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May 08, 2025
09:32 a. m.
Shakira obtained a new musical achievement by celebrating the number twenty anniversary of one of his greatest hits that they managed to catapult his musical career. The great show caught millions of their fans, who exalted their performance and professionalism.
Shakira celebrates 20 years of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
Last Tuesday, the Barranquilla singer had the opportunity to celebrate that her successful song turned twenty years of being released, in the middle of a great performance that she presented in The Tonight Show program, by presenter Jimmy Fallon. The woman appeared with the artist Wyclef Jean, with whom she recorded the song in 2005, so the emotion of the public did not wait.
The show was marked by the great scenario that had sand, fire and dancers that made the iconic movements of the Colombian. Similarly, his red dress took the looks of the public since he managed to highlight his figure while danced, in the middle of the stage, with his bare feet.
The presenter held the vinyl album in his hands, while he exalted the great achievements that his success has achieved after 20 years of his premiere.
Achievements of the song ‘Hips Don´t Lie’
Shakira’s great success has a transcendental weight in her musical career since she is considered one of the first songs that combine several of the typical rhythms of Colombian cumbia with hip hop. According to the Barranquillera, at first there was doubt about the acceptance that these new measures were going to have in the market. However, his song managed to impact, in a forceful way, on the Anglo market when he came to sing his great success at the closing ceremony of the World Cup in Russia in 2006.
‘Hips Don’t Lie’ is part of the Oral Fixation Vol.2 album and currently has more than two billion views on platforms such as Spotify and more than one thousand five hundred million views on YouTube, when the official video is uploaded until 2009.
