I was raised listening to music that was heavily influenced by African music.Īdvertisement The choice to have her perform was met with protest. I decided to bring a little bit of my culture too which is attached to Africa with an umbilical cord, she said in a 2010 interview with YouTube. Its part of the African and Carribean influence Shakira tried to infuse into the song. Waka waka is a slang phrase from Cameroon that means do it, and Shakira based elements of the song on the marching chant that sprung from an 80s song by Camaroon band Golden Sounds. Thats how I realized that the song was strong, when a song sounds good just with a plain guitar and vocals, you know that theres something there.įreshlyGround, the South African band who bring the African instrumental elements to Waka Waka, were brought in while the songs production was still in process, thanks to a chance meeting between them and producer John Hill in a New York City recording studio.ĭrummer Pete Cohen told Cape Town Magazine that being on the song changed the of our career. I walked from the barn to the house and on that walk, boom It came to me, Shakira said with a laugh, explaining that she immediately recorded it using an acoustic guitar. She said in a press conference before the event, that it came to her one day while she was on her farm in Uruguay. They want to be everywhere during the World Cup and having an official song thats well-liked helps them do it.Īdvertisement Related Stories Meet The Women Of The World Cup USWNT Breaks World Cup Record, Deserves Equal Pay Ada Hegerberg Sits Out World Cup In Protest In the leadup to the 2010 game, Shakira was asked by her record label, then Sony Music, if shed consider recording a song for the World Cup. Pitbull with Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte took it in 2014, and in 2018 it was Nicky Jam on a track featuring Will Smith and Era Istrefi and produced by Diplo.įIFAs aim: yielding an official anthem that players and the audience will dance and react to, with a performer to build a pre-tournament kick-off event around, dominating global charts from radio to streaming.
They tapped Ill Divo and Toni Braxton in 2006 and, of course, Shakira in 2010.
Something about the success of Martins Cup of Live must have resonated, because after him, FIFA steered hard into choosing international stars, starting with the Europop singer Anastasia who worked with the-superproducer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morrissette, Dave Matthews Band) on the 2000 song, Boom. They began a shift to massive artists with global appeal, with Ricky Martin in 1998, who recorded the Official Song just as his international star was rising. Its on best World Cup song lists from sites as diverse as Billboard, MLS Soccer, Remezcla, and the Washington Post.Īnd it keeps coming back each time theres a World Cup, with replays and endurance driving YouTube views and pushing it to become Sharikas second video to break two billion streams in 2018.īefore the 2000s, the World Cup song frequently coordinated to its host country and featured an eclectic list of artists, from the Buenos Aires Municipal Symphony when Argentina hosted in 1978 to Daryl Hall (of Hall Oates) when the U.S.
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