Singer Shakira tattooed urban artist Beéle, with whom she is recording a music video in her native Barranquilla, according to a video posted Thursday on the singer’s Instagram account, who is also a native of that Caribbean city.
In the images, the barranquillera appears with black gloves and a tattoo machine while taking ink and drawing on the artist’s skin inside what looks like one of the vans used as dressing rooms during the filming.
Although they did not reveal what the tattoo was, the video was accompanied by the phrase ‘coletera para toda la vida’, in reference to the term ‘coleto’, which previously had a negative connotation referring to a poorly dressed person, but has been redefined in the context of urban music and is now used to describe someone authentic, popular and enterprising.
Shakira and Beéle work together in video
In another video released by Beéle, the two appear on the hood of an old bus. He, wearing a cap that reads ‘the coletica will set us free’, tells Shakira: ‘I’m here with my coletica’, while she puts on her makeup and waves to the camera.
Shakira’s presence in the capital of the Atlantic (north) was confirmed in recent days by various publications on social networks that show the two artists recording scenes in several emblematic points of the Caribbean city.
The first to announce the meeting between the two artists was the mayor of Barranquilla, Alejandro Char, who posted on his Instagram account images with them in Barrio Abajo, a traditional sector considered the largest open-air museum in the world for its murals and urban art projects.
Hours earlier, Shakira and Beéle also filmed scenes on the boardwalk of the Magdalena River, one of the city’s main tourist attractions, where a 6.5-meter statue in honor of the singer is located.
Shakira’s arrival in Barranquilla came after the Carnival, in which Beéle participated as one of the guest artists, and months after the two collaborated on a new version of the song ‘Hips don’t lie’, together with the British Ed Sheeran, reported Agencia EFE.
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