シャキーラさんの巨大像、故郷で除幕式　コロンビア

【バランキージャ（コロンビア）ＡＦＰ＝時事】コロンビアが生んだスーパースター、シャキーラさんの出身地で２６日、高さ６．５メートルのシャキーラさんの像の除幕式が行われた。（写真は、コロンビア・バランキージャで披露されたシャキーラさんの像）
　カリブ海に面した港町バランキージャでの式典には両親が出席した。
　ブロンズとアルミニウム製の像は、ビキニの上部にパレオ姿のシャキーラさんが頭上で両手を組み、腰をひねった特徴的な動きで踊っている姿を表現している。
　台座には、シャキーラさんの大ヒット曲「Ｈｉｐｓ　Ｄｏｎ＇ｔ　Ｌｉｅ」にちなみ、「お尻はうそをつかない、類いまれな才能、大衆に訴え掛ける声の持ち主」と刻まれている。
　シャキーラさんはＸ（旧ツイッター）で、彫像を制作したジーノ・マルケスさんと教え子の美大生らに謝意を表し、「コロンビア人の豊かな芸術的才能の表れ」だと称賛した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/12/27-17:03）

Colombian superstar Shakira's Caribbean home city of Barranquilla unveiled a 6.5-meter (21.3-foot) hip-swaying statue in her honor on Tuesday.
The towering bronze and aluminum creation depicts the singer in a bikini top, bare middle and a long, flowing skirt, her hands clasped over her head and one hip jutting out in one of her characteristic dance moves.
Hips that do not lie, a unique talent, a voice that moves masses, reads the inscription at the base of the sculpture unveiled on the banks of the Magdalena River at a ceremony attended by Shakira's parents William Mebarak and Nidia Ripoll.
Hips don't lie is the title of one of 46-year-old Shakira's award-winning songs.
On the platform X, the singer thanked sculptor Yino Marquez and his art student collaborators for this example of the enormous artistic talent of the people of my country.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, an icon of Latina girl power, has sold some 80 million albums worldwide and won three Grammy awards.
She has recently been in the news for completely different reasons, investigated over unpaid taxes in Spain and paying millions of euros in settlements.
In 2021, Shakira was named in the Pandora Papers leaks, which revealed the wealth and tax avoidance strategies of the global elite.
She has since released a new hit song with Argentine DJ Bizarrap that has been viewed more than 666 million times on YouTube and won 2023 song of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards.