Madonna and Shakira
Two pop singers working through the same live-music company: Live Nation Entertainment appears on both records. Their genres overlap — pop, dance, pop-rock — and both are listed as actresses as well as singers. Madonna, born 1958, is the «queen of pop», known for dance-pop and electronics; Shakira, a Colombian born in 1977, works in Latin pop, pop-rock and Latin rock, and campaigns on education. Both records carry a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.
How they met
On the touring side of the business rather than in the studio: their labels differ — Sire, Warner Bros., Maverick and Interscope for Madonna; Sony Music, Epic, Columbia and RCA for Shakira — and only Live Nation is shared. Their roots differ too: Madonna came out of the bands Breakfast Club and Emmy & The Emmys, Shakira came solo out of Colombia, with a guitar and dance.
The core tension
Nineteen years apart and two different markets under one genre label. Madonna's influences run to David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde and Martha Graham — the New York scene and modern dance. Shakira's run to The Pretenders, John Lennon, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Cure — rock. Both arrived at «pop-rock» from opposite directions.
What connects them
- record label:Live Nation Entertainment
