“Only a woman can love to break a heart.” Shakira talks about her disappointments at the Billboard Women Awards.

Make something out of pain. this has always been the saying of many artists. The Colombian singer Shakira, who experienced her “darkest hours” in 2022, also does not regret that she put all her suffering and anger on paper. After twelve years of living together with the father of her children, Gerard Pique, Shakira left him after suspicions of infidelity (which would later be confirmed). This will result in February 2023, in the form of a reckoning song called BZRP Music Sessions #53. , already one of the most heard of his career, with a record number of views on Youtube.

“It’s been a year of change in my life where I’ve felt and experienced more than ever what it’s like to be a woman,” she said on stage this Saturday, May 6. at the Billboard Latin Music Awards. which awarded her “Woman of the Year”. “It’s been a year since I realized that we women are stronger than we think, braver than we thought, more independent than we’ve been taught to be,” she added, taking her mug.

“The Desire to Be Real”

the translator of WakaWaka: couldn’t help but return to her desire for love and tenderness, taking as a backdrop her relationship with Gerard Pique. “Which woman has not forgotten herself that she was looking for someone else’s attention and love?” he asked, continuing. “But there comes a time in every woman’s life when she no longer depends on the other to love.” and accept him as he is. A moment when the search for the other is replaced by the search for one’s own self. A time when the desire to be perfect is replaced by the desire to be authentic, and where finding someone faithful is less important than staying true to yourself.

A topic that the singer mentioned many times in her titles, but also among the artists she wrote for. “These are the lessons I’ve learned from other women, written for them, and sung to. “Because only a woman can love until she is torn. can speak with the most brutal honesty. can sing angrily; dance in ecstasy and cry with excitement. Only a woman can do that,” said Shakira.

In the video, BZRP Music Sessions #53title in which Shakira betrays Gerard Pique

Last April, the singer said goodbye to Barcelona, ​​Spain, where she lived with Gerard Pique and her children. “Today we start a new chapter,” he said. Underneath her performance on stage at the Billboard Awards, Shakira really looked older, ready to live the quiet life.