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Alex Cooper x YouTube Presents, Becoming a Coachella Headliner (ft, KAROL G) - Part 1   Step inside the journey of becoming a global music icon 🌎✨ In this exclusive episode, Alex Cooper sits down with Latin superstar KAROL G to uncover what it really takes to headline one of the world’s biggest music festivals — Coachella 🎤🔥   From humble beginnings to dominating international stages, KAROL G shares her story of passion, sacrifice, and resilience. This is more than just music — it’s about breaking barriers, building a legacy, and chasing dreams against all odds.   In this episode, you’ll discover:   🎶 KAROL G’s rise to global fame  💪 The challenges behind the spotlight  🌟 What it takes to become a Coachella headliner  🎧 Real, unfiltered conversation with Alex Cooper   Whether you’re an artist, a dreamer, or a fan of inspiring success stories, this episode will motivate you to keep pushing forward 🚀   👉 Don’t forget to Like, Comment & Subscribe for more exclusive content!   #KAROLG #AlexCooper #Coachella #MusicJourney #BecomingAHeadliner #LatinMusic #Podcast #Inspiration #YouTubeOriginals

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00:03my real name is carolina she started her music career by appearing on the colombian version of

00:09x-factor carol g is a prime example of what it means to make your dreams come true

00:18and the grammy goes to

00:20hey what colombia carol g i won my third grammy cello lineup for 2026 headliner

00:28in latin grammy espada carol g the cello music festival is making an epic comeback this year with none other

00:38than

00:38carol g

01:03hi daddy gang welcome to a very special episode of call her daddy

01:08i'm about to sit down with one of the headliners of coachella the one the only carol g i have

01:15so

01:16much planned for this episode and i want to bring you along every part of carol's coachella journey

01:20so this is going to be a two-part episode the first part we are going to get cozy in

01:26the studio

01:27and we're going to hear carol open up about some things that she has never shared before and then

01:33we are packing our bags and we are going to follow carol behind the scenes as she makes history as

01:39the

01:40first latina to ever headline coachella so if you're not attending coachella's year do not worry

01:47you're not going to get fomo because i am going to bring you the vip experience

01:52right to your couch so are we ready let's go

02:01what is up daddy gang it is your founding father alex cooper with call her daddy

02:10carol g welcome to call her daddy

02:14the little gritty go of course because i mean call her daddy huh huh how are you i am so

02:20good i've been

02:20so excited to sit down with you i feel like you're just like taking over the world right now

02:25you are a grammy winner you're selling out stadiums worldwide and now you're headlining coachella

02:34congratulations thank you so much of all of these things you've had so much success what is one of

02:41the best parts that you've been able to just like celebrate and what are you enjoying the most of all

02:45this right now that's a complex question because i think i'm going to answer and then 10 minutes

02:52later i'm going to think about something different and then tomorrow it's okay i'm going to be thinking

02:56like ah maybe this too because i'm like not right now i'm just like a roller coaster of feelings and

03:02emotions and and even with the with the preparation and the rehearsals and the studying all this process

03:09for this show had opened my mind in so many different ways so i every day just see something

03:16different i feel super blessed of course i feel super responsible of a lot of things i feel super proud

03:26at the same time i feel super nervous i don't know if you know but after my i finished the

03:33tour

03:33manana seronito tour in 2020 july 2024 and since that july i haven't been on stage

03:45like no with a shovel mine i i was in i bad bunny was in medellin so i sing with

03:51him one of what would

03:52like a song that we have together but no me on stage performing like a full show and this is

03:58crazy

03:58because i love my fans and now you're headlining coachella and i'm headlining yeah i'm gonna present

04:03like actually i'm going to present these songs of my last album in coachella do you get nervous

04:08though saying that like are you someone that gets nervous performing on stage like if you haven't done

04:13it a while or does it come back immediately naturally i'm more than nervous i'm like i need to be

04:17on stage

04:18i love stage like for me being on the studio like doing music and being on stage like i might

04:24happiest

04:25place to be what does it mean to you to have this opportunity to represent your community and get up

04:31there and do this for them this is huge like i think uh to have a purpose is the most

04:36important

04:36thing even when we started like talking about the creative details of of the show i was like let's

04:42start from the message because uh i love shows but i love to be on shows that they have a

04:49meaning they

04:49have a reason they have like something to stand for and this is my opportunity to stand for my community

04:55you know like as an artist and being there i've all the times feel that we can have a voice

05:01but

05:02sometimes it's not enough but to be on that specific stage is to have a big voice this opportunity to

05:10have a big voice for them so yeah i'm gonna be there speaking a little loud call her daddy is

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06:34-e

06:36can we talk about your evolution as an artist because you're sitting in front of me today

06:41so successful headlining coachella grammys selling out all the things which is so amazing but when you

06:49were younger did you expect this to be your career like what life did you envision for yourself

06:56yeah actually i think i always wanted to be a singer like my father he he he loves to sing

07:02and he used to

07:03have like a band when he was like young and he used to take me when i was four or

07:08five years old like to

07:09sing with him like duet songs so at that time i think i was very into the music so when

07:16i grew up

07:16at least like i study music i started like different instruments violin i started like drums i started

07:23like electric guitar actually i got in love really with my voice that's the instrument that i love the

07:28most uh but uh everything just was guiding me that this is what i really want to do there's another

07:36part of me that i wanted to be a motorcycle rider professional like i love motorcycles and that's

07:43my hobby dude i love sitting with artists because it's always something like that like it's always

07:49like if i wasn't gonna do this then i was gonna do and then it's something so random that i'm

07:54like

07:54what do you drive motorcycles yeah i i love it yeah you have to come okay with me on the

08:00back of your

08:00bike uh-huh really bichota moment like riding motorcycles imagine colombia you're gonna love

08:06do you put guys on the back of your bike yeah like even my friends when they don't they don't

08:11know how

08:11to ride like they come but if you were going on a date would you have a guy get on

08:15your motorcycle

08:15ah okay like that like actually that's how i started like my a little bit like my last relationship

08:21like giving my first gift was a motorcycle i thought you were gonna say my first gift was you can

08:28come on my motorcycle you bought him a motorcycle yeah i bought him a motorcycle wait that's an

08:32amazing gift yeah we're gonna get to relationships um okay go back for a second though 14 years old

08:39it was your dad's idea for you to audition for l factor x that's pretty young like what did you

08:45want

08:46out of that experience i was very shy in in my school i always was very very shy at that

08:53time

08:53specifically uh and i didn't want to go like i love to sing i love to perform even at that

09:00time i was

09:01like this little girl that always wanted to sing in front of the family but not like that and my

09:08father

09:08just did the line it was crazy he got the number then i didn't want to go but i went

09:15and uh i got chosen

09:18and i said we started like recording the tv show and then i got out and when i got out

09:23like my parents

09:24were they were like super heartbreaking but i was like i didn't really care like about it because i was

09:30like you know i was like little kid like you don't really understand like what's happening but then after

09:38that um there is this person that uh asked to sign a contract to start like a artistic process

09:50my parents they asked me do you want this or you do and actually i at the time i said

09:55like this is

09:56interesting like i wanna understand how this is about like my father showed me the movie of selena

10:02quintanilla and for me that movie it changed my life completely i was like oh my god i i just

10:11visualize my myself a lot in in her story and it gave me like the strength and the confidence exactly

10:19and yeah my parents signed that contract uh and i started working before you signed a contract i feel

10:27like i remember reading that you really were working it to try to get gigs before just like

10:34you come across a manager and you get signed right so like what were some of the shows that you

10:39were

10:39booking while you were working with your dad trying to get noticed and seen in the industry

10:43my father and i we became like the craziest most amazing team ever created in history of the music

10:50and i said that because uh uh we were like my father and i like sitting at a table calling

10:56and

10:57two different places and i was like hi um you're talking with the with carol g assistant she's an

11:03artist and it was me like or it was him like and we were like this big team oh you

11:07need to talk to

11:08uh the i don't know the executive like okay he's gonna call you later on to my father would you

11:15change

11:15your voice yeah okay i'm calling hi i want to um talk with carol g hello we're calling from the

11:23this

11:23carol g team and we asking you to uh of course we're showing she she had this great music she's

11:29latina she

11:30can sing in school she can sing um i don't know in university she can sing in everybody do you

11:37need

11:37she has a great music she has a great show she comes with the artists she comes with the dancers

11:43and

11:44she comes with all the amazing time if you want to do something just please call us we're gonna be

11:50like super super super grateful to be part of your show you're a saleswoman no but no at the time

12:00it

12:00worked like we did a lot of schools universities like uh-huh it was girl you have to work it

12:07and

12:07you have to like whether you pretend you have a fake assistant or whatever it is sometimes it's what

12:11you have to do to get people to then believe like oh she's got a team like she is so

12:16big like this is

12:17a really big deal that i'm speaking meanwhile it's like it's you it's all about the movie like it's

12:22kind of there is this big phrase that i love that the way how they see you they treat you

12:31so you are the

12:32one to have to put yourself first in a specific spot and you have to believe it and then everyone

12:39is

12:39going to believe it too but if you don't do it like yeah it doesn't it won't happen no it

12:45won't

12:46happen so carol you though were trying to break into reggaeton in the beginning right which is a

12:51male-dominated genre and so although now you have this confidence and you have this success like

12:58what type of responses in the beginning days were you getting from these

13:03music executives who were mainly men yes it it felt like always like a negotiation um i was very

13:12blessed that i have my father on the road with me but actually even having him by my side there

13:20were

13:21so many things that they were like fucked up like uh um i don't know for me it's it's i

13:30just feel like i i

13:32feel grateful because i had those experiences and now i feel that i have to speak for all my women

13:38community but it was crazy it was all about like first there's a lot of people that tells you that

13:45you're not enough to do something that um they want to show you the way to do it how you

13:53how and what

13:55you have to sell to uh have a position and of course if you are in a room of like

14:02full of a

14:06respected man it's kind of you are in this this second position where you have to

14:11just listen and and go for the things that they plan uh i hated that i hated everything and i

14:19hate it

14:19it almost made me hate what i do it almost made me hate like my music and everything so

14:26it was hard yeah it was hard yeah i'm and i'm so happy obviously to now see you in this

14:32place

14:33because i think i've spoken to so many women right where i sit with them and we talk about how

14:37being a young woman in any industry not just music but any industry there's such a power imbalance

14:44when you are a young woman and you're in these rooms with all of these powerful men and like you

14:49said you kind of lose your voice because you kind of just have to agree and say yes because you're

14:54really made to feel so small and i know early in your career when you were 16 years old what

14:59you were

14:59referring to is you signed with a manager who was in his 50s and he crossed the line right how

15:08did that

15:09experience affect the way that you viewed the music industry as a whole it kills all the emotion and all

15:17the love that i used to have for music you know and and at that time there's so many things

15:22that you

15:23feel that you're not like you're not able to to to talk like uh that's why i always say that

15:30it's super

15:30important to teach people to be open with all the feelings and all the different experiences because

15:37sometimes you you want to say things but you don't find a way or you don't have this i don't

15:43know but uh

15:45you cannot speak about them and and at that time i couldn't speak about nothing and i just said

15:52i don't want to do this anymore and and and i just told my father but please just take me

15:59out of

15:59this like uh help me i i don't feel comfortable and and i just uh ask my father just please

16:07take me

16:07out of here and my father he was my father he had to pay a lot of he worked a

16:12lot of years just to pay

16:13like how it could what it cost to be out of that contract but i moved to new york to

16:19announce house

16:21and and my father was like very concerned about like why are you doing this to me like well it's

16:27kind of he felt that it was kind of uh something that i wanted to do you know like uh

16:32and we say in

16:33espanol un capricho i don't know how to say it in english but it's kind of uh if it was

16:37something

16:37that i i don't want this anymore and i just want to start a new thing but in the deep

16:42deep

16:43really deep uh situation i could never explain but he just believed in that he didn't want to do that

16:49i think something you said to carol that's so relatable for women is like

16:54sometimes and i agree it's so important to talk about this because hopefully if there is a woman

16:59who's listening to this going through something like that right now maybe she will feel more

17:03comfortable to speak up but it's so hard in the moment because you feel it's like debilitating

17:10you feel frozen right knowing how much your dad was your biggest supporter and was there with you

17:15like can you explain for people who may not understand like why you didn't feel like you could

17:21tell him what happened i think because there were so many things that happened to me that they

17:26they were like a first experience even in in mind and in situation that i never before spoke about

17:33everything was new so so i was like how i explained this if i don't know even if

17:39people leave this like it's kind of like you don't now i don't even understand how

17:47i couldn't say nothing but i couldn't it was like kind of i was embarrassed

17:51embarrassed of of of of of the things i was embarrassed of myself it's it's something that

17:59you it's there's no explanation but i i just feel that

18:06girls need to understand that you have to speak there's not a there's not a way if you have someone

18:13that is making you feel uncomfortable disrespected uh not dignity at all there's nothing good that is

18:23going to happen nothing good like because you you think there is a this is the way or whatever

18:29that's not there's never gonna be the way that that's gonna make you lose time and that's gonna make

18:34you lose yourself and i learned that like later on and sometimes like yeah i'm really a nice person

18:42and i love but there's people that can sit in a chair and say like oh that bitch yeah you

18:46think

18:46that she's really goodbye but she's not like i'm gonna see it i'm gonna say like do you actually

18:55are conscious about what happened what you did on me for you to say that because now i really

19:03make sure people respect me in the room like i love everything but i'm not like with some i'm not

19:10gonna be sitting with someone i'm gonna say hi i'm gonna be very polite but that's just gonna it

19:15doesn't we won't gonna cross the line of if you respect me or not and i learned that really late

19:21yeah but you time but it's but it's so relatable unfortunately and i appreciate you speaking on it

19:27because there are so many women that are going to be listening to this and i do think it's the

19:32first

19:33lesson that you're really saying is like giving ourselves grace when we go through something for the

19:38first time as women we are taught to a lot of times appease men and i think it's just recently

19:45that we're being able to have conversations being like that was not okay you should not have been put

19:50in that position but when you are in those positions you kind of just freeze and you don't know what

19:55to do

19:55and so a lot of times we have to give ourselves grace that that was our response because we don't

20:01know

20:02what else to do but then it takes growing up and learning and growing and becoming stronger and it

20:08sucks that we have to become stronger from all the pain that we endure as women and going through these

20:12hard situations but it does make us stronger so now when someone is coming whether they're trying to

20:17take advantage or they are treating you a specific way now carol g can sit in her room and it

20:23makes me

20:24upset for you that you learned it through such a painful moment but you now know exactly what you will

20:29not put up

20:30with and there you go the craziest thing about it that then like living life i just knew a lot

20:37of a lot of

20:38girls that they had had the same situation and i was like wow this is something that repeats a lot

20:46this is

20:47something that we really have to stand for because uh it's it's kind of it it i don't know but

20:53it looks

20:54like it was a normal thing you know like a normal thing in the process of every girl that wants

20:59to

20:59do something huge in their lives so that's why i have to let's start from the opposite let's start

21:05being hard and the boss and respect yourself first instead of learning it late and this message and

21:15i'm gonna speak to the camera this message goes to the parents too because actually the communication

21:21start at home and if you're telling like no no no don't do that men they do that no no

21:27no don't hold

21:27that because like actually men do that no teach a girl to be strong from the beginning we can do

21:36everything and actually i love to read books about like mind and about spiritually and everything and

21:41most of our girls and we have a really strong spirit like over everything we can do the most crazy

21:51amazing like girls like they give life like they give birth you know like so starting from that like

21:58just believe that your girls at home they can do whatever they want they're as a strong they're even

22:05stronger like it's a magic for it's a message for everyone you know that's a good point and is there

22:11anything now that you have had so much success and you're in your position that you would want to say

22:17to those men who doubted you or didn't treat you right what would you say to them now oh no

22:22my work

22:23is speaking about me so i don't have anything to say like they can watch and and but everyone is

22:28so

22:28welcome to be enjoying my show because it happens that i have had people in my show that they are

22:33like

22:33so sorry about this and whatever and i don't take it like personal like just enjoy like you're part of

22:40this and i just hope you learn you're yeah you know you're you're like you can watch me on stage

22:44at coachella i'll be on the main stage where are you yeah a little bit like that a little bit

22:52like

22:52for you carol yeah exactly you're like telling it yeah yeah better

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