Shakira opens a music festival in Lebanon and follows the footsteps of his ancestors | In the gossip

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The famous Colombian singer Shakira of Lebanese origin, opened last night the International Cedars Festival, celebrated in northern Lebanon, where he visited the city of Tannurin to follow the footsteps from his grandmother Paterna, local media reported today

There, the artist received the keys of this city before planting two cedars of the mayor, Bahaa Harb, who announced that 39, a small square of this reserve has been named, in his honor, Shakira Mubarak, his paternal name.

"I am excited," said the singer, before adding: "I still think my family looks like the cedars of this beautiful land, transferred to Colombia to give I am the One of them. "

The artist was grateful to make her" feel "that she belongs to" this beautiful culture "which she said to herself" proud ".

"Thank you for this tribute to my paternal grandmother and my father," he said. This is Shakira's third trip to the Mediterranean country, which she visited this time accompanied by her two sons, after those of 2003 and 2011. Shakira's current visit to Lebanon is part of from his tour of the El Dorado World Tour.