Kali Uchis Quotes
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It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world.
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I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.
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I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.
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I love a good old-school reggaeton song.
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I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.
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I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.
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I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.
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California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder.
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The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
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I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people.
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As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.
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When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.
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Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.
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As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.
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I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.
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Spanish is such an important language globally.
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I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
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When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
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Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
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I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.
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We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
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I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.
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Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.
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I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'