Kany García talks about her new album, 'García,' and the various collaborations she has done with artists such as Carin León, Christina Nodal, Young Miko, and many more. Kany explains why exploring different types of music is important to her. Furthermore, she goes in-depth about becoming a representative for the LGBTQ+ community, how she supports them, her strong stance on various world issues, and more!
Don’t miss the Billboard Mujeres Latinas en la Música special on June 9th at 9pm/8c on Telemundo.
Don’t miss the Billboard Mujeres Latinas en la Música special on June 9th at 9pm/8c on Telemundo.
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00:00 I had seen a...
00:02 that a lot of nice things happen on Billboard
00:04 I had seen an interview of her
00:06 when she was starting, starting, starting
00:09 and she said some super nice things about me
00:12 and a lot of her fans sent me the TikTok of the interview
00:16 and I stayed with that and I said
00:18 we'll meet at some point
00:20 Kany Garcia and Garcia
00:25 and Garcia
00:27 Why is the album called Garcia and not Kany?
00:30 and not Kany
00:31 The album is called Garcia
00:32 There is a song, punctually, that is titled like this
00:35 I have two or three key people in my life
00:37 who have been like an anchor
00:39 and people of opinions that have been important to me
00:42 that don't call me Kany, they call me Garcia
00:45 I would say there are two specific
00:47 but there are two or three that call me Garcia
00:49 when they have to tell me Garcia
00:51 did you really write this here or did you say this here
00:53 as far as lyrics
00:55 or this other person Garcia
00:57 I have to tell you that when I see you in this interview
00:59 you have to be careful, tell me
01:01 they are people who take care of me
01:03 Garcia is serious
01:05 when they tell you Garcia is something serious
01:07 it's like when your mom told you Kany Kristina
01:09 mine is in carnitas
01:11 in carnitas, come here, you didn't pick up the room
01:14 it was in carnitas
01:15 to look at Garcia
01:16 and then in this song, punctually
01:18 that I talk to myself
01:19 and that I want to give some importance to what I'm saying
01:23 I put Garcia
01:25 of course, I didn't think the album would end up calling itself this way
01:28 and I love it because it was also a way of
01:30 I don't know, to give it a certain place
01:33 that these people who take care of me
01:35 call me that way
01:36 are you going to tell me who the people are or is that a secret?
01:39 well, you don't know him yet
01:40 you don't know him yet because he's a fool
01:42 one of those who call me Garcia is a fool
01:44 so from the industry, he's a fool
01:46 who has taken the time to always take care of the repertoire
01:49 and what I do
01:50 of the others, they are people in my personal life
01:52 who is this great friend that I have
01:54 who also takes care of me
01:55 who is a judge
01:56 in fact, and it's like that
01:57 that kind of judge character
01:59 Garcia, and it's like that in interviews
02:02 Garcia, you had the chance to talk about this topic and you didn't
02:06 or I see an interview and it says
02:08 you didn't have so much sensitivity with that person
02:11 and at that moment Garcia tells me
02:13 so that's another one I thank you very much
02:15 interesting
02:16 and interesting that the album is called Garcia
02:20 which is like Garcia
02:22 but that it has so many collaborations with so many friends
02:26 they are very different collaborations
02:28 one from another
02:30 some not so much
02:31 because those who know him in his
02:33 from a deeper level
02:34 know that Cristiano Rodal and Karim are very different worlds
02:37 and Eden is a very different world
02:40 but those who see him more from the outside say
02:42 ah well, they are Mexican regionals
02:44 and they can live in the same planet
02:47 but they are three very different planets
02:50 one from another
02:51 collaborations for me important
02:53 like Carla Morrison
02:54 who is a woman who I have admired a lot
02:56 and I think she has an impressive credibility
02:59 and an independent career
03:01 worthy of admiration
03:02 because you know a lot about what has to do with the industry of discography
03:07 not having that support
03:08 being there
03:09 being a woman against everything
03:11 and achieving the things you have achieved
03:12 for me it will always be someone incredible
03:14 and a voice so divine that of Carla
03:16 very divine
03:17 and apart I think it was important for me
03:20 to have someone from a new generation
03:22 who is making an incredible path
03:24 like John Mico
03:25 and who does not come from the world of any of the previous
03:28 nor mine
03:29 and I think it was like the surprise
03:31 and I always feel that it is important within the albums
03:34 make space for the new generations that come
03:37 and that are doing important things like in her case
03:42 well you have always made space in your albums
03:45 but John Mico in particular
03:47 I want to throw some flowers here
03:50 because you met in person
03:53 in Billboard Latin Music Week
03:55 where John Mico came out and said
03:57 that he had always admired you
03:59 that none of us knew that
04:02 I think that first artist that
04:04 motivated me to put fear aside
04:07 and then especially
04:09 when I found out that we were from the same community
04:11 it made me very comfortable to be able to talk to my mom too
04:14 and I wanted to be just as rockstar as Connie
04:17 like that
04:18 and it is
04:19 and as a result of that came the collaboration
04:26 as a result of that came the collaboration
04:28 I had seen
04:29 that many beautiful things happen in Billboard
04:31 I had seen an interview of her
04:34 when we were just starting
04:37 and she said some super nice things about me
04:39 and a lot of her fans sent me the TikTok of the interview
04:43 and I stayed with that and I said
04:45 we will meet at some point
04:47 and when this came
04:48 she wrote me by DM
04:50 hey I can't believe it
04:51 I saw the guests for the Billboard Week
04:54 you will be there
04:55 and we will finally be able to see each other
04:57 we had a very nice anxiety
04:59 because there was already an expectation of the appointment
05:02 and when we saw each other
05:03 it was a very beautiful moment
05:05 and she hugged me and said
05:06 I'm here because I know I'm here
05:08 because I really wanted to meet you
05:10 and I was like, that's great
05:11 I was super happy with what was going to happen in the interview
05:14 because there was already an anticipation
05:16 of what that interview had been
05:19 and those DMs that we had shared
05:21 hey Connie
05:22 and every album that you release
05:24 for me it's like a revelation
05:26 because each album is so different
05:28 but each album has these beautiful songs
05:31 and I always say
05:32 wow, in this album Connie really did something super cool
05:35 super interesting
05:36 and then the other one comes out
05:37 and I say wow, in this one too
05:39 so what lessons does this one leave you?
05:43 This album left me a lot of things
05:45 one that not everything is written
05:47 and that good for me
05:49 and for what I want to do with my career
05:51 today in fact I read
05:52 you know because there are also the nice comments
05:54 and the fan comments
05:56 and you read them?
05:57 I read
05:58 not everything but I read
05:59 and it was a direct message
06:01 from this girl who spoke to me
06:03 as if she had lost her essence
06:05 because she had made another regional song
06:07 and I had to stay in what I was
06:10 and I laughed because I said
06:11 how sad that the evolutionary process of people
06:16 people have so much resistance
06:18 because hey, we evolve
06:19 it's very difficult
06:20 for me it's in my case
06:22 that I'm in my relationship with Josela and my wife
06:25 we are in a constant evolution
06:27 and we say hopefully in ten years
06:29 we will continue to look at each other
06:31 and want to be with each other
06:32 but both are in an individual process of evolution
06:35 and I as an artist imagine
06:37 when you travel, when you meet
06:38 I go to Colombia
06:39 the sound of absolutely the number of instruments there
06:43 how is it not going to affect me?
06:44 how am I going to go to Mexico
06:45 and it's not going to affect me
06:46 to know what is the race, the ranchera
06:49 the band, the group, the north
06:54 how am I going to go to Argentina
06:55 I'm going to be affected by a tango
06:57 and how am I not going to want all that
06:58 have a repercussion on my music
07:00 so yes, I love that each album I can
07:03 somehow capture what is happening to me
07:05 in that evolution
07:07 and that happens to me that the past album
07:08 as they say, oh, how cool
07:10 that another album comes from Kanye
07:11 and I have other things to say
07:12 and for me it has been that
07:14 a way to be able to present it
07:16 somehow within what García
07:18 and that the fan appreciates it
07:20 there will be songs within the album
07:22 that respond to the essence
07:24 that I no longer know how much of an essence we are
07:27 because we mix with everything
07:29 but there will always be those songs
07:31 for the fan who has been with me for a long time
07:33 but I also ask you for permission
07:35 to let me continue growing
07:37 and it also seems nice to me
07:38 because in that evolution you have already gone from
07:41 being a singer-songwriter
07:43 that before many of your songs were
07:46 written by Kanye for Kanye
07:48 and now they are collaborations
07:51 Kanye with Karim
07:53 Yes, Kanye with Karim
07:54 or even, you know, and I really appreciate
07:58 the amount of awards for the issue of being a singer-songwriter
08:01 and 100% me
08:03 but I love to sit with Edgar Barrera
08:04 and make a great song
08:05 or with Juan Morelli or with Camilo
08:07 or with whoever
08:08 those things also amuse me a lot
08:10 and I think they are important
08:11 and that the fan also appreciates
08:12 when I do something
08:14 I don't just sing it with Karim
08:16 but I can write it with Eden
08:19 because Eden is also beautiful
08:21 And now you talked a little while ago
08:23 about Yossi, your wife
08:25 not a couple, a wife
08:27 and now in June it's Pride Month
08:29 So, do you feel, Kanye, that in some way
08:32 you have been
08:34 well, I do feel that you have been
08:36 the great flag of the LGBT movement
08:39 at least in the Latino space
08:42 for women especially
08:45 Do you still feel that you have been a leader
08:48 and that you have created a safe space?
08:50 I think that, and I appreciate that
08:52 there are things that you do
08:54 looking for them to happen
08:56 and there are things that you do naturally
08:57 For us, we never had it clear
09:00 when we shared with people our relationship
09:03 we never had it clear the repercussion it had
09:05 until I started receiving DMs and letters
09:09 and "thank you"
09:10 and "I feel like this with my family"
09:13 and "I'm living this, I'm living the other"
09:15 and receiving that kind of thing
09:17 we said, "oh, we are an icon"
09:19 and we had no idea of these things
09:22 and as that happened
09:24 I think that it gives you a certain
09:28 not only responsibility
09:30 but a certain strength to say
09:32 "I'm not alone in this"
09:34 everything I'm doing is creating
09:36 open doors and windows
09:38 and today we have, going back to John Mico
09:41 we have a John Mico who sings to women
09:43 and I don't know if she could do that
09:45 in 2014, those 10 years
09:47 No, I'm sure she couldn't
09:49 It would have been more difficult
09:51 More difficult, nowadays I see all my repertories
09:54 and I complain that I say
09:56 "why do we always sing to the male genre?"
09:59 the songs, the women
10:00 Now we are living, I think, a super cool moment
10:03 where you see a Carol
10:05 or you see a lot of artists
10:07 who sing to the female genre
10:09 and that is happening thanks to these doors
10:12 that not only me, but many other people have opened
10:15 but of course, not only in the artist part
10:19 but as I said, in the fan part
10:21 what I see, the party I see of people
10:24 who also meet
10:26 is the party that brings me
10:28 Karin and her audience
10:30 which is a more heterosexual male audience
10:32 with her wife
10:34 but also of queer people
10:36 of trans people, of girls
10:38 and that diversity exists thanks to that
10:40 to the activism speech
10:42 and I love being part of that
10:44 and I love being able, not only with the music
10:46 but with what I say, to help and contribute
10:48 and open windows
10:50 and be an example, how important it is
10:52 to be able to see yourself reflected
10:54 and you have had an intense year of touring
10:57 intense
10:58 so what's coming in this 2024
11:01 releasing an album, will there be more touring?
11:04 Yes, there will be more touring, there will be a breath
11:06 of the album, it's like after a day of work
11:08 that says, well, it's not that I'm not going to work
11:10 in my house, but I'm going to have a little bit of a breath
11:13 I have a tour in Spain at the end of June
11:17 but I really start touring in September
11:20 so it's pretty good
11:22 I start touring in September, but I do all of the United States
11:25 there will be at least 21 cities
11:28 and then I do all of Latin America
11:30 which will take me a while
11:32 Cani, our spirit of change
11:35 of Billboard Latin Women in Music
11:37 It's nice to hear that, I love it
11:39 It sounds beautiful
11:41 Yes, yes, super grateful and happy
11:43 but I want to tell you that when we were thinking
11:46 who we give the award for change
11:49 you were the first on the list
11:52 Really? Really
11:53 Beautiful thing
11:54 Thank you very much for that
11:55 but for many things
11:57 because we feel that you have been committed
11:59 very vocally with so many causes
12:02 and you have always been speaking
12:06 artists often don't like to speak publicly
12:09 or take positions
12:10 and you have always done it with different things
12:13 Why do you think it's important as an artist
12:16 to have a position in front of certain issues?
12:20 Because I think there is a part that is personality
12:24 and I say it because many times I am told
12:26 by other artists that they should do it
12:29 I think everyone assumes what they understand
12:32 and what their personality is
12:34 for me it's like a need
12:36 it's like something that goes hand in hand
12:38 between turning, having the opportunity
12:41 to see people who are affected by your music
12:43 that you get in a vehicle
12:45 and see the reality of each country
12:47 and you say how not to point out
12:50 or how not to contribute
12:52 or how not to communicate
12:54 for me it's like
12:56 I think it's a closure of my career
13:00 and a sense at the same time of making music
13:02 at the end people tell you
13:04 your song accompanies me in this moment of my life
13:06 that's beautiful
13:08 but in that moment of your life
13:09 so many other things happened
13:11 that you as an artist could have done
13:13 I don't know, for me it has always been
13:15 an essential part of what I am
13:17 and what has made sense to my songs
13:19 and to my project
13:20 What causes are important to you?
13:23 Well, that has been changing
13:25 I think we get bigger
13:27 and I think the heart goes elsewhere
13:30 lately it happens to me a lot with the subject of women
13:33 I think that more than anything
13:35 with the subject of what has to do with gender violence
13:37 within the rate of femicides that exist in all of Latin America
13:42 I think the subject of women is the main one in recent years
13:45 I have been for many years in a foundation in Puerto Rico
13:48 that is called Truces, which is directly LGBT
13:51 and works mostly with trans people
13:56 and more than anything, because people in the community
14:00 have a more complicated issue of rights
14:02 and it was something I always felt
14:04 because I was part of the community
14:06 as if I was there and participating
14:08 but what moves me the most
14:10 I think it will always be the subject of women
14:12 it's like in its entirety
14:14 what I have worked on in different causes
14:16 in different campaigns
14:18 in different things that we have done
14:19 and also in songs
14:21 like in La Fuerte
14:22 with different women that I have sought support
14:25 And for you, what does it mean to be given this award?
14:28 Well, imagine
14:29 on the one hand it's like a hug
14:32 within the effort and the struggle
14:35 it's also an opportunity that one has
14:38 to continue inspiring new women
14:42 new generations with women who are being vocal
14:45 and who are being vocal
14:47 also for generations like mine
14:49 and before mine
14:50 that we have taken that path
14:53 and I don't know, to have a night
14:55 that is dedicated simply to appreciate
14:58 to validate and to enhance the philanthropic work
15:02 I think it's wonderful
15:03 for me it's like an honor and a pleasure
15:05 to spend a night like that
15:07 Well, congratulations
15:08 We are very happy to have you
15:11 Thank you very much
15:12 Good luck with Garcia
15:13 Thank you, so be it
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