(CNN Spanish) — Shakira said goodbye to Barcelona with an emotional message on social networks, in which she thanks those who accompanied her during her long journey in the city where she learned, she says, that “without a doubt friendship is longer than love”.
“I settled in Barcelona to give my children stability, the same that we are now looking for in another corner of the world next to family, friends and the sea,” Shakira wrote this Sunday on her Instagram account. “Today we start a new chapter in the search for your happiness,” she added.
The Colombian singer, who will settle in Miami with her children, Milan and Sasha —both born in Barcelona— then continued with several lines of thanks: “Thank you to everyone who surfed so many waves with me there in Barcelona, the city where I learned that friendship is undoubtedly longer than love. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me there, dried my tears, inspired me and made me grow. Thanks to my Spanish audience who have always covered me with their love and loyalty.” .
“For you only see you later and as my father used to say so many times, see you in the curves!” Ends the singer’s message, just over a year after she confirmed her separation from former soccer player Gerard Piqué after 12 years Of relationship.
In the stories section, Shakira uploaded a photo showing the wing of the plane and the sky with the message: “But things are not always as we dream. Sometimes we run but we don’t arrive. Never doubt that here I am going to be”.
In recent times, the singer has spoken openly about her situation after the much-discussed separation. “Now I feel complete because I feel that I depend on myself and that I also have two children that depend on me, so I have to be stronger than a lioness,” she said in an interview with Mexican journalist Enrique Acevedo in February, after her collaboration with Bizarrap was published.”I am enough of myself today, that when a woman has to face the ravages of life she comes out stronger and when she comes out stronger it is because you have learned to know your own weaknesses, to accept your vulnerability too, to express what you feel, that pain, “he added then.
Shakira’s decision to settle in Miami
Five months after the announcement of their separation, in November 2022, Shakira and Pique reached an agreement on the custody of their children.
“Milan and Sasha will leave Barcelona, where they have lived for the last eight years, to go live in Miami” along with their mother, sources from the artist’s environment confirmed to CNN at the time.
In this way, “both parties prioritize the well-being of their children and will facilitate the artistic career of the singer in this location,” they explained, adding that the Colombian already has a second residence in Miami “and it is where her maternal family has been living for the last years”.
With information from Pau Mosquera and Marysabel Houston-Crespo, from CNN en Español.
