All About Karol G's Parents, Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro

Mar. 15, 2025

Karol G poses with her parents Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro at the “Karol G, La Guerrera del Genero” documentary screening on March 9, 2019 in Miami, Florida.Photo:Alexander Tamargo/Getty

Alexander Tamargo/Getty

Karol G’s parents, Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro, believed in her singing aspirations from the beginning.

TheGrammy-winningreggaeton singer — whose real name is Carolina Giraldo Navarro — grew up in Medellín, Colombia, in the 1990s with her dad, mom and sisters. Throughout her upbringing, Guillermo and Martha did everything they could to support her music career.

After she secured a record deal in the early years of her career, Guillermo quit his job to become Karol’s manager, using the family’s savings and selling their car to support her music, according toGQ. Martha, meanwhile, would call around Medellín to ask if Karol could perform at birthday parties or school events.

Years later, in 2016,Karol signed withUniversal Music Latin Entertainment, and in 2023, she joined Interscope — where she’s releasing records under her own imprint, Bichota Records, perBillboard. She has wonone Grammy Awardandfive Latin Grammys— but she still credits all of her success to her parents.

Backstage at the 2024Grammys, where she won best música urbana album forMañana Será Bonito,she immediately called her parents to tell them about her win during an interview withEntertainment Tonight. She told the outlet that her dad has always pushed her and believed in her, adding that “90 percent of these achievements are my dad and my family putting that support on me.”

Here’s everything to know about Karol G’s parents, Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro.

They share three daughters together

Karol G with her family, including parents Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro.Guillermo Giraldo/Instagram

Guillermo Giraldo/Instagram

Guillermo and Martha have three daughters: Karol, Jessica and Verónica. (Guillermo also has a daughter from a previous marriage, Katherin Giraldo.)

After welcoming their first child together, Jessica, they celebrated the arrivals of Verónica and Karol, the latter who is the youngest member of the family, according to theLos Angeles Times.

Like Guillermo and Martha, Jessica is involved in Karol’s musical career as part of her management team, according toBillboard. When the singer kicked off herMañana Será Bonitotour in August 2023, Jessicahelped with planningand setting up atstadiums for shows.

Apart from Karol’s profession, Jessica is also dedicated to her own Medellín- and Miami-based jewelry company calledAmorfa Gemz.

Meanwhile, Karol’s sister Verónica is a content creator and makeup artist, perher Instagram. In early 2023, Verónica and her husband welcomed their daughter, Sophia — making the “Qlona” vocalist an aunt.

Guillermo advocated for her career

Guillermo Giraldo at Karol G’s Hollywood Star.Guillermo Giraldo/Instagram

When Karol began her career, her father was instrumental in advocating for her contracts and gigs.

As a teenager in 2007, Karol auditioned for the Colombian version ofThe X Factorbut didn’t secure a spot on the show. Quickly, though, she signed a recording contract with Diamond Music, a Puerto Rican label, recording a few songs but didn’t achieve much success, perBillboard. In response, Guillermo bought Karol out of the contract so she could pursue other labels.

After leaving Diamond Music, Karol and Guillermo tried to contact other labels that would sign her — even flying to Miami for a meeting with Universal Music,Paper Magazinereported. According to the singer, the label didn’t sign her because they weren’t sure if a woman could break into the reggaeton genre and brought up the idea of songwriting.

“My dad got super mad,” Karol toldGQin 2023. “He said, ‘I didn’t come here to offer you a songwriter. I came to tell you that my daughter is a singer and she’s going to be huge!’ ”

Despite the roadblock, Karol and her father didn’t back down. Instead, they traveled around Colombia performing at clubs, colleges and festivals, according toPaper. Karol and her father spent two years grinding for her career, but she eventually became discouraged.

When she decided to give up on music and go to New York City to study marketing in 2012, Guillermo didn’t approve and stopped talking to Karol for three months, she toldThe New York Times.

“He was like, ‘No, you can’t do that. You are throwing away seven years of our hard work. I know who you are. I know we can get it. It’s hard, but when we get it, it’s going to be bigger than the rest.’ ” she recalled to the outlet.

While in N.Y.C., Karol spotted a sign for a music business conference in Boston. After attending, she decided to give music another try — looking at it from a business mindset, according toBillboard.Karol and her father created a home studio where they wrote and recorded songs together before she was eventually signed to Universal in 2016.

Guillermo is a musician

Karol G and her dad Guillermo Giraldo.Guillermo Giraldo/Instagram

Though Guillermo dedicated most of his career to being Karol’s manager, he is also a musician.

When Karol was a child, he’d sing in his own band on the weekends, bringing home instruments for her to play — including the guitar, violin and drums. As Karol’s career took off and Guillermo became her manager, he focused on her music rather than his own.

Over the years, he has posted videos of himself singing in social settingson his Instagram, but in 2019, he announcedon Instagramthat he began recording music to release officially — and dropped his first song, “Pa Fuera,” under the name Papá G that year.

In anInstagrampost announcing a music video release for “Pa Fuera,” Guillermo wrote in Spanish, “I think my wish has finally come true, after more than 25 years of not recording … it is never too late.”

In September 2019, when Karol put on a free concert, “El Concierto de Todos,” in her hometown of Medellín, to promote her newOceanalbum and tour, she brought Guillermo as a special guest. The concert hadover 100,000 attendeesandGuillermo coveredKarol’s songOcean.

Guillermo released another song, “Chao Pues,” in 2020, along witha music video, and began teasing an upcoming album release for a project calledVersatility.

They attend her concerts

Karol G at Billboard Women In Music on March 6, 2024 in Inglewood, California.Rich Polk/Billboard/Getty

Rich Polk/Billboard/Getty

Guillermo and Martha often travel to attend Karol’s concerts, supporting their daughter at her different performances.

During Karol’s 62-dateMañana Será Bonitoworld tour in 2023 and 2024, the couple attended shows inChile, theDominican Republic,Mexicoand their hometown ofMedellín.

After Karol’s shows in Venezuela, Martha posted a slideshow of photoson Instagram. “Thank you Karito for making me part of this tour and to see [that] you achieved your dreams. I love you ♥️,” she captioned the post.

The “Amargura” singer has also shared her appreciation for her family supporting her on tour. Before she ended the series of performances, Karol posted a slideshow of photos of her entire family — her dad, mom, sisters and niece — onInstagram, sharing how they were with her “90%” of the tour.

“Thank God for my parents, my sisters and my niece 🤍 How blessed I am to have them with me,” she wrote in Spanish. “They’re my happiness, my reason, my reality and the pillar that holds my mental and emotional health.”

She brought Guilermo onstage at the Latin Grammys

Karol G and her father Guillermo Giraldo speak onstage during the 19th annual Latin GRAMMY Awards on November 15, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Michael Tran/Getty

Michael Tran/Getty

When Karolwon her first Latin Grammyfor best new artist in 2018, she brought her father, Guillermo, onstage to celebrate the win.

As Karol walked up with her father to accept the award, she started tearing up and told the audience she was “super nervous.”

She thanked everyone who believed in her — her family and label — and congratulated the other women in the industry before turning her attention to her father.

“I want to thank this man who has been with me throughout my career, my dad,” Karol added.

In Spanish, Guillermo also congratulated his youngest daughter before shaking the Grammy trophy in the air in celebration.

Martha gets emotional over her music

Karol G and her parents, Martha Navarro and Guillermo Giraldo.Guillermo Giraldo/Instagram

Martha often shares how proud she is of her daughter, but Karol’s music makes her emotional, too.

In a 2023TikTok, Karol showed her mom listening to her new song, “S91,” before calling her dad into the room to witness how it moved her.

The song, Karol wrote in the caption, is a reference to Psalm 91 — a prayer that her mother would have Karol and her siblings recite every morning before school as words of protection.

“When she saw that something she taught me since I was little had been included in the song, [her] tears were immediate,” the singer penned in Spanish. “There is no nicer feeling for me than knowing that my family is proud of me and that my music can cause them reactions like this."

Eventually, though, she decided to change her outlook. “Then I took the stance of, ‘turn a deaf ear to foolish words,’ ” Martha said.

source: people.com