The pandemic was one of the best things that could have happened to Karina Sofía. He was visiting his parents in Monterrey, Mexico, and leisure awakened his desire to do what he always wanted—despite his parents’ reluctance—: sing.
“It was always my dream,” he said. “During the pandemic I started composing on the piano; “One thing led to another and a professional career was made out of nothing.”
In reality, in addition to the eternal illusion, there was a lot of work behind it aimed at Karina Sofía’s career as an interpreter; For example, studying classical piano from the age of 8 and ballet, jazz and hip hop from the age of 2.
But her parents knew of many stories of girls and boys in show business who had had horrible experiences, and they were not going to allow something like that to happen to little Karina Sofía.
When the girl finished high school, her parents demanded that she obtain a university degree, so to please them she enrolled at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, California, where she studied and graduated with an excellent average in film.
With the degree in hand, he went to his parents and told them, “I’ve finished, now I’m going to study what I like,” and he enrolled in acting classes. Then the pandemic came and he dedicated himself to making music with the help of an application, a software and put in a closet. What happened next, she describes as magical.
“I had been releasing singles for a year and a half, exploring sounds; “I knew I wanted regional music and to fuse it with something, but I didn’t know what,” said the 29-year-old singer. “A friend sent one of my ‘demos’ to Gustavo Santaolalla, who hadn’t produced anyone in a long time and he responded that thank you, that he was very busy and that he would respond in two weeks.”
But not even half an hour passed after that message when the renowned Argentine producer was contacting Karina Sofía’s friend to ask about that girl from Monterrey who wanted to record, regional with rock?
Shortly thereafter, Karina Sofía and Santaolalla were working on “La Reina del Cañón”, the singer’s debut album from which several singles have been released to date, including “Malandrona”, a fusion of Latin folk and Mexican music. and “La loca”, a duet with Sofía Reyes.
Karina Sofía, who has lived in Los Angeles for ten years, says that they made a very good team “because Gustavo likes to break the rules just like I do.”
Now the artist is willing to defend her proposal tooth and nail in a regional music world full of men.
“It hasn’t been easy,” he said. “It became easier to no longer feel forced when I said, ‘they think I don’t have the profile and the roots to sing this music, well I’m going to take what I like from your genre and I’m going to make it mine,’ and at the time “That I stopped limiting myself and trying to fit into this little box that was the regional, where there was no space for me, it was the moment where the magic happened and I found my sound.”
The album will be released in March and will have eleven songs. In December Karina Sofía will present it in a club in her hometown.
Of course, their parents will be in the front row.
