Shakira has experienced a challenge from her media separation of Gerard Piqué, moving to Miami with her children and leaving her life in Barcelona behind.
The artist has also had to deal with the his father’s delicate state of health or his problems with the Treasury. Although if there is one aspect of life that has smiled on him, it has been the professional. The singer launched in March new album Women no longer crytheir first album in seven years.
Although the woman from Barranquilla has not granted many interviews, in recent weeks she has been talking like never before. Last month she gave one to The Times, as you can see in the video above and now, after this latest success, she has spoken to Marie Claire stating that “I was trying to be reborn or die in the process” recording. “Each of the 16 songs describes a moment when you were dealing with or working through an intense emotion. “I was in flight or fight mode.”
However, before that, Shakira has opened up about the bad time she experienced: “I’m not going to lie, it’s been hard.“.
The album, which took two years to make, was created in the midst of his breakup with Piqué and, as he has indicated, its production was “like healing”: “I was able to transform the pain and anger I felt into creativity, productivity and resilience”.
“In the past I always thought I was a weak and fragile person., which would not survive certain situations. Then suddenly life presented me with all these situations at the same time and I wondered if I was going to survive. But I did it. And now there are fewer things I fear,” the 47-year-old singer recalled.
According to what he said, the former soccer player’s alleged deception with Clara Chía and her separation from him was a direct blow to one of his greatest dreams: “Deep down I always thought that having a husband was the most important thing in my life.. I was looking for that man like my father, who I would have children with and then make plans to be with him forever, like my parents, who are still so in love. I made a lot of sacrifices for this. I was loyal. But sometimes things don’t go as planned.”
“I’m not going to lie to you, I always dreamed of having a family of four“, he stated, adding that, after the breakup, he felt “like a three-legged table”, but that this helped him to bond more with his children, whom he wants to raise as “men of their word”: “We talk a lot. We have a constant dialogue. I listen to their opinions and vice versa. We solve things.”
Although she has now escaped the media noise she had in Spain, Shakira has not been able to prevent rumors about her possible romances from being constant in the international press and have linked her with men as different as stars from the NBA, Formula 1 or the cinema.
Given this, he has assured that “I can’t say that I don’t believe in love because I see the example of my parents after 50 years together, but I haven’t been so lucky“.
“Monogamy is a utopia. But I have been compensated in other ways: with the love of my fans, my children and my true friends. Oscar Wilde said that friendship is the purest form of love and I believe that is true. Lasts longer, at least in my experience. My relationship lasted 12 years but my friends will be there for life. “When difficulties came, that’s when I learned how truly important friendship was,” he said.
