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Shakira gives show-stopping Video Vanguard performance at VMAs 2023

  2024-03-22 pagesixAlix Breeden15530
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Shakira accepted the Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 VMAs Tuesday night, hitting the MTV stage for the first time in 17

Shakira gives show-stopping Video Vanguard performance at VMAs 2023

Shakira accepted the Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 VMAs Tuesday night, hitting the MTV stage for the first time in 17 years.

“Thank you MTV. Thank you for being such a big part of my career since I was only 18 years old,” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer, 46, told the crowd at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

The mother of two gave a shout-out to her two sons — Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8 — for giving her a moral boost.

“Thank you so much for cheering me up and making me feel that Mama can do it all,” Shakira, who shares her children with ex Gerard Piqué, said during her acceptance speech.

Shakira also gave thanks to a handful of people while accepting the award, including her label, her parents and the “amazing women” she works with who “always help [her] push through all [her] challenges while wearing so many hats.”

Shakira performing at VMAs
Shakira accepted the Vanguard Award at the 2023 MTV VMAs Tuesday night. MTV
Shakira performing at VMAs
The singer rocked the stage in a beige body suit with a sequined skirt and top. Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV
Shakira performing at VMAS
Shakira thanked others such as her parents, record label and children for the Vanguard Award. Brendan Mcdermid/REUTERS

Introducing the internationally famed artist, Wyclef Jean noted that Shakira has sold “95 million records worldwide” which the rapper shared makes her one of the “best-selling artists of all time.”

Other artists who have been given the annual MTV award include Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and Missy Elliott.

Along with accepting the award, which is comparable to a lifetime achievement award, the Grammy-winning artist also graced the stage to perform a handful of her biggest hits.

Shakira on red carpet
The pop star hit the red carpet in a floor length metallic gown. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Shakira on red carpet with sons
The Colombian pop singer brought her sons, Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8, as her dates to the award ceremony. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Shakira took the stage in a sheer skin-tone body suit with a matching sequined skirt and bandana top.

She gave a lively and danced-filled performance as she belted out a mix of her hits such as “Whenever, Wherever” and “Hips Don’t Lie.”

At one point the singer added a pink metallic bomber jacket to her performance attire.

Midway through a song, Shakira was lifted by fans and crowd-surfed as she sang to another platform that elevated the singer above the cheering crowd.

Shakira on red carpet
The “Hips Don’t Lie” songstress also performed onstage for the event for the first time in nearly two decades. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Shakira
Shakira was also nominated for four VMA awards. Gladys Vega/Getty Images

Later in the evening, Shakira — who stunned in a backless chainmail gown on the red carpet — took home the award for Best Collaboration for her song “XQG” with Karol G.

The singer was also nominated for three other awards, including Artist of the Year.

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She was also nominated for Best Latin for the same song she made with Karol G, as well as her solo single “Acróstico.”

The Colombian singer has previously taken home four other VMA awards going back as far as her first award for the International Viewer’s Choice (Latin America North) in 2000.

Shakira on stage at VMA in 2006
The Colombian pop star’s last performance was in 2006, when she took home an award for “Hips Don’t Lie.” Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Two years later, Shakira won an award in the same category for her song “Whenever, Wherever.”

In 2006, the singer’s hit “Hips Don’t Lie” took home the award for Best Choreography, which was also the last time Shakira performed onstage at the award ceremony.

The following year, she and Beyoncé’s song “Beautiful Liar” won a VMA for Best Collaboration.

Shakira, Gerard Pique and son
Shakira’s winning night comes just over a year after she and Gerard Piqué separated. David Ramos/Getty Images

Shakira’s big night comes just over a year after the singer’s dramatic breakup in June 2022 with longtime partner Piqué, 36.

The former couple — whose two sons, Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8, appeared alongside their mother on the red carpet Tuesday — separated amid cheating rumors.

A source told us in January that the pop star was “devasted” after discovering that her former beau had been having an affair with girlfriend Clara Chia Marti “in the house they shared with their children.”

Shakira and Gerard Pique with sons
The exes share two sons together.

The insider told us at the time the two were“very much still together” when fans spotted Marti in the background of a zoom interview in 2021.

“It’s devastating for her to learn that this affair had been going on for a lot longer than she imagined,” the source added.

Shakira has since been linked to NBA star Jimmy Butler after the two were spotted in London on a cozy dinner date last month.

(By/Alix Breeden)
 
 
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