Ten months and a couple of worldwide hit songs after the separation of Shakira and Gerard Piqué, the singer has definitively made the decision that she announced some time ago: to leave Spain.
The Colombian artist announced on Sunday, through her social networks, that she was leaving Barcelona for her new destination.
Although she has not specified for the moment where she has gone, when she signed the custody agreement for her two children, sources close to her assured that she would settle in Miami (USA).
And so EL PAÍS was able to confirm this Monday.
After the Easter holidays, Shakira will start a new life in Miami and her children will start their studies there.
It has been through her Instagram profile, where she accumulates more than 85 million followers, where Shakira has posted the message with which she clearly says goodbye to the Catalan capital.
“I settled in Barcelona to give my children stability, the same that we are now looking for in another corner of the world, next to family, friends and the sea”.
With these words, the artist comments on her relationship with the city, which began more than a decade ago, parallel to her relationship with her ex-partner, Gerard Piqué, and which has been strong since 2015, when she settled in the capital. catalan
“Today we begin a new chapter in the search for your happiness.
Thanks to everyone who surfed so many waves with me there in Barcelona, the city where I learned that friendship is undoubtedly longer than love”, she affirms,
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“Thank you to everyone who encouraged me there, dried my tears, inspired me and made me grow.
Thanks to my Spanish audience who have always covered me with their love and loyalty.
For you only a 'see you later' and as my father used to say so many times, see you in the curves! ”, Shakira's concise message ended, along with a photograph of some views of Barcelona.
In less than 12 hours, his message accumulated almost three million
likes
and some 60,000 comments, many of them farewells and many others, above all, from American personalities settled in Florida, such as actors, presenters, and athletes, who gave him the welcome and showed the singer their love.
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Shakira's move was scheduled, although it was unknown when it would take place.
In fact, she pointed out that it wouldn't be until after the Easter holidays.
Everything depended, above all, on the children of the already ex-marriage, who were forced to change schools.
In November, the lawyers for both parties announced that the artist would keep custody of the children, and that her "sole objective is to provide them with the greatest security and protection."
Piqué gave in to the artist's request to get the little ones out of Barcelona and Spain so they could lead a more peaceful life.
As the lawyers of both parties then recognized to EL PAÍS, both always looked out for the interest of the boys and avoided reaching a trial that, clearly, was going to end up mediated.
As this newspaper has been able to confirm, Shakira notified Piqué of her departure from the country.
On Thursday night, the doctors at the Teknon clinic in Barcelona, where William Mebarak, Shakira's father, is admitted, explained to the singer that they still could not operate on him, and therefore she decided to leave the city.
She then wrote letters to the heads of the children's schools, both in Barcelona and Miami, to ask them if it was convenient to change schools with just three months left to finish the course.
Both parties replied that there was no problem and that, in fact, the break for the Easter holidays could help them adapt.
She is very concerned about the health of her father, and she only finished the move once she knew that it was a good time for him.
Shakira, 46, and Gerard Piqué, 36, were a couple for more than 12 years.
They met shortly before the World Cup in South Africa, in 2010, and in the summer of that year they met at the sporting event.
In March 2011, with the phrase "I present to you my sun", which she posted on her Twitter profile, they made her relationship official.
The singer soon moved to Barcelona, where the footballer played for Barça, and there they had two children.
The first, a boy named Milan, was born in January 2013;
while the second, Sasha, arrived two years later, in January 2015.
On June 4, 2022, a brief joint statement announced the end of their relationship.
“We are sorry to confirm that we are separating.
For the well-being of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask for respect for privacy.
Thank you for your understanding," they explained in a note.
The neatness of the ad was soon blurred by more complex details.
Gerard Piqué was dating a 23-year-old girl named Clara Chía, a worker at his company, Kosmos, with whom he was soon seen in public in Barcelona.
Shakira's response came, first, as an interview with
Elle magazine
, where she stated that she was going through "one of the most difficult and darkest hours" and that because of her relationship with Piqué she had put her career in the background.
And then in the form of a song.
In October 2022, together with the Puerto Rican singer Ozuna, he launched the song
Monotonía
, a whole declaration of intent with phrases such as "it was not your fault, nor mine, it was the fault of the monotony", "you forgot what one day we were ” or “you left me because of your narcissism”.
In her video clip, she was seen in a supermarket with a (literal) hole in her chest that made her lose her heart.
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But total revenge came in January, when together with the Argentine rapper and producer Bizarrap he launched his
Session 53
.
He did not need a title to become an immense success, with a very clear letter against his ex-partner and his new conquest.
The stanzas of the lyrics made it more than clear: "So much that you give yourself the champion and when I needed you you gave your worst version";
"This is for you to mortify, chew, swallow, swallow, chew";
"You left my mother-in-law as a neighbor, with the press at the door and the Treasury debt";
"women no longer cry, women bill";
“a lot of gym, but work the brain a little too”;
"I was too big for you and that's why you're with someone just like you."
After the agreements, the taunts and the mutual criticism, Shakira has moved on to another phase: that of putting land - and the sea - in the middle.