Shakira (48, Barranquilla, Colombia) undertakes on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) a new tour, after seven years without shooting the world, to present his last album, Women no longer crycelebrate three decades of career and leave behind the tumultuous last years, marked by the separation of the footballer Piqué, in 2022, and be judged by fiscal fraud in Spain. Why start in Brazil? “Because he is the best audience in the world! “, The Colombian responded to the question of the presenter Luciano Huck, who received it this Sunday in his program Sunday with Huckon the Globo channel. Women no longer cry The Grammy has just won the best Latin pop album, an award that dedicated “immigrant brothers and sisters,” threatened to be deported by the US president, Donald Trump.
Installed in Rio since last Friday, the singer premieres tonight her show “The eldest of her career, according to herself,” at the Milton Santos Olympic Stadium, with capacity for almost 47,000 spectators. The Brazilian press speculates on the possibility that Carioca Anitta will take the stage to accompany her in one of the songs. On Thursday Shakira will offer a second performance in Brazilian lands, in São Paulo, before continuing towards Lima (Peru), to Colombia, with two nights in his Natal Barranquilla in addition to Medellín and Bogotá, to Chile and Argentina.
In Buenos Aires he says goodbye to South America to make the leap to Mexico, where ten concerts are scheduled between March 12 and 30. After a stop, he will resume the Tour on May 13 to act in the United States until June 30 with a couple of nights confirmed at the moment in Canada. In total, 44 concerts to present an album that takes its name from one of the songs that composed after the break with Piqué after 12 years of relationship. Women no longer cry It is a celebration of female empowerment and resilience.
“Brazil was the country that opened the doors to my music, so many years ago! And that is still there, by my side, supporting me, understanding, ”explained the artist in the television program Sunday with Huck in a Portuguese fluid that has excited Brazilians. Shakira referred to other times, at the end of the nineties, when he was brunette and acted in cities in the interior of Brazil for ridiculous prices in his first international launch. The program surprised her with an interview with Mother Olga, one of the teachers of her nun school, who said that she was expelled from the school coral for the power of her voice.
Bare feet, Shakira’s third album was the first with presentations outside his country. He made an extensive tour of Brazilian lands in 1996 and 1997, with 37 concerts, as the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone, and a tour for the most seen entertainment programs. He stopped in the big capitals, but also to small cities like Uberlandia, in Minas Gerais, where he acted in the 34th edition of the Camaru agricultural exhibition. Five reales cost the entrance, less than one dollar today.
A decade has passed since the singer, composer and dancer acted for the last time in Rio. It was one of those memorable moments for Brazilian fans because she performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 World Cup. The artist was then a usual on the planet football for her relationship with Pique, father of her two children.
And they were splendid years for the city that two years later welcomed the Olympic Games and then falling into bankruptcy and appearing to decline. The current mayor, Eduardo Paes, is determined that Rio is one of the great squares in the international circuit of mass concerts. Taylor Swift acted in November at the stadium where Shakira and Madonna will sing closed her tour on Copacabana beach against 1.6 million viewers.