Shakira reveals on Jimmy Fallon that Gerard Piqué stopped his career: "Now I'm free"

Shakira is in a good moment.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
25 March 2024 Monday 16:32
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Shakira reveals on Jimmy Fallon that Gerard Piqué stopped his career: "Now I'm free"

Shakira is in a good moment. On March 22, the Colombian singer released her new studio album, Las Mujeres No Ya Lloran, which is especially important to her because of all the emotions that she has placed in the songs that make it up.

As she has already explained many times, the artist has used music as a means of relief after experiencing a difficult divorce from the father of her children, the former soccer player Gerard Piqué, which is why the lyrics of her songs are full of 'pullas'. to the Catalan businessman.

''I heal through this music, and I am still healing. It is a process, but without a doubt music has played a very therapeutic role. I say that when I write music it's like going to the therapist, but cheaper. And it helps you exercise a lot of intense emotions and feelings that otherwise would just fossilize," he explained in an interview for Apple Mac 1.

To promote her new album, the one from Barranquilla visited The Tonight Show yesterday and opened up to Jimmy Fallon about how grateful she is to her followers for all the love and support she has received over the last few months: ''I have the best fans in the world. They have been with me through good and bad times. "They have always been with me supporting me."

When the presenter asked him about the title of the album,

Shakira expressed that she is already fed up with the fact that it is always female figures who suffer: "We women have been doing it for too long. They always sent us to cry for the fact that we are women. They have always told us that we have to control our feelings in front of people and in front of our children. Nobody has to tell you how to act. Now women decide when, how and even when to cry."

Mebarak used the American program to make the audience see that they previously felt pressured and judged, something that held them back from climbing in the music industry: ''It has been very difficult to put everything I felt into an album and give it shape. , because I didn't have time, it was what I had to have a husband. Now I don't have it anymore. My husband dragged me, he wouldn't let me. "Now I'm free, now I can really work."

"I needed to feel better, I was rebuilding myself and the only way I could be whole again was through music, because it is my glue (...). This album has been my catharsis," the artist stated before the audience at the space. Of interviews.