{"id":68594,"date":"2026-07-15T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/karol-g-on-being-first-latina-to-headline-coachella\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:27:30","slug":"karol-g-on-being-first-latina-to-headline-coachella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/karol-g-on-being-first-latina-to-headline-coachella\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol G on Being First Latina to Headline Coachella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Colombian superstar said as much to the CEO of Goldenvoice, Coachella&#8217;s promoter<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/karol-g\/\" id=\"auto-tag_karol-g\" data-tag=\"karol-g\">Karol G<\/a> is opening up about how it <em>really<\/em> felt to make history earlier this year as the <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/karol-g-first-latina-artist-coachella-headliner-1235428277\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/karol-g-first-latina-artist-coachella-headliner-1235428277\/\">first Latina artist<\/a> to <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/karol-g-performance-coachella-2026-review-1235543504\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/karol-g-performance-coachella-2026-review-1235543504\/\">headline Coachella.<\/a> \u201cThe fact that I was the first one just feels wrong \u2014 it feels incorrect,\u201d the Colombian superstar said in a recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a71854508\/karol-g-viajando-por-el-mundo-tropitour-interview-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a71854508\/karol-g-viajando-por-el-mundo-tropitour-interview-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">cover story<\/a> for <em>Elle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKarol G was even bold enough to share her unfiltered thoughts with Paul Tollett, CEO of Goldenvoice, Coachella\u2019s promoter. \u201cI mentioned how crazy it was that it took 27 years [since] the festival [began] to finally bring a Latina to the stage as a headliner,\u201d she said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKarol revealed that the conversation came up when Tollet visited the star in her trailer after she closed out the first weekend with a stunning performance. \u201cHe was very kind. He said, \u2018I should apologize,&#8217;\u201d Karol recalls, adding, \u201cI didn\u2019t want to make him feel bad, but he acknowledged that it was the reality \u2026Before me, there were so many who could have undoubtedly filled that spot. What if Daddy Yankee had headlined Coachella? Or Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Shakira?\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe\u2019s got a point. In the music festival\u2019s nearly 30-year history, only two Latin acts have shutdown the main stage, and both performed this decade. Bad Bunny, who headlined in 2023, made history as the first Latin musician to headline the festival. By then, it was long overdue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKarol made the most out of her big moment, though, celebrating her Colombian culture and that of Latinos overall. At one point, the singer urged her fans to \u201cfeel proud, raise your flag.\u201d During her set for Coachella\u2019s final weekend, Karol also used the national stage to <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/karol-g-coachella-tour-announcement-j-balvin-ryan-castro-1235550165\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/karol-g-coachella-tour-announcement-j-balvin-ryan-castro-1235550165\/\">tease<\/a> her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/karol-g-tropicoqueta-global-tour-dates-1235551163\/\">Viajando Por El Mundo\u00a0<\/a>global tour. In the coming weeks, the Colombian star will kick off the 39-date stadium trek in Chicago at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/karol-g-discusses-being-first-latina-headline-coachella-1235594059\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombian superstar said as much to the CEO of Goldenvoice, Coachella&#8217;s promoter Karol G is opening up about how it really felt to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":68595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}