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\nHer 2025 tour kicked off in Rio, and has already earned a Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing tour for a Latin artis<\/p>\n
Latin pop star Shakira kicked off her free mega-concert on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach under a full moon last night, with drones forming the image of a she-wolf, her nickname, overhead as she took the stage over an hour late.<\/p>\n
About two million people were expected to attend the free outdoor concert by the 49-year-old Colombian superstar, who performed on a massive stage outside the legendary Copacabana Hotel.<\/p>\n
This beach has hosted the biggest divas in pop in recent years, with Madonna striking a pose for 1.6 million in 2024 and Lady Gaga singing her greatest hits to 2.1 million fans last year.<\/p>\n
Watch: Shakira fans fill Rio’s Copacabana beach<\/p>\n
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“Shakira doesn’t need to fit into molds, she makes real art, she does what she wants out of love. I’m very inspired by her, she’s a Latin woman at the top,” 26-year-old designer Joao Pedro Yellin said, dressed in an overcoat made of scraps representing Latin American flags.<\/p>\n
To see the show, superfan Graciele Vaz slept on the beach Friday night after travelling four hours from the resort town of Paraty.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been a Shakira fan for more than 20 years,” the 43-year-old said, sporting a large tattoo on her back of Shakira’s name over a she-wolf, the singer’s nickname and the symbol of her current world tour.<\/p>\n
\nHer 2025 tour kicked off in Rio, and has already earned a Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing tour for a Latin artis<\/p>\n
With more than 90 million records sold, four Grammys, 15 Latin Grammys and a generation-spanning repertoire including bangers “Hips Don’t Lie,” “Waka Waka” and “Whenever, Wherever,” she enjoys unique popularity in Brazil, where she has performed numerous times.<\/p>\n
“She loves Brazil so much and the love she has for us is the love we have for her,” Vaz said.<\/p>\n
Her 2025 tour kicked off in Rio, and has already earned a Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing tour for a Latin artist.<\/p>\n
To promote the performance, Shakira shared Instagram videos of her packing flip-flops and a revealing Brazilian flag bikini ahead of her travels, and her first walk in Rio with its famed Sugarloaf Mountain in the background.<\/p>\n
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\nRio has been readying for the concert for days<\/p>\n
On Friday night, early birds were treated to an open rehearsal alongside two legendary Brazilian musicians, siblings Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethania.<\/p>\n
Thousands of fans crowded around the stage were treated to her performance of “O Leaozinho” with Veloso.<\/p>\n
Rio has been readying for the concert for days, with huge posters blanketing the city, and Copacabana’s vendors were busy Saturday hawking beer, caipirinhas, t-shirts and little vials of “Shakira’s tears,” a nod to her current “Women No Longer Cry” tour.<\/p>\n
Security is also tight, with nearly 8,000 officers deployed, along with drones, facial recognition cameras and 18 screening points with metal detectors.<\/p>\n
Last year, after Lady Gaga’s performance, police said they foiled a bomb plot by a group that disseminated hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n
Fans were also camped out in front of the Copacabana Palace, where Shakira is staying, hoping to glimpse her at a window.<\/p>\n
Christopher Yataco, a 28-year-old Peruvian, saved for a year to travel from Lima to see his idol, and told AFP he admires “her passion, her warmth as a person, how down-to-earth she is, how Latina she is, how she represents the entire Latin community and women’s empowerment.”<\/p>\n
City officials estimate the event will inject more than \u20ac135 million into the local economy.<\/p>\n
National tourism officials said airline bookings were up 80% this week compared to 2024.<\/p>\n
The performance will likely be Shakira’s biggest concert to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latin pop star Shakira kicked off her free mega-concert on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-430167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}