Shakira recalled the time in which he immigrated to the United States and said that the current situation of immigrants is painful.
Inside the Miami hard rock stadium, a ticket is glued to the door of the Shakira production office.
“Please return later … unless you are on fire”
The hand -written pink ticket suggests a totally understandable level of stress for the team that organizes the largest tour in the stadiums of the year.
With 64 shows sold out in the Americas, Shakira performed over two million fans.
“I worked for over a year, perfecting every detail of the show, so this is an extraordinary reward,” he says to the BBC.
There is no nervousness or shouting behind the scenes before the show in Miami … and nobody is on fire.
The environment is quiet and professional. The dancers extend into the corridors, the seamstress sew crystals in suit and guitar technicians give the melodies.
Some data on the tour impress.
“We traveled with two washing machines and two dryers, which we connected to each position,” said the head of costume Hannah Kinkade, which deals with almost 300 costumes.
Each costume must be renewed before a new show, he explains, why “Shakira dances with great intensity and also the dancers”.
“The dancers spend so much the shoes that we have to repeat them every morning.”
The director of the stage Kevin Rowe shows us the dark corridors under the stage, where the team holds Gatorade’s secret stocks and a cold coffee to survive Miami’s suffocating heat.
“It’s very hot or it rains a lot,” says Rowe to work in an outdoor show. “But this is the disadvantage of living in the underworld.”
Perfectionist leader
Around 2.30 pm, the band begins the passage of sound. Shortly after 15:00, Shakira arrives with the hips that do not lie, with the escort of the police, and joins the stage team.
By wearing a silver jeans and a white tank top, he cannot control and dance while evaluating the place of the show of that night.
“I came here to Beyoncé’s show and it was all impeccable, so it’s nice to make me look like her,” he jokes with the team.
Or isn’t he playing so much?
Shakira releases the joke with a beat of eyelashes, but there is something that everyone recognizes behind the scenes: the garment is perfectionist.
“When he is on, he is on,” says the dancer Darina Littletoon.
“When he enters, he is ready, his character is ready, he is delivered to the public.”
“He knows what he wants, and if he cannot, he will take it in one way or another,” says the musical director Tim Mitchell, who has been playing with Shakira since the 90s – he even wrote the flute riff Suerte.
“It is very meticulous with every aspect of the show: sound, look, lighting, bracelets, everything. It’s incredible. I don’t know how it does.”
The obsession brings fruit.
The Shakira show consists of two and a half hours of musical dramas: an uninterrupted parade of bilingual blows, 13 costumes and constant movements.
Makes a belly dance inspired by the Lebanese during Ojos AsÃma tribal routine with knives to be presented Every time, everywhere, Touch a flying V -guitar during Object (tango), and makes the public scream with an electrifying version of Wolf.
Successful tours
The tour is called Las mujeres ya no lloran (In Portuguese, Women don’t cry anymore), in honor of his latest album, inspiring some of his most intense disabled and personal problems I have ever experienced.
His 11 -year -old report with the footballer Gerard Piqué was over, while his father underwent a brain emergency intervention and the Spanish authorities accused him of tax fraud for 14.5 million euros (92.5 million dollars of current conversion), if he was resolved through an extrajudicial agreement.
“Many of you know that the last few years have not been easy for me,” he says on stage. “But who does not fall from time to time, right?”
“What I learned is that a fall is not the end of everything, but the beginning of an even better path.”
More specifically, this turbulence has increased a creative outbreak that brought it back to the center of the cultural scene after seven years of musical silence.
In 2023, Bzrp Music Sessions vol. 53, A track created with the Argentine producer Bizarrap, was full of indirect indirect in Piqué and his new girlfriend – “who changed a Rolex for a Casio” – and won the music prize of the year at Grammy Latin.
Continued with the theme in a series of successful singles such as sarcastic I congratulate you on AND TQGA duet with also Colombian Karol G, which has accumulated 1.3 billion of spatify reproductions.
“It’s a great inspiration for women,” said a fan, who wore hairy wolf ears just before the show. “He did everything. It’s power.”
Shakira’s commitment to the show is so much that she wanted our interview to be done after having climbed on stage. So, shortly after midnight, he leaves the cooler dressing room in a Daisies field.
“I warn that I could say some things that don’t make sense,” he said laughing. “I’m still recovering.”
“Today it was very hot and humidity. When this is the case, or when he has an altitude, it’s a great challenge, but it’s worth it.”
What happens when she is tired or sick?
“To create a show of this size and happen every night, it doesn’t matter if you are sad, if you have had a bad day, if you are sick or cough, you just have to do your best and miraculously make it happen.”
“And adrenaline, in fact, does not allow me to feel tired or how demanding it it can be. It helps to overcome everything.”
The life of immigrants in the United States
Prevention in Miami was particularly significant, he says, because it is the city for which he moved as a young man, hoping to conquer the western pop market.
At that time, he was already a star in Colombia, but he knew that international success meant singing in English. The only problem was that he had not learned his language.
“I was 19 when I moved to the United States, like many Colombian immigrants who arrive in this country in search of a better future,” he says.
“And I remember having been surrounded by Spanish-English dictionaries and synonym dictionaries, because at that time there were no Google or chatgpts to help. So everything was very precarious,” he comments.
“Soon I dived into poetry and started reading some of Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan, trying to understand how English works in the composition of the songs. I think it is that I became good in this.”
Lately, he has reflected a lot on these experiences, on his acceptance in the United States and on how he contrasts with the position of Donald Trump’s government as regards immigrants.
After receiving the Grammy for the best Latin pop album at the beginning of this year, he turned directly to the situation.
“I want to dedicate this prize to all my brothers and immigrant sisters in this country. You are loved, you have value and I will always fight with you,” he said.
I ask how an immigrant is in the United States today.
“It means living with constant fear. And it is painful to see it,” he replies.
“Now, more than ever, we must remain united. Now, more than ever, we have to raise our voices and clarify that a country can change its migratory policies, but the treatment with all people should always be human.”
It is a strong declaration, said in English and Spanish, while Shakira addresses his Latin Fanti directly.
This connection is the basis of your tour success: your fans have grown up with Shakira and find themselves reflections in it.
Shakira and children
In Miami, the public covers different generations: mothers and daughters sing in unison the success of the 90s as Barefoot cakes, suaños blancos, and dance at the rhythm of Waka Waka (this time for Africa).
Therefore, the peak of the show comes during AcrosticThat Shakira wrote to his children, in which he promises them that he will remain strong after the separation of Piqué.
While singing, 12 years old Sasha and Milan, 10, appear on the great screens, singing with his mother.
“My heart melts every time I see them on that screen and I hear those voices”, recognizes Shakira. “It’s all for me. I’m my engine and the reason I’m alive. So having them with me on stage every night is a precious moment.”
This is the first time that your children are big enough to see their mother perform in a show and confesses that she has contrasting feelings about it.
“When I have a show, they stress a little because they want everything to come perfect for me,” he says.
“They are always worried, asking, ‘Mom, how was it? Did you fall? Okay?’ And I try to show them that there is no perfect show.
Source: Terra
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