From the Vatican to ‘strip clubs’, reggaeton superstar Karol G is about to take over world of music

You might imagine that a person bearing a large tattoo of their own face is not one to take seriously. Yet Karol G, whose inked visage looks out from her forearm alongside those of singers Rihanna and Selena Quintanilla-Perez, together “the three people I admire the most in my life”, has, almost overnight, become one of the most serious women in pop.