The countdown reached Occasions Sq. 9 months early on Tuesday evening (March 26), the place hundreds of individuals gathered on the iconic vacationer vacation spot, to not watch the well-known New 12 months’s Eve ball drop however the Colombian famous person Shakira.
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The artist stunned her followers with a “pop-up” live performance introduced simply hours earlier on her social media, and about 40,000 followers, in line with figures supplied by the organizers, responded to her name to rejoice her first LP in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, launched final Friday.
An enormous digital billboard that coated a part of a skyscraper introduced the free present with a clock counting right down to its begin. At round 7:30 p.m. ET, the group enthusiastically chanted from ten to zero and two giant doorways hidden within the jumbotron opened to disclose the TSX Stage, and Shakira opening along with her No. 1 Sizzling 100 hit “Hips Don’t Lie.”
“Hola New York! Oh my God, that is wonderful, completely insane,” she mentioned instantly after in Spanglish. It’s so superior to see you once more, to sing for you… Nothing compares to this. Thanks a lot for all of the love that you simply’ve been giving me this week in the course of the launch of my new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. And thanks, thanks, thanks for displaying up.”
Wearing black pants and high with silver gildings, the self-proclaimed She-Wolf delighted the group by singing reside — together with a band and a gaggle of dancers — songs resembling “Te Felicito”, “TQM”, “Cómo Dónde y Cuándo” and “Puntería”, earlier than closing with the mega hit “Bzrp Music Classes, Vol. 53.”
“I’m completely happy to be right here surrounded by my Latin individuals,” mentioned the 14-times Latin Grammy and three-times Grammy winner. “Thanks New York. Till subsequent time. I really like you very a lot.”
Tuesday’s present was co-produced by TSX Leisure, with presenting companions ViX, Vinfast and Sony Music Latin. It occurred the day after Shakira’s look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the place she carried out “Puntería” and spoke candidly about her former relationship with soccer star Gerard Piqué, and why it took her so lengthy to launch a brand new LP since 2017’s El Dorado. “Now I’m husband-less,” the She-Wolf declared. (Shakira and Piqué — who introduced their cut up in 2022 — by no means married throughout their 11-year relationship, however share two sons.) “The husband was dragging me down. Now I’m free. Now I can truly work.”
Watch a part of Shakira’s efficiency in Occasions Sq. under:
