Shakira He has opened up about everything he has experienced during the last years of his life, as well as about his current situation on a personal and professional level. She has done it in a recent interview with Rolling Stonewhich has left us a multitude of Headlines.
Years of suffering
In recent years, Shakira has been exposed to personal problems whose severity has been multiplied by media pressure. We talked about her breakup with Gerard Piquéthe disease from which his fatherthe legal case in Spain for Evade taxes which was resolved by paying a fine…
“I physically felt like I had a hole in my chest and that people could see right through me. […] It was crazy how many things I had to deal with at the same time.“, confesses the singer to Rolling Stone. Now, Shakira is better than ever, says the journalist who interviewed her.
Adele and other friends supported her
According to the interview, Shakira received the support of a multitude of friends during that dark stage of her life. Among other people, they stand out Adele, John Mayer, Carlos Vives, Juan Luis Guerra or Chris Martinband member Coldplay.
Music as a lifesaver
Shakira, in the midst of this maelstrom of suffering, sought solace through music to transform her emotions into songs. That’s where his successes came from. Congratulationswhere he talks about an unfaithful ex; Monotonyabout a failed relationship, or his unforgettable session with Bizarre where nothing was kept silent.
The artist has reflected on this: “I remember my manager at the time telling me: ‘Please change the lyrics.’ Of course, I was just trying to calculate the possible contingencies and risks, but I told him: ‘I am an artist. I am a woman.’ AND I am a wounded wolf. And no one should tell me how to lick my wounds,'” she confesses. “We are in a society used to seeing women deal with pain submissively, and I think that has changed.”
Moving to Miami after years in Barcelona
Shakira has opened up about how hard it was to go live in Spain to be with Piqué: “Being in Barcelona was a great sacrifice for me and my career.” “The plan was always that, when my ex retired from professional football, we would go live in the United States and finish raising our children there, for all the sacrifice that I had made all those years accompanying him to play“he confesses.
Motherhood and its sacrifices
The singer has assured that she felt like a mother before becoming one, and that all these experiences have allowed her to transmit to her children that “things do not go the way we want and we have to face disappointment.”
“When we are mothers, we never let our guard down. We can continue working, but our commitment as mothers is unbreakable. Sometimes it is difficult to find balance. How much time should you dedicate to yourself, how much to your work, how much to the children? But children always come first and it is what consumes us the most,” he adds.
The return of his Caribbean accent
Asked about the things she has discovered about herself after these years, Shakira does not hesitate: “I have discovered my accent!”.
“My Caribbean accent has returned now that I am not in Spain. Now I hang out with Barranquilla girls from my son’s school and I am surrounded by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Colombians. Yes, my accent has returned, thank God. […] I have recovered my style. AND I feel sexy again“, recognize.
Closed to love
Finally, Shakira refuses to have a formal short-term relationship with another person again, but does not refuse to “have friends“: “With everything that has happened to me, I shouldn’t like men, but imagine how much I like them that I keep finding pleasure in them,” she confesses.
