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Karol G Plots First U.S. Headlining Tour

By Althea Legaspi

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Karol G has announced her first U.S. headlining tour. The ‘Bichota Tour’ goes on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET.

The Colombian reggaeton star’s 21-date trek kicks off in Denver at Mission Ballroom on October 27th. It hits a number of cities on the West Coast before a string of dates in Texas and one in the Midwest before making its way to the East Coast and then heading south. The tour culminates with a show in Miami at FTX Arena on November 26th and in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 27th at Coliseo de Puerto Rico.

“It’s a dream for me to be able to return to the stage after everything stopped in 2020. I was very excited to know that I’ll be able to share my music again live with all my fans. Having the opportunity to be face to face with them is the best news I have received this year,” Karol G said in a statement. “After seeing how my fans received my new album, I am looking forward to be on stage performing and singing along with them. My fans are going to experience the most exciting shows of my entire career. Thank you to the Smirnoff family for joining me on this tour.”

In March, Karol G dropped her third album, KG0516 . She told Rolling Stone the material is more representative of who she is as an artist. “I’m not making all these crossovers and fusions so that my music reaches a ton of people,” she said. “It’s that I love all types of music and sounds, and ultimately, that’s what I want to express to people… There are a lot of feelings, a lot of flows, and a little bit of everything.”

In May, she performed KG0516 songs “200 Copas” and “Contigo Voy a Muerto” alongside “Créeme” and “A Ella” for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert .

Karol G ‘Bichota Tour’ Dates

October 27 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom October 29 – El Paso, TX @ El Paso County Coliseum October 30 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheatre October 31 – San Diego, CA @ San Diego Civic Theatre November 1 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic November 3 – Sacramento, CA @ Memorial Auditorium November 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Microsoft Theater November 6 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas November 9 – Hidalgo, TX @ Payne Arena November 10 – Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Center At Sugar Land November 11 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theater at Grand Prairie November 13 – Rosemont, IL @ Rosemont Theatre November 15 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre November 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall November 18 – New York, NY @ United Palace November 20 – Washington, DC @ DAR Constitution Hall November 22 – Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium November 23 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern November 24 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live November 26 – Miami, FL @ FTX Arena November 27 – San Juan, PR @ Coliseo de Puerto Rico

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Karol G Made History in Costa Rica — & You Won’t Believe How

Karol G kicked off her  Mañana Será Bonito Tour  last August at the Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, NV. Throughout last year, she continued to sell out stadiums across the U.S. Thanks to the massive box office returns, Billboard  ranked  Karol G at No. 1 as the highest-grossing Latine touring artist of 2023. She came in at No. 11 on a separate list that factored in artists across all genres, including Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Harry Styles.

Karol G cantando "MI EX TENÍA RAZÓN" en su primer noche en Costa Rica. pic.twitter.com/lbEsQ3OojN — MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (@MSBKarolG) March 10, 2024

Karol G is currently on the Latin American leg of the Mañana Será Bonito Tour. On March 9 and 10, she sold out the Estadio Nacional in San José, Costa Rica. Across both nights, her concerts sold 104,686 tickets. She made history with the highest ticket sales for a concert in the country, breaking the record set by Coldplay in 2022.

When the Latin American leg of the Mañana Será Bonito Tour  kicked off  in Mexico City last month, Karol G became the first woman to sell out the Estadio Azteca for three consecutive nights. Next, she will visit the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez in the Dominican Republic on March 15. This summer, Karol G’s world tour will head to Europe. She will make history in Spain in July as the first artist to sell out four concerts at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid.

Last month, Karol G celebrated the first anniversary of her  Mañana Será Bonito  album. She became the first woman with an all-Spanish album to appear on the Billboard 200 chart for a full calendar year (52 weeks). Karol G broke a record previously set by Gloria Estefan’s  Mi Tierra  album, which spent 46 weeks on that same chart. 

Karol G Talks Stadium-Hopping on the $trip Love Tour, Dream Movie Roles and That Post-Punk Cover of ‘Bichota’

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Colombian reggaeton star Karol G has achieved what a select few of her countrymen can lay claim to: she is a household name in the U.S. Credit the American teenagers who’ve embraced La Bichota as one of their own, with admiration and respect.

“I feel like a great part of my success so far has been that connection: it has taken me a lot of effort and sacrifice to get to where I am today,” she tells Variety . “Lots of people know that and I’m lucky enough that people are getting to know me and have tasked themselves with learning my story.”

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Karol’s music, carefully crafted for rule-breaking femmes (“I’m not here for you to fall in love with me, baby”), paired with the large-scale spectacles built for arena stages make for the type of all-night affairs regularly followed-up with Bichota-themed afterparties. Fans of all ages in red wigs and stilettos make up the sea of concert-goers and on stage, Karol makes her grand entrance inside a floating barb-wired heart, backed by a team of pole dancers who compliment her every note with the ease of a booty pop.

Karol came up locally around her native Medellín. Alongside her father and former manager, Guillermo Giraldo, she performed at events and festivals and networked. That led to work as a backup singer for one of reggaeton’s earliest leaders, Reykon, and receiving major co-signs from budding male counterparts in the genre like J. Balvin and Nicky Jam.

“In Colombia, there’s so much local talent and honestly, we listen to our own music the most,” Karol says, highlighting her hometown shows at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium as “the most incredible and special experience I had in my life.” She continues, “I’m proud of the fact that my [home country] loves me, they feel proud of me because I have a great sense of belonging to my country. I love saying everywhere I go that I am Latin, that I am from Colombia.”

It was also her father’s taste in music, and his own goals as an aspiring musician and singer, that helped cultivate Karol’s unfettered method of music-making. “I specifically remember him listening to Yuri, Myriam Hernandez, Juan Gabriel, and he listened to classics — vallenatos, Colombian even Puerto Rican salsas and Cuban music. He loved Metallica, he listened to Nirvana, and would watch their live performances and music videos…”

This brings to mind the post-punk cover of her hallmark “Bichota” by Chilean band Friolento , which went viral earlier this summer. Says Karol with a squeal: “ O sea , just imagine my reaction when I first heard that song ! I was literally going insane. I am always listening to different versions people make of my songs, especially my favorite song. I thought it was super original and people do reggaeton or acoustic versions, but this one really, really truly fascinated me.”

In her own vault, Karol admits she’s got a few older songs that teeter between urban music and various other styles (“I tried one with tango, it was a song that never came out but I loved it”). And so long as a song or project doesn’t feel “forced,” she says she’s open to the crossover experience. She recalls being given the option to record the electro banger “Don’t Be Shy” with Tiësto in either English or Spanish and feeling inclined to take the opportunity to try English, not only as a personal challenge but to see where the song would land globally seeing the rise in popularity of Latin music and despite the fact that “Latinos don’t expect us to make music in English now that even English-speakers are enjoying songs in Spanish.”

Karol’s $trip Love Tour will wrap on Nov. 2 at TD Garden in Boston and in March 2023, Karol will bring the tour to Puerto Rico’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium.

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Karol G’s Songs Conquered the World. On a New LP, She Reveals Herself.

“Mañana Será Bonito,” the Colombian pop superstar’s fourth album, traces her adventures in (and out) of love, with guests including Shakira and Romeo Santos.

“I’m being really open with this album, and that gets me a little bit scared, because I’m not a perfect human,” Karol G said. Credit... Jingyu Lin for The New York Times

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Karol G, a global pop star from Colombia, said she wrote 60 songs, maybe more, for her new album, “Mañana Será Bonito” (“Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful”); eventually she winnowed them down to 17.

The first ones, she recalled in a video chat from Medellín, Colombia, were full of “anger, sadness, bad love, toxic relationships.” They reflected the fallout of her 2021 breakup with the Puerto Rican rapper and singer Anuel AA, after the end of a romance they had made public with a 2019 duet, “Secreto,” that has since been streamed more than a billion times.

Karol G, 32, wrote about feeling betrayed, about temptations and doubts, about partying away the pain, about no-strings sex with an ex. But eventually, she found herself writing wary love songs and counting her blessings. Just a few weeks before the album’s Feb. 24 release, she was wondering if she had been too candid.

“I’m being really open with this album, and that gets me a little bit scared, because I’m not a perfect human,” she said from her office in her hometown, where she had just returned to meet her sister’s newborn.

Karol G, born Carolina Giraldo Navarro, was wearing an oversized white hoodie, one of 100 that she has decorated by hand for a limited-edition merch sale. Her hair, which has changed color for each album and tour cycle — with her fans attending concerts in matching wigs — was the bold red she unveiled in recent videos.

“The album is more Carolina than Karol G,” she said. “Personal things that I had inside me, I was just letting them go in my lyrics. People are going to know about a lot of my personal life with my songs. But I don’t want to have the songs inside me anymore, because I know people can heal a lot of things with music. Writing songs for me is a really good way to heal things that I can’t explain.”

She admitted to prerelease jitters. “Right now, I notice that artists are trying very hard to find a concept, to be very experimental,” she said. “I love that. And that’s a good way to do art. But the concept of this album is just me being me. I really didn’t want people to feel it was like very simple, or just normal. But then we put up the announcement of my album, and there’s already more than 80 million views on Instagram. Now I’m stressed because I think that expectations are very high.”

“Mañana Será Bonito” is primed to be a blockbuster in the wake of Karol G’s 2021 album, “KG0516.” That LP included her billion-streaming 2019 collaboration with Nicki Minaj, “Tusa,” and her self-mythologizing 2020 “Bichota,” a word Karol G coined to turn “bichote” — Puerto Rican slang for a drug kingpin — into a feminine noun for, as she says, “a boss bitch,” a sexy and powerful woman.

Her new slang caught on. “‘Bichota’ became a movement,” she said. “Las bichotas don’t cry, las bichotas work for themselves, las bichotas are big, las bichotas are strong, las bichotas can do everything. Everybody can have good songs, everybody can have a moment. But to have a movement, it’s a different thing to find. And I think it’s something that you don’t find if you’re looking for it.”

Karol G played the main stage of Coachella in 2022, pointedly including a medley of worldwide hits in Spanish from acts who had never performed at the festival, including Selena, Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Shakira. “It was special for me to say with my show, I’m here now and I feel really proud,” she said. “But I have to say that I’m here because of this music that opened those doors for us to be here.”

The core of Karol G’s music is the loping beat of reggaeton. But her songs replace the genre’s usual rapping with inviting pop melodies, delivered in her clear, teasing voice. Instead of reggaeton’s machismo, she offers cheerful, forthrightly sex-positive femininity.

With each album, Karol G has also reached beyond reggaeton to collaborate with an international array of guests — a sign of Latin pop’s ever-expanding, border-crossing possibilities . “Right now is a really special moment with Latin music,” she said, “because everybody in the world is like, ‘I don’t care if I know the words or not,’ but they connect with our sounds.”

Karol G grew up surrounded by music. Her father — who was her protector and manager in her early career — sang with a band and brought home all sorts of music: “Rock ’n’ roll, salsa, ballads, reggaeton, vallenatos, everything,” she recalled.

From an early age, she knew she wanted to sing. As a teenager, she auditioned unsuccessfully for the Colombian edition of the music reality competition “The X Factor,” but soon afterward signed to record with the Puerto Rican label Diamond Music — a contract her father bought her out of two years later. By 2012, she had grown so discouraged that she decided to give up on music and study marketing in New York City.

“My father stopped talking to me for three months,” she recalled. “He was like, ‘No, you can’t do that. You are throwing away seven years of our hard work. I know who you are. I know we can get it. It’s hard, but when we get it, it’s going to be bigger than the rest.’”

An advertisement for a music-business conference in Boston caught her eye as she was riding buses in New York. On an impulse, she attended, and it was a turning point. “I know I love music and I do this for passion,” she said. “But the teaching at that conference was how the music can be a really big business, and how you can work like that.”

She returned to Colombia, enrolled to study music at the University of Antioquia, released songs independently and performed at every opportunity, eventually singing duets with established reggaeton stars like Nicky Jam . Her 2017 debut album, “Unstoppable,” included duets with Bad Bunny and Quavo (from Migos), and it brought her a 2018 Latin Grammy Award as best new artist. Her popularity has only grown since then, stoked by lusty songs like “Mi Cama” (“My Bed”) and “Punto G” (“G-Spot”) . In Latin America, she headlines stadiums.

Her constant collaborator has been Daniel Echavarría Oviedo, who records as Ovy on the Drums and has produced the vast majority of her songs. He tailors and refines reggaeton and other beats to suit her voice; he also strives to match her ambitions. “Karol’s mind is always going,” he said in a video chat from Los Angeles. “She always has an objective as to where the direction of the song should be, where the lyrics should go. She’s always thinking what’s the next move, the next step, the next accomplishment?”

On “Mañana Será Bonito,” Karol G worked with Finneas (Billie Eilish’s brother and collaborator), the Jamaican dancehall singer Sean Paul, the Bronx-born bachata singer Romeo Santos , the Dominican dembowsero Angel Dior , and her forerunner as a Colombian superstar, Shakira. She also embraces an elder generation of reggaeton with “Gatúbela” (“Catwoman”) , a racy duet with Maldy, a Puerto Rican rapper from the duo Plan B, which released its first album in 2002.

“I had never done anything with a woman before,” Maldy said in a phone interview via a translator. “But it was very natural. Being with a woman that brings that sensuality made the right combination for the song to have such an impact. She has the charisma to bring reggaeton to another genre. And international collaborations expand reggaeton, to maximize it culturally.”

Karol G insists that her hybrids and connections are a matter of instinct, not crossover marketing. “For me to go to different styles of music, different genres is not hard, because I have music from everywhere that I really love,” she said. “I’m trying to show the world more what I do, instead of just doing things to open that door. I want to do it with my real identity. If I feel in my mind that a song has that feeling I go that way: ‘This is a rock, this is a salsa, this is a corrido mexicano.’”

She had a hit with the Mexican-style waltz “200 Copas” (“200 Drinks”) from “KG0516,” in which she advises a friend to dump a terrible boyfriend and go out drinking. The new album has another one, “Gucci Los Paños,” (“Gucci Towels”) which furiously and profanely rejects an ex-boyfriend’s attempts to get back together. “If we’re going to do a really heartbroken song that needs to sound really angry, for me you have to use Mexican sounds,” she said.

Another of the album’s good-riddance songs is “TGQ,” the duet with Shakira — a pairing Karol G had long hoped for. They had sent each other songs in recent years, but none had seemed exactly right. Now, with Shakira singing openly about her own breakup , Karol G thought they might share another song in which she was “letting a lot of anger go.” When Shakira heard it, Karol G said, “She was, like ‘Oh my God, thank you. Those lyrics are perfectly the way I feel right now.’” They completed the song together, and the finished track, a reggaeton-tinged minor-key ballad, seethes in sisterhood.

The album doesn’t offer a narrative. Framed by two songs calling for hope — “Mientras Me Cura del Cora” (“While My Heart Heals”), which is built on Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and “Mañana Será Bonito” — the track list wanders amid hookups and kiss-offs, heedless excess and cautious infatuation. In “Cairo,” she chides herself that the one-night stand she planned on has led to real affection: “I’m not in love but I’m almost there,” she sings.

“That really happened!” she said. “I was really, like, I’m not going to get in love again. I’m not going to try to build my personal life with anybody. But life just brought somebody to my life that is like making me feel happy again, so that I wanted to share moments with somebody else again.”

“That was a new thing that I learned with this album,” she continued. “I was going to be really mad about love and everything. And at the end of the album, now I’m feeling it again. I used to hate it and now I’m loving it again. So let’s be open to that.”

Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. A musician, he has played in rock bands, jazz groups and classical ensembles. He majored in music at Yale University. More about Jon Pareles

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Latest News: Karol G Wins Best Música Urbana Album at 2024 Grammys

When Karol G took the stage at the 2024 Grammy Awards on February 4, she introduced herself. But to Latin music fans, she needs no introduction. The 32-year-old added to her collection of Latin Grammys in November 2023 when she won Album of the Year for Mañana Será Bonito . Now it’s also the winner of Best Música Urbana Album, marking her first mainstream Grammy.

“My album has given me my best memories in my own life, my whole life,” the Colombian-born singer said in her acceptance speech. Mañana Será Bonito also became a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 upon release.

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Karol G is a star of música urbana, which includes reggaeton, Latin trap, and Spanish-language hip-hop. Her music also incorporates R&B and pop. Karol initially struggled to succeed as a female performer in the male-dominated world of reggaeton. To help her career take off, she sang backup and traveled extensively to perform at small venues and festivals. Doing this, she met fellow musicians who would become collaborators, such as Ovy on the Drums, who went on to produce much of her music. Karol’s albums are: Unstoppable (2017), Ocean (2019), KG0516 (2021), and Mañana Será Bonito (2023) . Her hit songs include “Tusa,” “Bichota,” and “Mamii,” and she has worked with J Balvin , Nicki Minaj , and the Jonas Brothers . She won her first Grammy Award in 2024.

FULL NAME: Carolina Giraldo Navarro BORN: February 14, 1991 BIRTHPLACE: Medellín, Colombia ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius

Karol G was born Carolina Giraldo Navarro in Medellín, Colombia, on February 14, 1991.

Karol grew up listening to music that included the Bee Gees, Thalía, Spice Girls and Red Hot Chili Peppers. She performed with her father, Juan Guillermo Giraldo, who worked as a musician.

Karol studied music at the University of Antioquia.

In 2021, Karol told the Los Angeles Times , “When I started making music in 2006, there was already a very strong reggaeton movement in Latin America. The music I wanted to make was the music I loved listening to.”

As a teenager, Karol appeared on El Factor X , Colombia’s take on The X-Factor . In 2007, she signed with a Puerto Rican label. Her first single came out that same year. However, she found it difficult to break through as a female reggaeton artist as the genre focused on male stars.

After her father bought out her first contract, Karol met with another label in Miami around 2010. The label appreciated her work but wasn’t open to signing her. “They said I could maybe be a songwriter, but a woman making reggaeton? That wouldn’t work,” she said .

Pursuing a music career also led to Karol receiving unwanted sexual propositions. With her career not advancing as she’d hoped , Karol moved to New York. There, a subway ad inspired her to attend a music business conference in Boston and reignited her commitment to music.

Karol returned to Colombia and recorded her own songs in a home studio. She kept performing wherever she could get a gig.

Karol signed with Universal Music Latino in 2016. Working with Bad Bunny on “Ahora Me Llama” (“Now He Calls Me,” 2017) raised her international profile .

Karol’s debut album, Unstoppable , arrived in 2017 and reached No. 2 on Billboard ’s Top Latin Albums chart. Her second album, Ocean , came out in 2019 and also debuted at No. 2 on the Top Latin Albums chart.

Singing about sex is common for male reggaeton artists but more unusual for their female counterparts. Yet Karol embraced her sexuality in hit songs like “Mi Cama” (“My Bed,” 2018) and “Punto G” (2019).

Karol reached another level of success with “Tusa” (2019). The song, made with Nicki Minaj , started at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs—a first for a female-led song since 2016—and reached more than 1 billion views on YouTube.

As the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world in 2020, Karol worked on her third album, for which she scrapped an almost-done project to create new music that better reflected her.

KG0516 arrived in 2021 and was the first record Karol co-produced. It reached No. 1 on Billboard ’s Top Latin Albums chart and No. 20 on the Billboard 200. The album featured collaborations with artists from Ozuna to Ludacris .

Karol had another success with “Bichota” (2020). She explained the song title refers to an “empowered, strong woman.”

“Ever since ‘Bichota,’ I am even more connected to my music,” she said in an interview with Billboard . “Now, even if there are other songwriters involved, the direction of the lyrics and style are in my hands because I am at that point in my career where I know what I want to and don’t want to release.”

Karol’s first English-language song, “Don’t Be Shy,” arrived in August 2021. She worked with Becky G on “MAMIII” (2022), which reached No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Karol’s “Provenza” (2022) was another No. 1 hit on that chart.

Karol hasn’t forgotten the obstacles she encountered on her way to the top. She included up-and-coming artists, like Mariah Angeliq and Nathy Peluso, on her third album. Karol also hosts an Apple Music show called “Bichota Radio” that features Latina performers.

Karol was awarded Best New Artist at the 2018 Latin Grammys. She received a 2020 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Song. At the Latin Grammy Awards in 2021, “Bichota” won Best Reggaeton Performance. Her third album was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Música Urbana Album.

Karol has been designated one of Spotify’s Top 50 Artists Worldwide.

In 2021, Karol said, “I’m super focused on becoming an entrepreneur, launching a makeup brand, clothing lines and making my debut on the big screen.” She has her own company, Girl Power Inc., and aims to follow the successful careers of Rihanna and Selena Quintanilla . She has their faces tattooed on herself, along with a tattoo of her visage.

Karol partnered with Crocs to bring out two designs. The shoes she worked on quickly sold out.

Karol has a role in the Netflix series Griselda , which tells the story of real-life Colombian drug dealer Griselda Blanco . Karol plays a mule who transports drugs for Griselda.

Karol connected with Anuel AA, a fellow singer, when the two collaborated on the song “Culpables.” The two met in person for the song’s music video in 2018. They collaborated on other songs, such as “Secreto” and “Tu No Amas” while embarking on a relationship.

Karol and Anuel’s relationship ended in 2021. Even after splitting up, the pair have appeared onstage together.

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Karol G has traveled across Latin America with her Mañana Será Bonito Tour, paying homage to the countries she’s performing in by wearing a special outfit that represents each country’s respective flag colors. It may be a simple wardrobe choice, but it’s thoughtful and attention to detail that really marks the difference.

Throughout her sets, she has a few outfit changes, from anime-inspired, schoolgirl mini-skirts paired with fuzzy snow boots to show-stopping sparkly long dresses with a flower on her hair as an accessory.  She’s also worn flowy cargo pants with cropped T-shirts and a tejano look with cowboy hat and all. The Colombian hitmaker has perfected an aesthetic for this tour that has become an extension of her artistry.

Karol G’s Latin America tour kicked off Feb. 8 in Mexico City, and has made stops in Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Perú, among other countries. “These last few days have been busy,” the Grammy-winning artist recently wrote on social media . “Between the tour, the recording studio and everything to come, but I feel infinitely happy and grateful for the moment of my life I’m going through!”

According to Billboard Boxscore, in 2023, Karol — who was honored with woman of the year at  Billboard ‘s 2024 Women in Music event — grossed $155.3 million and sold 925,000 tickets from 20 shows. She landed at No. 11 on the 2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts. The tour is named after her 2023 history-making album, which became the first Spanish-language album by a female artist that has topped the Billboard 200 .

Her LatAm stint continues in countries like Chile, Brazil and Argentina before she heads out to Europe this summer.

Below are some of the best looks from Karol’s Mañana Será Bonito Tour in Latin America.

Mexico City, Mexico

Karol G performed in a show-stopping sparkly long dress during her show at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. 

Mexico City

Sporting Mexico’s flag colors — green, white and red — Karol accessorized the two-piece outfit with pink snow boots, arm warmers and ear muffs. 

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

One of Karol’s more relaxed and casual looks, she elevated the outfit wearing a pink daisy in her hair. 

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Karol G opted for neon colors and a blue cowboy hat for her show at Explanada Cardales de Cayalá in Guatemala City.

Guatemala City

Karol G traded her pink miniskirt for a blue-and-white one as an homage to Guatemala’s flag colors. Even her snow boots and socks matched the outfit’s aesthetic. 

San Salvador, El Salvador

Karol G was all smiles in her San Salvador show where she wore a black crop T-shirt stamped with the El Salvador flag in shape of a heart. 

San José, Costa Rica

Karol G was a vision in pink during her performance at Estadio Nacional in San José. 

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Even Karol G’s snow-boot laces turned blue and red to represent the DR’s flag colors. 

Santo Domingo

Karol G wore a stylish rhinestoned jumpsuit with a white crop top underneath, and a pink flower in her hair during her show in Santo Domingo. 

Caracas, Venezuela

Half of Karol’s pink miniskirt was yellow, blue and red in honor of Venezuela’s flag. She paired it with a white crop T-shirt that had the country’s flag in shape of a heart stamped right in the middle. 

Bogotá, Colombia

In her native Colombia, Karol was dressed in yellow, blue and red from head to toe. 

Karol G has rocked a tejano-inspired look more than once during her Latin America tour. In Bogotá, she sparkled in a red cowboy hat that accentuated her flowy pink curls. 

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Did Karol G diss her ex during her concert in Chile?

A recent video capturing Karol G ’s live performance during the Latin American leg of her “Mañana Será Bonito” Tour in Chile has taken the internet by storm. The Colombian reggaeton sensation found herself in a light-hearted moment that sparked a chatter across social media platforms.

In the online footage, Karol G is shown mid-performance, pausing to read aloud a boldly worded poster held up by one of her fans. The message on the poster, which translates to, “My ex was right, the Colombian does it better,” drew an immediate reaction from the singer, who couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

With a playful demeanor, Karol G turned to address her fan directly, acknowledging the sentiment with a wink and a nod. “I understand you, I understand you,” she quipped.

Unsurprisingly, the video quickly went viral, igniting a frenzy of speculation and discussion online. References to Anuel , Karol G’s former partner, and Feid , her current boyfriend, flooded social media feeds as fans dissected the implications of her playful interaction.

Throughout her career, Karol G has been known for infusing her songs with elements of her personal life, allowing fans to connect with her on a deeper level. From playful innuendos to heartfelt confessions, her music often reflects her own journey, complete with its ups and downs.

Karol G and her “Mañana Será Bonito Tour”

The Colombian is breaking barriers and setting new milestones at every stop. This past weekend, the tour made its mark in San José, Costa Rica, where an astounding 104,686 tickets were sold between two sold-out nights, marking the highest ticket sales ever for a concert in the country. The tour shattered the previous record set by Coldplay in 2022, showcasing Karol G’s immense popularity and drawing power.

The “Mañana Será Bonito LATAM Tour” kicked off in Mexico City with another unprecedented feat: Karol G became the first female artist to sell out the Estadio Azteca for three consecutive nights, with an impressive 80,000 attendees per night.

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Will it be easy to find my way in the Moscow Metro? It is a question many visitors ask themselves before hitting the streets of the Russian capital. As metro is the main means of transport in Moscow – fast, reliable and safe – having some skills in using it will help make your visit more successful and smooth. On top of this, it is the most beautiful metro in the world !

. There are over 220 stations and 15 lines in the Moscow Metro. It is open from 6 am to 1 am. Trains come very frequently: during the rush hour you won't wait for more than 90 seconds! Distances between stations are quite long – 1,5 to 2 or even 3 kilometers. Metro runs inside the city borders only. To get to the airport you will need to take an onground train - Aeroexpress.

RATES AND TICKETS

Paper ticket A fee is fixed and does not depend on how far you go. There are tickets for a number of trips: 1, 2 or 60 trips; or for a number of days: 1, 3 days or a month. Your trips are recorded on a paper ticket. Ifyou buy a ticket for several trips you can share it with your traveling partner passing it from one to the other at the turnstile.

On every station there is cashier and machines (you can switch it to English). Cards and cash are accepted. 1 trip - 55 RUB 2 trips - 110 RUB

Tickets for 60 trips and day passes are available only at the cashier's.

60 rides - 1900 RUB

1 day - 230 RUB 3 days - 438 RUB 30 days - 2170 RUB.

The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case). 

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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