Is dating GoldLink, who is also from Alexandria, VA.

2015

Officially goes public with Yung Gleesh, another DMV rapper, which is inside of Goldlink's circle. This causes beef between the two. Goldlink releases "After You Left" name dropping Yung Gleesh rapping, "And fuck dat n**** Gleesh too, you ain't bulletproof". Goldlink started issues with an event planner after they booked both Kali Uchis and Yung Gleesh.

Por Vida drops for free on her website. It included production from Tyler, the Creator, who found Kali through then fellow member of OddFuture, Taco. This was after the Snoop Dogg contest she won.

Kali has her famous Narduar interview.

Kali Uchis and Yung Gleesh both perform at SXSW in Austin, Texas. During that weekend of SXSW, Asa Asuncion, Young Gleesh, rapes an inebriated and unconscious woman, which was only stopped because the victims’ friend awoke and “stopped the attack by grabbing Asuncion by the back of his head and yelling loudly. The two women went to the hospital immediately. DNA evidence belonging to Asa Asuncion, Young Gleesh, was eventually found on the victim. Immediately after being pulled off the victim he fled the scene and went on the run.

Later in 2015, Asuncion would release a statement to “HipHopDX” where he complained about how it was hurting his career and making him lose money. Kali stays with Asuncion.

2017

Kali drops Tyrant.

An article titled “The Problem with Kali Uchis/White Latinxs” came out just a week later. This article compared her to her Por Vida look. They called her out for deciding to present herself as brown when she actually is a white Latina. Just two days after that article, another blog writes about her entitled “Who is Kali Uchis?”

This journalist, Jaquira Díaz, had been interviewing Kali right before the debut single dropped. The author writes, “The Kali sitting across from me is not the Kali from her loner video. She’s tan, wearing little makeup”. Díaz goes on to write, “Before arriving in L.A., I listened to all her music, watched every single one of her videos, scrolled through all her social media accounts. It seemed, at least to me, that Kali had created a character. I expected her to show up and perform, to wear that persona like a costume. I wouldn’t have been surprised if she’d had pigtails and sucked on a lollipop, carried a fake gun and aimed it at some dude’s dick as we crossed the parking lot. But in Pann’s diner [restaurant they met at], she seems mellow. No pigtails, no gun.” They write about Kali’s talent, but conclude, “But I’m mainly interested in something else. Before I leave Los Angeles in a few days, I intend to find it out: who is the real Kali?”

The article also mentions, “We talk about how AfroLatinxs have been erased — excluded from TV, film, and other forms of entertainment, excluded from their own stories, as if they don’t even exist. ‘But people are speaking out about this now,’ she says. ‘Things are changing because people are speaking out against whitewashing and against slut-shaming’”.

There is a shift in the interview. The author is later made aware of controversy Kali is in. They write, “I notice a series of tweets about Kali Uchis…The posts by Esperanz Aguilera Fuentes (@SoyEsperanz), a 22-year-old Chicana/o Studies student at the University of California in Davis, compare Kali’s image on the cover of Por Vida, pale-skinned with bleached hair, to a newer promotional photo in which her features look noticeably darker. The tweets ask why Kali is ‘suddenly ‘brown’, and suggest that it seems that Kali is trying to capitalize on brownness…Over direct messages on Twitter, Kali asked Esperanz to take down the thread, to which they eventually obliged.

Later, after the criticism about her was deleted, Kali posted a picture with the caption, ‘Me minding my business while life tries to test me & people try to play w me.’ When some users responded by saying that Kali should support Latinx politics instead of just trying to look the part, she unloaded a series of angry tweets, dismissing Twitter activists for ‘spilling fake tea’, saying they could ‘swallow [her] nut’, and claiming to do more for people of color and Afro Latinidad than anyone. And finally, days later, ‘ITS 9AM & IM GONA NEED EVERYONE WHO THINKS THEY KNOW ME TO SHOW ME THE CARFAX’”…Kali was accused of using power dynamics to intimidate Esperanz into deleting their initial criticisms. ‘Intimidation comes in many forms. Power dynamics is real, I was emotionally manipulated,’ Esperanz tweeted, who then shared screenshots of Kali’s messages. Zahira Kelly, a black Latina artist and sociocultural critic, says she was subjected to violent harassment from white Latinas online after tweeting about the exchange. ‘For a cis white Latina artist with a fandom to censor a brown trans femme tweeting from their personal account is heinous’ Kelly says. ‘Kali is also riding on neo-soul that Black women created, with no respect or homage given’”.

Díaz concludes the article with, “After spending time with her new songs, after all our conversations, it’s clear that Kali’s worked hard to get here. I want to believe her when she says she wants to do better. Every single time I spoke to Kali, she spoke of wanting to be an advocate for people with less power. Every time we spoke, she said exactly what I wanted to hear. But in the end, she was still defending herself, not really acknowledging the magnitude of her own power, or what it means for Esperanz Aguilera Fuentes and Zahira Kelly to speak truth to power even while being attacked. Being an advocate for people with less power means fighting even for those who disagree with you, remembering that these are the communities you said you wanted to fight for. Until you do that, you’re really only fighting for yourself”. Adding, “Back before any of this unfolded on Twitter, while I was in L.A., trying to discern if Kali was for real or she was simply playing a character, I asked her, straight up, ‘Who is Kali Uchis?’”…When she finally did speak, she looked me in the eye. ‘A lot of times I don’t feel like I’m her’, she said. ‘A lot of times I feel like I’m helping her. But we have the same purpose’”.

Some sobering remarks from Díaz afterwards are, “I keep returning to our conversations, taking them apart, asking myself if I was, as Esperanz said, emotionally manipulated”.

2019

Kali Uchis is sued for fraud by her former manager, Claire Bogle, in Claire Bogle, LLC v. Karly M. Loaiza. Bogle claims that she helped Kali earn $1.5 million while she managed Kali starting in 2016 until she was fired in October 2017 without cause. This firing coincided with the time Bogle was pressing Kali and being very adamant about receiving payment.

Bogle explained she was entitled to 20% of those earnings per their contract. She is quoted to say that Kali, “fabricated excuses to delay or not pay” and said that Kali, “misrepresent her receipt of gross income to pay”. She claims that Kali was purposely deceiving her. Bogle was seeking the $250,000 she was owed plus whatever income was hidden by Kali’s attempt to defraud her. The contractual fraud was arbitrated outside of court. May 22, 2020 the case was over.

Kali drops her newest single “Solita” looking noticeably different and taking over a new image. This time around she is more focused on being Latina. Before this point, she has had slight plastic surgery work and filler, but this would be the era that she goes all out.

2021

Kali’s team works meticulously to get Telepatía to go viral. Billboard writes, “The label’s marketing and digital teams could target her loyal U.S. fan base, while its Latin-focused office could help build the Latin American audience that eluded her...Two early singles that preceded “Sin Miedo’s” 2020 release didn’t do particularly well...Barrena and digital marketing senior manager Murdoc Hardy began scouring social media, YouTube and TikTok to figure out which songs fans were responding to and where. “Telepatía” kept surfacing, especially on TikTok. So they tried out an idea to boost the song into viral-hit territory”.

Kali releases her brand “Bodied by Uchis” specializing in what she calls “Colombian style” jeans allegedly made ethically in Colombia.

Soon after the official drop, fans begin complaining of inaccurate sizes and saying the size chart was not clear. Kali retaliates by accusing her fans of not being able to read.

Eventually she beings harassing a customer/fan in the direct messages on Instagram. Kali begins emotionally manipulating the fan who was leaving an honest review. It got so bad that Kali begins asking the customer, on voice memo, “Do you want me to kill myself?”. She goes on to post threatening stories implying that her and her fans will hurt people.

Kali begins harassing an instagram user @igfamousdana who makes commentary about plastic surgery and pop culture. According to Dana, she wants to spread clarity about how much celebrities lie and hide the work they have had done, ensuring that objectively she doesn’t mind surgery, just the dishonesty.

After a post discussing the (obvious) work Kali had done, Kali begins her harassment campaign. Kali uses her own account, burner accounts, and even her assistant, Samantha Vargas ’, account, proving that her team was complicit in the harassment. Dana writes about the incident in an Instagram post saying, “Normally after I post a celeb, I don’t get really mean finstas coming for me in my DMs. USUALLY they stay in the comments or they’re in my DMs trying to prove to me that my post is false. But once in awhile I’ll get ONE finsta that comes for me personally normally criticizing my appearance or comparing me unfavorably to the celeb in question, and USUALLY that is the finsta of the celeb or someone else from their camp. (See last slide for who I believe may be Kali et al.

They also commented back really quick, and she was online on her real page within 5 mins of that.)…I want to make it clear: I like Kali Uchis, I’ve seen her perform live in Houston, I think she’s pretty, and I was only showing that despite claiming her butt is natural, the facts are she’s had a #BBL.

One day, I hope more of y’all realize I’m not making things up, I really do have an eye for this after working in it for so long, and that I mean no hate to the celebs I post.

I just want y’all to learn what these things are, what they look like, what can be achieved, and why you don’t look like these ‘all natural celebs’”.

She made a fully encompassing podcast episode where she shared in the caption, “She went into what I like to call the ‘Procedure Denial Cycle’ that celebrities and influencers often use in an attempt to disprove speculation. Listen as I break down her arguments and discuss the tactics celebs use to rewrite the narrative with their so-called ‘my truth’”.

2023

Red Moon in Venus drops on March 3, 2023.

One day before her show in Colombia at the Estéreo Picnic Festival, Kali Uchis cancels. After major backlash and fury, she eventually agreed to still perform. Many fans saw this move as especially shady since she has used her family’s Colombian heritage (and lied about her own Colombian heritage), yet backed out one day before what was supposed to be a sort of “hometown” show. RMIV tour part 1 starts on April 25, 2023 and ends on May 30, 2023.

With no explanation, Kali Uchis drops out of Austin City Limits festival in Texas just days before she was supposed to perform.

Kali announces the second leg of the RMIV tour beginning September 22, 2023 until October 3, 2023. It had 6 additional shows in the west coast - 4 being in California.

Kali posts an instagram story lying about her second leg completely selling out.

Kali began the second leg of her tour wearing puffy, voluminous dresses, calling it her “bubble dress era” on Instagram - seemingly preempting pregnancy rumors. A viral TikTok showing her in one of the outfits was later removed for copyright, leading the public to believe it was due to the pregnancy speculation in the comments. Kali began addressing the rumors on Instagram, calling them body shaming and harassment.

In October 2023, the first snark page for Kali Uchis was created after her main reddit page was being heavily censored and posts about her acting out kept being shared.

Kali announces her fourth studio album, ORQUÍDEAS.

2025

Releases “Sincerely,” on May 9, 2025.

Using the same tactics and before, Kali is able to get the second snark page banned. The third page immediately goes up continuing to document publicly all her controversies and lies. She begins harassing the subreddit and users on burner accounts more than ever.

Goes to the Billboard Women In Music 2025 event and explains on the red carpet she had a “life changing” event happen and that she can’t talk about it yet. Almost as if she was excited to say.

Suddenly right before “Sincerely,” drops, she reclaims her mom in an instagram post talking about her death earlier in the year which was the “life changing” event that she initially seemed excited to announce. Many noted it was a rather strange way to announce your mom’s death. It appears as if she doesn’t seem to try and hide the fact she was looking to cash in on the incident, similar to how she did with her pregnancy and her last album drop.

She posted a story of Billboard’s top 5 artist in the world for her drop week. She completely covers Sleep Token’s face and name, causing confusion online about her motives. While some of her defenders insisted it was merely a coincidence, others called it out for what it appeared to be, jealousy, especially since the band had just claimed the number one spot on the Billboard 200 beating hers out.

Eventually, Kali would make a false accusation about Sleep Token. She tells someone in the comments of her own TikTok she covered Sleep token because they were in “black face”. She is immediately hit with harsh criticism. She is being called out on multiple platforms, in particular, TikTok.

A Sleep Token fan posted a TikTok criticizing Kali, highlighting her past defense of rapists along with other problematic behavior. In response, Kali spent the night engaging in heated arguments across TikTok, both in comments and direct messages. The situation quickly escalated, and she began going viral - accused of being a rape apologist, a gender traitor, and of race baiting, particularly after she falsely accused the artist who topped her on the Billboard 200 of being racist. In turn, users began calling out Kali herself, claiming she was the one exhibiting racist behavior.