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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Kali Uchis Is Happy to Be ‘Hard to Market’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Calli Ucci's is back
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Speaker 1: with a brand new album, Sincerely, with its title ending
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Speaker 1: with a comma, like she's signing a letter. But sincerity
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Speaker 1: is something that's featured in all of the Calli's music
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Speaker 1: and the unique approach she takes to recording her albums,
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Speaker 1: consistently altering between Spanish and English language projects. It's inventive
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Speaker 1: and true to who she is, but it also makes
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Speaker 1: her harder to market, something Calli is totally comfortable with.
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Speaker 1: She tells Variety. I think it's hard for people to
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Speaker 1: wrap their head around the music I make, and it
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Speaker 1: would be a lot easier for me to just do
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Speaker 1: what I have to do to become more mainstream. I'm
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Speaker 1: taking the harder, longer route, and I don't mind. My
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Speaker 1: idea of success is to be able to say I'm
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Speaker 1: doing something no one else is doing and nobody else
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Speaker 1: can do. And I love to be able to inspire
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Speaker 1: other artists who are also bicultural to express themselves freely
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Speaker 1: without feeling the need to over explain themselves. Towards a Caliucci's,
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Speaker 1: whose new English language album Sincerely is out now that's
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