أعلنت النجمة العالمية شاكيرا التي حصدت على 14 جائزة غرامي أنها، وفي سياق جولتها العالمية “EL DORADO WORLD TOUR” ، سوف تحيي حفل غنائي في “مهرجانات الأرز الدولية” في لبنان”.
بعدما درجت “لجنة مهرجانات الارز الدولية” ومنذ انطلاقتها، على تكريم شخصيات ورموز وطنية لبنانية. قررت هذه السنة أن تكرّم لبنان ببعده العالمي من خلال المواقع الاثرية الخمسة المدرجة على لائحة التراث العالمي وهي : وادي قاديشا وغابة الارز الدهرية، جبيل، صور، عنجر وبعلبك.
ومن أجل أن يأتي هذا التكريم بالمستوى الذي يليق بمكانة لبنان وبمهرجانات الارز الدولية، وإيمانا من رئيسة اللجنة النائب ستريدا جعجع بتوجيه رسالة سلام من الارز ومن لبنان الى العالم تقول فيها لكل المغتربين اللبنانيين وللاشقاء العرب، بأن يتوافدوا الى لبنان في الصيف المقبل، لان بلدنا يتمتع بكامل المواصفات الاهلية لاستقبال السياح فيه. اختارت النائب جعجع الفنانة العالمية شاكيرا اللبنانية الاصل لتحيي حفل افتتاح المهرجان وذلك يوم الجمعة الواقع فيه 13 تموز 2018.
ويتوقع منظمو المهرجان أن يتخطى عدد حضور حفل الافتتاح الـ 14,000 شخصا وبالمناسبة ، فان شركة ICE المنظمة للمهرجان وبالتعاون مع بلدية بشري واتحاد بلديات القضاء، قد وضعوا خطة مدروسة ومنظمة لاستيعاب هذا العدد من المشاركين في قضاء بشري.
وقد نوّهت لجنة “مهرجانات الارز الدولية” بالجهود التي بذلها كلّ من المُنتج العالمي وسيم SAL صليبي وشركة ICE لانضمام شاكيرا الى “مهرجانات الارز الدولية ” لهذا العام.
وكان اعرب وسيم SAL صليبي Head of Anghami International Partnership عن سعادته بانضمام النجمة شاكيرا لـمهرجانات الأرز الدولية هذا العام فهو ساهم مباشرة كمنتج عالمي بتوقيع لجنة مهرجانات الأرز الاتفاق معها. و ختم وسيم قائلا˝: متأكد ان حفل شاكيرا سيكون استثنائيا˝ بخاصة انه بتنظيم و تنفيذ شركة ICE Events. واكد الإستمرار في استقدام نجوم العالم من خلال Anghami ليتمتعوا باجواء لبنان و الشرق الأوسط.
خلال رحلة نجوميتها، باعت الفنانة، ومؤلفة الأغاني والحائزة على جوائز غرامي شاكيرا حوالى 60 مليون أسطوانة في أنحاء العالم وحازت على العديد من الجوائز بما فيها جائزتَي غرامي، و10 جوائز غرامي لاتينية والعديد من جوائز الموسيقى العالمية، والموسيقى الأميركية وجوائز بيلبورد الموسيقية. إنها الفنانة الوحيدة من أميركا الجنوبية التي احتلّت أغنيتها المرتبة الأولى في الولايات المتحدة الأميركية والتي حصدت أربعٌ من أغنياتها مبيعاتٍ عالية من بين أكثر 20 أغنية عالمية في العقد الماضي.
CEDARS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHAKIRA IN LEBANON
Shakira’s El Dorado World Tour will arrive at Cedars International Festival in Cedars, Lebanon on 13th of July 2018
FourteenTwelve-time GRAMMY® Award-winner and international superstar Shakira has announced that she will bring her EL DORADO WORLD TOUR, to CEDARS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in Lebanon.
The committee of Cedars International Festival has revived its festival a few years ago and has since then set to promote and honor Lebanese icons and emblematic values each year. This year, the committee decided to honor Lebanon’s global dimension through its international exposure by sending a universal message and shedding light on the five archaeological Lebanese sites listed on the World Heritage List: The Valley of Qadisha and Cedars of God, Jbeil, Tyre, Anjar and Baalbek.
And in order for this honor to come at a level worthy of the status of Lebanon and the Cedars International Festival, the committee’s chairperson MP Setrida Geagea wishes to convey a message of peace from the Cedars and from Lebanon to the world calling upon all Lebanese expats and Arabs to visit Lebanon this summer as our country possesses all needed requirements to receive tourists. MP Geagea chose the international star Shakira, of with Lebanese origins to perform in the festival’s opening ceremony that will take place on Friday, 13 July 2018.
The Festival’s organizers are expecting an audience exceeding 14,000 spectators at the opening ceremony. And in view of this huge event, the organizer’s ICE Events, in collaboration with Bsharri Municipality and the union of the district’s municipalities have laid a master plan to accommodate this huge number of spectators in Bsharri District.
The “Cedars International Festival” Committee has praised the efforts made by the international producer Wassim SAL Slaiby and ICE Events that lead to the participation of Shakira which will be held in collaboration with Anghami.
The Head of Anghami’s International Partnership and the international producer Wassim SAL Slaiby has expressed his happiness that Shakira will perform at Cedars International Festival this year, as he directly contributed in her signing the deal with the Committee of Cedars International Festival. Wassim concluded saying: “I am sure that Shakira’s performance will be exceptional especially that it is organized and implemented by ICE Events. He also confirmed that we will continue to bring world stars to Lebanon and the Middle East through Anghami.
EL DORADO hit #1 on iTunes in 37 countries and held 5 of the top 10 spots on the iTunes Latino Chart within hours of its release. The 95x RIAA certified platinum album, including her massive global hits – “La Bicicleta,” “Chantaje,” “Me Enamoré,” and “Déjà vu”- hit the top spot on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums, marking her 6th #1 album on this chart. Her single, “Chantaje” featuring Maluma, is 16x diamond certified, while its video currently has been viewed over 2 billion times, making it the #5 fastest video to reach 1 billion views worldwide and working its way to soon be the most viewed video of her entire catalogue. EL DORADO won Best Latin Pop Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. This follows the album being crowned Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album at the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards, as well as winning the singer Favorite Latin Artist at the 2017 American Music Awards; Song of the Year at the 2017 Latin American Music Awards; and three awards at the 2017 Premio Lo Nuestro. Shakira also recently won five awards at the 2018 Latin Billboard Awards out of twelve nominations.
Over the course of her career, Colombian singer-songwriter and GRAMMY® winner Shakira has sold over 60 million records worldwide and has won numerous awards including two GRAMMYs®, ten Latin GRAMMYs®, and several World Music Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards, to name a few. She is the only artist from South America to have a number one song in the US, and has had four of the 20 top-selling hits of the last decade.
About Shakira
Over the course of her career, Colombian singer-songwriter and GRAMMY® winner Shakira has sold over 60 million records worldwide and has won numerous awards including three GRAMMYs®, eleven Latin GRAMMYs®, and several World Music Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards, to name a few. She is the only artist from South America to have a number one song in the US, and has had four of the 20 top-selling hits of the last decade.
At the age of 18, she founded the Pies Descalzos (Barefoot) Foundation which currently provides education and nutrition to over six thousand impoverished children in Colombia and is expanding its work to other countries, including newly launched projects in Haiti and South Africa.
In October 2011, Shakira was named a member of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Shakira served as coach on the 4th and 6th season of “The Voice,” NBC’s hit reality vocal competition series that searches for the nation’s best voice.
Her tenth studio album “Shakira” was released in 2014, featuring hits such as “Can’t Remember to Forget You,” with Rihanna and “La La La (Brazil 2014)” which she performed at the finals of Fifa’s World Cup 2014 in Brazil. In 2016, she starred as Gazelle in Disney’s record-breaking film “Zootopia,” as well as contributing to its soundtrack with “Try Everything”. In June, she launched “La Bicicleta” with fellow Colombian artist Carlos Vives, which broke records in Colombia when it remained #1 for 18 consecutive weeks and spent 13 weeks at #1 in Spain, as well as reaching #1 on US Latin iTunes. The video, shot in Shakira and Carlos’s hometowns of Barranquilla and Santa Marta, respectively, has over 1 billion views on Vevo to date. It was followed up by the seductive track “Chantaje” (Blackmail) feat. Maluma. With over 2 billion views on YouTube, it is one of the platform’s biggest Latin hits in history. It also reached #1 on the “Latin Airplay” chart and was certified Double Platinum in Spain. Shakira recently released her 11th studio album, “El Dorado” which was recorded primarily in Spanish. Upon release, the album charted #1 on iTunes in 37 Countries, won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards, and Best Latin Pop Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. It has also been nine-times RIAA platinum certified in the US. About Shakira
Over the course of her career, Colombian singer-songwriter and GRAMMY® winner Shakira has sold over 60 million records worldwide and has won numerous awards including two GRAMMYs®, eight Latin GRAMMYs®, and several World Music Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards, to name a few. She is the only artist from South America to have a number one song in the US, and has had four of the 20 top-selling hits of the last decade. At the age of 18, she founded the Pies Descalzos (Barefoot) Foundation which currently provides education and nutrition to over six thousand impoverished children in Colombia and is expanding its work to other countries, including newly launched projects in Haiti and South Africa. In October 2011, Shakira was named a member of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Shakira served as coach on the 4th and 6th season of “The Voice,” NBC’s hit reality vocal competition series that searches for the nation’s best voice. Her tenth studio album “Shakira” was released in 2014, featuring hits such as “Can’t Remember to Forget You,” with Rihanna and “La La La (Brazil 2014)” which she performed at the finals of Fifa’s World Cup 2014 in Brazil. In 2016, she starred as Gazelle in Disney’s record-breaking film “Zootopia,” as well as contributing to its soundtrack with “Try Everything”. In June, she launched “La Bicicleta” with fellow Colombian artist Carlos Vives, which broke records in Colombia when it remained #1 for 18 consecutive weeks and spent 13 weeks at #1 in Spain, as well as reaching #1 on US Latin iTunes. The video, shot in Shakira and Carlos’s hometowns of Barranquilla and Santa Marta, respectively, has over 900 million views on Vevo to date. It was followed up by the seductive track “Chantaje” (Blackmail) feat. Maluma. With over 1.1 billion views on YouTube, it is one of the platform’s biggest Latin hits in history. It also reached #1 on the “Latin Airplay” chart and was certified Double Platinum in Spain. Shakira recently released her 11th studio album, “El Dorado” which was recorded primarily in Spanish. Upon release, the album charted #1 on iTunes in 37 Countries.