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Miami (Florida) [US], May 16: Today, GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning artist Shakira and Burna Boy have launched new observe ‘Dai Dai’ by way of Sony Music Latin. Listen HERE
Shakira will co-headline the FIFA World Cup 2026Final Halftime Show on Sunday, July 19, alongside Madonna and BTS. For the primary time in FIFA World Cup historical past, the ultimate will function a halftime present, bringing collectively international artists for a singular second on the intersection of sport, tradition, and objective, to assist the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund.
As introduced at present at Global Citizen NOW in New York, ‘Dai Dai’ would be the official anthem of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which goals to lift USD $100 million by finish of the FIFA World Cup 2026 to supply youngsters around the globe with entry to high quality schooling and sports activities. Shakira is partnering with Global Citizen and FIFA to supply entry to schooling for kids in underserved communities with Shakira’s royalties from ‘Dai Dai’ being donated to the Education Fund, and Sony Music will match the primary $250,000 raised with a donation. Additionally, Shakira is donating $1 from each ticket bought to her upcoming ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’ tour to the Education Fund.
‘The World Cup is likely one of the few issues the whole world experiences collectively,’ mentioned Burna Boy. ‘Football and music communicate the identical language. They deliver folks collectively irrespective of the place you are from and being a part of this second via music means rather a lot to me.’
This summer season, Shakira will hit the street for a particular restricted run of U.S. dates on her record-breaking Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, giving followers a uncommon likelihood to see her electrifying manufacturing up shut in additional intimate area settings this summer season. Tickets can be found at shakira.com. In October, Shakira will headline a 11 night time stadium European residency primarily based in Madrid, with a stadium named ‘Shakira Stadium’ being constructed particularly for her, and has already bought greater than half one million tickets.
In early May, Shakira captivated an viewers of greater than 2 million followers at Copacabana Beach for this 12 months’s Todo Mundo No Rio live performance. Shakira, in a triumphant return to Brazil, the place she first started her worldwide touring profession, addressed the group in Portuguese all through the live performance and performed an electrifying set crammed along with her best hits spanning her whole profession together with ‘Hips Don’t Lie,’ ‘La Tortura,’ and ‘La Bicicleta.’ Shakira’s historic present paid homage to Brazil as she introduced out particular company, together with Anitta, for the debut efficiency of their new single ‘Choka Choka,’ ‘O Leaozinho’ with Caetano Veloso, ‘O Que E, O Que E’ with Maria Bethania and Unidos da Tijuca, ‘Waka Waka’ with dance group Mare Dance, ‘Objection’ with Unidos da Tijuca and ‘Pais Tropical’ with Ivete Sangalo.
Known as being ‘the most important live performance on the planet,’ Todo Mundo No Rio is a landmark occasion for Rio de Janeiro, celebrating music, tradition, and neighborhood, for a totally free price ticket. This dazzling spectacle shattered information, turning into one of many highest attended concert events of all time with 2 million plus folks there to witness this historic second. Shakira’s efficiency additionally broke the file, producing a big monetary influence for the native economic system, with a projected 800 million in financial advantages, together with a 123% enhance in journey bookings
Most lately, Zara Larsson tapped Shakira to collaborate along with her on ‘Eurosummer’ featured on the deluxe version of her album Midnight Sun: Girls Trip.
On high of this, Shakira was topped by Billboard this 12 months as having the ‘highest-grossing Hispanic tour of all time’ along with her current Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, attaining a gross income of $421.6 million, inclusive of 82 stadium reveals all throughout the US and Latin America with over 3.3 million folks in attendance.
For Burna Boy, the collaboration marks one other defining international second in a profession that continues to bridge music, sport, and tradition on an unprecedented scale. Widely recognised as one of the vital influential African artists of his technology, Burna Boy has turn out to be synonymous with stadium-level efficiency, international musical fusion, and the worldwide rise of African music and tradition. From headlining arenas and stadiums the world over to performing on the NBA All-Star Game and constructing main partnerships on the intersection of music and sport, Burna Boy continues to redefine what international African artistry appears like on the highest degree. Burna Boy is at present within the midst of an expansive worldwide run that continues to cement his place as one of many world’s main dwell performers and cultural voices.
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