Shakira Brings Out Tyla, Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy at Her First Show Post FIFA World Cup in New York City
Shakira Brings Out Tyla, Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy at Her First Show Post FIFA World Cup in New York City
Twenty-four hours after helping turn the FIFA World Cup final into pop music’s most expensive variety show, Shakira returned to considerably more familiar territory: her own stage, her own catalogue and an audience prepared to test the structural integrity of Barclays Center.
The Colombian superstar’s 20 July performance in Brooklyn marked her first concert since appearing at the World Cup final’s inaugural halftime show. Apparently deciding that one globally televised spectacle was insufficient for a single weekend, she invited Tyla, Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy to join her during the latest stop on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour.
Tyla appeared for “Hips Don’t Lie”, a pairing so rhythmically inevitable that it almost feels as though somebody discovered it written in an ancient pop prophecy. Nearly two decades after Shakira and Wyclef Jean sent the original racing around the world, the song still possesses the cheerful durability of a wedding-floor classic: familiar, slightly dangerous and capable of making knees behave several years younger than they are. Tyla’s smooth South African pop presence gave the 2006 hit a neat generational update without disturbing its essential magic.
Ed Sheeran joined Shakira for “Underneath Your Clothes”, her wonderfully earnest 2002 ballad from Laundry Service. Removed from the era of low-rise jeans, CD wallets and music television countdowns, the song still carries the soft-focus sincerity of early-2000s pop. Sheeran, pop’s most dependable man-with-guitar emergency service, was an obvious fit for its acoustic tenderness.
Burna Boy then returned for “Dai Dai”, his 2026 World Cup anthem with Shakira. The pair had performed the track during the final’s halftime show at New York New Jersey Stadium only a day earlier, but its arrival in Brooklyn felt less like an encore than a victory lap. Built from Latin and Afrobeats rhythms, the song captures the borderless pop language that both artists have spent their careers helping to establish.
Together, the three appearances transformed the concert into a compact history of Shakira’s reach. Tyla represented the new global pop generation; Sheeran reopened a treasured page from the early 2000s; and Burna Boy brought the story firmly back to 2026, when Latin music and Afrobeats no longer needed permission to occupy the centre of the international stage.
For anyone keeping a scrapbook of music in 2026, this was the sort of wonderfully excessive evening worth preserving. One night after singing to the football-watching world, Shakira returned to Brooklyn and reminded everyone that stadium-sized history can still feel like a spontaneous gathering of friends.
