Kali Uchis has always refused to compromise her bilingual identity, despite the music industry being initially hesitant.⁠ ⁠ “I had a lot of doors closed in my face, and I had a lot of opportunities missed because I feel like nobody ever thought that this would get to this point,” she says. “A word that people used a lot was ‘unique.’ At the time, those aesthetics weren’t really popular. I want to say that the things that I did were always very much ahead of their time. I don’t think that people were ready for what I was doing.”⁠ ⁠ Read her cover story for Billboard's Latin Power Players issue ahead of her superstar Q&A at #LatinMusicWeek at the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ 📸: abdmstudio