Kali Uchis is a Colombian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer. She handles much of the creative direction in her music, such as designing cover art, directing music videos, and tailoring the 60s-chic/90s-urban style. Her greatest asset is plotting backing vocals that were popular in the 60’s and 70’s while giving it a contemporary feel. She can even put out a whole song in less than 10 minutes.
Check out her stand out tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUANL9WoB90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSViNoqvC6s
Due to her talent, style and vocal performance, she is showing signs of becoming the next big thing. She has even collaborated with bigger artists who also see that. Her first album, “Por Vida” which came out in 2015, had contributions from Tyler, The Creator, Kaytranada, and BADBADNOTGOOD. It is certainly is a great album that is needed in R&B today.
She has also been featured on the extremely popular English Virtual band, Gorillaz’s song, “She’s my Collar.”
Tyler the Creator also seems to like her style, as she was featured in his song, “PERFECT.”
About a week ago she released another collaboration with Tyler entitled, “After The Storm” which almost has a million views already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosviOqt77c
In addition to these collborations, she has also worked with Snoop Dog, she told Billboard her about her experience:
“Snoop saw “What They Say,” I think. Someone put him on to it — it was all word of mouth shit. He loved that I sampled Brenton Wood and loved the aesthetic and the low-rider culture behind it, so he was like, “I have to work with her.” He gave me a song on his mixtape.”
With so many big artists collaborating with her and seeing the potential she has, there is no doubt that she will shortly be blown up into superstardom. Check her out, she is truly an artist to look out for.
