Shakira broke the silence and revealed why she has not married Piqué

The Colombian Shakira and the soccer player and shareholder of Barcelona FC, Gerard Piqué, have been in a relationship for at least 12 years, have two children as a product of their love, share the same birthday (February 2) and are also a of the most outstanding couples of world entertainment.

The artist, who recently turned 45, met the footballer in 2010, the year in which Spain won the World Cup in South Africa, a match in which Gerard played against the Netherlands as a starter. At that time, the singer was going through one of the best moments in her career thanks to hits like wolf and the sun rises.

For years it was believed that the couple met during the recording of the World Cup anthem, in which Piqué appears; however, according to statements made by the footballer in an interview with the newspaper L’Esportiu in 2020 clarified that he met Shakira in Madrid shortly before going to South Africa.

“I told him we would meet in the final. She was going to sing the anthem at the closing ceremony and I assumed we would play that game. We lost the first match, but in the end we won, ”she pointed out at the time. Indeed, love arose and the singer initially went to live in Barcelona with him.

In 2017 Shakira confessed to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that, after the birth of Sasha (his first child) he thought about abandoning his musical career altogether. “I decided that as soon as I was independent enough I would go back to the recording studio, but I didn’t take into account the conflict between my two souls (mother and artist) and the fears that arose. I got stage fright. I was confused, I was tempted to withdraw and to leave everything, ”she mentioned.

But it was her partner Gerard who motivated her to continue and pursue her dreams. “Gerard unblocked me. He told me loud and clear that he would never allow me to retire from music. ‘You will retire when you no longer have anything to say. And now go outside and do what you know how to do.’ He was right “.

Because of that union and affection that they see, some fans of the singer and the player have wondered why the couple has not yet married, after so many years of relationship and having two children as a product of their love. Shakira, in the middle of a talk that she had with the podcast Planet Weird, She mentioned that marriage “scares” her, which could answer that question.

The Colombian added that she does not want Gerard Piqué see her as his wife, “but more as his girl. It’s like that forbidden fruit, I prefer to keep him attentive and think that everything is possible depending on his behavior.

Shakira’s artistic career

The artist is considered a world icon of Latin music. With an artistic career spanning more than 30 years, the singer has sold more than 80 million albums and singles, 28.5 million of them in the United States alone. which makes her the best-selling Latin American artist in that country and one of the singers with the highest record sales in history.

Magazine Billboard describes his career as one of the most consolidated in Latin American musical historynaming her as the most important and successful Latin female artist of the last two decades, positioning three of her singles among the twenty most outstanding in the history of Billboard: ´Blackmail´, ´La torture´ and ´Suerte´, placing them in positions #6, #7 and #16.

He began his musical career in 1991, after signing a contract with Sony Music Colombia for three albums. After two failed attempts in 1991 and 1993, Shakira debuted in the Hispanic American record market in 1995 with the album Barefoot, selling over four million albumsyes This same is considered one of the most important albums of Latin pop.