Shakira: Live from Paris
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Shakira: Live from Paris titled Shakira, En Vivo Desde Paris in Spain, Latin America, and North America. is the upcoming fourth live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n singer-songwriter Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

. The album will be released on December 6, 2011 on three different formats including a live CD/DVD standard DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

, and Blu-ray in the U.S. It will feature performances from the June 13 and June 14 concerts in Paris, France.

Background

During the The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf and Sale El Sol. The tour will reach the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa...

 several performances were Broadcast and recorded. During the performance in France it was noticed the presence of 3D
3D
3D or 3-D may refer to:*Three-dimensional space, the physical universe*Stereoscopy, any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image-Music:*3D...

 cameras inside the arena. In addition, during the concert new effects were used on stage. It was then confirmed by France that a DVD of the tour would be released on November 22, 2011. After over a month of speculation the live album was confirmed via Shakira's official Spanish website after Shakira sent a link from her Twitter. The site confirmed that the album would be released by the end on 2011 and that the album would be a CD/DVD. Sony Music France confirmed that the live album would be released in December 5, 2011 while Amazon confirmed the live album would be released on December 6, 2011 and that a Blu-ray version of the live album would be released. It was then confirmed that Antes de las Seis would be the first single off the live album and fourth single off Sale el Sol
Sale el Sol
Sale el sol is the seventh studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released on October 19, 2010. The album cover was released on August 31, 2010...

.

Promotion

Like previous Shakira releases including MTV Unplugged
MTV Unplugged (Shakira album)
Bonus Features# Timeline# Albums# Photo Gallery# Making Of - Chart Performance :- Sales and certifications :- Awards :- Credits :* Shakira - Producer, songwriter, arranger, lead vocals, harmonica, guitar....

 (single No Creo
No Creo
"No Creo" is a song written and performed by the Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. The song was released as a single from her multi-platinum album Dónde Están los Ladrones? and later from her acoustic performance of the song on the MTV show Unplugged . On the song, the singer express how she...

) and Live & off the Record (single Poem to a Horse
Poem to a Horse
"Poem to a Horse" is a rock song written and performed by Colombian-born singer Shakira, released as the main single from her 2004 tour album Live & Off the Record.-Versions:...

) it was confirmed that Antes de las seis will be released to promote the live album. A trailer was released on Youtube and Shakira's official website on November 18, 2011.

"Antes de las Seis" was confirmed as the first single from the album. It was also confirmed that the music video for the song was filmed live this summer at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Opened in 1984, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, often abbreviated as POPB or Bercy, is an indoor sports arena on boulevard de Bercy located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris...

 and will be part of the DVD. After Shakira's official English website revealed the release of the live album, they revealed that a live version of the single will be released on October 31, 2011. The music video was released on November 2, 2011.

Special: A Day with Shakira

A Day with Shakira is the upcoming Documentary by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

. A unique event designed to make you dance in Italy, Mexico and more countries via satellite broadcasting exclusively to cinemas. The global artist and icon with multi-million dollar sales and an extensive growth of fans around the world has anticipated this big event. The documentary will be released on 29th and 30th November, 2011 in Mexico and December 1st, 2011 in Italy. It will allow fans to watch Shakira's sold-out world tour in cinemas across Europe, as well as her days off-schedule.

Track list

The Tracklist was confirmed by Shakira's official website on November 2, 2011. Shakira's official Spanish website revealed that the audio CD will feature twenty songs from the tour.

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Germany & Switzerland December 2, 2011 CD, CD/DVD, DVD, Blu-ray Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

France December 5, 2011 CD, CD/DVD,DVD, Blu-ray Epic
Epic
-Comics:* Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics* Epic Illustrated, a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics-Gaming:* Epic , a 1992 computer game* Epic , a series of wargames...

United Kingdom DVD,Blu-ray Sony Music Entertainment
Canada December 6, 2011 DVD, Blu-ray Sony Music Entertainment
United States CD/DVD, DVD, Blu-ray Epic
Mexico CD/DVD, Blu-ray Sony Music Entertainment
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