Next June will mark two years since Shakira announced the end of her relationship with Gerard Piqué, father of her two children, Sasha and Milan. The couple had a relationship for more than a decade, and their breakup has been one of the most high-profile in recent years. Shortly thereafter, he began a romance with Clara Chía, while the artist dedicated a large number of hints to him in her songs. Now, at a time when the dust has calmed down, Guillermo Ripoll, the singer’s uncle, has spoken about the former soccer player in an interview with the media outlet El Tiempo.
Back in the day, in the midst of a breakup controversy, Nidia Ripoll, mother of the Barranquilla artist, was asked about what was happening between her daughter and the businessman. Nidia, always so discreet, just said that they would always be family. Something that her brother, Guillermo, also thinks, who has spoken about Piqué in an interview. “He is a super nice person, very familiar,” said the dentist about the former soccer player.
“He treated us very well, with respect and affection. He is a good father, who constantly communicates with his children,” he expressed. On the other hand, he assures that her niece, despite the “media and social media show” that occurred around her separation from the businessman, lives quite oblivious to press news. The man assures that the media makes him very “spicy” and gives a lot of information that is not true.
On the other hand, the dentist assures that the performer of Before Six and Waka Waka showed her vocation for music from a very young age and offered to listen to her first songs. “‘Uncle, come and I’ll sing to you, but you give me so much [money],’ she told me, and she sang me Dark Glasses and others that she, as a child, composed,” Ripoll revealed about the singer’s beginnings.
Ripoll also remembers the words that a teacher dedicated to his niece about how she sang. That man said that he sang “like a goat.” Some words that should haunt her over time, since the artist became one of the greatest singers in recent history.
The dentist also revealed what his relationship with Barranquilla is like now. “When the person is starting out, you have the closest contact. When the person is growing, due to their commitments, there is isolation. But when we meet in Barranquilla or Miami; or suddenly we make a call, it is as if we were we would have seen yesterday,” the man reveals.
“She is a person who has done a lot for children and education. My heart swells. She has shared her success with children, she has created schools and she has been attentive to her foundation [Pies Descalzos], she has not dropped and continues to project it. Shakira has achieved everything with care, work, respect, dedication, I feel very proud,” he said about how proud he feels of his niece.
