General News | 17 June 2024 10:12 CET

Singer, Shakira Professes Love For African Music

By Oluwarantimi Oludase

Popular Colombian singer and estranged wife of footballer Gerard Pique, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, best known as Shakira, has professed her love for African music and also revealed her admiration of Burna Boy and Tyla, both Nigerian and South African stars respectively.

Shakira, who is famous for her 2010 World Cup official song, ‘Waka, Waka (This Time For Africa), disclosed in an interview with Rolling Stone, on her excessive admiration for African Music.

Speaking further, she said she has a strong love for Burna Boy and Tyla due to their Afrobeats genre.

She said;
“If I could explain my taste in music in three words, I would say eclectic, honest and real.

“I love anything Afrobeats. I like Tyla, I like Burna Boy, anything Afrobeats. But I love Burna so much.”

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