Last week, the Argentine newspaper Clarín revealed details about the prenuptial agreement that popular Colombian singer Shakira is making her partner, Antonio de la Rúa, sign and also confirmed the artist’s desire to become a mother soon.
“Shakira has already made the decision to marry Antonio de la Rúa,” said the newspaper, adding that “when she was on tour in Buenos Aires she also said that her wishes to become a mother are getting more and more intense.”
According to the article, and in the style of the biggest stars, Shakira asked that a prenuptial contract be prepared in which Antonio would renounce any right to the fortune she has earned over the course of her career, avoiding possible future problems.
“When you’re very much in love you have plenty of people giving you advice, and none of them wants to see what happened to Paul McCartney happen to her,” the article says at the end.
It is worth noting that days ago, Shakira presented the ALAS Foundation in Panama’s Teatro Nacional, bringing together fifty artists and businesspeople from the record industry who will help fight against juvenile malnutrition and hunger in Latin America.
According to Shakira herself, the ALAS Foundation, which stands for América Latina en Acción Solidaria (Latin America in Solidary Action,) will put on four concerts in 2007 in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and New York.
These concerts aim at raising 200 million dollars to aid child-support programs in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, technical advisor to the project.
The pro-child shows, whose dates are to be confirmed, will take place in the second half of 2007.
“We’re committed to doing something big in Latin America,” said Spanish singer Miguel Bosé, who noted that every 90 seconds a child dies in Latin America just because he or she was born poor.
The ALAS Foundation will start operating formally in January 2007 in the “Ciudad del Saber” (City of Knowledge,) an academic center and base for international bodies located on a former US military base along the Panama Canal.
“ALAS came about because of a social emergency: 350 thousand children die each year due to avoidable causes, 40 million children work and live on the streets,” said Shakira, this charitable project’s principal promoter.
“We want an active Latin America, that doesn’t give up, united for our children,” the artist commented.
