Karol G on the cover of Playboy Karol G appears on the cover of Playboy<\/em>‘s spring issue after encouragement from actress and friend Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “I called her and told her, ‘If you tell me not to do it, I won’t,'” she said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The Colombian singer will be the first Latina to close Coachella, marking her second appearance at the festival<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Karol G<\/a> is a Playboy<\/em> cover girl!<\/p>\n PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that the Colombian star will grace the cover of Playboy<\/em> magazine<\/a>‘s spring issue ahead of her headlining performance at Coachella<\/a>.<\/p>\n Karol G for Playboy In the interview, the “Bichota” singer, 35, opens up about how her fellow Colombian star Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/a> helped her step outside of her comfort zone for the cover.<\/p>\n “The only person I asked if I should do it or not was Sof\u00eda Vergara,” she told the outlet. “I called her and told her, ‘If you tell me not to do it, I won’t.'”<\/p>\n Karol G on the cover of Playboy In response, the Modern Family<\/em> actress said, “‘Mijita, with that body? When you get to this age, you tell yourself, ‘F—, why didn’t I pose that one time? I should have posed more with a thong!'”<\/p>\n Karol previously worked alongside Vergara, 53, on the Netflix show Griselda<\/em>, which was centered around the story of Colombian businesswoman Griselda Blanco.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the interview, the “Latina Forever” singer also opened up about her upcoming headlining performance at Coachella, which marks a historic first for the popular festival.<\/p>\n Karol G for Playboy \u201cWhen I received the call, I felt like a huge weight fell on me. They called me and told me \u2014 in Spanish \u2014 that I was going to be the first Latina to close the festival,” she said. “I feel like it’s a show for my community, for the world, but it\u2019s a show that\u2019s very much for me.”<\/p>\n Though this will mark her first headlining performance at Coachella, Karol made her festival debut in 2022<\/a> and paid tribute to her Colombian roots with a special medley. She also brought out longtime friend J Balvin<\/a> for a performance of his smash hit “Mi Gente.”<\/p>\n Karol G for Playboy The “Provenza” singer’s performance at Coachella will follow the release of her fifth studio album Tropicoqueta<\/em>, which came out in June 2025 and symbolized a reclaiming of herself.<\/p>\n In 2024, Karol opened up to PEOPLE about the ending of her Ma\u00f1ana Ser\u00e1 Bonito<\/em>\u00a0era, which earned her a Grammy<\/a> for Best M\u00fasica Urbana Album.<\/p>\n “I’m full of emotions.\u00a0I can’t believe that something this big came off one of the hardest moments of my life,” she said. “I was just doing music, trying to heal my heart.”<\/p>\n
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