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Karol G Surprises SoFi Stadium With Bruno Mars for Live Debut of 'Still'

Kiran MachadoPublished 2w ago3 min readBased on 4 sources
Karol G Surprises SoFi Stadium With Bruno Mars for Live Debut of 'Still'
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Bruno Mars walked onstage at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, Aug. 15, as Karol G's surprise guest — and the audience of her second of three sold-out nights got more than a cameo. The moment was the live debut of 'Still,' the collaboration between the two artists, and it was being filmed for the track's official music video. A message on the stadium's large video screen told the crowd as much before Mars appeared, turning a stadium concert into a shoot.

Karol G wore a sparkling white dress; Mars matched the palette in a flower-embroidered white suit with a cowboy hat. The visual pairing was deliberate — the performance is expected to serve as the video, though no release date for the finished film has been confirmed. An official visualizer for 'Still' was published on YouTube a week earlier, on Aug. 9, under the title 'KAROL G, Bruno Mars - Still (Visualizer)' (YouTube).

'Still' sits at the intersection of two albums. It appears on Karol G's studio album 'No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto,' a 14-track project that also features Drake, Judeline, Rusowsky and Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex. The same song is the opening track on Bruno Mars' 2026 album 'The Romantic.' Per Universal Music Group's release metadata on YouTube, Mars is credited as both vocalist and producer, and the single was distributed by UMG and released on Aug. 7, 2026 (YouTube). The collaboration marks Karol G's first full English-language performance (Hola).

For Karol G, the SoFi residency is part of a touring run that wrapped its Los Angeles leg on Sunday, Aug. 16. She moves north to Levi's Stadium in San Francisco for two nights on Aug. 21–22 (Billboard). Her album 'No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto' debuted at No. 6 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart earlier in 2026 — a chart that ranks the most popular Latin tracks in the US across streaming, radio and sales data.

The staging itself mattered. SoFi Stadium, the 70,000-seat venue in Inglewood that hosts NFL games and major concerts, gave the 'Still' debut a scale that few first live performances receive. The crowd knew the track — it had been available for just over a week — and the video-screen announcement meant the audience understood their presence was becoming part of the record.

Whether the filmed performance becomes the official music video or feeds into a separate cut has not been stated. What is confirmed is that the song now has a live history, and the fans in Los Angeles on Aug. 15 were the first to witness it.