Is history. The performance of Shakira in the MTV VMAs Awards This September 12 has eclipsed attention and headlines around the world and has made his return to music an even stronger phenomenon, if there was any doubt. The short review of her career in 10 minutes of dance and music has been very brief for a career as dense and long as that of the Colombian.
He medley of the interpreter of Congratulations even his most iconic songs, that have made it a Latin reference throughout the world, and the latest musical premiereswhich have led her to break countless records this year 2023. The year, without a doubt, of Shakira.
The songs that made up their performance were She Wolf, Te Felicito, TQG, Hips Don’t Lie, Objection (Tango), Whenever, Wherever and the session 53 with the Argentine producer Bizarrap, who culminated a show in style by raising the singer on a large platform.
The meaning of Shakira’s knife dance at the MTV VMAs
Since the beginning of her career, the Colombian has been characterized by including movements of the Belly Dancing, a traditional dance that could not be missed on this occasion. Of its spectacular Showwhich left the entire audience at the Prudential Center in Newark breathless, the introduction of the song Whenever, Wherever made more than one’s eyes pop out when Shakira performed her peculiar dance and was left alone on stage with two big knives.
This Arab dance, known as the dance of daggers or Raqs Al Sayfis of oriental origin, and refers to the Goddess Neit, an ancient goddess of war and hunting, later creator of gods and men, goddess of wisdom and inventor in Egyptian mythology. Her warrior energy is a symbol of destruction of enemies and opening of roads.
Furthermore, the fact that Shakira included this interpretation gives a clear tribute to its Lebanese origin on his father’s side,William Mebarak Chadid. The dance was the singer’s first great artistic lovewhich he was already talking about when he started making his first appearances on television, and said that his approach to music It was first because of Arabic dancing when I was five years old.: “All my life I have liked dancing more, I discovered singing three years ago,” said Shakira, who was only 11 years old.
Music, dance and, in general, the artistic discipline, Isabel Mebarak Ripoll has always been part of Shakira’s life, her real name, which is Arabic and comes from shukran, which means thank youwhich he began to compose when he was only eight years old.
This MTV VMAs award in the category of Video Vanguard Award joins the singer’s list of appointments. The award recognizes the quality of the artist who, after seven years since she released her last album The Golden, has returned triumphantly to the musical scene to become the first Latin American singer to achieve the title, which honors the global force and influence that his art represents, which has led the globalization of latin music.
