Hips Do not Lie hitmaker Shakira has secured an enormous award from Billboard as she nears the top of her history-making world tour that is include a number of setbacks alongside the way in which
Pop star Shakira has marked a major milestone in her profession, having received a formidable award. The Waka Waka hitmaker and Grammy winner, 48, can add one other title to her identify because of the win.
She has been exhausting at work touring the world following the discharge of her twelfth studio album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, final 12 months. Shakira kicked off her tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February, and it’s set to conclude subsequent month in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The singer will carry out a staggering 82 exhibits by the point her tour wraps, and it has already develop into the highest-grossing Latin tour by a girl in historical past, raking in a formidable $327.4 million. Her celebrations do not cease there, as she has now been awarded Billboard’s International Touring Icon for her tour.
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Shakira accepted her award alongside her longtime tour supervisor, Marty Hom and her workforce, who erupted into cheer. “That is unbelievable, I simply wish to share this with all of you guys,” she stated as she held up her award.
“My band, my dancers, my crew, my workers, my workforce – everybody has labored so exhausting on this tour. We’ve got gotten to this point and overcome so many obstacles. Right here we’re making historical past.”
Shakira added: “I wish to thank my Latin group and my followers from endlessly, making me really feel like I’m simply beginning at this level in my profession.” Followers additionally congratulated her as one stated: “You deserve all the great.”
One other added: “You deserve it.” Another person commented: “For me, Shakira is the rationale why I’m proud to be Colombian her music and legacy are a nationwide satisfaction.”
Nevertheless, her tour hasn’t been with out its points. In September, her present was thrown into chaos after a torrential downpour in Mexico.
Shakira noticed her present almost be washed out after her dressing room bought flooded by torrential rain moments earlier than her live performance. She additionally took to the stage almost three hours late resulting from technical points brought on by the rainstorm.
In her submit, Shakira wrote: “Take a look at my dressing room earlier than final night time’s live performance.” Footage confirmed plastic luggage masking each inch of the room as water poured from the ceiling.
The singer’s technical workforce had been pressured to make emergency changes to ensure every little thing was secure on the occasion. And regardless of approaching stage hours late, Shakira was met with a standing ovation by these appreciative of the star not cancelling the efficiency.
In Might, Shakira fell over on stage whereas performing on the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. She joked afterwards: “Nobody is secure from falls!”
And in February, she was pressured to cancel a second live performance only a week on from pulling the plug on one other having been rushed to hospital. She needed to postpone her present in Medellin, Colombia, resulting from security considerations.
A roof malfunction on the venue posed a possible hazard, organisers stated, and it wasn’t capable of be mounted earlier than the star was resulting from go on stage. Every week earlier, she shared her devastation at cancelling a present after being taken to hospital for “an stomach challenge”.
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