Kali Uchis' last show of the year was hampered by technical issues.
Kali Uchis performs at the Twin Peaks stage at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.Sheathed in a silky, black curtain, the Twin Peaks stage was empty, Kali Uchis' euphonic trilling resonating like a siren's call. Over the next 45 minutes of her top-billed Saturday nightUchis was a vision in white, wearing a bodice with straps that suggested two sets of hands wrapped around her waist and chest.
Kali Uchis performs at the Twin Peaks stage at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.Kali Uchis, like Janet Jackson and fellow Colombian Shakira before her, understands that heartbreak is every bit as intense and alluring as lust. There's power and freedom that comes with heartache — in cursing out a bum ex, in getting an uninterested partner to come crawling back through your DMs.
That sentiment recurred over and over throughout the evening in various gradations;"fue mejor," a highlight from her 2020 Spanish-language album"Sin Miedo," was suffused with a melancholy vocal turn from Uchis, lamenting the ghost of an ex-lover. For"Ridin' Round," an assured dancehall kiss-off, she sounded appropriately unbothered.
Kali Uchis performs at the Twin Peaks stage at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.Uchis found a critical mass of adoring Gen Z fans on TikTok, where the spectral"Telepatía" and her freewheeling guest verse on Ghanaian singer Amaarae's"Sad Girlz Luv Money" are ubiquitous on the platform. But her success is not a social media fluke.
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