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" Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially. "

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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. "

Kali Uchis

Growing Up

People

Weird

" I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me. "

" I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened. "

" I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging. "

" I don't really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it's an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer. "

Kali Uchis

Oil

Sometimes

" N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years. "

" I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick. "

Kali Uchis

Trying

Myself

" You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life. "

" I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you. "

Kali Uchis

You

Doing

" I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through. "

" I made music just for myself. "

" I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me. "

Kali Uchis

Operate

Control

" Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps with writing a lot to turn off one language and then go to another. "

Kali Uchis

People

Language

" 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. "

" As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just know what I want for myself. "

" My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing. "

" Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you. "

" A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here. "

" Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing. "

" Spanish is such an important language globally. "

" When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural. "

" I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it. "

" It's really natural for me to write bilingually. "

Kali Uchis

Really

Natural

" Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life. "

" When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good. "

Kali Uchis

Creative

Got

" I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new. "

" Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment. "