Shakira Makes History as Billboard's First Latin Woman of the Year

Shakira will be honored as Billboard's Woman of the Year at the first-ever Latin Women in Music gala, celebrating Latin female artists, executives, and creatives who are proactively working for positive change, inclusion, and gender parity in the music industry. The event will air exclusively on Telemundo on May 7. Shakira's honor comes in the wake of an extraordinary year that has seen the superstar break records with the biggest Spanish-language debut of 2022 and become the first woman to reach the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with a song in Spanish.