For the second day this week, Shakira has gone through the iconic Jimmy Fallon program, ‘The Tonight Show’last Tuesday he performed an emotional performance with Wyclef Jean with whom he interpreted his’Hips Don’t Lie‘, which meets 20 years Since its publication, and yesterday he underwent an interview with Jimmy in which he confessed How collaboration with Wyclef arose and the dream he had with him.
The interview began with Jimmy joking about the Met gala in which they agreed And they took a photo that showed in which he is seen with open hands, a defect that Fallon recognized live: “I didn’t know what to do with my hands, My friends always say that I look like a magician in the photos“the presenter commented in reference that he always teaches his hands, as the magicians do before performing any magic trick.
The artist thanked having seen a familiar face during that time at the galasince something alone was at that moment.
The conversation deviated towards the recent Shakira’s surprise concert in Times Squarewho brought together 40,000 people In just 20 minutes after announcing in advance, the artist acknowledged that “I was so scared, I thought nobody was coming. I looked out the window and only saw cars. I thought: ‘This is the end of my career’. But in the last 20 minutes, it was a sea of people. ”
Thus prepared the tour
Fallon highlighted the records of the tour ‘Women no longer cry ‘such as First artist to exhaust 11 stadiums in Mexico City And having the world number one tour for the second consecutive month, something that Shakira admitted, but always thanks to the effort he has made to build the tour: “He worked a year on this tour, preparing every detailfrom visuals to music. It is my biggest set, with classics such as ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ and ‘Whenever, wherever’, in addition to my new successes. It is a huge production, probably the largest that has traveled Latin Americawith 93 tons of equipment and 145 people traveling. When I see people dance, sing, excite and cry, I feel that they really connect with this music, which has been the soundtrack of their lives, ” Shakira explained.
The presenter wanted Highlight your delivery and the enormous connection you have with your fans: “You always give everything, Love and passion show In each show. There is no one like you “words that Shakira thanked:
“I have the best fans in the world. They have been there in the good and bad times, they always appear. ”
The origin of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
On the tour in the USA., Shakira said he will have
Special guests like Wyclef Jean, Alejandro Sanz and Pitbulland promised more surprises, especially in New York, a city that will host for the first time a concert of the Colombian star in a stadium. Fallon asked about The origin of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’and Shakira told the anecdote of how the song was not going to be in his album, but a dream with Wyclef Jean and a call from his manager changed everything: “I had a very rare dream with Wyclef, it wasn’t a sexual dream, Just a dream. Upon waking, my manager called me to tell me that Wyclef wanted to work with me. It was amazing, because I had dreamed with him the night before and did not know him. The album was already distributed, but My manager called me and said that he would trust him and that the label removed all the discs from the stores. We replace it and This changed my life”
Fallon also wanted to congratulate her for her Performance in the Grammybefore what Shakira revealed that he could hardly attend for the rehearsals of the tour, but it was worth doing that show at the gala. Another of the fun moments of the interview was when Jimmy asked her how she danced at a wedding; After showing the presenter his most characteristic dance step in these events, She taught her an infallible dance step that consists, only in a head movement:
During the show, Fallon makes a Game with guests in which he has to guess if what Shakira had in hands and what she said she had corresponded to reality. This was the magical moment:
Shakira still has a new performance in ‘The Tonight Show’, will be At the end of the monthat which time I do a special interpretation of its 1996 ballad, ‘Anthology‘, which promises to become another emotional moment for his followers.
