Karol G accepts the Woman of the Year award at Billboard's Women in Music 2024.
Karol G:
First of all, it is an incredible surprise that Sofía Vergara gives me this award, I love it. Good night all. I feel very honored to be here today. Oh Lord, [this] Perhaps it is the most significant and important recognition of my entire career, this is super special. This is Woman of the Year, but it is the first time that a Latina has been named Woman of the Year. Then I have to give my speech in Spanish, of course.
Well, this is Women in Music so I'm going to talk about us. I have to first start by telling you that for years and years I was very disappointed by the fact that I was a woman. I encountered so many rejections and so many missed opportunities along the way. That's why I wondered why I wasn't born a man to exploit all this love, this desire and passion that I felt for music. Where would all this desire I had to take on the world have gone if it were assumed that, as a woman, I couldn't achieve it? For a long time I believed that story. I thought this wasn't for me. I was told so many times that I couldn't achieve it and I always think about the number of people who leave their dreams behind and put them aside because of that, because of the perception of others but not because of the real dream they have and the desire they have inside. In the midst of my desire, in the midst of wanting to make music even if it was just for me, I decided that if my environment did not change, I was the one who had to change and I was the one who was going to change. do it. And that I was not going to let being a woman be an obstacle or define my capabilities, but that it was going to be my strength, it was going to be my motive and my reason. And every time they told me no, I found the strength and the desire and everything I needed to say: yes I can. In my mind I changed the “a woman can't do it” to “look at this woman how she does it, look how a woman does it.”
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