Two years after splitting from the father of her children, Gerard Piqué, Shakira has four major hits under her belt, as well as a VMAs Vanguard Award, and is getting ready to release her next album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry). But in a new interview, the Colombian singer—known for iconic tracks including “Hips Don’t Lie” “Beautiful Liar,” and “Waka Waka”—recalls her decision to embark on a yearslong hiatus from music to support Piqué in his professional soccer career and raise their two sons, Milan and Sasha, now 10 and 8.