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Weekly Feature
Each week, Capacitando highlights individuals whose work has enriched Indo-Hispano culture and helped shape our understanding of history, identity, and community. By pairing every feature with classroom-ready materials, we help ensure that the rich contributions of our community are represented, explored, and celebrated in schools and in the general public throughout the United States and the rest of the Spanish Speaking world.
This Week: Kali Uchis
- Kali Uchis: Explore the Colombian-American artist’s musical journey and the cultural influences that shape her distinctive sound.
- From Culture to Music: Examine how Kali Uchis blends languages, genres, and cultural experiences to create music that crosses borders.
- Classroom Connection: Use Kali Uchis’s story and music as a starting point for exploring identity, bilingualism, cultural heritage, and contemporary Latino/Hispano representation.
Photo Credit:
By Alice.Umusic – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70847747
“Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me, and taught me a different way of looking at things—I was always different from the people I went to school with and I learned to embrace that.”
Kali Uchis, 2015 Teen Vogue
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