In an interview during Billboard’s Latin Music Week held in Miami Beach, Shakira confessed that she was “very inspired, eager,” happy to go to the studio to record, at a time when composition is a “catharsis” for her. and it has helped him “get out of the mud.”
The singer Shakira acknowledged last Wednesday that she was on “a professional honeymoon”, “very much in love” with her job and with many things still to say, a feeling accompanied by the undeniable success she has achieved with her most recent singles.
“There are many things I want to say, things to try musically, but the time will come,” confessed the Colombian during her participation this Wednesday in Billboard’s Latin Music Week, which was held in Miami Beach, at the South Florida (USA).
“It turns out that I was less fragile than I thought and music has been my main survival tool,” acknowledged the one from Barranquilla, in clear allusion to the notorious separation last year of the father of her two children, the former Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué. after 11 years of relationship.
“I was surprised by the possibility of being able to make lemonade with the sourest lemons,” said the interpreter at another time, who thanked the support she has received from her audience who have continued to support her even during her time in Barcelona, in the who, he said, had “one foot on the brake.”
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Proof of this has been the overwhelming success he has achieved with “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”, the collaboration he made with the Argentine DJ Bizarrap and published in January of this year, which was crowned at the top of the Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and broke four Guinness records.
The controversial song, in which she attacks the former FC Barcelona soccer player and which reached second position on Billboard’s Global 200 list, has become an anthem of female empowerment and, in that sense, the Colombian confessed proud to live in a moment in which “being a woman has a deeper meaning.”
With that song, “they told me change the lyrics, that can’t come out, and I answered that I’m not a United Nations diplomat, I’m a woman, a wounded wolf,” she recalled, a comment that sparked loud applause from the audience.
Now singing in Spanish is the coolest thing
During the talk she had at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach with Billboard’s director of Spanish content, Leila Cobo, the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer recalled the ins and outs of some of the successes achieved throughout her career. . , and how difficult it was for a Latina like her to get on American radio.
“Now that is no longer the case, now no one tells the artist who he should interact with or do,” highlighted the singer, who welcomed the fact that nowadays musicians can have direct contact with their audience, as well as that there is more acceptance of the Spanish among Anglo-Saxon listeners.
“Nowadays everything has changed, nowadays singing in Spanish is the coolest thing,” he added.
He recognized that the success of the single “Whenever, Wherever” was important, a cut from his fifth studio album, and the first of his discography in English, “Laundry Service” (2001), which includes sounds of a quena, a reflection of his passion at that time for Andean music.
Regarding his current motivation with his profession, he revealed that his move to Miami has had a lot to do with it, where he has reunited with colleagues and friends, unlike his time in Barcelona, a time in which “many ideas were left in the “empty” and unfulfilled plans, he said.
The Colombian has closed Latin Music Week today with a flourish, a series of talks and panels with artists and leaders of the music industry that coincide with the Latin Billboard Awards, to be held tomorrow Thursday at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, city Neighboring Miami.
In that award ceremony, in which the Mexican Featherweight is the favorite with 21 nominations, Shakira has 12 nominations.
The performer and composer is also the favorite at the next Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, which will be held on November 16 in Seville (Spain), and to which she will go with seven nominations.
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