A show that made history again

The song was born from a dream, merged Caribbean rhythms and broke prejudices in the industry. Shakira opted everything and ended up making history

“If my hips do not move, if my body does not physically react to the song, if it does not motivate me to dance, that means the subject is not yet ready to get out of the oven.” This is what Shakira tells his musicians when he is recording a rhythmic melody under study, and from there the suggestive name “The hips do not lie” or “Hips Don’t Lie” came, which ended up catapulting the Colombian to the major leagues of music in the world in 2006.

To celebrate 20 years of this, one of her most iconic songs, the artist presented himself last night in one of the most watched television programs in the United States, The Tonight Show Starring – Jimmy Fallon, of the NBC chain, in Prime Time, accompanied by the original song of the song, the Haitian musician, Wyclef Jean, who made a sound presentation where the Barranquillera He demonstrated once again that in the movement of hips there is no one to win, becoming a trend in social networks.

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She wore an intense red suit, her hair was more troubled than ever and danced barefoot on a sand stage. Chemistry with Jean flowed as twenty years ago, and a group of dancers and a live band participated. After the rhythm, in a more intimate presentation among the public, Shakira also sang his famous ‘Anthology’, one of his first successes of 1996.

The Fallon show is one of the television shows with the greatest audience on American television, to which world celebrities come and where frequent releases and commemorations of the stars are made.

But, last night it was only Shakira’s first appearance in the program, because the chain itself has announced that it will have at least two more presentations, another this week where it will talk about the history of the song and the cultural impact it has had, combining music, dance and identity, becoming a reference for connection with Colombia. And, of course, he will also talk about her concert tour in the United States ‘Women no longer cry’, which will start next week in Charlotte, Carolina del Nueva, where the Spanish Alejandro Sanz will accompany her.

Behind ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ there is a story and anecdotes that over the years Shakira has been telling, including something she calls predestination: “When my manager proposed to work on a project with Wyclef Jean, I just dream of ėL, it was a very strange thing, Random! It flows into the sea. ” This is how Shakira describes the energy that impregnated the first leg. “Hips Don’s Like arises from how I experience and live music, I live it in a very bodily way, dancing sorry if a song works or not, if you have what you need or lack something, and that is when I tell my musicians if my hips are not moving this does not work, this does not work until it is dancing,” explains the artist.

Actually Shakira and Wyclef Jean began working the song based on a version of the melody ‘Dance Like This’ that Haitian rapper himself made in 2004 for the soundtrack of ‘Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights’. Between the two they transformed the theme that included a fusion of different rhythms such as hip hop and reggaeton, and the singer incorporated traditional elements such as cumbia, champeta and drums of its Caribbean coast; They modified some stanzas and the chorus, and she tributes her hometown and her famous carnival, added “in Barranquillera he danced like this.” The result, a mix that did not resemble anything done before, thus producing one of the most emblematic pieces of Latin pop of the last decades.

Shakira considers ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ as one of his greatest triumphs, but does not say so with pleasure. Remember that at the beginning of the 2000, the music industry was dominated by men, and convincing executives of record houses, radio directors and journalists that a woman could succeed, was not easy. “They were full of prejudices against us, not only in Colombia, Latin America but everywhere, there were not many pop artists. That a rhythm like Hips Don’t Lie, with Colombian native sounds, will sound on the North American radio was something incredible, it was almost impossible, a miracle! Now things are different, it has run a lot of water under the bridge.”

When he put an end to the lyrics and rhythms of the song, it was such the confidence of the interpreter in what called the president of the Sony lab Album, but became one of the most listened to themes throughout the United States and the world at that time.

What followed is history. A global phenomenon located as Shakira’s first single to reach the number 1 position of Billboard Hot 100 in the United States; But in addition, it was number 1 in more than 55 countries, its sales exceed 20 million copies, and video visualizations go to more than 1.5 million. The same year of his debut, in that 2006, Shakira was invited to interpret it at the closing ceremony of the World Cup in Germany, and followed a long list of awards and awards in the Grammys, in the MTV, etc.

There is no presentation, a Shakira concert, in which I cannot stop interpreting ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ because the show would be unfinished. Twenty years later, in the Jimmy Fallon show, Shakira demonstrates once again that his hips do not lie; Its performance and requests show that it is a song that does not age and that has almost become a national symbol.

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