Shakira’s Marvelous Year Post-Piqué | POPSUGAR Celebrity

Colombian singer Shakira is sometimes called the “Queen of Latin Music.” She’s credited because the pioneer who prolonged the worldwide attain of Latin music singers. Since her breakup with ex Gerald Piqué in June 2022, Shakira has turn into a fair stronger artist, releasing back-to-back hits together with “Monotonía” and her history-making diss observe “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.” Shakira has additionally acquired a variety of accolades this 12 months and is nominated for a number of Latin Grammy Awards this 12 months.

There’s no denying that 2023 turned the 12 months of Shakira. Through this assortment of tales, we’re honoring Shakira’s present success, the place she began, and the affect she continues to have on the Latine group.

Shakira has turn into unshakable. More than 30 years into her music profession, the Colombian pop icon stays on prime of the world. Though she has gone by some difficult moments in her life, together with a really public breakup with ex Gerard Piqué, Shakira has channeled these difficulties into her largest hits but.

“Women no longer cry, women get paid,” she sings in Spanish in “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.” With seven nominations at this 12 months’s Latin Grammy Awards, together with a historic three nods within the Song of the Year Category, the queen of Latin music is not letting her crown slip.

“Her success in the past year is a testament to her longevity, her continued evolution as an artist, and the unwavering dedication from her fans,” Jesús Triviño Alarcón, TIDAL’s senior director of trade relations and world Latin, tells POPSUGAR.

Shakira’s affect on the globalization of Latin music is indelible. She conquered Latin America together with her rockera album “Pies Descalzos” in 1995 and proved her expertise wasn’t restricted to at least one style with the follow-up “Dónde Están Los Ladrones?” Shakira then crossed over in 2001 together with her first English-language album, “Laundry Service.” Instead of relying solely on English to make her mark, she introduced over her newfound world viewers to understand her music and artistry in Spanish with 2005’s “Fijación Oral, Vol. 1.”

Fellow Colombian Leila Cobo, Billboard’s chief content material officer of Latin-Español, has documented Shakira’s successes for the reason that starting, together with in her 2021 e book “Decoding ‘Despacito’: An Oral History of Latin Music.”

“I think her big successes reflect what Shakira can do when she is thoroughly focused on her music and her projects,” Cobo says. “It’s a state of mind she had not been in for a decade, and her success is a reflection of what can happen when she is 100 percent committed to the music.”

Despite being on a roll, together with co-headlining the Super Bowl halftime present in 2020 with Jennifer Lopez, Shakira admitted to Cobo at Billboard Latin Music Week final month that her profession skilled a little bit of a lull whereas dwelling in Barcelona. She relocated there in 2013 with Piqué to lift their sons, Milan and Sasha. Shakira nonetheless landed large hits throughout that point, together with “Can’t Remember to Forget You” with Rihanna and “Chantaje” with Maluma. But she revealed that she felt “alone” and “unmotivated” throughout that interval.

“She says she had other priorities: her partner and her children, and she was living in Barcelona, which is not a music hub,” Cobo provides. “It was difficult for her to leave her children and take on the demanding task of being a music star.”

In April 2022, Shakira seemingly hinted to one thing going awry in her relationship with Piqué within the breakup tune “Te Felicito,” which put her again on the highest of the charts. Sadly, that June, allegations of infidelity within the tune seemed to be true when Shakira and Piqué introduced their separation. She used her music as a degree of processing and therapeutic from the heartbreak within the weak bachata ballad “Monotonía” with Ozuna. The emotional observe rocketed to No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart.

The 12 months 2023 proved to be the 12 months of the Shakira renaissance when she determined to drag no punches in her follow-up singles. In January, she teamed up with Argentine producer Bizarrap for the kiss-off anthem “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.” Shakira lyrically ripped her ex to shreds and likewise appeared to name out Clara Chia Marti, the lady Piqué allegedly cheated on her with. Thanks to following the recommendation of her son Milan to report with Bizarrap, Shakira pushed her sound to new locations and hit No. 9 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart.

“Shakira has been surprisingly candid in her approach to her music at this time,” Cobo explains. “Many artists speak in metaphors; she’s been very direct in her messaging. What’s interesting is that these very personal situations have resonated with so many people.”

While closing out this epic saga of songs, Shakira shared the highlight with one other Latina, Colombian celebrity Karol G. The two ladies teamed up for the knockout collaboration “TQG,” through which they sang about how life was significantly better with out their exes round (Piqué in Shakira’s case, and Anuel AA in Karol G’s case). Shakira notched a second prime 10 hit on the Hot 100 chart this 12 months with Karol G when the tune peaked at No. 7. Their mixed star energy additionally complemented a historic second in Karol G’s profession. In March, she turned the primary lady to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with an all-Spanish album when “Mañana Será Bonito” reached the summit.

“Even when [Shakira] recorded her parts, I was always on set because I didn’t want to miss any moment . . . I remembered her entire career . . . And I thought, ‘She’s a legend, and she’s here with me,'” Karol G instructed POPSUGAR about working with Shakira again in February. Shakira, who has received a number of Grammy and Latin Grammy awards, may add extra to her assortment. Ahead of the Latin Grammy Awards on Nov. 16, she has made historical past as the primary artist nominated within the Song of the Year class thrice in a single evening.

She is up for “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” “TQG,” and “Acróstico,” which options her sons singing together with her within the music video. Now having relocated to Miami with them, Shakira is constant to crank out the hits, together with the corrido “El Jefe” with Mexican-American group Fuerza Regida and the sultry “Copa Vacía” with Colombian heartthrob Manuel Turizo.

“I’m very excited about her upcoming album,” Cobo says. “It will be a huge release, and I think it may also top the Billboard 200. I’m also thrilled at the fact that she’s recorded all in Spanish in the past year. That is a huge boost for Latin music.”