At 15 years old, Karla Sofia He managed to win a casting among more than 700 young people to fulfill his most long-awaited dream: to be a singer of Corazón Serrano. It was the year 2014, the death of vocalist Edita Guerrero had left a great void in the hearts of fans, but the northern group enjoyed fame and had become a benchmark of Peruvian cumbia.
Despite her young age, Karla Sofía already had experience in singing. Before participating in the casting, she was a finalist in Yo soy kids. “I was surprised to realize that I would sing in the orchestra of the singer I imitated one day,” she said in an interview.
He accompanied Corazón Serrano in his concerts in Pacasmayo and Trujillo. She signed the contract, recorded four songs and was introduced as ‘the new voice’. Back then, the group charged approximately 60,000 soles per show.
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Everything indicated that Karla Sofía’s artistic career was going to take off through the air; However, that did not happen. A few days later, she reported that Corazón Serrano took her out for no reason and that he wanted to pay her 750 soles a month.
What was your complaint to Corazón Serrano?
According to the version of Lorenzo Guerrero, founder of Corazón Serrano, Karla Sofía did not pass the three additional tests to the casting. The last test was to sing live.
For her part, the mother of the minor revealed that the contract required her daughter to belong to the group for 4 years and 6 months, and that, in the case of not being able to fulfill it, she had to pay a penalty of 200,000 dollars. This generated a national media scandal.
What does Karla Sofía do now?
Since leaving Corazón Serrano, Karla Sofía Rodríguez Alvarado has shone brighter thanks to her singing talent. She went through the Papillón and Pasión Norteña cumbia groups. And now, she is engaged in folk music. They call her ‘The sweet voice of Ayacucho’.
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Among his musical successes are songs like “El olvido”, “Amorhurado”, which has almost a million views on YouTube, “Mana Waylluna”, “Memorias” and more. In addition, she has performed in different parts of the country.
Also, she has received recognition as the ‘Artist of the Bicentennial 2021 and a diploma of honor by the Commission of Culture and Cultural Heritage of the Congress of the Republic.
Karla Sofía: her casting in Yo soy kids 2014
In 2014, the singer Karla Sofía managed to participate in Yo soy kids as an impersonator of Lesly Águila. She performed alongside three teenagers and formed the Corazon Serrano imitation group.
In her first casting presentation, the young woman performed the song “Vete”, with which she captivated the jury made up of Rodrigo González, Maricarmen Marín and María Pía Copello.
Karla Sofía’s mother affirms that Corazón Serrano still owes her
This Friday, February 11, through social networks, Karla Sofía’s mother commented that Corazón Serrano still hasn’t paid him for the presentations his daughter gave.
Recall that the young woman signed the contract, recorded songs and was at two live concerts, in Pacasmayo and Trujillo, but the group never gave him a remuneration.
Karla Sofía denounced her former guitarist Riber Oré
In September 2020, Karla Sofía denounced her former guitarist Riber Oré, with whom he worked for several years. According to the folk singer, the musician had improperly seized his Andean Classics album and sold it digitally for 35 soles, but the real cost was 20 soles. Besides, he claimed that he was still working with her.
Karla Sofía and Riber Oré performed at Miski Takiy
Karla Sofia and Riber Ore appeared in Miski Takiy to delight viewers with some beautiful Ayacucho huaynos. The video of his presentation on the Peru TV program has more than 2,000,000 views on YouTube.
Karla Sofía pays tribute to the huayno winner of the Ayacuchano Festival 2020
The rising singer Karla Sofia published a new video on January 23 where he pays tribute to the huayno winner of the Huayno Ayacuchano National Festival of Composers 2020.
“Poetry made into song, inspired by Maestro Rómulo Melgar Vásquez and which is a tribute to Ayacucho, Ayacucho Music and its greatest references”, reads the description of his official Facebook page where he has more than 100,000 followers.
Karla Sofía remembers her eventful time with Corazón Serrano and other cumbia orchestras
The young woman with a powerful voice wrote on her social networks about the time when she thought she would start a career within one of the great cumbia groups. Serrano Heartbut ended up being separated without notice.
“It still makes me a little nostalgic to remember my time in different cumbia orchestras, but it makes me more nostalgic to remember how difficult it was to get up from everything that happened. I remember wanting to quit music because of people who insisted on making me believe that everything I did was wrong.wrote Karla Sofía at the beginning.
However, she assured that for many reasons that have wanted to distance her from music, her passion was stronger and she continued her path with the genre with which she started: Andean music. “I got to the point of feeling afraid to sing a cumbia, but you know what? Everything happens and in the end you only appreciate what they did to you because they made you stronger, “she said in another part of his post.
Karla Sofía will offer a concert with great exponents of Ayacucho music
The Ayacucho artist Karla Sofía will perform on Saturday the 19th of this month starting at 6 pm in his concert entitled LLAQTANCHIKPA TAKIYNIN (The song of our land), and will take place in the Mario Vargas LLosa Auditorium of the National Library of Peru.
The invited artists will be “Los Hermanos Alvarado”, Alex Medina, LLUQUI (Quechua singer) and the former participant of La voz kids Avril Navarro. In addition, there will be typical dances to open the concert. Tickets are already on sale at Teleticket.
Mother of Karla Sofía affirms that Corazón Serrano still does not pay the singer
The progenitor of the remembered singer of Corazón Serrano, Karla Sofía, spoke out 8 years after the artist denounced the cumbia group for only wanting to pay her 750 soles a month.
Mrs. Silvia Alvarado gave her opinion on the matter, and affirmed that, to date, the orchestra has not complied with paying off the debt owed to her descendant for the work she performed when she was a member of the orchestra.