Shakira wanted to share ‘the torture’ with a famous group before proposing it to Alejandro Sanz: “They told me no”
‘The torture ‘ It is one of those issues that has marked an entire generation, and that is that one of the most emblematic collaborations of our music, played by Shakira with the collaboration of Alejandro Sanz, resonates today With the same energy, claw and power as the first day we discovered it.
It is not the only ‘I thank you but no’, And that has been closed just a few weeks ago with ‘Kiss me‘, the third of its duets, included in the recent EP published by the Madrid artist, ‘And now what?’
But although we can’t imagine now ‘The torture’ In other voices, the truth is that Shakira’s intention was not to share it With Alejandro Sanz, but with a well -known group.
Maná rejected Shakira ‘torture’
It has been the artist herself who, in one of the interviews granted by her successful album ‘Women no longer cry’, He has confessed that ‘The torture’ It would have been interpreted by Maná if she had decided, but that the Mexican group decided to decline the offer: «When I invited Alejandro Sanz to make ‘the torture’ I had invited Maná and they told me no«Shakira admits between laughs.
Although the thing was not there, since the fusion of their voices had to be given in one way or another: “Then they invited me to do the songs we did later together, ‘My truth’, but at that time, when I invite Alejandro, who was also a hint, there were no collaborations and the reggaeton was starting, it was something that was very segregated to Puerto Rico, and we made ‘the torture’ that I remember that I was very successful in Spain, but in Spain there were certain prejudices with the reggaeton, What happens is that we put Alejandro Sanz and hide a little. Served to enter Spain ».
The truth is that, either because of the destination or marked by a chance, it was finally Alejandro Sanz who had the privilege of interpreting this successful theme that today We continue singing and dancing every time we listen to it.
