Shakira Once Spent 22 Lira At A Corner Shop In Antalya: The Story Behind That Photo
Have you come across the photo of Shakira walking out of a tiny grocery shop with her arms full of dried beans, lentils and pasta? The picture, which is doing the rounds on social media again years later, was taken in 2005 in Serik, a district of Antalya on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Shakira was in the region to perform at the ancient theatre of Aspendos, and her shopping stop was also captured by MTV cameras. The bill came to 22 New Turkish Lira.
The photo of Shakira holding packets of dried goods was taken at a small shop in Antalya.
Shakira on one side, the kind of pasta and pulse packets found in any Turkish neighbourhood shop on the other. The photo has been confirmed as taken in May 2005 in Serik.
At the time Shakira was on a promotional trip for her album Fijación Oral, Vol. 1, and her Antalya schedule included a performance at the Aspendos ancient theatre. She was also filming a video diary for MTV during the visit, so both her preparations for the stage and the stop at the shop in Serik ended up in the same footage. That footage is how the story behind the picture could be pieced together years later.
She got hungry on the road and asked to stop at a shop, then walked out with her arms full.
The MTV footage shows Shakira travelling by car, getting hungry and asking to stop at a market. At the shop in Serik she browsed the shelves, finished her shopping and stepped outside to find journalists waiting. The photo of her with the packets in her arms was taken at that moment.
So what did Shakira buy? According to news reports from the time, she picked up dried beans, green lentils, chickpeas, rice and pasta, and added biscuits and ice cream. The total at the till was 22 YTL, the New Turkish Lira then in use. It was the album promotion that brought Shakira to Aspendos, but the picture that keeps resurfacing came from this short shopping break.
After Shakira, the price tags are the next thing to catch the eye.
Some of the shop's prices can be read in the archive footage. Ice cream was 1 YTL and fruit yoghurt 35 kuruş. When the photo was shared again years later, the 22 YTL Shakira paid at the till drew as much comment as her presence in the shop.
The Antalya trip was not Shakira's first visit to Turkey. She had performed at the Miss Turkey night in 2002 and came to Istanbul for concerts in later years. Even so, one of the most unusual images from her visits to the country was taken at the door of that shop in Serik, not on a stage.
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