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Shakira Sells Rights To Her Songs To A UK Company
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Published: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 11:34 [IST]
Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira reportedly has sold the rights to her hit songs like Hips Don t Lie , Whenever, Wherever , She Wolf and Waka Waka (This time for Africa) to a company in the UK. The report by usatoday.com revealed that the UK-based investment company has acquired 100 per cent of her music publishing rights.
Shakira opened up about selling the rights in a statement and said, Being a songwriter is an accomplishment that I consider equal to and perhaps even greater than being a singer and an artiste. At eight years old long before I sang I wrote to make sense of the world. Each song is a reflection of the person I was at the time that I wrote it, but once a song is out in the world, it belongs not only to me but to those who appreciate it as well.
Singer Shakira has become the latest artiste to sell publishing rights of all her songs. The Grammy winner's catalogue includes 145 songs. Shakira's catalogue includes hits like "Hips don't lie", "Whenever, wherever", "She wolf" and "Waka waka.
Shakira is the latest recording artist to sell her music publishing rights.
The Colombian performer, whose music earned her three Grammys in her career, offloaded her entire catalog of 145 songs to the Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, an investment company based in the United Kingdom.
The company announced the acquisition on Wednesday via Twitter and welcomed the “Hips Don’t Lie” songstress, 43, to its roster of owned intellectual property, calling Shakira “one of the most serious and successful songwriters of the last 25 years.” Welcome to the Hipgnosis family @shakira,” company founder Merck Mercuriadis wrote on Wednesday. “What no one should ever take for granted is that Shakira is one of the most serious and successful songwriters of the last 25 years, having written or co-written virtually every song she has ever recorded.