Sasha and Milan star in the new video of Shakira singing the song 'Acrostic'

A new chapter has been launched this Monday in the long season that Shakira has opened about her divorce with former soccer player Gerard Piqué, and the departure of her with her children from Spain to the United States. Milan and Sasha, ages 10 and 8, are the guest stars in Shakira's new music video with the song Acrostic. Loving you, says a verse of the song that the two sing, "serves as anesthesia to pain, makes me feel better, for what you need I am, you came to complete what I am." The two little ones appear sitting next to their mother in front of a white piano and playing some keys.

The singer released the song last week with illustrations, of a bird that takes care of her two chicks in a nest, but has returned to promote it with her children in front of the cameras. "This year Milan has written songs that brought tears to my eyes and Sasha has spent hours on the piano, discovering her voice," the singer said on her Instagram account. "Both have shared next to me in the studio and listening to this song dedicated to them they have asked me to be part of it. They have felt it and interpreted it for themselves and for themselves, with the passion and feeling of the one who carries the music inside," he added.

Acrostico is no longer a song that evokes rage, revenge or heartbreak, as did the previous songs that have narrated the separation of Shakira with Piqué: Te Felicito, Monotonía and the most recent TQG with Karol G. Acrostico is rather a love letter to his two children, in which he explains that he would have liked not to show them the pain he was going through, But he promises them the strength he has to take care of them and accompany them. "I tried not to see me cry, not to see my fragility / Things are not as we dreamed / Sometimes we run, but we do not arrive / Never doubt that here I will be," says this song composed with only voice and piano.

The artist releases this song after moving to Miami, in April, with Milan and Sasha. The video in fact also shows how rubber ducklings or teddy bears are packed in boxes to travel to a new destination. The three lived almost a decade in Barcelona, where Piqué played, until the divorce. The Barranquilla wanted to start again in the United States after a subsequent agreement for the custody of her children, although the father maintains the right to see them on a recurring basis.

Shakira's two children have suffered especially with the media coverage of the separation of their parents. "They have lived a very difficult year, suffering an incessant siege and a relentless persecution by the paparazzi and several media in Barcelona," the singer said in a statement a few weeks ago. Now she has exposed them to the media but in a different way: sharing a piano and a love song that she composed and is already part of this long story about the divorce of two celebrities.

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