Taxes don't lie: Shakira heading to court? 😲 Read why a Spanish court wants the Waka Waka singer to stand trial👇🏾Read 👉🏾:
In a statement, Shakira’s lawyers said “the order to proceed with the oral hearing” was expected and that her legal team would “do its job by presenting its arguments at the appropriate time”..
The singer says she has paid 17.2 million euros to Spanish tax authorities and has no outstanding debts. A Barcelona court in May dismissed an appeal from the singer, who has sold over 60 million albums, to drop the charges. With her mix of Latin and Arabic rhythms and rock influence, three-time Grammy winner Shakira has scored major global hits with songs such as “Whenever, Wherever” and “Waka Waka”, the official song of the 2010 World Cup.In an interview with AFP in 2019, Shakira spoke about temporarily losing her voice two years earlier, saying the experience had affected her “deeply”.