There is a particular kind of artist who earns the word “icon” not through hype or hashtags but through an unmistakable refusal to be anything other than exactly herself. Kali Uchis is that kind of artist. In a music landscape that rewards speed and spectacle over soul, she has spent the better part of a decade building something slower and far more durable: a body of work rooted in her Colombian-American identity, her complicated personal history, and a voice so effortlessly mesmerizing that it seems to exist outside of time.
Now, in 2026, she is doing it again. On March 30, Kali Uchis announced the “For The Girls Tour,” a 14-date U.S. run set to kick off on May 26 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, and wrap on August 8 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The tour follows the runaway success of her “Sincerely” album and the subsequent arena tour that carried her from Portland all the way to Mexico City. Rather than slow down, she is simply opening a new chapter.
And given everything she has lived through to get here, that new chapter carries the weight of something deeply earned.
Who Is Kali Uchis? Ethnicity, Background, and Identity
Kali Uchis was born Karly Marina Loaiza on July 17, 1994, in Alexandria, Virginia, to Colombian immigrant parents. Her father was born in Colombia, and the country would become a recurring thread not just in her music videos and aesthetic but in the very texture of who she is as an artist.
When people search for Kali Uchis ethnicity, the answer is straightforward: she is Colombian-American. But what that identity means in practice is far more layered. Growing up between two cultures, she absorbed the warmth and romantic fatalism of cumbia and vallenato alongside the funk, soul, and R&B she encountered in the United States. The result is a sound that feels impossible to fully categorize, which is precisely the point.
Her path was never a smooth one. As a teenager, she was kicked out of her family home, and she channeled that instability into music with a directness that made her early mixtape, Drunken Babble, released in 2012, feel startlingly mature for someone so young. That hunger never left her, even as the venues and streaming numbers grew. It is baked into the way she writes, performs, and carries herself in public.
She is also openly bisexual, something she has reflected in her music and imagery throughout her career, and she has spoken candidly about the intersection of queerness, Latinx identity, and womanhood in ways that resonate deeply with her audience.
The Kali Uchis Album That Changed Everything: “Sincerely” (2025)
To understand what the “For The Girls Tour” means, you first need to understand “Sincerely,” the Kali Uchis album that preceded it.
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Released on May 9, 2025, through Capitol Records, “Sincerely” is her fifth studio album and, by almost every critical measure, her most significant. It debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 with 62,000 units in its first week, making it her third consecutive top-ten album in the country. But the numbers tell only part of the story.
The album was written in the shadow of two of the most defining experiences a person can go through: the death of a parent and the birth of a child. Uchis’ mother, Betsy Loaiza Boteler, passed away from lung cancer in 2025, and Uchis had welcomed her first son with rapper Don Toliver in March 2024. The collision of grief and joy produced something rare: an album that feels simultaneously intimate and universal, a collection of letters, as she described it, to the world.
The lead single, “Sunshine and Rain,” opens with an audio recording of her mother’s voice saying “Good morning, sunshine,” a moment that stops listeners cold and sets the emotional register for everything that follows. The album’s deluxe edition, “Sincerely: P.S.,” released in October 2025, added collaborations with Ravyn Lenae and Mariah the Scientist, deepening an already rich body of work.
Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Clash all lauded the album, with the latter calling it “a crowning achievement” and declaring it long past time that Kali Uchis be honored as a transformative R&B talent. The Metacritic score of 83 out of 100 marked what critics described as “universal acclaim.” For an artist who has always prioritized artistic integrity over commercial calculation, “Sincerely” was a rare vindication on both fronts simultaneously.
The For The Girls Tour 2026: Dates, Tickets, and What to Expect
The “For The Girls Tour” is not a stadium spectacle or a farewell lap. It is something more interesting: a mid-summer amphitheater run designed to feel intimate even at scale, featuring two of the most compelling voices in contemporary R&B sharing the same stage.
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Mariah the Scientist will serve as the special guest across all 14 dates, while Laila! joins on select shows as the opening act. The pairing of Kali Uchis and Mariah the Scientist makes intuitive sense. Both artists occupy a similar emotional register: melodic, unflinching, and deeply personal. Fans of either will find themselves in excellent company.
The full list of Kali Uchis tour 2026 dates is as follows:
Tuesday, May 26 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado Wednesday, May 27 at First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater in Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday, May 29 at Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas Saturday, May 30 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri Thursday, June 4 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland Monday, June 8 at Truliant Amphitheater in Charlotte, North Carolina Wednesday, June 10 at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia Saturday, June 13 at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida Tuesday, June 16 at Coca-Cola Amphitheater in Birmingham, Alabama Thursday, June 18 at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas Friday, June 19 at Germania Insurance Amphitheater in Austin, Texas Wednesday, August 5 at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in Salt Lake City, Utah Friday, August 7 at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, Arizona Saturday, August 8 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
Artist presale tickets became available on March 31 at 10 a.m. local time, with additional presale opportunities rolling through the week. General on-sale tickets go live on Thursday, April 2, at 10 a.m. local time through Kali Uchis Ticketmaster pages and other authorized sellers.
For those wondering whether to lock in tickets early: her most recent Intuit Dome show in Inglewood, California, sold out all 11,757 tickets and grossed over $1.5 million in a single night. These amphitheater dates will go fast.
Kali Uchis and Don Toliver: The Real Story Behind Their Relationship in 2026
Few celebrity couples have managed to hold so much public fascination while giving away so little. Kali Uchis and Don Toliver have been together since 2020, and the sheer volume of fan interest in their relationship is a testament to how deeply their audience has invested in them not just as musicians but as people.
The questions come in steadily on every platform: are Kali Uchis and Don Toliver still together in 2026? Why are Kali Uchis and Don Toliver not married? Is he her husband?
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The direct answer to all three: yes, they are still together. No, they are not officially married. And he is not her husband in the legal sense, though he is very much her partner, the father of her child, and by his own account, the person he considers “the one.”
The relationship grew quietly out of a professional collaboration. Uchis appeared in two of Toliver’s music videos in 2021, “What You Need” and “Drugs N Hella Melodies,” both filmed in Colombia. The videos set the internet ablaze with speculation. When Toliver finally confirmed the relationship in an interview with W Magazine, he kept it characteristically understated: “We’re not crazy public or nothing like that. We just vibe.”
Over the years, that vibe has only deepened. They went red carpet official at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in 2022. In January 2024, they announced a pregnancy through a joint music video, and their son was born in March of that year. On Toliver’s birthday, Uchis wrote publicly that she prays for them to live a long life full of joy, love, happiness, and good health. On her birthday, he called her “the mother of my child” and said she “deserves it all.”
As for marriage: when Toliver was pressed about it on The Breakfast Club, he did not hesitate. He said he would love to get married, described how whatever proposal he makes would have to feel organic and heartfelt rather than flashy, and noted that after two to three years with someone, you know whether you want to be with them. He made clear that with Kali, he already knows.
The reason they are not yet married, by all available evidence, is simply that they are two deeply private people who have chosen to move on their own timeline. In an industry that monetizes relationship drama and manufactured public moments, their restraint reads less as avoidance and more as respect for something they clearly consider sacred.
Don Toliver, for his part, is a Grammy-nominated rapper and singer from Houston, Texas, who broke through on Travis Scott’s “Astroworld” in 2018 and has built a devoted following through albums like “Heaven or Hell,” “Life of a Don,” “Love Sick,” and “Hardstone Psycho.” His musical chemistry with Uchis, evident across collaborations like “Fantasy,” “4 Me,” and “Drugs N Hella Melodies,” is the kind that suggests their creative partnership will continue to produce remarkable work regardless of what their relationship status officially reads on paper.
Kali Uchis as a Cultural Bridge
In the ongoing conversation about Latin representation in mainstream American music, Kali Uchis occupies a genuinely singular position. She is not a crossover artist in the traditional sense, someone who makes Spanish-language music and then translates it for an English-speaking audience. She moves fluently between both worlds without treating either as secondary.
Her 2020 Spanish-language album “Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)” gave rise to “Telepatía,” a song that exploded on TikTok in early 2021 and became her first Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at number 25. Her 2024 Spanish album “Orquídeas” cemented her standing as one of the most respected Latin artists working today. Then came “Sincerely” in 2025, entirely in English, entirely solo, and entirely devastating.
What she is building, album by album, is something that does not have a clean genre label: a discography that treats Colombianness and Americanness not as competing identities but as the two halves of a whole. Her music video settings, her fashion choices, her collaborators, and her lyrical references all reflect a woman who is drawing from everything she is rather than curating a marketable slice of it.
That is rare. And it is part of why her audience across Latin America, the United States, and increasingly worldwide, is so fiercely loyal.
The “For The Girls Tour” name itself carries its own statement. At a moment when women in R&B are producing some of the most ambitious and emotionally intelligent music of the generation, Kali Uchis is explicitly centering them. The choice to pair with Mariah the Scientist, whose own catalog is built on emotional precision and melodic fearlessness, signals a shared artistic philosophy more than a simple business arrangement.
A Grammy Winner Who Keeps Raising the Bar
Kali Uchis holds a Grammy Award, an American Music Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and five Latin Grammy nominations. In May 2024, she received the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Latin Women in Music gala, recognizing her contributions to Latin pop and her influence across bilingual audiences.
But the awards are almost secondary to the arc. She started with a self-funded mixtape, worked her way up through an acclaimed EP, signed with Virgin EMI for her debut “Isolation” in 2018, moved to Interscope, and eventually landed at Capitol Records for “Sincerely.” Each step has been deliberate, and each album has pushed further into uncharted emotional territory rather than retreating to what already worked.
She is also a multihyphenate in the truest sense: a songwriter, record producer, poet, music video director, and fashion designer who has consistently maintained creative control over every dimension of her public presentation. What you see when you watch a Kali Uchis video or listen to a Kali Uchis album is entirely intentional. That is not an accident of talent. It is the result of relentless, unglamorous work over more than a decade.
What the Rest of 2026 Holds for Kali Uchis
With the “For The Girls Tour” running from late May through early August and tickets about to open to the general public, the summer of 2026 belongs, at least in part, to Kali Uchis.
Fans watching for any news about Suenos 2026 or other festival appearances should keep their alerts active, as her current tour momentum suggests she will remain booked and active through the year. Following the conclusion of the Latin American leg of the Sincerely Tour in February 2026 in Bogota, where she performed at Movistar Arena to 7,111 fans and grossed nearly half a million dollars, she has shown no signs of slowing.
Whether or not a new project is already in progress is unknown, and Kali Uchis has never been the kind of artist to telegraph her next move. What she has consistently done instead is deliver, on her own terms and on her own timeline, music that outlasts the moment it was made in.
For a generation of listeners who grew up on “Telepatía” on TikTok and discovered “Isolation” late and are now processing grief and new love through the lens of “Sincerely,” this tour is not just a concert series. It is something closer to a communal gathering: one woman’s letters to the world, read aloud in amphitheaters under the summer sky.
How to Get Kali Uchis Tickets for the For The Girls Tour
General on-sale tickets for the Kali Uchis tour 2026 go live on Thursday, April 2, at 10 a.m. local time. Fans should check Kali Uchis Ticketmaster listings, as well as the official Kali Uchis website, for verified purchasing options. Given the sell-out history of her recent shows, purchasing early through official channels is strongly advised to avoid inflated resale prices.
Presale access began on March 31 and continues through additional presale windows throughout the week of April 1. Signing up for artist newsletters and following official social media accounts are the fastest ways to access presale codes before the general public.
