A month after transferring to Miami, Shakira is immersing herself within the metropolis’s tradition, getting in on the motion of Miami’s Grand Prix.
The “Hips Do not Lie” singer didn’t benefit from the festivities solo, nonetheless, as she was noticed mingling with actor Tom Cruise all through the day on Sunday.
Hidden behind huge sun shades, the Colombian singer and “Mission Inconceivable” actor walked beneath the hundreds of attendees within the stands, and briefly posed for a photograph.
Cruise selected to attend the Grand Prix over King Charles’ coronation in England.
Shakira and Tom Cruise had been noticed strolling collectively on the Miami Grand Prix. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)
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Regardless of lacking the precise coronation weekend, Cruise pre-taped a message to the monarch. “Pilot to pilot, Your Majesty, you will be my wingman any time,” he stated, earlier than descending into the clouds.
Tom Cruise and Shakira smile for a fast photograph on Sunday. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)
Shakira’s weekend included extra than simply racing. She was additionally acknowledged as Billboard’s first Girl of the 12 months on the Latin Ladies in Music gala on Saturday.
The singer, whose world has been upended within the final 12 months, celebrated the facility of a lady whereas seemingly taking a shot at her ex, Gerard Piqué.
“This has been a 12 months of seismic change in my life the place I’ve felt greater than ever and really personally what it’s to be ladies. And what it means,” she stated to the group in Spanish, translated to English by Billboard. “It’s been a 12 months the place I’ve realized we girls are stronger than we expect, braver than we believed, extra unbiased than we had been taught to be. As a result of what lady hasn’t, at a while in her life, forgotten herself as a result of she’s in search of the eye and love of another person?”
“It occurred to me, greater than as soon as,” she confessed.
Shakira gave an emotional speech whereas accepting her Girl of the 12 months award at Billboard’s Latin Ladies in Music gala. (Natalia Aguilera/Billboard)
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“However there comes a time within the life of each lady the place she not depends upon another person to like and settle for herself simply as she is,” she stated. “A time when the seek for another person is changed by the seek for oneself. A time when the need to be excellent is changed by the need to be genuine, and the place discovering somebody who’s devoted is much less necessary than being devoted to ourselves.”
She and her accomplice of 12 years, former FC-Barcelona star Piqué, cut up final June. Rumors surrounding infidelity on Piqué’s half swirled after the couple introduced they’d be going their separate methods. In response to Web page Six, followers seen that Piqué’s now girlfriend, Clara Chia Marti, was within the background of a Zoom he had accomplished in 2021.
A supply near Shakira instructed the outlet that the Grammy Award-winning singer had been “devastated to study that this lady clearly felt at house in the home they shared with their kids.”
Shakira and Gerard Piqué share sons Milan, 10 and Sasha, 8. (Joan Amengual/VIEWpress)
Participating in a custody battle of their two sons, Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8, Shakira and Piqué reached a custody settlement in November, permitting her to maneuver to Miami along with her boys.
“It’s true that once I felt most misplaced, music put me within the street again to myself. However a very powerful classes I realized from different ladies, and for them, I wrote what I wrote, and I sang what I sang. As a result of solely a lady can love till she’s ripped aside; can communicate with probably the most brutal honesty; can sing with anger; dance in ecstasy and be dropped at tears with emotion. Solely a lady can do this,” she stated to the viewers.
Shakira seemingly took delicate digs at her ex whereas talking of the power of ladies on stage. (Jason Koerner/Telemundo)
Shakira launched a scathing diss-track earlier this 12 months, calling out each Piqué and Marti in “Bzrp Music Periods, Vol. 5.”
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Pivoting to extra positivity, Shakira went on to applaud her mom, Nidia.
“Mami, regardless of the hardships you’ve confronted this 12 months, you’re nonetheless standing with limitless love and resilience. You, mami, have been my lady of the 12 months. So, this recognition is for you, and in addition for my buddies who’ve supported me and who maintain me up when my legs give out.”
She continued: “I obtain this honor with a number of love, however for me, greater than celebrating the ladies of the 12 months, we should always rejoice the 12 months of the lady. A 12 months the place us ladies have touched topics that couldn’t be touched, and stated issues that couldn’t be stated. And although some could have complained, there’s no going again. Collectively, we’ve taken a step ahead, and with every step we’re extra free and extra fulfilled.”
