Shakira Reveals She Almost Retired From Music

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Shakira wants to keep singing whenever, wherever.

The "She Wolf" singer revealed that despite her ongoing global success, she recently considered retiring from her decades-long music career and trading in a life in show business for a life off the grid.

"A few years ago, I was ready to just buy a farm, raise animals, and retire from music," she told Vogue in an interview published June 7. "But I look back, and I’m like, ‘How crazy is that?’ I had and have so much more to say and to do. Sometimes we just take what we do for granted, or just forget about who we are."

After all, the 49-year-old feels completely at home when she's onstage performing for her fans.

"I think that when I perform, I don’t just do it in front of ‘an audience,'" she explained. "I do it surrounded by my family. I feel that my fans, those who have fun in the crowd, those who have listened to my music for so long… I feel they really understand me, and they also know my flaws. They don’t condemn my defects."

"There’s a sense of comfort when I am on stage," Shakira continued, "I’m just living in the moment with a group of people that have been there for me and who, really, I feel I have a strong friendship with."

The Grammy winner—who shares kids Milan, 13, and Sasha, 11, with ex Gerard Piqué—added that she feels a special kind of love when she's putting on a show.

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"I don’t at all feel there are judges," she said of her audience. "It’s almost like a communion, you know. When we go through a repertoire of songs that have been a part of people’s lives for so long, and have been a soundtrack for so many of them, and to mine as well, it makes us have something in common that is just unbreakable."

Shakira added, "That makes me feel really at ease, and happy, and celebratory that this is my career now more than ever, you know?"

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