Pop stars Shakira, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and Julio Iglesias were named in a new leak of private financial documents, known as the Pandora Papers, published over the weekend by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, offering a glimpse at the tangled web of offshore accounting and alleged tax avoidance schemes used by some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. None of the above were accused of any wrongdoing or of violating any laws.

Hips are alright
October 01, 2021

Shakira attacked by wild boars in Barcelona park

Shakira was recently attacked by two wild boars while walking in a Barcelona park with her eight-year-old, as she has shared on her Instagram. Nothing really that bad happened - the two animals messed up her purse. BBC reports how in 2016, Spanish police received 1,187 phone calls about wild hogs attacking dogs, plundering cat-feeders, holding up traffic, and running into cars in the city.

Hits don't die
January 13, 2021

Shakira sells her music to Hipgnosis

Shakira has sold 100 percent of the publishing rights to her entire catalog of 145 songs - including hits such as 'Hips Don’t Lie', 'Whenever, Wherever', 'She Wolf', and 'Waka Waka' - to Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Shakira is the bestselling female Latin artist of all time, and she currently has over 32 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Music Music Worldwide reports. Hipgnosis, the company that invests in music catalogs this year alone has bought catalogs from Jimmy Iovine, Lindsey Buckingham, and Neil Young.

Shakira and J-Lo made history last night as the first Latina artists to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. Shakira and Jennifer Lopez performed solo and together to put on "a stunning half-time show" at the Super Bowl in Miami where the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20. Shakira put plenty in her seven minutes - 30-seconds snippets of her hits 'She Wolf', 'Whenever, Wherever', and 'Hips Don't Lie', and even some Led Zep's 'Kashmir' and belly dancing. Lopez’s 'Jenny From the Block' marked the handoff from Shakira, which was followed by 'Waiting for Tonight', 'Love Don’t Cost a Thing', and 'Let’s Get Loud'. J-Lo also dueted with her daughter Emme singing 'Born in the USA', with an American flag wrapped around her (was it some kind od immigrant-policy commentary?).

Who knew that a band mostly known for singing in a quasi-fictional language had over $6.5 million lying around - Vulture writes about Sigur Rós' tax evasion charges in an article where they listed artists over popular music’s history who have been nabbed for, accused of, or attempted to beat tax-evasion charges. The biggest here […]