“Latinos are not people, or what?”: The tribute to the Latin community that Karol G makes in his Netflix documentary

Karol G is dressed in red from head to toe.

He has a thick heel boots with a platform that reaches him on his knees, a miniskirt balloon and a long -sleeved top that leaves his discovered abdomen. Long hair, pink, carries it loose. Shoot the outfit with a hat vueltiao.

It is an August night, 2023, the Colombian singer is standing in a huge flower -shaped platform and addresses her audience with a white microphone adorned with brilliant:

“My Latin community has traveling around the world, fulfilling dreams throughout the world.

There I have read comments sometimes that say: “Of course, it is filling the places … (What) are full is Latin

And Latinos is that we are not people, or what? “

The more than 89,000 attendees that fill the Rose Bowl stadium in Los Angeles, the United States, respond with a long cry of ovation while stirring LED lights.

This is one of the most moving scenes of the newly released documentary “Karol G, tomorrow will be beautiful”, by Netflix.

The film collects its last tour, the highest grossing in history for a Latin artist, a record that the Colombian adds to its multiple awards, ranging from several Grammy awards to have been named “Woman of the Year” by the magazine Billboard.

In BBC Mundo we share four revelations of the documentary, which portrays the deep connection of Karol G with the Latin community that admires and continues.

WARNING: This note contains documentary spoilers: “Karol G, tomorrow will be beautiful” by Netflix.

Born Carolina Giraldo Navarro, grew in the Medellin of the 90s, in a very musical family.

His father, Guillermo Giraldo, has been the main precursor of his career.

In the documentary there are several images of Karol singing since he was very small, always accompanied by his dad, who also touches some instruments and sings.

His mother, Martha Navarro, has also been an important support. Karol herself tells that her mother grew in a very precarious environment, and that her parents borrowed to support her when she decided to follow the dream of being an international singer.

The documentary, in which his Jessica sisters also appear – who is also his Maganer – and Verónica, shows the complicity and simplicity of an average family that was thrown to the reflectors of world fame.

The Giraldo Navarro are revealed as a united family, which supports the artist on the tour and holds her in her most vulnerable moments.

And they also cry and get excited with her, like when Martha cannot contain tears when she see how her daughter helps some low -income Colombian girls to fulfill her dream of studying in NASA.

“God pays him, Mamita, for everything he is doing,” he tells his daughter with a broken voice while they go in the car after visiting girls in the facilities that the US space agency has in Houston, Texas.

“He told me: ‘He will love it,” Karol G says in the documentary.

Not only was it right, but also became a reference that still mentions today. “The true Karol G fan knows how much I love Selena Quintanilla,” he confirms on the tape.

So much so, that during her tour, the Colombian met in San Antonio (Texas) with the artist’s sister who, 30 years after her death, remains an icon.

Quintanilla is an icon of Texan music, a genre that combines the popular rhythms of Mexico and Texas (United States).

But Karol G also has as references its contemporaries.

And the documentary also collects behind the cameras of collaboration with one of them, his compatriot Shakira, in the song TQG.

The film shows the creation process, which starts with Shakira telling intimate details and she offering her song.

Then you see how they worked long distance in the recording of the voices and finally their meeting in Spain to record the successful video.

At the end of the recording, Shakira congratulates her for the result and Karol G, very effusive, hugs her and says: “Thank you for everything. You have no idea what this means for me, you have no idea.”

The symbol of a Latin woman singing to her compatriots outside her countries of origin is very powerful throughout the documentary.

As she reveals, Karol G dared to make a stadium tour despite the repairs of her advisors, and it was a success, making it clear that the Latin public is huge and faithful.

Being very young, the artist changed Medellín for the capital, Bogotá, where she lived alone and had to face an incident of harassment by her then manager.

Later Karol G left Colombia and moved to the US, where an aunt received it and where one of his most difficult periods lived-he says-emotionally.

In the documentary, the artist tells that she required psychiatric support to get out of a depression that even led her to temporarily abandon her musical dream.

So the singer repeats her audience frequently at concerts: “I know what it is to be outside your land looking for opportunities.”

The tour took her through the main cities of Latin America and the US, and also succeeded in Switzerland and England. Although perhaps no appointment was more symbolic of that support of the diaspora than that of Madrid, where the Santiago Bernabéu stadium filled for four days.

In the documentary he shows Karol G preparing to receive the magazine award Billboard.

Share the news with your family and, in the middle of the tour, in some dressing room, write the words you plan to say at the delivery ceremony.

The award was given by the Colombian Sofia Vergara, who managed to succeed in Hollywood being also a proud migrant of his roots.

And upon receiving it, Karol G stressed how difficult it was to access the industry of the reggaeton Being a woman.

“For many, many years I lived disappointed in being a woman … I found myself on the road with so many rejections, I wondered why I was not born then being a man,” he said.

However, he decided to change the “I can’t be a woman” A “look how a woman does,” he added.

The decision crystallized in “Bichota”, the term with which he baptized one of his songs.

In the documentary, Karol G tells how he discovered that the word “bug” was used in Puerto Rico to refer to the powerful man, Malandro, the employer.

When he asked what a “bichota” would be, they told him a woman but with a very strong connotation. So she decided to resignify her.

“Bichota is the one who owns her business, which is a visionary, which is the most mamacita,” explains the singer. “That is, she is a bichota.”

There are those who feared that the decision would estimate it, but made it a symbol of female empowerment.

In fact, one of the most powerful images of the documentary is that of the artist with her band composed only of women singing her “Provence” success, while the public shouts and jumps between visual effects and rain of colored paper.

The objective of the song is to show a world “in which women are self -sufficient,” explains the Colombian. “I feel that it is the soul, in general, at all (the album) ‘Tomorrow will be pretty’”.

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