Call Her Daddy
Alex Cooper x Youtube Presents: Becoming a Coachella Headliner (ft. KAROL G) - Part 1
11 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: How did Karol G overcome challenges in a male-dominated industry?
What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Carol G., welcome to Call Her Daddy.
The little gritico, of course, because I mean, call her daddy. How are you?
I am so good. I've been so excited to sit down with you. I feel like you're just like taking over the world right now. You are a Grammy winner. You're selling out stadiums worldwide. And now you're headlining Coachella. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Of all of these things, you've had so much success. What is one of the best parts that you've been able to just like celebrate?
And what are you enjoying the most of all of this right now?
That's a complex question, because I think I'm going to answer and then 10 minutes later, I'm going to think about something different. And then tomorrow, I'm going to be thinking like, oh, maybe this too, because I'm like not right now. I'm just like a roller coaster of feelings.
and emotions and and even with the with the preparation and the rehearsals and the studying all this process for this show had opened my mind in so many different ways so i every day just see something different i feel super blessed of course I feel super responsible of a lot of things. I feel super proud at the same time. I feel super nervous.
I don't know if you know, but after my, I finished the tour, Mañana será bonito tour in 2020, July 2024. And since that July, I haven't been on stage. Like, no, with a show of mine. I was in, Bad Bunny was in Medellin, so I sing with him one of, like, a song that we have together, but not me on stage performing, like, a full show. And this is crazy, because I love my fans.
And now you're headlining Coachella.
And now I'm headlining. Yeah, I'm going to present, like, actually, I'm going to present these songs of my last album in Coachella.
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Chapter 2: What emotions does Karol G feel about headlining Coachella?
I think to have a purpose is the most important thing. Even when we started talking about the creative details of the show, I was like, let's start from the message. Because I love shows, but I love to be on shows that they... have a meaning, they have a reason, they have like something to stand for.
And this is my opportunity to stand for my community, you know, like as an artist and being there, I've all the times feel that we can have a voice, but sometimes it's not enough. But to be on that specific stage is to have a big voice, this opportunity to have a big voice for them. So yeah, I'm gonna be there speaking a little loud.
Can we talk about your evolution as an artist? Because you're sitting in front of me today, so successful, headlining Coachella, Grammys, selling out all the things, which is so amazing. But when you were younger, did you expect this to be your career? What life did you envision for yourself?
yeah actually i think i always wanted to be a singer like my father he he he loves to sing and he used to have like a band when he was like young and he used to take me when i was four or five years old like to sing with him like do it songs so at that time i think i was very into the music So when I grew up, I studied music. I studied different instruments, violin. I studied drums.
I studied electric guitar. Actually, I got in love really with my voice. That's the instrument that I love the most. But everything just was...
guiding me that this is one i really want to do there's another part of me that i wanted to be a motorcycle rider professional like i love motorcycles and that's my hobby dude i love sitting with artists because it's always something like that like it's always like if i wasn't gonna do this then i was gonna do and then it's something so random that i'm like what do you drive motorcycles yeah i love you have to come with me on the back of your bike
aha really bichota moment like riding motorcycles imagine colombia you're gonna love do you put guys on the back of your bike yeah like even my friends when they don't they don't know how to ride like they come but if you were going on a date would you have a guy get on your motorcycle ah okay like that like actually that's how i started like my a little bit like my last relationship like giving my first gift was a motorcycle
I thought you were going to say my first gift was you can come on my motorcycle. You bought him a motorcycle? Yeah, I bought him a motorcycle. Wait, that's an amazing gift. Yeah. We're going to get to relationships. Okay, go back for a second, though. 14 years old. It was your dad's idea for you to audition for El Factor X. That's pretty young. Like, what did you want out of that experience?
I was very shy in my school. I always was very, very shy at that time specifically. And I didn't want to go. Like, I love to sing. I love to perform. Even at that time, I was like this little girl that always wanted to sing in front of the family. But not like that.
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Chapter 3: How does Karol G view her role in representing her community?
But in the deep, deep, deep, really deep situation, I could never explain. But he just believed in that he didn't want to do that.
I think something you said to Carol that's so relatable for women is like, Sometimes, and I agree it's so important to talk about this because hopefully if there is a woman who's listening to this going through something like that right now, maybe she will feel more comfortable to speak up. But it's so hard in the moment because you feel... It's like debilitating. You feel frozen, right?
Knowing how much your dad was your biggest supporter and was there with you. Like, can you explain for people who may not understand like why you didn't feel like you could tell him what happened?
I think because there were so many things that happened to me that they were like a first experience even in mind and situation that I never before spoke about. Everything was new. So I was like, how I explain this if I don't know even if people live this. Like it's kind of like you don't, now I don't even understand how I couldn't say nothing, but I couldn't.
It was like kind of, I was embarrassed of the things. I was embarrassed of myself. It's something that there's no explanation, but I just feel that Girls need to understand that you have to speak. There's not a... There's not a way if you have someone that is making you feel uncomfortable, disrespected, not dignity at all. There's nothing good that is going to happen. Nothing good.
Because you think this is the way or whatever. That's never going to be the way. That's going to make you lose time and that's going to make you lose yourself. And I learned that later on. And sometimes, like, yeah, I'm really a nice person that I love, but there's people that can sit in a chair and say, like, oh, that bitch, yeah, you think that she's really goodbye, but she's not.
Like, I'm going to say that. I'm going to say, like, do you actually are conscious about what happened, what you did on me for you to say that? Because now I really... make sure people respect me in the room.
Like I love everything, but I'm not like with someone, I'm not gonna be sitting with someone, I'm gonna say hi, I'm gonna be very polite, but that's just gonna, it doesn't, we won't gonna cross the line of if you respect me or not. And I learned that really late.
Took me time. But it's so relatable, unfortunately. And I appreciate you speaking on it because there are so many women that are going to be listening to this. And I do think it's the first lesson that you're really saying is like giving ourselves grace when we go through something for the first time. As women, we are taught to... a lot of times appease men.
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Chapter 4: What inspired Karol G to pursue a career in music?
we can do the most crazy amazing, like girls, they give life, like they give birth, you know? Like, so starting from that, like just believe that your girls at home, they can do whatever they want. They're as strong, they're even stronger. Like it's a message for everyone, you know?
Such a good point. And is there anything now that you have had so much success and you're in your position that you would want to say,
to those men who doubted you or didn't treat you right what would you say to them now oh no my work is speaking about me so i don't have anything to say like they can watch and and but everyone is so welcome to be enjoying my show because it happens that i have had people in my show that they are like so sorry about this and whatever and i don't take it like personally Enjoy.
Like you're part of this and I just hope you learn your, you know, your- Like you can watch me on stage at Coachella.
I'll be on the main stage. Where are you, bitch?
Yeah, a little bit like that. A little bit like that.
I'll say it for you, Carol.
Yeah, exactly. You're telling it. Yeah, yeah, better.
So you work with your father. You get out of the situation with this manager. Your career really starts taking off. And then you start collaborating with some major artists and your album, Mañana Sera Bonito. It broke so many records. It's crazy. How were you feeling emotionally when your career really just started to take off?
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Chapter 5: How did Karol G's father influence her musical journey?
And I, oh my God, I think so many women look up to her. And she smells like heaven.
Yeah.
she smells like like like like rihanna you're like do you want to just actually do the rest of this episode let's talk about rihanna because carol g's like you know what yeah next i can keep like yeah yeah yeah um i think that's how a lot of people feel about her though um okay let's talk about your latest album choppy coqueta how did you come up with the name
Okay, with Tropicoqueta, it was like a world of different things because I did the album while I was on tour. And I was just going to these different countries all over the world. And even if I was in Europe or whatever, I had all these people coming from all the different Latina countries. And the name, it was like kind of, we... As Latinas, we are coquetas. We are like these flirty girls.
Like we love being like the center of the room. Like we like that. And we're sexy and we love our curves because they're in a specific way and whatever. And I wanted to express all of that. And for me, the name was like a kind of a tropical vibe and a flirty vibe. And I put them together and it's a tropie. I mean, it's so good.
And I think there's so many good also love songs on this. So I have to ask where where is your head at currently when it comes to dating, Carol?
no like i'm done for a while you know like yeah i think i'm okay no but not not not in a bad way it's as i feel very special to when i'm alone because uh it's when i focus more more in myself and i kind of i'm liking it a lot to be this way right now so i'm not like even i'm not missing
like to be with someone, I'm just enjoying my, yeah, enjoying having fun, like being in my process with the music, thinking about like, I just wanna be back on tour with my fans. I just, I'm missing them. I'm thinking more about that relationship. Like, cause I like, I put it like in aside and I was ready to start like a different thing in my personal life.
I think I was ready and just life told me like, not yet. And just not, not, not yet. So I'm just trying to get the message, you know? And yeah.
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Chapter 6: What struggles did Karol G face early in her career?
And I just want them to understand that we are in a process. Everyone is in a process. Everything's going to be okay. Everything's going to be fine.
I cannot thank you enough for coming on Call Her Daddy. This was so fun. I feel like I learned even more about you today. I feel inspired. I'm so happy for you for all of your success.
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here. And this specific moment, I think this interview is going to be really helpful in my career. So thank you so much for
open this door for me and to your community uh we're really big fans of your show even me and my friends so they're there very happy behind the monitor and thank you so much you have a great show congratulations and thank you for having me today oh my god thank you carol