“When I put out the tape, I would get people reaching out to me, saying, ‘This really helped me get through some sh*t,’ and I thought this was a way I could impact people and be me,” she says. Not only did this and her self-made music videos find fans in Snoop Dogg, Diplo, and Tyler, The Creator, but Uchis also received messages of thanks from listeners. Over the summer of 2012, she assembled her debut mixtape, Drunken Babble, in her bedroom. While she had already been playing saxophone, taking first chair in her school band, and piano, as well as producing multimedia art, it was only after she bought a laptop and a $50 microphone that making her own music became a focal point. Uchis carries this spirit through into her own work: “There are a lot of guys who feel intimidated by women who are trying to become something in life.” “I always loved female artists who seemed like they were powerful and in tune with themselves, and who had their own independent style,” she says. She grew up with the music of Ivy Queen and Ralfi Pagan, who, along with Astrud Gilberto, remain her influences, and would bring home CDs by Kelis, No Doubt, and Digable Planets from her local record store.
Hopscotching effortlessly between myriad genres, her mellifluous vocals shifting from sassy to angry, sultry to stinging, it is the sound of a musician coming fully, and gloriously, into her own.Ĭurrently based in Los Angeles, Uchis moved between Colombia and Virginia during her childhood. With her debut LP Isolation, out now to massive critical acclaim, Kali Uchis stakes a very convincing claim at being the hot new crossover act to watch.
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