MADRID, Sept 19 \u2014 Shakira will kick off on Friday evening a marathon twelve-concert run in Madrid, bringing an end to both her world tour and the Colombian superstar\u2019s eight-year absence from Spain.<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old Hips Don\u2019t Lie\u00a0and Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)\u00a0singer will take to a temporary 50,000-seater \u201cShakira stadium\u201d erected in the south of the Spanish capital up till October 11, according to events giant Live Nation.<\/p>\n
With no other European tour dates announced, Madrid\u2019s authorities are expecting a significant economic windfall from her grand return, after welcoming fellow Hispanic superstar Bad Bunny in May and June for a series of 10 gigs.<\/p>\n
Shakira has not performed in Spain since 2018, several years before her separation from former Spanish footballing great Gerard Pique was made public in 2022.<\/p>\n
She embarked on a world tour in February 2025 to promote Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran\u00a0(Women no longer cry), an album inspired by her breakup with the legendary Barcelona defender which won her a fourth Grammy award.<\/p>\n
Across her decades-long career, Shakira has sold more than 95 million records worldwide and performed at both the opening ceremony and final of the 2026 Fifa World Cup.<\/p>\n
Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)\u00a0was also the official song for the 2010 tournament in South Africa, the first-time world football\u2019s premiere showcase was held on the continent.<\/p>\n
Her return to Madrid also comes after she paid a \u20ac7.3 million fine (RM34.2 million) in November 2023 as part of an agreement with the Spanish courts, in which she pleaded guilty to avoid having to stand trial for tax fraud.<\/p>\n
In the high-profile affair, Shakira also paid the Spanish taxman \u20ac17.45 million to settle her affairs in the country. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID, Sept 19 \u2014 Shakira will kick off on Friday evening a marathon twelve-concert run in Madrid, bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,298326,298327,1064,27430,111,139,69,27817,298325],"class_list":["post-605410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gerard-pique","tag-las-mujeres-ya-no-lloran","tag-live-nation","tag-madrid","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shakira","tag-waka-waka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}