a musical bomb is coming

For several days, different media have been speculating about the possibility that Shakira and Karol G will work together on a new musical single.

The first hint of this possible collaboration was given recently by the reggaeton singer from Paisa, while attending an NBA game in Los Angeles, when she posted a photograph with a shirt that said “You looked big”, in clear allusion to the most recent song. de la barranquillera with the Argentine producer Bizarrap.

With this message, the interpreter of bichota Y provence He showed his unconditional support for Shakira after her painful separation with the soccer player Gerard Piqué, who has been the target of the most recent songs by the Barranquillera: I congratulate you, Monotony and Shakira | BZRP Music Sessions #53.

The latter, in just two weeks, has accumulated more than 162 million views on platforms such as Spotify.

Well, the rumors are over: The Sony Music company confirmed that in fact the two Colombians have a new production quite advanced, the first that will bring together the voices of these two talented artists and whose title is not yet known. which will not come out, however, on February 2, as some media had published, coinciding with Shakira’s birthday, which is also Piqué’s.

It is that Shakira does not stop giving good news and continues to demonstrate that “women do not cry, women bill.” On March 4, the Grammy Museum, located in Los Angeles, United States, will inaugurate Shakira: The Grammy Museum Experience, an interactive exhibition on the musical trajectory of the Colombian.

The exhibition will include objects from her personal archive, three films and an immersive space inspired by her El Dorado tour, the singer’s sixth world tour and composer from Barranquilla, made in support of her eleventh studio album, The Golden, edited in 2017.

“It is an honor to exhibit the journey of my career at the Grammy Museum. (…) These pieces are testimony to so many indelible moments that I cherish and I am very happy to be able to relive them,” said the Colombian artist in a press release issued by the United States Recording Academy.

The institution, organizer of the prestigious Grammy Awards that are given annually, explained that Shakira: The Grammy Museum Experience seeks to explore the singer-songwriter’s legacy from her origins as an exponent of Latin rock to becoming a luminous superstar in other genres such as bachata and reggaeton.

“Shakira has discovered a way to continue evolving as an artist while her wide audience continues to grow,” Grammy Museum Vice President of Curation Affairs Jasen Emons said ahead of the launch.

The sample

‘Shakira: The Grammy Museum Experience’ will be permanently exhibited in a gallery dedicated to Latin music and will present forty objects from the Colombian personal archive, like the two outfits she wore during her performance at the 2020 Super Bowl, along with Jennifer Lopez, and even her Gibson Firebird electric guitar, which is covered in 70,000 black Swarovski crystals.

Likewise, several of the notebooks where he composes his songs and three original films recorded during the years will also be exhibited. tours that the winner of thirteen Latin Grammys and three American Grammys performed in different parts of the world.

Visitors to this show will also be able to enjoy the projection of some of his concerts and music videos. All of this in an immersive interactive experience that will allow fans of the artist to know in detail what have been the milestones that have marked Shakira’s career.

record numbers

Shakira: The Grammy Museum Experience comes after the successful launch of Shakira | BZRP Music Sessions #53, together with the Argentine producer and DJ Bizarrap. A single that makes history by becoming the fastest Latin song to reach 100 million digital views.

Also, the video accumulated 160 million views on YouTube in the first week and, in this short period, also broke the record for monthly listeners for a Latino artist on the Spotify platform, with 68 million listeners.

This same week it was also known that Shakira and the Argentine producer are on their way to breaking Adele’s Guinness World Record with their collaboration. The British artist holds the title of the fastest song to reach one billion views since 2015. Artists like Luis Fonsi, J Balvin and Ed Sheeran have been close, but not as close as the Colombian and Bizarrap.

And it is that in just 24 hours of its launch, the video of Shakira | BZRP ‘Music Sessions #53′ broke a record with over 53 million views and quickly became one of the fastest music premieres to surpass 100 million views, this gave it the title of the most successful Latin music release on YouTube.

According to specialized media, a music video can take up to 100 days to get a billion views, so this record, which is part of the book of Guinness World Records It wouldn’t mean anything to Shakira and Bizarrap if they managed to top the five songs that did before them.