Shakira and Manuel Turizo confirmed their collaboration and are set to drop “Copa Vacía,” their first tune collectively, on June 29.
“We made a film,” the Colombian artists teased on social media on Monday (June 19), sharing a poster that appears straight out of a film with Shakira taking the position of a mermaid and Turizo because the prince.
The primary time Shakira hinted at a brand new tune was June 9, when she posted a photograph of herself as a mermaid with the cryptic caption, “You need thingamabobs? I obtained twenty…,” a lyric from The Little Mermaid‘s “A part of Your World.” However she didn’t supply anymore particulars, leaving followers questioning what she was as much as. Now, they know to count on a brand new tune with “La Bachata” singer and a music video that guarantees to be a cinematic expertise.
“Copa Vacía” will observe Shakira’s candy tune “Acróstico,” which is a love letter to her kids. The “Acróstico” music video, which dropped in Might, options her two sons — Milan and Sasha — who sing and play the piano alongside her.
“This 12 months Milan has written songs which have made me tear up and Sasha has devoted hours taking part in the piano and discovering his voice,” Shakira wrote in Spanish on social media when the video dropped. “Each have spent a while with me within the studio and upon listening to this tune, they’ve requested to be a part of it. They’ve felt it and interpreted it in their very own manner and for themselves, with the identical ardour and emotion of an individual who carries music inside them.”
In Might, Shakira was additionally honored on the inaugural Billboard Latin Ladies in Music gala as Girl of the Yr, the place she gave an emotional speech by which she acknowledged the exhausting instances she’s been by way of, and thanked her mom, her pals and girls generally.
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