# @billboard on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DP4CQ-xDZzV
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-16T15:42:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** billboard (@billboard) — https://gondola.cc/billboard

## Caption

Kali Uchis has always refused to compromise her bilingual identity, despite the music industry being initially hesitant.⁠
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“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.”⁠
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Read her cover story for Billboard's Latin Power Players issue ahead of her superstar Q&A at #LatinMusicWeek at the link in bio. ⁠
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📸: abdmstudio

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