The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Through crafting a unique, cross-cultural sound, Kali Uchis has emerged as one of indie music’s most promising talents. From playing in jazz band as a kid to collaborating with Bootsy Collins and Kaytranada, the Grammy Award-winning artist has managed to take her bilingual, one-of-a-kind music to the Billboard charts while still keeping her DIY ethos. At this year’s Vulture Fest live in Los Angeles, host Charlie Harding talked with Uchis about her career, her songcraft and her two upcoming albums: one in Spanish and one in English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.2	Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:37.4	Today I'm featuring a live conversation from Vulture Fest 2022 where I spoke with Grammy
0:42.8	Award-winning artist Kelly Uchies.
0:45.3	Kelly Uchies has crafted a one of a kind sound influenced by growing up across culturally
0:51.0	in both Columbia and Virginia by playing piano and saxophone and jazz band as a kid.
0:57.1	And by starting her career in a very DIY model, making songs while living out of her
1:02.4	car at the start of her music career.
1:04.5	Now she's an in-demand collaborator with songs featuring Steve Lacey, Booty Collins,
1:09.5	Petronata, Tyler the creator, Siza and countless others and she's on the cusp of releasing
1:15.8	two new albums, one in Spanish and another in English.
1:20.1	Getting ready for those releases, Kelly Uchies and I caught up about her career so far and
1:25.0	how she crafted her unique soothing sound.
1:28.2	Here's my conversation with Kelly Uchies.
1:31.8	Please join me in welcoming Kelly Uchies.
1:43.4	Thank you everybody.
1:44.8	Hi.
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