Shakira will kick off in Madrid this Friday night a marathon of 12 concerts that will bring her world tour to a close and end an eight-year absence from Spanish stages.
The Colombian singer, 49, will perform up to 11 October in a temporary venue with a capacity for 50,000 spectators, erected in the south of the capital and dubbed "Shakira stadium", according to Live Nation, promoter of the concerts.
With no new European dates announced, Madrid's authorities are expecting a significant impact on the economy from her return to Spain. In May and June the city already hosted ten concerts by Bad Bunny, another of Latin music's biggest stars.
Shakira had not performed in Spain since 2018, several years before, in 2022, her separation from former Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, a long-serving Barcelona defender, became public.
The artist launched in February 2025 a world tour to showcase 'Las mujeres ya no lloran', an album inspired by her break-up with the former Barça player and with which she won her fourth Grammy Award.
Over a career spanning several decades, Shakira has sold more than 95 million records worldwide and performed at both the opening ceremony and the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)' was also the official song of the 2010 World Cup, held in South Africa, the first to take place on the African continent.
Shakira's return to Madrid also comes after, in November 2023, she paid a fine of 7.3 million euros as part of a settlement with the Spanish courts. The singer pleaded guilty in order to avoid a trial for tax fraud.
In that case, which attracted huge public attention, Shakira also paid 17.45 million euros to the Spanish tax authorities to regularise her fiscal obligations in the country.
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