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Photos: Kaylee Guinigundo
(Kia Center, Orlando FL) Captivating and ethereal, Kali Uchis’ performance was not one to be missed, as a packed Kia Center played host to the multi-award-winning singer and songwriter this past Thursday September 24.
Kali embodies the female essence by encapsulating both poise and power. While many fans may know her from her hit songs like “Moonlight” and “After the Storm”, one particular song, “telepatía”, especially pushed Kali towards fame. She even prefaced this song during this evening's performance by encouraging the audience to sing along since they “should know all the words”.
Kali shared about her humble beginnings, including how one of her earliest songs was written while she was working at the grocery store and “did not know how to sing”. Kali has only kept her momentum going, recently launching a brand-new album earlier this past May called “Sincerely,”. This album was what her current tour centered on, but it was well balanced by a variety of songs from her other albums including the albums “Isolation” and “Por Vida”.
Born of Columbian-American descent, Kali artistically alternated between English and Spanish songs. The first time Kali switched between these two languages demonstrated her range in not just her bilingualism, but also her range in music genre. Her new “Sincerely,” album had a slower, steady tempo and tapped into the soft characteristic of femininity, blowing gentle kisses at the audience. At one point during the beginning, Kali even brought out a giant teacup for her to sit and sing inside of. At the end of this selection of softer songs, a transition video played on the screen highlighting what it meant to be of mixed heritage and “being more than established stereotypes”. It was very inclusive how subtitles were shown on the screen in Spanish, but then the narrator would be speaking in English. then the narrator’s language would alternate and you would hear Spanish, but then be reading English subtitles.
Changing her outfit from pink to now all black, Kali strutted down the catwalk with the tempo picking up behind her, revealing a set on stage similar to the Barbie dream house. The crowd became energized with the change in beat singing songs in Spanish like “Diosa”.
As this performance was her first one in Florida for this tour, Kali encouraged the Orlando audience “to move” and to “not let Miami show you up”. This fueled the crowd members’ hips to sway like Kali’s were. Whether slow and steady or faster-paced, Kali continued to capture this ethereal presence throughout the entirety of her show.
For her song “Angels All Around Me”, many dancers joined her onstage wearing white, fluffy angel wings and circled her to create this halo-like vision around her. The dancers' presence truly added awing motion and fluidity to the overall performance, and if you paid close enough attention, you could see they’re telling a story on their own, too, in addition to Kali’s overall main story. For example, at the beginning of the performance, a male and a female dancer appeared to be arguing on stage; in a later song, the woman even fake-slapped him across the face. But by the end of the performance, they had made up, and were dancing together to the love songs performed - how exactly they resolved this performed fight, I could not tell you, other than to highly encourage you to watch Kali Uchis perform live.
Overall, the dynamics of each element played so perfectly well into each other - from the pink lighting, to the expressive dancers, to the silky sound of Kali’s unwavering voice, and so much more that contributed to this pleasing ambiance.
Kali Uchis, we hope to “See You Again”.
“Sincerely,”
Photos: Kaylee Guinigundo
(Kia Center, Orlando FL) Captivating and ethereal, Kali Uchis’ performance was not one to be missed, as a packed Kia Center played host to the multi-award-winning singer and songwriter this past Thursday September 24.
Kali embodies the female essence by encapsulating both poise and power. While many fans may know her from her hit songs like “Moonlight” and “After the Storm”, one particular song, “telepatía”, especially pushed Kali towards fame. She even prefaced this song during this evening's performance by encouraging the audience to sing along since they “should know all the words”.
Kali shared about her humble beginnings, including how one of her earliest songs was written while she was working at the grocery store and “did not know how to sing”. Kali has only kept her momentum going, recently launching a brand-new album earlier this past May called “Sincerely,”. This album was what her current tour centered on, but it was well balanced by a variety of songs from her other albums including the albums “Isolation” and “Por Vida”.
Born of Columbian-American descent, Kali artistically alternated between English and Spanish songs. The first time Kali switched between these two languages demonstrated her range in not just her bilingualism, but also her range in music genre. Her new “Sincerely,” album had a slower, steady tempo and tapped into the soft characteristic of femininity, blowing gentle kisses at the audience. At one point during the beginning, Kali even brought out a giant teacup for her to sit and sing inside of. At the end of this selection of softer songs, a transition video played on the screen highlighting what it meant to be of mixed heritage and “being more than established stereotypes”. It was very inclusive how subtitles were shown on the screen in Spanish, but then the narrator would be speaking in English. then the narrator’s language would alternate and you would hear Spanish, but then be reading English subtitles.
Changing her outfit from pink to now all black, Kali strutted down the catwalk with the tempo picking up behind her, revealing a set on stage similar to the Barbie dream house. The crowd became energized with the change in beat singing songs in Spanish like “Diosa”.
As this performance was her first one in Florida for this tour, Kali encouraged the Orlando audience “to move” and to “not let Miami show you up”. This fueled the crowd members’ hips to sway like Kali’s were. Whether slow and steady or faster-paced, Kali continued to capture this ethereal presence throughout the entirety of her show.
For her song “Angels All Around Me”, many dancers joined her onstage wearing white, fluffy angel wings and circled her to create this halo-like vision around her. The dancers' presence truly added awing motion and fluidity to the overall performance, and if you paid close enough attention, you could see they’re telling a story on their own, too, in addition to Kali’s overall main story. For example, at the beginning of the performance, a male and a female dancer appeared to be arguing on stage; in a later song, the woman even fake-slapped him across the face. But by the end of the performance, they had made up, and were dancing together to the love songs performed - how exactly they resolved this performed fight, I could not tell you, other than to highly encourage you to watch Kali Uchis perform live.
Overall, the dynamics of each element played so perfectly well into each other - from the pink lighting, to the expressive dancers, to the silky sound of Kali’s unwavering voice, and so much more that contributed to this pleasing ambiance.
Kali Uchis, we hope to “See You Again”.
“Sincerely,”
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