Karol G made history at Wednesday night's Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony.
FILE - Karol G performs as part of the"Manana Sera Bonito" tour at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Karol G made history at Wednesday night's Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony.
Of course, Karol G is used to making history at this point. Last month, she became the first woman to win in the best musica urbana category at the Grammys, a moment that may reflect changing perceptions of reggaeton and Latin hip-hop as exclusively “men's music.” Last year, her album “Manana Sera Bonito,” one of The Associated Press' picks for best of the year, became the first ever Spanish-language album by a female artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Later, the audience lead chants of “Bichota” - an affectionate nickname for Karol G, derived from Puerto Rican slang “bichote,” which refers to a drug dealer, but transformed into a term of empowerment with the feminine “a.” It might've temporarily confused host Tracee Ellis Ross, who otherwise masterfully guided the crowd throughout the evening, but it certainly underscored a major theme of the evening: to celebrate women in the music business is to celebrate women globally.
“As a woman of color in electronic music - specifically 2-step, drum and bass, it's taken a lot for the genre to be recognized on a wider scale - a lot of people don't expect me to look the way I did, making the music I was making,” she said in her speech. “Even now, people don't want to take my music seriously. But I'm just happy that I have the opportunity to be recognized in a specific field by the Billboard Women in Music Award.
Across two and a half hours, Ice Spice and Kylie Minogue were some of the other music artists who were recognized at the event, which celebrated the achievements of top female performers and executives in the music industry. Man accused of using loopholes in ServiceOntario procedures in 'large-scale crime' involving 100+ vehicles
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