Shakira, an icon that transcends generations

There are artists who define an era, and others who transcend it. Shakira belongs to a rarer category: those who create an emotional language that outlives the ages. She has been speaking to us in Spanish for more than three decades. Her work is a cultural construct that has accompanied several generations on both sides of the Atlantic.

In times of Latin American resounding influence, Shakira represents something much deeper: a way of narrating the world, from the body, from emotion, but also from intelligence. She did it when she was eighteen, writing songs like someone drafting an intimate manifesto. She continues to do so today, with a tour that sells out stadiums.

And Spain is no stranger to her history. From her early years, it was one of the countries where her voice resonated. Here, her albums reached number one. Here, she filled stadiums and put her music at the service of social causes. In Spain, Shakira became part of the emotional landscape of those who grew up singing songs on the radio that were not only about love, but also about identity, existential questions, and doubts that didn’t come with easy answers.

What makes Shakira special is her lucidity. Her ability to represent millions without fading away, her ability to put words to what we often don’t know how to say.

At a time when Spanish is expanding as one of the world’s great cultural languages ​​through music, literature, film, and thought, Shakira has been one of its most persistent and powerful ambassadors. Not only because of her accent or her origins, but because of how she has made the language a creative territory. For her, Spanish sounds like roots. Like belonging. Like possibility.

In a world that still measures the value of Latin American culture from the Anglo-Saxon center, she has been living proof that you don’t need to renounce your language to be universal. Shakira is Latina. She represents the plural, complex, and expanding Hispanic culture that has learned to speak about itself without asking permission.

Because there is something in her music that transcends trends: the shared recognition that we are a community of stories, accents, emotions, and contradictions.
And that in this territory called language, that common home that is Spanish, Shakira remains one of our clearest voices.

Her recent visit to Latin America is a reaffirmation of her cultural legacy. Her return before reaching Europe is an affirmation of what she means to all of us. So: Shakira is coming to Spain now that we’re here.

Yesterday, the Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro welcomed Shakira and her world tour, ‘Women No Longer Cry’.