She hates wardrobe fittings. She does all her own choreography.
Hips don't lie … and neither does she. Here's the truth about Shakira … by Shakira.
Hips don't lie … and neither does she. Here's the truth about Shakira … by Shakira.
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00:00I think it's been a path that would have seemed impossible for anyone to walk.
00:05A girl from Barranquilla, Colombia, who starts in a market where there was no real support for national talent,
00:12as there is today, for example, for local talent, for Colombian talent.
00:16The doors wouldn't open for her, as they do today.
00:19At that moment, I had to fight for being a girl, for being a woman, for being a pop artist,
00:25in a world dominated by the tropical, the salsa, the merengue, the authentic, local rhythms.
00:35So, it was a tough battle to overcome, but that's why I think I'm very satisfied with the path I've taken.
00:47Well, yes, I was told that I sounded like a goat to my friends at that time.
00:58I think it was a passive way of bullying, but I got over all of that.
01:03We continued our friendship, I continued to be a friend of my friends,
01:07and I understood that I didn't have to change anything to please them.
01:11My father and my mother helped me a lot in that.
01:14They taught me to value my voice, to value my talent.
01:19In the end, I kept my degree, and that somehow became my signature.
01:23As a girl, as a teenager, I was full of insecurities,
01:26and my parents were the people who reaffirmed and validated me.
01:31And thanks to them, I was able to move forward.
01:34I hate fittings, I hate fitting tests.
01:37If it were up to me, I would do all of my artistic activities in uniform.
01:41If I could, for me, clothing is a necessary evil.
01:49Usually, I'm the one who makes up my own choreographies, but no, because no one can beat me.
01:55Obviously, there are a lot of dancers and choreographers who are much better than me,
02:00but I simply like to create them myself, because I feel the music more in my body,
02:06more integrated, the movements, when they are my own,
02:10they are much easier for me to learn.
02:14It's a little hard for me to learn choreographies from others,
02:16but I have done it, there are many times when I have worked with choreographers,
02:22but in general, we always end up collaborating,
02:24we always end up doing a collaboration.
02:27And I always end up involved in all the details.
02:33Ah, lie! I love Colombian food!
02:35Colombian food, for me, is my favorite,
02:39because, of course, especially if I'm not in my country for so long,
02:43when I'm out and someone offers me a Colombian dish, it's a piece of heaven,
02:47it's like eating a piece of heaven.
02:49Well, because it's not exactly a remix, it's a version.
02:51It all came from the fact that on the set,
02:53when we were on the blackmail set,
02:55Maluma and I started dancing salsa,
02:57and that's where the idea of making a blackmail salsa version came from.
03:03I wouldn't consider it a failure either,
03:05because it was my first album,
03:07it allowed me to be a part of it,
03:09to be a part of it,
03:11to be a part of it,
03:13to be a part of it,
03:15to be part of it,
03:17it allowed me to start a career.
03:21I think it was, on the contrary, a success.
03:25Obviously, you can't compare it to later albums,
03:27when I had already matured as an artist,
03:29but to be a girl,
03:31I had recorded that album with songs
03:33that I had written between the age of 8 and 13,
03:35imagine,
03:37and having had the opportunity to go out
03:39with a label,
03:41as a professional artist,
03:43at such an early age,
03:46I could consider it a success.
03:52For me, the rain is super, super fun,
03:54especially for children,
03:56and I see it in my own children,
03:58that when it rains,
04:00they want to go out and get wet,
04:02and adults always want to protect the children,
04:04saying, no, it's raining,
04:06but the rain is fun.
04:12That's right, it's true.
04:14I learned to write, to read, very early,
04:16my mother took care
04:18that I learned to read and write very early,
04:20I did the same with Milan,
04:22my eldest son,
04:24I left the second one a little more at peace,
04:26and La Rosa de Cristal
04:28was the first poem I wrote to my mother,
04:30I gave it to her on Mother's Day,
04:32and from there I realized
04:34that I liked to write,
04:36and that it was a means of expression
04:38that was going to be vital for me.
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