Shakira’s recording comeback after seven years of silence with Women no longer cry It represented the culmination of a moment in her life in which, between pain therapy and an astute promotional campaign, the Colombian freed herself from all the adverse emotions caused by her separation from Gerard Piqué, for whom she considerably reduced her musical activity. in the previous years in order to dedicate herself to her role as a mother.
Once the separation was announced – and rumors circulated that it was due to the former soccer player’s infidelity with Clara Chía, his current partner –, the Colombian published a series of singles in which she addressed all of these experiences and ended up joining the twelfth studio album by the Colombian, with which she achieved several reproduction records on streaming platforms during its release week.
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Of course, the transit to get to that return point was not easy, and Shakira herself showed it in an interview conducted by the Rolling Stonein which he remembered the professional sacrifice he made for his family, and the one that Piqué had to make.
“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 I had made all those years accompanying him to play. The idea was to come here, but that moment coincided with the separation.”he commented in the talk.
Just when the breakup occurred, he received support from different entertainment figures, mainly singers. The media reported that artists like Adele and John Mayer contacted her to send her encouragement at that difficult time. Although it was not mentioned what the interaction was like between the Barranquilla woman and the interpreter of Rolling in the deep, Both share the experience of a breakup, since in 2019 the Londoner confirmed that she was separating from her then husband, Simon Konecki.
Latin figures such as Carlos Vives and Juan Luis Guerra were also mentioned, who were reported especially after the accident of their father, William Mebarak, who went through a delicate moment of health during the same days in which the commotion over the separation of Piqué and the The process carried out by the Spanish Treasury against him was gaining more and more strength.
Shakira also revealed that one of the figures who gave her the most support was Chris Martin, singer and leader of Coldplay., whom he has known for a decade and who during that time sent him messages frequently. In this particular case, the media reported that the Briton once sent him a photo of a broken vase glued with gold, accompanied by the words “Kintsugi: you are going to be much stronger when this is over,” referring to a traditional technique. Japanese to repair ceramics using resin and gold dust.
“That’s the metaphor,” Martin explained to the Colombian. “That you break and then they fix you with gold, and you are more beautiful than you were before. For anyone going through a tough time, myself included sometimes, that’s a very powerful thing to hold on to.”
Like Adele, the interpreter of Live life and Yellow He also had to go through a divorce with Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014 that left him mired in depression. (despite which the relationship between the two remained cordial). Like Shakira, that state ended up being reflected in the songs that make up Ghost StoriesColdplay’s sixth album released in 2015.
