Shakira “lost money” on her first world tour

Shakira explained the production costs of her world tour Mongoose tour In 2001 the budget was completely exhausted.

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The 47-year-old singer revealed that the biggest cost was a giant metal cobra that rose above the stage.

“It cost a million dollars to build this Cobra, and it cost a lot of money to get it on the road,” she told Sean Evans on the show this week. Youtube hot ones.

Although this tour was one of the most popular singers Your hips don't lie She admitted that the associated expenses left her penniless.

“At the end of the tour, I lost money, even though it was one of my most successful tours,” she lamented. “I traveled all over the world, the tour was sold out everywhere and I had to take a huge loss because of that stupid cobra.”

Shakira also talked about another aspect of her early career that has her scratching her head today: her singing.

“I think I was exaggerating the screaming in my voice,” she explained. “You know, it's too much – I think I was exaggerating, I think I was exaggerating. Too much Shakira! »

Shakira releases her twelfth album Las mujeres ya no uranlast month, for almost the first time in Spanish since 2005.