's perfect. This success just touched me,
no how hard it was for me to get in
that spot, the efforts, the hard work, the everything, because
(11:11):
people is going to understand more. There's gonna be efforts,
there's gonna be sacrifices, there's gonna be a sad moment
like bad situations, but everything's gonna be for our reasons.
So for me to have that documentary out to show
the realness of the process, it is super important.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And obviously you lived it right, that was your life,
so we could just see the sneak peek or the
other side of it. Watching it back, I can imagine
that's surreal because you're watching something that you lived your
life again, was there any other perspective that you gained
after that or anything that you saw differently?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think right now, if I think about my earliest years,
I'm like, wow, I've lived so many lives. Like if
I remember when I was a kid, and then when
I was in the school, and then when I started
working and looking for opportunities, and I was like, oh
my god, I've lived. I'm not that person anymore. I'm
the in person. But no, it's crazy to feel how
different lives I've lived and to have the opportunity to
(12:08):
make a stop and see what I come from. Because
I'm all the time thinking about the future, you know,
like what's next. I need to be ready, I need
to keep working on myself, and what's next always is
the future. But what about the past? What about all
the things I've done? What about the things that I
went through? And the documentary gave me that opportunity, and
(12:30):
that was like a really awake next moment in my
life to see maybe I'm super hard sometimes with myself,
and of course I want the future to surprise me
with great things. But right now I can see it
and I can say, like, wow, I've done so many Exactly,
I didn't expect that this was going to be that big,
(12:55):
and I'm super grateful about it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Not if you were to play traffical get that's year sixteen,
your old self in Columbia with your family.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What do you think that she would think of it? Oh? Crazy?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, crazy, Because like, I don't know what people think
about what I listened to when I'm in my car
with my friends or with my family. But I never
put like a playlist of one genre. At the same time,
I really love to put a playlist that is going
to surprise me and I'm going to buy with the mood.
So I'm going to be like super happy with an
(13:26):
idem song, but then I'm going to get this sad
moment that is going to bring a feeling that I
have there and I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But then it's going to be a party again and there's.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Going to be a dark, sexy specific and I love
that yes vibe exactly. So I think this playlist that
I created for my album can you feel, let me
give you a playlist that you don't have to change
a song you're going to buy with it and you're
going to have a party.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Because my mom, for example, she's always like, can we
listen to something different please?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We have listened to the same stuff for the last
hour or something where we're in different places.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And I'm like, oh, that's a good thing. I'm going
to create a place.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But it's not like just one thing where everyone's happy
with it exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I love everyone is going to be happy about it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I love that the music is out. We're hopefully going
to see you on a stage. I also love seeing
you on the screen. Like we expect more acting projects,
so love to yes.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And we love to I got some.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Invitations. Let's see what's going to happen. I don't know
that's the future surprises.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, I love that you bring so much story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm so curious before we let you go, what is
bringing you the most joy in your life right now?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
What is making you so happy?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Traveling in a different way, Like I traveled so much
during my work and everything.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's not vacation.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It's like I'm trying to know the places, but really
know the culture, the folkklore. I don't know, just to
get mused from some different stuff, you know, like, I
traveled so much, but I get this in a place
and one day and I have to do stop and
I have to live, so I don't really get to
know the place and the people and the culture.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So right now I'm trying to do that. Have spaces.
Where do you live? Right now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm going for the first time to Japan. Oh, and
I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Never been before, but I feel like, oh, that's amazing. Yeah.
I don't know, but people say that it is another world.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think people from Europe and Asia, if they go
to our Latino countries, they're going to feel the same way. Yeah,
because we're so different that it's a completely different world.
So it's an invitation for everyone that is in the
other continents to visit our Latina countries. Another world and
it's a different completely party, amazing, energy, vibration, spectacular.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But I'm super happy to know the other side.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, So yeah, Okay, give u us on your trip,
and I also have You're spending so much time in Europe.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We were chatting beforehand, where You're like, this is the
first time.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you really felt you got to like know the
city in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Because I used to live in Baldwin, No Islands.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I used to live with my aunt for a year
or some when I started English in here, so I
think at that time I couldn't know a lot about
New York. It was just living in a different place.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But my music gave me opportunity to know.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
More about New York than I was, like first coming
to Manhattan all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But I spent the last.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Five months in here like as my base, and I
wasn't was village, so I had like more a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It was like me having my.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Classes, doing my stuff, getting ready for the album, for
the launching of the album, but it was going out
like riding bicycle, running and it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And I loved that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The culture, it's a lot of inspol muse. Did anything
surprised you about New York like living here like for someone? Yeah,
I think the way that everyone for so many different
places and cultures get connected and they create like.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
A bibe in New York.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It's kind of a culture that is made for all
the different cultures. I get to know more about that,
and I loved it, and I'm ready to keep like
as a sponge, little sponge getting enough served all.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
The liten You come back anytime. Okay. We love having
you our say.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It just feels brighter here, carolge thank you so much
for being here.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Can we go out one more time for Carol Janners.
We love you Trving Okay, Al now you're on iHeartRadio.
You are the best. Thank you so much
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