It is worth two out of 22, she is a wolf who is not for guys like you and is convinced that it is a Rolex that you should not change for a Casio: we like it more or less (it is not as if it really matters in the least) Shakira is on everyone’s lips these days for her collaboration with Bizarrap. And that has made us look at his filmography just in case there was anything, apart from his role in ‘Zootropolis’ that we might have missed. And boy is there.
He has the name of a good person.
Shakira recorded her first album at the age of fourteen, but it didn’t sell millions of copies right off the bat. ‘Magic’ only managed to cram a thousand copies in 1991, and the teen singer, who already knew she wanted to be famous, decided to give acting a try taking advantage of the fact that he had contacts here and there. In 1994, at seventeen, she starred in her first (and only) series: ‘The oasis’, subtitled “A very original sin story”. The sin, not the story.
In the soap opera, Shakira played Luisa María, the daughter of an embittered landowner owner of the town of San Isidro called (I swear I’m not making it up) Severo Rico. Think about that screenwriter for a moment. The thing is Luisa María falls in love with Salmón Perdigón (again, I’m not making names up), the son of his father’s worst enemy. And the drama is already wrapped.
Both families survive the burial of San Isidro in a natural disaster with echoes of the Armero Tragedy, the second most serious volcanic eruption of the 20th century, where some 25,000 people died. Love arose precisely in the refugee camps where the people’s power system changes and both lovers discover things about themselves that do not suit them too much. Shakira sang the opening song with lyrics and music by Stephano and her co-star was Pedro Rendón, who later became a professional soap opera actor. But all this is what she has been rescuing over the years, because ‘The Oasis’ officially does not exist.
You gave your worst version
‘El oasis’ was broadcast on CenproTV, a Colombian channel that disappeared in 2000, and later he went around different Latin American countries such as Venezuela or Ecuador. Shakira herself explained why she ended up trying her luck on television after the authorial failure of her second album: “I stagnated a bit and dedicated myself to acting, as the protagonist of ‘El oasis’. It was like going on an excursion through another artistic path in search of the renewal of the spirit”.
My life is like a glass of water, transparent, everyone can know what’s in the background, because it’s hard for me to hide it, I’m a bad actress for a reason. Or if not, let the director of ‘El oasis’ say so.
The thing is that right now this series would be an inexhaustible source of memes and references on social networks, and the singer can’t afford it. That is why there has been a rumor over the years that her co-worker, Rendón, has insinuated on some occasion that it is true: It is said that Shakira, in 2002, bought the rights to ‘El Oasis’ so that no one can ever see it again. It was Teleshow the web that launched the bombing in 2019 with a source close to the series stating that “she is convinced that that image of yours does your current reputation no favors“.
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“Now the rich are poor, the prostitute is the leader of the town and young people who love each other passionately discover that they are brothers”. Seeing the ads that could be seen in 1994 for ‘El oasis’, it is better understood why Shakira would have preferred to sweep it under the rug. Her co-star doesn’t agree, and she confessed to Vea magazine that, if the rumor was true, he would find it disrespectful.
But, of course, on the internet you can’t stop things forever: while with the demise of Cenpro TV the original master is most likely lost in action, YouTube is riddled with excerpts from episodes where we can see a brunette Shakira doing what you can. Sadly, we don’t know the number of episodes it had or how this Colombian-style ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ended, and It will probably be forgotten forever.
At the moment it seems that Shakira is not going to go to the collective imagination for her role as Luisa María, but just in case she does well to keep it under forty keys. Nobody wants to spend a quiet day in their mansion and get splashed by a meme.