Kali Uchis is a genre-defying artist whose music incorporates elements of doo-wop, reggae, early 2000s R&B, pop, hip-hop, dance music, and Latin roots. Her stylistic range is reflected in the variety of her collaborators, which includes Tyler, the Creator, Gorillaz, Daniel Caesar, Juanes, and BadBadNotGood. Her debut mixtape, "Drunken Babble," released in 2012, is influenced by music of the 1960s, with its mix of early soul, R&B, and doo-wop. She has been described as a "left-field pop polyglot" whose colorful body of work as a singer and songwriter spans R&B, urbano, and hip-hop.