To make something of pain: this has always been the adage of many artists. Colombian singer Shakira, who lived through her "darkest hours" in 2022, also does not regret having put all her suffering and anger on paper. After twelve years of living together with the father of her children, Gérard Piqué, Shakira left the latter following suspicions of infidelity (which will later be confirmed). This will result in February 2023, a song in the form of a settling of accounts called BZRP Music Sessions #53. , already one of the most listened to of his career, holding the record for the number of views on Youtube.
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"It has been a year of change in my life where I have felt more than ever and very personally what it is to be a woman," she said on Saturday, May 6, on the stage of the Billboard Latin Music Awards, which honored her as "Woman of the Year". "It's been a year since I realized that we women are stronger than we think, braver than we thought, more independent than we were taught to be," she added, grabbing her trophy.
"The desire to be authentic"
The interpreter of Waka Waka could not help but return to his desire for love and tenderness, taking in the background his relationship with Gérard Piqué. "What woman has not forgotten herself because she was looking for someone else's attention and love?" she asked, before continuing: "However, there comes a time in every woman's life when she no longer depends on the other to love and accept herself as she is. A moment when the search for the other is replaced by the search for oneself. A time when the desire to be perfect is replaced by the desire to be authentic, and finding someone faithful is less important than being true to oneself."
A theme that the singer has evoked many times in her titles, but also in those of the artists for whom she has written. "These are the lessons I've learned from other women, and written for them, and sung. Because only a woman can love until she is torn apart; can speak with the most brutal honesty; may sing angrily; dancing in ecstasy and crying with emotion. Only a woman can do that," Shakira said.
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In video, BZRP Music Sessions #53, the track in which Shakira pins Gerard Pique
Last April, the singer bid farewell to Barcelona, Spain, where she had previously lived with Gérard Piqué and his children. "Today we are starting a new chapter," she said. Under her speech on the Billboard Awards stage, Shakira indeed seemed grown, ready to take life with serenity.