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Shakira Performs Surprise Concert for over 40,000 Fans in N.Y.C.'s Times Square to Celebrate New Album

The Colombian superstar's performance drew the largest crowd in Times Square history

Shakira took over the Big Apple!

On Tuesday, the Colombian superstar, 47, performed a surprise free concert on Times Square's TSX Stage in New York City and drew more than 40,000 fans — the biggest crowd the area's ever seen, even during New Year's Eve celebrations.

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Fresh off the release of her new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran , Shakira delivered a setlist including its tracks "Te Felicito," "TQG," Cómo Dónde y Cuándo," "Puntería" and "BZRP Music Sessions #53" as well as her signature hit, "Hips Don't Lie."

For the performance, Shakira was joined by dancers and executed impressive choreography and even played electric guitar for a song. "Thank you all for being here for me," she told the crowd at one point in the set. "It means a lot."

The "She Wolf" singer has been quite busy since releasing Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran last week, having released music videos for both album tracks "(Entre Paréntesis)" with Grupo Frontera as well as "Puntería" with Cardi B.

During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, Shakira opened up about feeling "free" to make the new album — which marks her first in 7 years, following her 2022 breakup from ex-partner Gerard Piqué . (They share sons  Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9 .)

"I've been putting out music here and there, but it was really hard for me to put together a body of work," said the Grammy winner.

"I didn't have time. It was the husband-factor. Now I'm husband-less. Yeah, the husband was dragging me down. Now I'm free. Now I can actually work," continued Shakira, who was never legally married to Piqué during their time together.

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She explained that her new album's title translates to "Women no longer cry" in English, adding to  Fallon , "It's men's turn now. For too long we have been sent to cry with a script in our hands and without an end just because we are women. We have to conceal our pain in front of our kids, in front of society." 

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"We have to heal in a certain way. And I don't think anyone is supposed to tell us how to heal. No one is supposed to tell a She-wolf how to lick her wounds," added Shakira.

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran  marks the hitmaker's 12th studio album release, following 2017's  El Dorado.

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Shakira Shares Her Triumphant Return to Singing in ‘El Dorado’ Concert Documentary

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Toward the end of Shakira ‘s new documentary, Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour , the pop superstar is onstage in her home country of Colombia, performing the final concert of her momentous 2018 tour . Throughout the film, which opens in theaters worldwide on November 13th, Shakira takes absolute control of every aspect of her live show: from the lighting to the musical arrangements to the choreography. (“I want to look sexy as hell, or I cancel this!” yells Shakira with zeal to her crew during rehearsal.)

But on that same night in Bogotá, we see Shakira break down in tears for the first and only time onscreen. “It was bittersweet,” she tells Rolling Stone, while seated inside Barcelona’s luxe Mandarin Oriental Hotel. “It was the ending of a phase in my life filled with so many different emotions. . . . It was possible that I would never sing again.”

“When I was there in Bogotá, finishing that cycle, in my country,” she says, “I couldn’t feel more overwhelmed with emotion, gratefulness, and nostalgia.”

In November 2017, the 42-year-old artist was forced to postpone her first tour in seven years — and her first since becoming a mother to two sons — due to a vocal-cord hemorrhage injury. It was a serious, unprecedented health scare that Shakira says shook her to her core and put everything in perspective.

“I always thought my youth would go away one day, my black hair would go away one day . . . anything,” she says wistfully as she snacks on gummy bears. “But I never thought my voice would go away. That was unthinkable. It was so inherent to my nature, to who I am. It’s my identity.”

“When I couldn’t speak, when I couldn’t sing,” she says, “it was the worst nightmare of my life.”

The documentary doesn’t dwell much on the painful episode, but focuses on Shakira’s triumphant return to the stage. In support of her Grammy-winning 2017 album El Dorado , the tour finally kicked off in the summer of 2018, spanning 55 dates in 22 countries and captivating almost a million spectators. The film, co-directed by the artist and James Merryman, was shot primarily during the Los Angeles stop of the tour, and is a celebration of Shakira’s bond with her loyal fans around the globe, many of whom appear in close-ups crying of joy and singing along.

It is also an unflinching statement on Shakira’s prowess as an entertainer. It’s all about her vision and execution: her voice, as powerful as ever, and her flawless dance moves, commanding the adulation of thousands of fans night after night. In contrast to other superstars of her stature, on this tour Shakira had no backup dancers (“I wanted the freedom to improvise”) and the set design was purposefully minimalistic — inspired, she says, by Anton Corbijn, one of her favorite visual artists, who has directed music videos for U2, Metallica, and Depeche Mode.

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Fans will also delight in behind-the-scenes moments of Shakira in the studio with Maluma and Nicky Jam, writing and recording songs together; glimpses of her interacting with her family and her band during rehearsals and between concerts; and even seeing her dancing and singing aboard her private plane, still brimming with adrenaline after performing the nightly two-hour-long show.

Instead of going straight to DVD or streaming services, Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour offers a communal fan experience, with screenings in more than 2,000 theaters in over 60 countries on the same day. A live album of the tour will also be released this week; it’s a gift to fans who have been with her through thick and thin, and who, Shakira says, are the true protagonists of El Dorado.

“When an artist decides to go on tour, in a way, he or she needs reaffirmation,”  Shakira says. “We need to confirm that there’s people out there loving us, worshipping what you do. . . . [There’s] a very narcissistic motivation behind all of that,” she adds with a laugh. “When I came out on tour this time, there was none of that. I just wanted to do it for them, because they were there for me.”

Shakira is currently in the studio working on new material and studying different types of dances — including the Afro-Colombian genre champeta — as well as slimming down her two-decades-long repertoire for her upcoming Superbowl LIV performance , which she will share with Jennifer Lopez in February. (She has not ruled out a collaboration.)

.”I definitely want to showcase everything I’ve learned lately, and everything I’m capable of doing as an artist,” she says of the months to come.

Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour  will premiere internationally on November 13th in more than 2,000 theaters across 60 countries.  Tickets are now available on the film’s website .

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Shakira Announces El Dorado World Tour

See the dates for the Colombian superstar's "El Dorado" concerts in Europe and the United States, which she announced Tuesday (June 27).

By Judy Cantor-Navas

Judy Cantor-Navas

Shakira has announced dates for her El Dorado World Tour. The pop superstar will perform songs from her new album of the same name at over 30 arena concerts in Europe and the United States, she announced Tuesday (June 27).

The tour kicks off in Cologne, Germany, on Nov. 8 and continues until the end of the year in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and other European countries. After a break for the holidays, Shakira is set to open her U.S. tour at Orlando’s Amway Center on Jan. 9, 2018.

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El Dorado is currently no. 1 on Billboard’s top Latin Albums chart, following its release on May 26.

 Take a look at her tour announcement below, and click here  for a list of dates.

It’s time / Llegó la hora! Shak https ://t.co/jeBxLMu3Ck #ElDoradoWorldTour ———————————— ———————————— pic.twitter.com/BbYe9G1Ac8 — Shakira (@shakira) June 27, 2017

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Shakira didn't just 'cross over' — she created a new multicultural pop stardom

Her video vanguard award win at the vmas speaks to her transformative career.

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Shakira at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.

As the lights flashed on and off during the 2023 Video Music Awards, Shakira started shapeshifting. Quite literally, she contorted and jerked her body in different directions — a reminder of just how corporal her artistry has always been — before howling her way into "She Wolf." But for the next 10 minutes, which included her recent reggaeton collaboration with Karol G and a heartfelt nod at her first-ever VMAs performance in 2002 (a samba-turned-rock rendition of "Objection (Tango)"), Shakira gracefully demonstrated that she's been rewriting and redefining her sound for the better part of three decades. Her Video Vanguard Award, long overdue, is a testament to the U.S. finally recognizing what the rest of the world has long known: Shakira is one of our most transformative, A-list pop stars, with an eccentricism and unpredictability that has long made her singular.

Her stardom occupies a particular place in pop music, one that arguably no longer exists: the Spanish-to-Anglo crossover. She was by no means the first Latin superstar to climb the ranks of the American pop market. Artists like Julio Iglesias, Gloria Estefan , Ricky Martin and Selena had all, in one way or another, built "a foot in both worlds" career model for the rising Colombian rocker to replicate. But there is a case to be made that Shakira was the last Latin artist to successfully maneuver an English-language transformation of her music and image, one which propelled her into her own lane of multicultural mainstream pop.

After two sappy pop albums that failed commercially while she was still in her early teens, Shakira broke out as a new kind of pop-rock icon for Latin American audiences in the mid-1990s. Wearing slick, black hair, toting an acoustic guitar and writing lyrics that commented on class politics and abortion just as easily as they recounted the specifics of a breakup, Pies Descalzos framed Shakira as a sad girl with a grungy edge, like an Alanis Morrissette - Hope Sandoval hybrid from Barranquilla, Colombia, making references to Fernando Botero paintings in her lyrics.

Her follow-up, the 1998 international breakout Dónde Están los Ladrones? , packed a heavy punch of pan-Latin influences and high-low cultural touchpoints. Co-produced by Emilio Estefan and kicked off by mariachi horns, the record catapulted Shakira into the global spotlight and earned her her first Grammy nomination. The last track, " Ojos Así ," placed Shakira's Lebanese heritage on full display: a melange of Middle Eastern instruments, complete with an Arabic verse and a music video showcasing the 21-year-old's belly dancing skills. The song and video would become emblematic of Shakira's place in pop: a true fusion of influences, rhythms and identities.

But the debut of her blonde locks and her first English-language songs on 2001's Laundry Service proved a tough pill to swallow for Latin audiences and critics alike. Many fans saw the red-maned, leather pants-cled Shakira who'd just rocked out on MTV Unplugged as the epitome of who she was as an artist and performer, rather than just an early phase of a decades-long career. "When Laundry Service came out last year, many longtime fans accused the Colombian-Lebanese woman of betraying the very scene that made her a success," Gustavo Arellano wrote in a 2002 column for OC Weekly . "Here, being labeled a sell-out — a vendido — is a career death warrant, implying that not only has the artist changed their aural aesthetic, but they've also disavowed their Latin American heritage to embrace los Estados Unidos," he went on.

In an era of Britney and Christina, Shakira's new look and sound was largely misunderstood as a weak attempt to fit in as yet another radio-ready pop princess. "Shakira's first English-language album, Laundry Service , is the ultimate in crossover nightmares," wrote David Browne in Entertainment Weekly at the time. "Its wan ska-pop, faux-country ballads, and generic rock barely betray a Spanish accent or any musical heritage. (She can't decide if she wants to sound like Alanis or Shania.)"

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In reality, Laundry Service picked up right where Ladrones left off. With encouragement from Gloria Estefan herself — who insisted the artist needed to record a predominantly English album rather than a few tracks on a Spanish project — Shakira threw herself into mastering the English language, studying Walt Whitman and Leonard Cohen so she could write songs the way she wanted to. Arriving in American pop with the lead single "Whenever, Wherever," Shakira literally and sonically rooted herself in a transnational pursuit. The Andean panpipes and charango, paired with her signature yodel, immediately signaled a new kind of Hot 100 hit. The song perfectly captured Shakira's uncategorizable stardom: the way nobody could sing or move quite like her, managing to be both seductive and delightfully weird at the same time, proudly declaring her breasts "small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains."

While primarily English-speaking critics sometimes mistook intentional oddities for mistranslated shortfalls — Rolling Stone said she sounded "downright silly" in 2001 — the new language created opportunities for Shakira to build on the off-kilter songwriting style she was already known for in Latin America, when she'd tenderly sing in Spanish about how she didn't shower on Sundays. Exclusively English lines like "I love you for free and I'm not your mother" and, later, "I'm starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an office" proved that Shakira, well-known for exerting creative control over her projects since Pies Descalzos , was more focused on using English to add dimension to her work than making new listeners comfortable.

Even as she incorporated Andean folklore, tango and rock en español into Laundry Service , Shakira's crossover wasn't meant to be a Trojan horse, sneaking in Latin rhythms to take over the American mainstream — that takeover wouldn't happen for two more decades, when Bad Bunny would finish pushing open the doors first cracked by Daddy Yankee and " Despacito ," proving "Latin pop," in 2023, is just pop . The crossover was also not an exercise in assimilation, in which Shakira would stop singing in Spanish or dancing champeta once Laundry Servic e peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. Shakira arrived in Western pop through the unexpected origin point of male-dominated Latin rock, and she refused to treat her American breakthrough as a final destination. "Pop always gives you the opportunity to metamorphose, but there is some kind of dignity in the world of rock 'n' roll that you can't find in pop music," she told the Guardian in 2002. "So I like to walk right in the middle and jump back and forth."

Over her next albums — Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 and the English-language counterpoint Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 — she'd jump from dancehall, reggaeton fusion to eurohouse and cumbia, scoring another No. 1 hit with the Wyclef Jean collaboration "Hips Don't Lie . " The act of crossing over in multiple directions provided space for Shakira to demonstrate she could pivot and pull it off; she could jump from a power ballad like "Underneath Your Clothes," to the electropop of "She Wolf," and she could collaborate just as easily with Latin rock stars like Gustavo Cerati as with Beyoncé .

She could be a force of nature in one song and supernatural in another, changing her look and sound as only she saw fit, though it didn't hurt that it was a thin, white, blonde woman carrying this message of autonomy and authenticity. (In 2010, she became the face of globalization during the World Cup, singing "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" with a string of African performers behind her, despite backlash over FIFA's decision to not give that platform to an African artist.) Nor did she shy away from political statements, criticizing the Iraq War during a New York City concert a year after 9/11. "I don't think I have to hang myself a little sign that says 'Hey, I'm sexy,' and then take it off and now say, 'Hey, now I'm serious," she told the New York Times in 2005. "I can just fluctuate and oscillate from one side to the other whenever my instincts tell me to."

Redirection and reinvention is the trademark of any pop star, as is the ability to meld genres and influences from around the world in surprising ways — anyone from Madonna to Drake relies on it to move their sound forward. But throughout the 2000s, Shakira became the melting pot pop star that only she could be: a proud manifestation of her multicultural upbringing, unafraid to write songs in a newly learned language. Her Video Vanguard Award comes at a moment where she stands on the edge of a comeback era. Not that she ever really went anywhere: despite a vocal hemorrhage in 2017 that made her fear she'd never sing again, Shakira has consistently released singles over the past six years, working with artists like Carlos Vives , Black Eyed Peas and Ozuna — not to mention performing alongside J.Lo at the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show. But she told Elle last year that she'd put her career on the back burner to move to Spain and focus on her family, and she's now getting ready to release her first album since 2017.

That album will enter a world where Latin music no longer requires translation to be seen as palatable by mainstream pop audiences. It's now American artists, in an industry radically changed by global forces in streaming and social media, that must tap into non-English markets. Shakira's collaborating with reggaeton stars who will never have to write songs in English in order to perform on The "Today" Show . The English language crossover as a pop rite-of-passage may be dying, but it pushed Shakira to become something more than a Latin teen rock icon. And though the industry looks and operates much differently than when Shaki started — earlier this year, her diss track with independent producer Bizarrap broke 14 Guinness World Records — she's still one of its trailblazers, transcending borders and expectations.

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Everything We Know About Shakira's New Album, 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran'

Mark your calendars for March 22. Shakira's long-awaited return — and first album in seven years — is poised to be a soundtrack of strength for listeners around the world. Here's everything we already know, including the 17-song tracklist.

The "She Wolf" is back. Shakira is setting the stage for her much-anticipated return with her latest album full of songs that empower women, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry) , set to drop on March 22. 

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran will be her first album release in seven years, following the success of El Dorado in 2017, and a pivotal year defined by press speculation following her highly publicized separation and financial case. 

In a heartfelt Instagram post, Shakira shared, "My new album, coming out March 22, is one I created together with all of you, my pack of shewolves who were there for me every step of the way."

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The album promises to be a testament to the collective spirit and shared journey with a circle of women who have been her support system. It's a theme present throughout her discography, and highlighted by songs such as "She Wolf" (2009), which first garnered her the nickname "La Loba" (which means "She Wolf" in Spanish.) 

Las Mujeres follows a banner 12 months for the Baraquilla-born Colombian singer/songwriter, which included a Latin GRAMMY for Song Of The Year and an exhibit at the GRAMMY Museum .

With a career that has consistently topped charts and broken records beginning with her international debut in 2001, the three-time GRAMMY winner and "Queen of Latin Music" remains a formidable force. Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran is not just another album; it's a chapter in an ongoing saga of artistic evolution and personal growth.

Here's what GRAMMY.com gathered about Shakira's upcoming bit of alchemy.

It Will Be Released On March 22

Mark your calendars for March 22. Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran makes its global debut via Sony Music Entertainment during Women's History Month.

We Already Know Some Of The Songs

Of the 17 tracks featured on the album's pre-save sneak peak , seven have already made their mark as singles, including "Copa Vacía" and "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53." The latter track won her the Latin GRAMMY for Song Of The Year at the 2023 Latin GRAMMYs. 

The Tracklist is Huge

The following tracklist was released on Feb. 29, featuring new collaborations with Cardi B , Rauw Alejandro , Bizarrap , Grupo Frontera, Tiësto and more.

1. Puntería x Cardi B

2. La Fuerte x Bizarrap

3. Tiempo Sin Verte

4. Cohete x Rauw Alejandro

5. (Entre Paréntesis) x Grupo Frontera

6. Cómo Dónde y Cuándo

9. Te Felicito x Rauw Alejandro

10. Monotonía x Ozuna

11. Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53

12. TQG x Karol G

13. Acróstico x Milan + Sasha

14. Copa Vacía x Manuel Turizo

15. El Jefe x Fuerza Regida

16. Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 (Remix Tiësto)17. Punteria (Vinyl Version)

New Work Is A Nod to Empowerment

The album's title is a direct reference to the empowering lyrics from her hit "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53," which symbolize independence and strength. It's a message that resonates deeply in today's zeitgeist and with her own struggles, emphasizing women's resilience and an ability to turn adversity into triumph.

Shakira's Tapping Into Some Magic

Shakira describes the album's creation as "an alchemical process," where each song served as a step towards self-reconstruction. 

"While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength," she elaborates in her Instagram announcement. 

There Are Four Editions

Shakira is taking the concept of alchemy — best known for its aim to turn base metals into valuable materials (such as transforming lead into gold) — even further. 

Fans will have the opportunity to buy the album in four distinct editions, each following the theme of precious materials: diamond, ruby, sapphire, and emerald. Each version will showcase unique cover art and the vinyl version will come pressed in corresponding colors. 

Two Great Reasons We Had To Wait

As a single mother to two boys, Shakira embodies the archetype of a strong independent woman "doing it all." 

In an intimate conversation with Billboard in her September 2023 cover feature, she shared insights into the challenges and triumphs of creating music while fully immersed in the rhythms of family life.

"Now I can release music at a faster clip, although sometimes I think being a single mom and the rhythm of a pop star aren’t compatible," she explained. "I have to put my kids to bed, go to the recording studio; everything is uphill."

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Shakira's Road To 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran': How Overcoming A Breakup Opened A New Chapter In Her Artistry

Shakira's first album in seven years is out March 22, and very much of the moment with glossy Latin pop, reggaeton, bachata and corrido. The GRAMMY winner's path to this new chapter was long, filled with professional changes and heartbreak.

When Shakira’s "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" was released in January of 2023; its success seemed like a freak incident, explainable as a perfect but isolated storm. 

Their virulently catchy track — which happens to spill scalding tea on her breakup with retired Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué —  set streaming records and took home a Latin GRAMMY for Song Of The Year . Today, the song's success looks more like the first crashing wave of a massive comeback for Shakira . 

The three-time GRAMMY winner followed her Bzrp Session with another hit single, "TQG," collaborating with Karol G . That song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, and the duo cleaned up at the Latin GRAMMYs. 

In hindsight, all of this was a mere preamble to the announcement of Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don't Cry Anymore), due March 22. The album will be her first in seven years, but the sound is very much of the moment, leaning into a high-gloss urban Latin pop sound that delves in reggaeton, bachata and corrido. 

The album is no comeback. With a star as big as Shakira — one who performed at the Super Bowl in 2020 and had her own exhibit at the GRAMMY Museum — it's hard to make the case that she ever left the public eye. Yet the Colombian superstar has put out only a trickle of singles since 2017, when she released her GRAMMY-winning album El Dorado . Prior to the BZRP session, her last major hits were in 2016 with "La Bicicleta," a collaboration with Carlos Vives , and "Chantaje," featuring Maluma , which went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs. 

It’s impossible to talk about this period of retreat, or her new album, without talking about the personal upheavals Shakira has gone through in recent years. In June of 2022, Shakira and Gerard Piqué, with whom she has two sons, publicly announced the end of their 11 year relationship. Starting with 2022’s "Monotonía," featuring Ozuna, nearly every song she has released  since then deals directly with the split and the emotional turmoil she has felt because of it. 

The singer and songwriter herself is not shying away from the fact that her music has been a therapeutic outlet. "I feel like in this moment of my life, which is probably one of the most difficult, darkest hours of my life, music has brought light," she told Elle in 2022. 

Case in point: her Bizarrap session. "Someone should have taken my photo the day I worked on the 'Bizarrap Session 53,' a before and after. Because I went into the studio one way and left in a completely different way," Shakira told Mexican television channel Televisa. "He gave me this space, this opportunity to let it out and it really was a huge release, necessary for my own healing, for my own recovery process."

That feeling of catharsis continued in her work on Las Mujeres . "Making this body of work has been an alchemical process. While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength," the artist said in a statement on Instagram .

Shakira is styling the album as a testament to resilience in the face of adversity, tapping into an understanding that her experiences have a broad resonance. While accepting Billboard’s 2023 Woman Of The Year award, Shakira discussed her "year of seismic change."

"I've felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman," she said. "It's been a year where I've realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be." 

Indeed, with strength and bravery, Shakira proceeded to channel her individual hurt into a message of universal empowerment. Ahead of her album release, she’s even more explicit about the details of her separation and the impact the relationship had on her career. "For a long time I put my career on hold, to be next to Gerard, so he could play football. There was a lot of sacrifice for love," recently told The Sunday Times .

As she told Billboard for her 2023 cover story , settling down in Barcelona with Piqué and their two children, far from music industry centers, made it difficult for her to work. "It was complicated logistically to get a collaborator there. I had to wait for agendas to coincide or for someone to deign to come," she explained. 

Shakira has since relocated to Miami, a location that played a major role in making her new album possible.

One of the hallmarks of a true pop star is the ability to evolve with the culture without losing their identity. Over decades, and with each release, Shakira has broken a barrier or risen above an obstacle to succeed beyond expectations – whether it’s leading the first Spanish-language broadcast on MTV with her 2000 "Unplugged" concert, or learning English to write her own crossover pop debut. Each move has felt authentic.

It is not an easy task, but Shakira accomplishes this alchemy beautifully every few album cycles, starting with her debut as an alt-leaning, brunette singer/songwriter in the mid '90s. At the turn of the millennium, she made the jump to international fame with a cascade of golden curls and Laundry Service , the English-language album that capitalized on the first wave of crossover Latin pop. She closed out the decade in a whirl of high-gloss dance pop with the Pharell produced She Wolf . Along the way, there was one platinum selling album after another and the No. 1 hit "Hips Don’t Lie," among several Top 10 singles, setting the stage for her to blaze through much of the 2010s. 

Shakira is well-aware of how hard she has had to work even after crossover success. 

In 2019, she told Billboard , "This whole new world had opened up to me, and with it came so many great opportunities, but I continued to pursue impossible goals such as making a song like 'Hips Don’t Lie,' for example—that had a Colombian cumbia and a mention of Barranquilla in the middle of it—play on American radio. I remember I said to [then Sony Music Chairman] Donny Ienner, ‘You have to trust me on this one. This is going to happen, this song is going to blow up.’" 

With El Dorado , she caught the second wave of Latin pop crossover, the one tipped off by Luis Fonsi’s now-infamous 2017 earworm "Despacito." El Dorado , is one of Shakira’s more Latin leaning albums in the long history of her bicultural and bilingual music career. The songs are sung largely in Spanish and her choice of features on the album are almost entirely Latin pop and reggaeton artists: Maluma, Nicky Jam, Prince Royce and Carlos Vives. The album's May 2017 release coincided with a rising global interest in reggaeton.

Shakira wasn’t following a trend; she was just in touch with the moment as usual. She released "Chantaje" months before "Despacito," and "Bicicleta," her song with Carlos Vives, which combines elements of reggaeton and vallenato, came out in 2016. 

With the continued mainstream global success of Latin artists, Shakira may no longer see a need to release an English-language album for every album in her mother tongue. Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran breaks with tradition in that it is her second Spanish-language album in a row. It's also loaded with features from the world of Latin music, including Ozuna, Rauw Alejandro, Manuel Turizo, and Karol G. The moment could not be better for an album that explores forward looking pop reggaeton, assisted by some of the brightest young stars in the genre.

If the past is any indicator, this era is going to be another step up for the artist. Beyond the album release, Shakira is teasing another tour. As she told Billboard , "I think this will be the tour of my life. I’m very excited. Just think, I had my foot on the brakes. Now I’m pressing on the accelerator­ — hard."

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Run The World: How Shakira Became One Of The Most Influential Female Artists Of The 21st Century

In celebration of Women's History Month — and Shakira's new album, 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran' — take a journey through the Colombian superstar's monumental career, from making global smashes to empowering women worldwide.

Over the course of nearly four decades, Shakira — born Shakira Isabel Mebarak in Barranquilla, Colombia — has become the best-selling Latin female artist of all-time, and in turn one of the most influential female artists of her time.

In honor of Women's History Month, revisit a few of the massive moments in her career that paved the way for the international market of other Latin artists.

She famously invited Latin flow to the Western music industry with her global breakthrough album, 2001's Laundry Service . Five years later, she broke the record for the most-played pop song in a week with "Hips Don't Lie."

Since the beginning, Shakira has used her powerful performances to uplift other women. Her lyrics often emphasize themes of self-reliance, independence, and female strength, most notably in her 2009 hit, "She Wolf."

More than three decades into her career, Shakira is still empowering women with more history-making feats. In 2020, she co-headlined the Super Bowl LIV halftime show alongside Jennifer Lopez , celebrating Latin culture in front of more than 100 million viewers; it's now the most-watched halftime show on YouTube, with more than 308 million views as of press time.

Now, at 47, Shakira continues to use her voice to encourage women to shape their own path, as a mother of two balancing her colossal career. Her forthcoming twelfth studio album — Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran , which translates to "Women No Longer Cry" — is a testament to that.

In celebration of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran 's March 22 arrival and Women's History Month, press play on the video above to learn more about Shakira's achievements. Check back to GRAMMY.com for more new episodes of Run The World.

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15 Must-Hear Albums In March 2024: Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Shakira & More

From the debuts of Tyla and rapper Tierra Whack, to a new salvo from Kim Gordon, women dominate the list of releases for March. While it may be Women's History Month, there are a few major releases from male artists, including Justin Timberlake.

March is Women’s History Month, and women in music are more powerful than ever. 

The month begins with the comeback of several queens, starting with Kim Gordon’s The Collective and Ariana Grande ’s Eternal Sunshine . Later, country darling Kacey Musgraves will unveil Deeper Well , and Shakira will drop the empowering Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran . Long-awaited debuts by GRAMMY-winning singer Tyla and singer/bassist Blu DeTiger will also join the lineup, with their respective Tyla and All I Ever Want Is Everything . Wrapping up March on a high note, Beyoncé will drop her highly-anticipated Act II on the 29th.

Men will release music in March as well: Expect new releases by Justin Timberlake , Bleachers, the last record from pop-punk band Sum 41 , and (allegedly) Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign ’s Vultures 2 .

To make the most of this prolific time, GRAMMY.com compiled all the must-hear albums dropping March 2024.

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips

Release date: March 1

On Feb. 1, Schoolboy Q’s website was updated with a mysterious countdown and a 37-second video. In it, the rapper finally unveiled the setlist and title of his much-awaited sixth studio album, Blue Lips , as well as its release date — March 1.

Blue Lips is Q’s first full record since 2019’s Crash Talk , although he had been teasing the album since 2020. Hopefully, it was worth the wait: Blue Lips holds 18 tracks and participations by Rico Nasty, Freddie Gibbs , and more. Q has also started a new vlog series on social media called "wHy not?," where he takes the viewers behind the scenes of making the album and previews snippets of the songs.

So far, the rapper shared tracks "Blueslides," "Back n Love" with Devin Malik, "Cooties" and "Love Birds" with Devin Malik and Lance Skiiwalker, as well as lead single "Yeern 101."

Bleachers - Bleachers

Release date: March 8

Fronted by 10-time GRAMMY winner and 2024 Producer Of The Year Jack Antonoff , rock band Bleachers will release its eponymous fourth studio album on March 8.

In a press release, Bleachers is described as Antonoff’s "distinctly New Jersey take on the bizarre sensory contradictions of modern life." The self-titled record will blend sadness and joy into "music for driving on the highway to, for crying to and for dancing to at weddings."

The band shared four singles so far: lead track "Modern Girl," "Alma Mater" featuring Lana del Rey , "Tiny Moves" and "Me Before You." Through serendipitous melodies and soulful writing, Bleachers commit to "exist in crazy times but remember what counts." 

Bleachers will tour the U.K. in March and the U.S. in May and June.

Kim Gordon - The Collective

Former Sonic Youth vocalist Kim Gordon will release her sophomore LP, The Collective , on March 8. The album is a follow-up to her 2019 debut No Home Record , and furthers her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, as well as additional producing from Anthony Paul Lopez.

"On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now," said Gordon in a press statement. "This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don’t necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia. To soothe, to dream, escape with drugs, TV shows, shopping, the internet, everything is easy, smooth, convenient, branded. It made me want to disrupt, to follow something unknown, maybe even to fail."

Back in January, the singer unveiled the album’s moody first single, "Bye Bye," and a music video starring her daughter, Coco Gordon Moore. The second single, "I’m A Man," came out in February. Gordon will play six concerts in support of The Collective , starting March 21 in Burlington, Vermont.

Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine

It’s been almost four years since Ariana Grande’s last studio album, 2020’s Positions . The starlet spent the past few years filming Wicked , an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, and declared that she wouldn’t be releasing any new records until it was done.

The wait is finally over, as Grande announced her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine . The album’s first and only single, "Yes, And?," dropped in January, followed by an Instagram video of the soprano singer explaining the concept of the album to her Republic Records team. 

"It’s kind of a concept album ’cause it’s all different heightened pieces of the same story, of the same experience," she said. "Some of [the songs] are really vulnerable, some of them are like playing the part of what people kind of expect me to be sometimes and having fun with it."

"I think this one may be your favorite," Grande wrote of Eternal Sunshine on her Instagram Story. "It is mine." The 13-song collection will reportedly explore house and R&B, and will have only one feature: Grande’s grandmother, who appears on the last track, "Ordinary Things."

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - Vultures 2

After a series of delays, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign ’s first collaborative album, Vultures 1 , ultimately dropped on Feb. 10, 2024. Set to be the first installment of a trilogy, the album was released independently through West’s YZY label, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with all of its 16 tracks also charting on Billboard ’s Hot 100.

Billed as ¥$, the duo plans to release Vultures 2 on March 8, and follow up with Vultures 3 on April 5. Although any other info about the upcoming volumes is still unclear, Timbaland recently shared on X (formerly Twitter) that Vultures 2 is "OTW." (Timbaland produced Vultures 1 ’s "Keys to My Life" and "Fuk Sumn" with Playboi Carti and Travis Scott .)

In the past month, West and $ign held a few listening parties for the album in the U.S. and Europe, but additional schedules are yet to be revealed.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, alt-rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain will release their eighth studio album, Glasgow Eyes , on March 8.

As it can be seen on lead single "Jamcod," the Scottish group still runs strong on the distorted synths and electrifying guitars that shaped their sound. "People should expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that’s certainly what Glasgow Eyes is," vocalist Jim Reid said in a statement. "Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take its course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes."

Glasgow Eyes also mends a six-year gap since the Jesus and Mary Chain’s latest album, 2017’s Damage and Joy . To further commemorate, the band will also release an autobiography and embark on a European tour throughout March and April.

Justin Timberlake - Everything I Thought It Was

Release date: March 15

Justin Timberlake is back with his first studio album since 2018’s Man of the Woods . The new record, Everything I Thought It Was ,  is spearheaded by singles "Selfish" and "Drown."

"I worked for a long time on this album, and I ended up with 100 songs. So, narrowing them down to 18 was a thing," said Timberlake in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. "I’m really excited about this album. I think every artist probably says this, but it is my best work." The Memphis singer also shared that there are "incredibly honest" moments in the album, but also "a lot of f—ng fun."

To celebrate his return, Timberlake announced his Forget Tomorrow World Tour. Set to kick off on April 29 in Vancouver, the tour will cross through North America and Europe until its final date on Dec. 16 in Indianapolis.

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

Fresh off winning Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 2024 GRAMMYs for the Zach Bryan duet "I Remember Everything," Kacey Musgraves announced her fifth studio album, Deeper Well ..

"My Saturn has returned/ When I turned 27/ Everything started to change," she sings in the contemplative title track, exploring how she changed over the last few years. The single sets the tone for the rest of the record, which was co-produced by longtime collaborators Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian . 

Featuring 14 tracks, Deeper Well was mostly recorded at the legendary Electric Lady studios in New York City. "I was seeking some different environmental energy, and Electric Lady has the best mojo. Great ghosts," the country star noted in a press release.

On social media, Musgraves wrote: "it’s a collection of songs I hold very dear to my heart. I hope it makes a home in all of your hearts, too." Deeper Well follows 2021’s star-crossed . 

Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack

When rapper Tierra Whack released her first album, 2018’s Whack World , she quickly garnered the admiration of both critics and fans. Comprising 15 one-minute tracks and music videos for each, the release was a refreshing introduction to a groundbreaking artist.

In 2024, the Philadelphia-born star is preparing to release World Wide Whack , labeled her official debut album in a press release. The cover artwork, created by Alex Da Corte, was inspired by theater character Pierrot, fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and Donna Summer , and represents "the first reveal of the World Wide Whack character, an alter ego both untouchable and vulnerable, superhuman and painfully human, whose surprising story will unfold in images and video over the course of the album’s visual rollout."

The album follows Whack’s 2021 EP trilogy — Rap? , Pop? and R&B? — and is foreshadowed by the poignant "27 Club" and the eccentric "Shower Song."

Tyla - Tyla

Release date: March 22

After a glowing 2023 with viral hit "Water," South African newcomer Tyla started 2024 with a blast. Last month, she became the first person to win a GRAMMY for Best African Music Performance , and the youngest-ever African singer to win a GRAMMY Award at 22 years old.

Next month is poised to be even better: Tyla’s eponymous debut LP drops on March 22, featuring "Water" and other hits like  "Truth or Dare," "Butterflies" and " On and On," as well as a guest appearance by labelmate Travis Scott.

"African music is going global and I’m so blessed to be one of the artists pushing the culture," Tyla shared on Instagram . Her unique blend of amapiano, pop and R&B is making waves around the world, and the star will rightfully celebrate by touring Europe and North America throughout this spring.

Shakira - Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

The title of Shakira’s new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran , is a nod to her 2023 hit "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" with Argentine DJ Bizarrap. In the lyrics, she states that "las mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres facturan" — "women don’t cry anymore, they make money."

The single is a diss to Shakira’s ex-partner, footballer Gerard Piqué, and, like the rest of the record, served as a healing experience after their separation. "Making this body of work has been an alchemical process," the Colombian star said in a statement. "While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength."

Las Mujeres will feature 16 songs, including her Bizarrap collaboration and singles "Te Felicito" with Rauw Alejandro , "Copa Vacía" with Manuel Turizo, "Acróstico," "Monotonía" with Ozuna, "El Jefe" with Mexican band Fuerza Regida, and "TQG" with fellow Colombian Karol G .

Sheryl Crow - Evolution

Release date: March 29

Back in 2018, Sheryl Crow said that the LP Threads would be her last — fortunately, she changed her mind. "I said I’d never make another record, though there was no point to it," the singer shared in a statement about her upcoming album, Evolution . "This music comes from my soul. And I hope whoever hears this record can feel that."

According to the same statement, " Evolution is Sheryl Crow at her most authentically human self," and its music and lyrics "came from sitting in the quiet and writing from a deep soul place." 

The entire album was written in a month, starting with the title track, which expresses Crow’s anxieties about artificial intelligence and the future of humans. From then on, Crow and producer Mike Elizondo found bliss. "The songs just kept flowing out of me, four songs turned into nine and it was pretty obvious this was an album," she said.

In addition to the album's title track, Crow also shared singles "Do It Again" and "Alarm Clock."

Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell

After nearly three decades together, punk-metal mavericks Sum 41 are parting ways. Their final release will be a double album. Heaven :x: Hell , set to drop on March 29.

Heaven is composed of 10 pop-punk tracks reminiscent of the band’s early years, while Hell is 10 tracks of pure heavy metal, reflecting the direction they took more recently. "Once I heard the music, I was confident enough to say, ‘This is the record I’d like to go out on,'" frontman Deryck Whibley said in a statement. "We’ve made a double album of pop punk and metal, and it makes sense. It took a long time for us to pave this lane for ourselves, but we did, and it’s unique to us."

The band shared singles "Landmines," "Rise Up" and "Waiting on a Twist of Fate," and proved that they’re leaving on top of their game. "I love Sum 41, what we’ve achieved, endured, and stuck together through, which is why I want to call it quits," Whibley added. "It’s the right time to walk away from it. I’m putting all of my energy into what’s ahead."

But before embarking on new ventures, Sum 41 will spend the rest of the year touring throughout Asia, North America, and Europe.

Blu DeTiger - All I Ever Want Is Everything

At only 26 years old, Blu DeTiger has already toured with Caroline Polachek , played bass for Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers, partnered with Fender, and appeared on the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30’s music list.

Now, she prepares to release her debut studio album, All I Ever Want Is Everything . "This album is about growing and becoming, settling into yourself and learning to love where you’re at through it all. It’s about learning how to be your own best friend," the bassist and singer wrote on Instagram .

"Dangerous Game," the lead single off the album, showcases DeTiger’s effervescent energy and potential for pop stardom. Starting April, she will also headline a U.S. tour across Boston, Washington D.C., New York, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Beyoncé - Act II

What better event to announce a new album than the most-watched TV program ever ? That’s what Beyoncé did during Super Bowl LVIII, on Feb. 11. At the end of a Verizon commercial , the singer declared "Okay, they ready. Drop the new music," while simultaneously releasing Act II ’s lead singles, "16 Carriages" and "Texas Hold 'Em," on social media and streaming platforms.

Coming out March 29, Act II is the second part of Beyoncé’s ongoing trilogy, which was written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic. The album is preceded by 2022’s acclaimed Act I: Renaissance , but instead of house and disco, the singer will reportedly take a deep dive into country music.

This isn’t Queen Bey’s first foray into the genre — in 2016, she released Lemonade ’s "Daddy Lessons," and her 2021 IVY PARK Rodeo collection was inspired by "the overlooked history of the American Black cowboy," as she told Harper’s Bazaar . It was just a question of time for Beyoncé to enter her country era, and it is finally upon us.

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Every Year Is The Year Of Shakira: 10 Songs That Prove She's Always Been A Superstar

Between smash hits, museum exhibits and Latin GRAMMY wins, 2023 proved to be Shakira's big year. But a cruise through the icon's discography proves that Shakira has long been a timeless artist with a boundless aesthetic universe.

Was 2023 the year of Shakira ? 

At 46, she released some of the most intriguing and successful singles of her career: "El Jefe," with música mexicana sensation Fuerza Regida, "TQG," with fellow Colombian KAROL G , and an already classic Bizarrap session that may well be the best revenge song of the past 50 years. In November she collected three Latin GRAMMY awards and, in March, the GRAMMY Museum opened an exhibit focusing on her music.

As she readies the release of her twelfth studio album and an accompanying world tour, GRAMMY.com looks back at her discography. These  10 tracks — a mix of anthemic mega-hits and lesser-known gems — prove that while 2023 may have been Shaki's big year, she's always been a star.

"Antología" (1995)

Culled from her breakthrough third album Pies Descalzos , the lilting "Antología" remains one of her biggest hits. 

Even though she would go on to experiment with every genre under the sun — from merengue and bhangra to reggaetón — Shakira always emphasized solid songwriting as the main ingredient of her craft. A bouncy ballad with an unassuming chord progression, it leaves plenty of space for her passionate vocalizing to shine through.

"Ojos Así" (1998)

The apocalyptic closing track of Dónde Están Los Ladrones? —basically, a rock album — "Ojos Así'' revealed a reality that wasn’t obvious back in the late ‘90s: Shakira was no ordinary pop star. 

A tribute to her Lebanese roots with subtle echoes of Led Zeppelin ’s "Kashmir," the song fused Arabic folk and rock. She beamed and belly danced on stage while performing the song, captivating a generation of concertgoers.

"La Tortura" (2005)

The Oral Fixation/Fijación Oral album diptych signaled Shakira’s creative growth and global star status. No other song summed up this moment of artistic exuberance like "La Tortura" — a pop smash that transcends the limitations of the genre. 

A duet with the gruff voice of Spanish balladeer Alejandro Sanz , "La Tortura" combines quotable lyrics with a reggaetón backbeat, EDM textures and accordion riffs — the perfect marriage of digital slickness and analog warmth.

"Gypsy" (2009)

Look beyond the hits and you will find a treasure trove of deep cuts in Shakira’s discography. Culled from She Wolf — her eighth LP — "Gypsy" finds its inspiration in Indian bhangra music, with spidery lines of sitar and hypnotic tabla rhythms. Of note: whenever she explores regional genres outside her own culture, Shakira’s respectful approach results in tracks that preserve the style’s roots.

"Loca" (2010)

What did Shakira do when she decided to tackle a merengue? Well, naturally, she flew to the Dominican Republic and spent some time working with authentic merenguero El Cata at his unassuming recording studio. 

Included in the life-affirming Sale El Sol LP — one of her best — "Loca" brims with staccato piano lines, fun electro accents and the diva’s sassy delivery.

"Islands" (2010)

Shakira’s ethereal cover of British band the xx’s "Islands" was a pivotal moment for her reputation as a tastemaker. In interviews, she often expressed a deep affinity for mainstream rock'n'roll, naming Led Zeppelin and Queen as some of her favorite artists. But until this moment, no one could have suspected that she also kept up with the best of British indie rock. 

Her decision to cover a song by critical darlings the xx demonstrates what a sophisticated listener she is. This dazzling version also showcases her impeccable taste in terms of the track’s arrangement and the specificity of its mood.

"Empire" (2014)

The singer had always shown a proclivity for lush sonics. This epic tour de force — from her self-titled 2014 album — took her sumptuous tendencies to a different level. 

A cinematic ballad tailor-made for the exquisite vulnerability and command of her voice, "Empire" implies that Shakira’s reputation as a "pop star" is only a fragment of her artistic identity. She can also sound downright operatic when the mood strikes.

"Me Enamoré" (2017)

The beauty of autobiographical love songs is that the purity of those initial feelings remains frozen in time — regardless of the relationship’s outcome. 

A chronicle about meeting her then-partner and the father of her children, soccer star Gerard Piqué, "Me Enamoré" struck a chord for the way  it captured the butterflies-in-the-stomach giddiness of falling head over heels in love. A window into her emotional world, it also shows how witty and funny she can be in the lyrics department.

"Chantaje" (2017)

If "La Tortura" introduced Shakira as one of the first mainstream artists to flirt with reggaetón, this duet with Colombia’s Maluma operates in full progressive urbano mode. 

Quick to absorb the influences that evolve around her, she sounds right at home in the jagged bounce of the rhythm track, trading seduction barbs like a seasoned reggaetonera. Shakira seems to love infectious dance music, and the urbano cosmovision is a perfect match for her pop sensibility.

"Bzarp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" (2023)

This infamous viral session by the Argentine producer signified a step forward for both artists. It provided Bizarrap with a larger-than-life arena where he could show off the addictive beats that he had been cooking up for years in his home studio. It also confirmed Shakira as the kind of timeless artist who fits seamlessly in the aesthetic universe of a 24 year-old wunderkind. 

The lyrics, quoted gleefully by the entire planet throughout 2023, illustrated the genius of Shakira — and how she managed to turn heartbreak into both material riches and emotional payback.

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• 2 Shakira's Road To 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran': How Overcoming A Breakup Opened A New Chapter In Her Artistry
• 3 Run The World: How Shakira Became One Of The Most Influential Female Artists Of The 21st Century
• 4 15 Must-Hear Albums In March 2024: Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Shakira & More
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Shakira announces pop-up Times Square concert tonight

"las mujeres ya no lloran," out march 22, marked her first new album release in seven years, by nbc new york staff • published march 26, 2024 • updated on march 26, 2024 at 2:49 pm.

Shakira announced on Instagram she'll have a pop-up concert in Times Square Tuesday evening.

The Colombian singer-songwriter, who just dropped a new album last week, teased a surprise "something will happen" in New York City Tuesday during a Monday appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

Shakira confirmed fans' hopes for a surprise show early Tuesday afternoon.

" Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran " marked her first new album release in seven years.

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A fan account said she is expected to perform at the southeast corner of Broadway and 47th Street. Shakira said she will perform on the TSX Entertainment stage . Post Malone performed on the same stage last summer.

On her Tonight Show appearance, Shakira also hinted at a possible tour coming this year.

"Does this mean you'll be going on tour," Fallon asked.

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"That's what I'd like. You know how it goes, first you present and album and then you go on tour," Shakira answered.

. @shakira hints at a possible tour 👀 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/a6uRh2mEGz — The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) March 26, 2024

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Shakira gave a real treat to New Yorkers Tuesday night ... putting on a surprise performance in Times Square for 40,000 screaming fans.

The Grammy-winning singer hit the TSX stage at the Crossroads of the World in Midtown Manhattan just hours after she announced the pop-up show on the social media app, "X."

Thousands of her followers rushed to see Shakira's spur of the moment concert as she celebrated the release of her new album, "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran."

As usual, Shakira didn't disappoint.

Check out the video ... Shakira wowed the crowd by first riding a circular platform down to the stage, while launching into her opening tune, "Hips Don't Lie."

For more than 15 minutes, Shakira mesmerized the audience with her dance moves, guitar playing and, of course, her music. She belted out some of her fan faves ... "Cómo Dónde y Cuándo," "Te Felicito," and "Puntería."

The previous night ... Shakira was a guest on "The Tonight Show," telling host Jimmy Fallon that she felt "free" to make her latest record after her high-profile split from ex Gerard Piqué .

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Shakira’s World Tour: Colombian sensation is expected to hit global stages in 2024

S hakira’s most recent world tour was in 2018 with El Dorado World Tour; years later, and following her jaw-dopping success, the Colombian star is expected to hit global stages in 2024. While 2023 has been a transformative year packed with hit after hit, the “Pies Descalzos” and “Music Sessions #53” singer have transformed the pain into music hits, and like a phoenix, she is back and better than ever.

Is there a Shakira World Tour on the horizon?

In a recent interview with Billboard magazine, Shakira revealed that her upcoming tour “will include arena and stadium shows in nearly two dozen countries across Latin America, North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East.”

Knowing that she has fans from all walks of life, the global sensation expressed she wants her tickets to be “affordable,” but affordability can be tricky. “The more production you have, the higher the ticket price,” she told the publication.

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“I want the tickets to be affordable. But to me, the most important thing is the repertoire. That’s why I think [my next tour] will be the tour of a lifetime because I have so many songs,“ she assured. Shakira’s 2024 tour will prioritize her hit-filled catalog over extravagant production, though full dates have not been released.

While fans patiently wait for Shakira’s upcoming tour, they can glimpse her artistry during the 2023 Latin Grammys. The Academy honored the star with nominations for her songs “Acróstico” and “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53″. They are nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, respectively.

Catch Shakira and many more sensations during Spanish-language music’s biggest night. The 2023 Latin Grammys will be a historic event , marked by outstanding nominees and the first-ever international telecast in the organization’s history. The ceremony, set to take place on Thursday, Nov. 16, will be broadcast from the Conference and Exhibition Centre (F.I.B.E.S.) in Sevilla, Spain. HOLA! USA will bring you all the details from the show in a cross-platform effort you wouldn’t want to miss.

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She’s still got it! I’ve been a massive Shakira fan for as long as I can remember, and I was hesitant to see her this year as I was worried about her performance not living up to my expectations and disappointing me.

Wow was I wrong. The energy was fierce and she audience were enthralled for every moment. The combination of Shakira enthusiastically throwing herself around the stage alongside the awesome pyrotechnics brought together the performance and atmosphere flawlessly.

Her sexuality is upfront yet inoffensive and a positive addition to her almost acrobatic dance routines.

She really aims to please her audience, interacting with them running through the aisles and offering her hand to fans. My absolute favourite was her performance of the classic, ‘Whenever Wherever’ which made the crowd go crazy. She appeared to relish every moment of her performance, which in turn encouraged us to lose ourselves in her performance. I really would recommend checking her out live if you have the chance, even if the European Pop isn’t up your street, she sure gives a great performance!

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THE SHAKIRA CONCERT WAS AMASING I HAD A VERY GOOD TIME EVERTHING WAS COOL THE ONLY THING THAT WENT WRONG AND THAT IS WHEN IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE IT WAS RAINING HARD OUT SIDE AT BAY STREET AND LAKE SHORE I THOUGHT IM NOT STAYING HERE UNTIL THE RAIN STOPPED SO I TRY TO MAKE QUICK DASH FROM THE WEST SIDE OF BAY STREET TO THE EAST SIDE OF BAY STREET I MIST JUGE THE WATER WHEN I WAS TRYING TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE I TRIPED AND DOWN I WENT FACE FIRST IN THE WATER THEN MY ARMS BUT WHEN I GOT UP I HAD EVERTHING THE ONLY THING THAT WAS MISSING WAS MY GALAXY S8 IN A GOLD CASE THE WATER WAS TO DEEP AND I HAD GOOD VIDEO OF SHAKIRA ON MY CELL PHONE BUT WHEN I TRIPED I LOST MY PHONE AND THE VIDEOS OF SHAKIRA IF ANYBODY FINES MY GALAXY S8 MY NAME IS AT THE TOP OF MY CELL PHONE UNDER THE CONTACT LIST ALSO THERE IS A $200.OO REWORD HO EVER FINDS IT CAN TAKE THE PHONE TO THE POLICE MY NAME IS ROBERT

En general muy buena presentacion. Sus bailes y canciones fueron una excelente selección para este concierto.

Algo muy notado que podria mejorar es conectar mas con el publico, hablar mas español y nombrar los paises latinos por ejemplo.

Estamos en Orlando, FL, pero la mayor parte de sus fans que la vinimos a ver somos de habla hispana. Pienso que pudo mejorar muchisimo mas la vibra con el publico buscando e interactuando en español.

Tambien pudo cantar sus canciones que tienen la version tanto en ingles como en español, en ambos idiomas, haciendo un mix en las letras.

Shakira was just amazing!!! I’ve been amazed by her singing her dancing and her charm that I was able to see live. She is an incredible singer with mind blowing voice. I adore her for her persistence and that she decided to make the tour even when she was having health problems earlier. Live she’s even better than I imagined her to be.

Thank u for being there with us.

We love you so much Shakira!!! And we hope we will see u in Luxembourg again!

Unfortunately the concert was postponed. More unfortunate was that the cancellation was not very well informed, so I went to the concert place for nothing. I'm expecting to get my money back or possibility to use my ticket on other concert.

It was a great show, what a talent of this woman! great musicians and sound, she very hot and dance in an amazing way. The only thing is the show begun late and we don't receive any explanation why, it was a great show anyway.

the El Dorado tour is a big hit. Great song choices and performance. Shakira is adorable and sexy at the same time lol. My biggest regret was that i could not get the ticket to see her from closer area (vip area).

IT was super super great from the beginning untill end. She took with her Vibes and energy from the start. Best performance i experienced ever. Totaly blown away. I am looking forward too the next show

AMAZING!! love the show and the songs selected! the lights, everything was perfect! perhaps just talk a bit more to the public.. say where is Colombia, Mex, US, Peru and other countries.

El mejor concierto de mi vida , de principio a fin!!

Fue más de lo que esperaba, ella es la mejor!!

Definitivamente volvería a ir a otro , !!

Ya la estamos esperando de nuevo!

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Shakira’s Family Came Apart. Then Her Music Soared.

With “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” her first album in seven years, the Colombian superstar said she “transformed pain into productivity.”

By Jon Pareles

For Shakira, 2022 was a year of heartbreak. Decades of hit singles and groundbreaking Latin-pop crossovers couldn’t insulate the Colombian pop star from personal upheavals. In the glare of celebrity coupledom, she broke up with the soccer player Gerard Piqué, her partner for 11 years and the father of her two sons, Milan and Sasha. Her father was hospitalized twice for a fall that caused head trauma; he went on to require further brain surgery in 2023.

Shakira was also facing charges of tax evasion in a long-running case disputing whether she had lived primarily in Spain from 2012 to 2014; she declared residency there in 2015. Last November, she settled for a fine of 7.5 million euros (about $8.2 million), citing “the best interest of my kids.” Just days earlier, Shakira had collected the Latin Grammy for song of the year for “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” a collaboration with the Argentine producer Bizarrap with wordplay clearly aimed at Piqué and his girlfriend.

The song was one of a string of singles Shakira released that referred directly to the breakup: the sarcastic “Te Felicito” (“I Congratulate You”); the regretful “Monotonía” (“Monotony”); the Bizarrap session, “Acróstico,” a ballad promising her children that she’d stay strong; and “TQG” (“Te Quedó Grande,” roughly translated as “I’m Too Good for You”), a taunting reggaeton duet with the Colombian star Karol G, who had been through her own public breakup. “TQG” has racked up more than a billion streams.

Those songs reappear on Shakira’s first album since 2017, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” (“Women No Longer Cry”), due Friday. All but one of its tracks deal with romantic ups and (mostly) downs, honed into crisp, tuneful pop structures. The LP continues Shakira’s career-long penchant for pulling together music and collaborators from across the Americas, dipping into rock, electro-pop, trap, Dominican bachata, Nigerian-style Afrobeats and regional Mexican cumbia and polka. Her guests include Cardi B, Ozuna and Rauw Alejandro. Not one of them upstages Shakira, who’s playful or raw as each moment demands.

Shakira spoke about the album from her white-walled kitchen at her home in Miami, where an air fryer sat on the counter behind her; a pet bunny in a pen was at her side. Unlike Barcelona, Miami is a hub of Latin pop where, she said, “I have the feeling I’ll be making a lot more music now.” Wearing a black tank top, with her hair in long blond waves, Shakira spoke happily and volubly about an album that, for her, was “alchemical.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Does the album tell a story? In the first songs, you’re wondering how to hold on to someone. But by the end, you’re pretty angry.

There is a narrative. It’s a conceptual album without it being my initial intention. You know, no one plans on going through a breakup the way I did. And the dissolution of a family — that is probably one of the most painful things a human can experience. But it happened. If life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That’s what I did with this album — use my own creativity to process my frustration and my anger and my sadness. I transmuted or transformed pain into productivity.

The album title, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” comes from the song that confronts the breakup most specifically: “Bzrp Sessions No. 53”

It was the most direct one. But I started talking about what was happening to me through “Te Felicito” and “Monotonía.” In the video [for “Monotonía”], I come out with this hole in my chest, because that’s exactly the physical feeling that I had when I was going through my loss. I almost felt that people could see through my chest, see what was behind it. But with every song that I wrote, I was rebuilding myself. It was like putting my bones back together. That’s why I decided to go for this title, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” — “Women No Longer Cry.” Crying itself will always be a mechanism of survival for human beings. It’s an important part of living. And I feel like women today, we don’t need to be told how we’re supposed to heal, how we’re supposed to lick our wounds. We are the ones who have to move on and preserve our species, preserve the survival of our offspring — of the she-wolves that we are.

One of the new songs, “(Entre Paréntesis),” ends with you bringing back the howl from “She Wolf.”

The she-wolf is all over this album. The she-wolf is what helped me rebuild myself. I had my times in which I howled at the moon, I licked my wounds. And I connected to that primal woman inside, to just sing and dance her pain away, to exorcise it. I think that women have this strength and this special intuition — this natural instinct of survival. When we really want to survive a situation, we just have to find that being within ourselves — to protect the pack.

I also found extreme support in women who have been through worse than me and that have taught me amazing lessons. Society has been, for centuries, putting us in a place as victims — since the Inquisition, when they burnt us at the stake. But I think women are rebelling against that. We just have to fight for what we want and heal in whatever way we want. At some point those tears have to transform themselves into tears of triumph.

Did your popularity, your celebrity, help get you through those rough years?

Not the fact of being a celebrity. I not only had to face the dissolution of my family — I had to do it with the journalists at my doorstep, with people talking about it, with me learning stuff from the press myself. It was really extremely painful. But my fans just know me and understand me and forgive my mistakes, and they support me, whatever decisions I make. I get emotional when I talk about it, because I honestly never thought that they would show up the way they showed up. But they have showed me the best version of myself, and they made me believe that I’m worth it and that I should go on. You know, them and my kids have definitely been the biggest help, the biggest support I’ve gotten.

I also had people who turned their backs on me — people who worked for me and betrayed me. And I had to face everything at the same time. And then my dad had a terrible accident that left him compromised neurologically. My dad has always been my best friend, so he wasn’t there to give me his best advice when I needed him the most. So it was a period of extreme pain. Only writing the songs allowed me to rebuild myself.

It’s a lot of changes to go through.

My essence remains the same. I think that deep inside I’m the same little girl from Barranquilla. I’m ruled by the same principles that were ingrained in me since a very early age. But my mind, my opinions, my ideas change. You know, my dogmas, my doctrines. But not my love, my moral principles and my ethics. They’re in this core. They’re preserved in formaldehyde.

Well, what’s in that formaldehyde?

Try to do the right things. Be there for those who I love and who love me. There’s no religion or higher institutional set of rules that guides those principles. It’s just that I want to try to do the right thing, because that’s who I am, and that’s what I want to instill in my kids.

Through the years, you’ve done all sorts of duets and collaborations, and you have many more on this album. How do you decide who gets to make a song with Shakira?

It’s not a premeditated process. I think every song has its own demands. For “Punteria” (“Aiming”), I thought, “How cool would it be to have a woman rapper here?” The only person who came to my mind was Cardi B. I had just met her in Paris and she seemed so nice. So I reached out, I sent her the song, and she jumped on it right away. It was actually an enormous pleasure to work with her. I find her so creative and witty and direct and unapologetically genuine.

You made two brassy songs with regional Mexican-style bands, Grupo Frontera and Fuerza Regida.

Colombia and Mexico have always had really close ties, and it was wonderful to experiment with this genre. One of the best studio sessions that I’ve ever had was with Grupo Frontera. I had just come from surfing in Malibu, and I went to the studio with my hair still wet, and they were there. They came in with this pure, genuine energy. We jammed through this song, and it was just one of the most fun, exhilarating moments I’ve had in the recording studio — a true musician’s moment.

“El Jefe,” the song with Fuerza Regida, isn’t about love or heartbreak — it’s about a worker who’s underpaid and hates his boss.

I wanted to lend my voice for those who don’t have a voice. There’s quite a lot of people who can’t talk about their bosses. And in the video, I brought in this Colombian Paso Fino horse . It has the most amazing trot because it dances to the music, and I got to ride it!

You’ve done a lot of cross-cultural transformations of your songs: tango versions, Bollywood versions.

I like to study cultures. I like to study their ways of expression through art and dance. And I wish I could know how to dance to every single culture in the world. But I do my homework and my research and try to do my own interpretation, because my body can only move in certain ways.

Latin music keeps reaching larger audiences worldwide, and now there are a lot of international, cross-border fusions — something you’ve been doing for decades. Has something changed in recent years?

So, so much has changed and evolved in our industry. When I started to sing in English or to present songs like “Hips Don’t Lie” or “La Tortura” to American radio, there were only a few gatekeepers who would decide what would play. Now, people decide for themselves through socials and through digital platforms. So music has gotten democratized.

When I first started, I had to really struggle in a male-dominated industry in Colombia, in Latin America. I had to go from radio station to radio station, convincing radio station directors, convincing record company executives, convincing journalists. I had to do so much convincing — it was exhausting!

When they used to speak about Colombia, it was only for the drugs. I remember those headlines when I first came out, like an American magazine saying “Shakira is the second biggest export from Colombia.” There was a lot of prejudice, a lot of no-nos, a lot of barriers to break. I was out there in the desert back then, kind of breaking rocks under the hot sun. But I feel proud of the moment that Latin music is living in right now.

You’ve written songs in both English and Spanish. Are they different mindsets?

English is the language that I resort to when I’m in the studio. It’s tech friendly — all the technical terms are in English, so when you’re talking to engineers, when you’re talking to musicians, it’s easier to use English. But Spanish is my first language and will always be my most visceral language.

“Última” feels like one of the most emotionally exposed songs on the album — full of feelings about regret and memories and deciding not to go back.

It was the last song that came on the album, and that’s why I called it “The Last One.” We had all the tracks completed, but I was like, No, no, I can’t close this album. I’m going to choke on this song. This one is stuck here, it’s a cyst, I need to get it out. So I just went in the studio, produced it and wrote it, and I finished it and sang it in one day. And it’s also the last song that I plan on writing about you know who and the one that shouldn’t be named: Voldemort.

Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey. He was previously an editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice. More about Jon Pareles

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Shakira to Release First Album in Seven Years, ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’

'While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength,' said Shakira.

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Shakira is set to release her first full-length LP in seven years on March 22. The album’s name, which references Shakira’s most quoted line in her and Bizarrap’s Latin Grammy-winning “Music Sessions Vol. 53,” is “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” (“Women Don’t Cry Anymore”).

“Making this body of work has been an alchemical process,” said Shakira in a statement. “While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength.”

Shakira’s last effort, “El Dorado,” arrived in 2017 and featured collaborations with Maluma, Nicky Jam, Prince Royce, Carlos Vives, and more. 

Shakira’s new album marks her debut release on vinyl, featuring four distinct artwork editions, each paired with an exclusive colored vinyl variant. The Sapphire edition will be exclusively offered on Amazon, while the Ruby edition will be available solely at Target. Fans can find the Emerald edition exclusively on Shakira’s official website, and the Diamond edition will be stocked by all major retailers.

In the last year, Shakira won song of the year and best pop song for “Music Sessions Vol. 53” and best urban fusion/performance for “TQG” at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards. “Music Sessions Vol. 53” also became the Spanish language song with the most streams in a single day in Spotify’s history.

Shakira was also the recipient of the  2023 Video Vanguard Award  at the MTV Video Music Awards where she delivered a 10-minute performance featuring “She Wolf,” “Te Felicito,” “TQG” and more.

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Shakira Reveals Global Tour Plans – Here’s What We Know

Shakira’s going on tour next year! In a recent interview with Billboard , the Colombian icon revealed plans for an upcoming world tour, describing it as “the tour of a lifetime.”

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Besides releasing a new album , rumors of Shakira’s upcoming 2024 tour have been circulating since Billboard briefly reported it earlier this month . Now, the singer confirmed that it’s officially in the works during Billboard’s latest cover story published today (Sept. 21). Though specific details are yet to be revealed, the media outlet shared that the global tour is aiming to include arena and stadium shows in almost 12 countries across Latin America, North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.

“I think this will be the tour of my life. I’m very excited. Just think, I had my foot on the brakes. Now I’m pressing on the accelerator ­— hard,” Shakira said about her upcoming touring plans. Moreover, she also revealed that she was working during Beyoncé’s recent tour by “taking notes.”

Though we don’t know the exact logistics of the tour, Shakira wants it to be affordable. Besides balancing the songs that people want to hear, she also recognizes that a higher production equals a higher ticket price, which she doesn’t want. “I want the tickets to be affordable. But to me, the most important thing is the repertoire. That’s why I think [my next tour] will be the tour of a lifetime, because I have so many songs,” she said.

Based on her recent MTV Video Vanguard Award performance and her overall musical trajectory, we know that Shakira has a rich discography of hits. Will she perform all the hits from all of her albums? The upcoming tour will be the first since 2017’s El Dorado global tour.