Shakira surprised her followers with her latest post on social networks. However, the emotional words of the singer and the video she dedicated to her compatriot Carlos Vives did not attract so much attention.

There was a key line that caused anxiety and surprise, although Shakira’s intention was to highlight her good friend’s career. “Carlos, you are a poet who writes his verses in my country. An extraordinary musician and even more extraordinary your heart as a loyal friend”, the text begins.

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In the rest of the publication, Shakira highlights the career of Carlos Vives and the way he highlighted and saved Colombian folklore. That, apart from being a great philanthropist and artist.

In the end, Shakira leaves a sentence that upset social networks. “Keep building for us and fly high like a condor over the mountains”, he pointed out, and with those two words “fly high” users assumed that Carlos Vives had died.

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Why Shakira’s followers believed Carlos Vives died

It is common for people to use the phrase “fly high” to say goodbye to those who have passed away. “It almost gave me something…”, “We are so used to waiting for people to die in order to recognize their work that we all thought he had died”, “I almost stopped”, pointed out some users.

There was such a commotion on the networks that Shakira’s announcement gathered almost nine thousand comments at 2 p.m., and almost everyone reacted with surprise and fear at what they interpreted in the translator’s words.

In addition, memes did not wait and twitterers spoke humorously about what could have been tragic news for Latin American music.

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