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Karol G: Why the Colombian superstar will never stop being a 'happy heartbreak girl'

Alt.Latino

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4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

While coming up with the concept for her new album Mañana Será Bonito, Colombian superstar Karol G had an epiphany that would change her life: what if she was just more herself? Anamaria Sayre sits down with global superstar Karol G to chat her latest evolution.

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wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, Anna, tell me about your hair. You changed your hair recently.

0:27.6

I did change my hair recently, Felix. It went, well, I changed it to blue. It went from blue to green.

0:35.1

But yeah, it's been an exciting new chapter in my life to have dyed blue

0:39.4

green hair so it was inspired by a personal statement inspired by something personal yes felix i went

0:45.4

through a breakup and i died my hair i wasn't i wasn't going for that but i was just the point is like

0:52.0

if you noticed and you've seen me on Zoom, I cut my hair.

0:55.5

It's all gone.

0:56.3

I know.

0:56.7

It looks good.

0:57.4

Thank you.

0:58.1

It was because my mother wanted to see me with short hair.

1:01.8

And she was in hospice and she has since passed, but the last thing she saw me with my short hair.

1:07.0

So hair as a personal statement, that is part of our conversation this week with the artist we're going to talk to.

1:37.6

I know. I never had made that kind of both made these really changes to our hair in the midst of some pretty drastic life changes.

1:44.1

And I think that like hair can be something really emotional. in the midst of some pretty drastic life changes.

1:48.2

And I think that, like, hair can be something really emotional.

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