Shakira is ready to be offered with the Video Vanguard Award at subsequent month’s 2023 MTV VMAs.
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The 2023 VMAs will happen on Tuesday, September 12 at 8pm ET at New Jersey’s famed Prudential Heart.
The Video Vanguard Award was beforehand received in 2022 by Nicki Minaj, whereas different previous winners embrace Madonna, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, Jennifer Lopez and Missy Elliott.
See the announcement of her nomination beneath.
Elsewhere on the 2023 VMAs, Taylor Swift, Doja Cat and SZA lead the checklist of nominations, which was revealed earlier this month.
Swift is main the best way with eight nominations, SZA earned six and Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sam Smith have all earned 5 every. Your entire group of artists are additionally within the operating for this 12 months’s Video of the 12 months class.
This 12 months’s version of the VMAs additionally contains a slew of first-time nominees, 35 to be actual. The primary-timers are made up of acts like Petras, Metro Boomin, Boygenius, Fletcher, Rema, Arya Starr, Burna Boy, Davido, GloRilla, Ice Spice, Kaliii, Peso Pluma, PinkPantheress, and Reneé Rapp.
Again in July, it was revealed that Shakira is being investigated for alleged tax fraud in Spain for the second time.
The singer was first charged with tax fraud in July 2021, when Barcelona prosecutors alleged she ought to have been paying tax as a result of she was residing in Spain for over half the 12 months between 2012 and 2014.
She allegedly owes authorities $13.9million (£13m). Shakira has maintained that her fiscal residence on the time was within the Bahamas and described the claims as “fictional”, saying she had paid what she had owed.