In our Q&A sequence Tell Me Más, we ask a few of our favourite Latinx artists to reply the questions solely their BFFs learn about them, revealing the whole lot from their most up-to-date learn to the songs that get them hyped. This month, Mexico’s largest rising star Kenia Os takes the take a look at, and we’re all ears.
It’s not straightforward to develop into a pop star and it is even tougher to make the bounce to pop stardom from different walks of life. Whether or not it’s motion pictures, modeling, or influencing—for every Hailey Steinfeld there are dozens extra that fail to crossover. But that is what makes Kenia Os particular. Not solely was she ready to make her break, however she’s additionally executed so in a reasonably extraordinary style, leveraging her grassroots and following as a content material creator to develop into certainly one of Mexico’s largest rising stars. Now, within the midst of her first U.S. tour, the 23-year-old singer could not be happier with the way in which issues have turned out.
“It’s going very well!,” she tells POPSUGAR in regards to the tour. “I used to be a little bit nervous that I wasn’t going to have the vitality to give 100% p.c, however each time I’m in a brand new metropolis, the individuals give off such good vitality that I take the stage with this unimaginable feeling.”
Through 4 reveals to date, the singer says the vitality she receives from her followers is greater than sufficient to preserve her leaping round on stage all night time. “[The energy] is identical, just a bit bit extra chill,” she laughs. “For instance, once I meet followers in Mexico, they’re going to hug me actually tightly and typically I nearly fall. In the U.S. it isn’t like that. We meet and I’ve to inform them like, ‘hey, hug me!'”
Even if the vitality is barely completely different, it is clear from the way in which that she talks about them, that Kenia Os’s followers are an intrinsic a part of who she is as an artist. Yes, most musicians perceive that their followers contribute a lot to their success and relevance. But influencers and content material creators are a particular case. From the second they step in entrance of their webcam or front-facing digicam, they’re elevated by their followers. And because the likes and shares come rolling, they will take that momentum and check out to channel it right into a myriad of endeavors.
It’s no surprise Kenia Os gushes about her followers; they have been a vital half of serving to her understand goals she had as soon as deserted. “I had all the time admired the multi-faceted artists that got here out of Disney like Selena, Miley, [and] Demi. I dreamed about being like certainly one of them,” she says. “But as you develop up and also you get actual about your potentialities, you suppose ‘this is not going to occur for me.'”
But even when she’d given up on Disney-esque goals, she nonetheless needed an outlet to specific herself. So, she turned to YouTube. Kenia Os’s vlogs proved to be the right medium to showcase her make-up prowess and her bubbly persona. And by means of the video content material platform, she’d discover an viewers that embraced her from the very begin.
“From day one I had lots of guests and it grew actually shortly,” the singer shares. “And [when that happens] you begin to see extra potentialities, and the belongings you had thought you’d by no means obtain in life, they begin to really feel extra tangible. So, I mentioned, ‘Okay, I’m going to strive music.'”
Her first shot got here in 2018 with the discharge of “Por Siempre,” a moody pop ballad wherein Os comes off as nearly timid, nonetheless within the strategy of making an attempt to discover herself and her sound. Two years later nevertheless, she’d launch her first studio album “Canciones Pa Mi Ex,” and with it, the refined pop fashion that may catapult her to mainstream success and garner the respect of underground and well-established artists like Snow Tha Product and Mexican pop legend, Thalia, who she just lately collaborated with for “Para No Verte Más,” a reimagining of the ska observe by La Mosca Tse-Tse.
With every subsequent album, she continues to work laborious to refine her sound and model much more, investing in singing, dance, and stage presence classes. Yet nonetheless, she is aware of there’ll all the time be individuals on the market who doubt her for coming into music from a background of content material creation.
“It’s been troublesome at occasions, greater than something as a result of there are all the time individuals who need to level out what I do not do properly and really feel that I should not be the place I’m at this time.”
“It’s been troublesome at occasions, greater than something as a result of there are all the time individuals who need to level out what I do not do properly and really feel that I should not be the place I’m at this time,” she says. “But then again, I’ve so many individuals which might be encouraging me and I’ve made so many strides bodily, mentally, and emotionally that now when I’m on stage I get pleasure from it and actually really feel like an artist. But it was a course of, the place for 3 or 4 years I used to be actually making an attempt to steadiness the whole lot.”
That course of and the expansion Kenia Os has made are mirrored in her newest album, “K23” and the next tour. A playful, empowering pop album providing that takes inspiration from the whole lot from disco to anime, “K23” is a celebration of the place the artist is in her private {and professional} life proper now, and the imaginative and prescient she’s crafted for herself.
“I needed this album to be comfortable and energetic, like a celebration. And I believe I achieved that,” she says. “If I make a tragic music, it is to encourage or there is a message behind it. But I’m comfortable now and I do not need to put out something unhappy.”
And what’s not to be comfortable about? In the previous three years, Kenia Os has seen the work she’s put in come to fruition, whether or not it is her profession as an artist or her entrepreneurial efforts with her makeup line K Os Beauty. So what’s subsequent?
“As an artist and a singer there are nonetheless lots of issues I need to obtain,” she says. “I’d love to act. I’d love to proceed creating as an entrepreneur as properly. [Throughout my career] every step has led me to the following and I simply need to preserve climbing up that ladder.”And along with her dedication to her music, savvy enterprise thoughts, and following of adoring followers, Kenia Os shouldn’t have any downside doing simply that.
Read on for extra particulars about what the younger pop star has been maintaining with when she’s not touring across the U.S. and Mexico.
POPSUGAR: How has music healed you?
Kenia: Composing, writing, and releasing my feelings.
POPSUGAR: What’s your favourite anime?
Kenia: Demon Slayer.
POPSUGAR: Who’s your favourite demon slayer character?
Kenia: Nezuko.
POPSUGAR: What’s the final film or sequence you watched?
Kenia: “The Last of Us.”
POPSUGAR: What album are you presently obsessive about?
Kenia: Feliz Cumpleaños [Ferxxo] de Feid.
POPSUGAR: How would you describe your private fashion?
Kenia: Classic with a mixture of stylish and road.
POPSUGAR: What was the final unhealthy determination you made that turned out properly for you?
