Waka Waka – The Soccer song

Waka Waka is the most famous song sung by Shakira. This is the official FIFA world Cup 2010 song and included in the album named "Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album" and it was released by 31th may, 2010, but the song, on 7th of May, 2010. The length of this song is 3 minutes and 22 seconds. This song has another version, which is known as Spanish Version.  The K- version of this song was added in Shakira's album "Sale el Sol".

Shakira is the writer, producer and the singer. The other producer and writer of this song is John Hill. There are two more writers for this song named Fleshyground (South African Band) and Golden Sounds. Do you know the musical instruments used for this song includes South African guitars, African sounds and other Afro-Colombian instruments? Shakira is also a Colombian star. The song "Waka Waka" was the top selling World Cup song. The video of this song has many interesting clips of the past world cup events. These events include celebrations, crying, cheers of the winning players and much more. Many top live soccer players comprising Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio and Denilson are also highlighted. A blend of Positive cheers of the song, tremendous sound effects, Shakira's voice, performance of Shakira and Fleshyground and inspiring lyrics did justice to the World Cup passion. The music video of this song is also available in 3D, which was the first 3D video of the Sony music. The Video was so liked and watched that it came on number one and the 3rd most viewed video on the You Tube.

This song was performed live on the 10th of June, 2010 at the concert named "2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off" by Shakira and Freshlyground (South African Band). It was actually the beginning occasion of the live soccer 2010 World Cup. On the closing ceremony of this occasion, the live performance of the song was again given. Shakira's dressing was worth seeing and her dance cheered the crowd at both the opening and closing concerts.

There are some words in the song which are not in English. These are the words taken from an old African soldier's song. The translation of words is as follows:

Waka Waka means "Do It" or "Do the Job" and Tsamina mina means "Come" where as Tsamina mina Zangalewa means "where do you come from?"

Here are some of the lyrics of chorus sung by Shakira:

The pressure's on
you feel it

But you got it all
Believe it

When you fall get up
oh oh

And if you fall get up
eh eh

Tsamina mina
Zangalewa

Cause it is Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh

Waka Waka eh eh

Tsamina mina Zangalewa

This Time for Africa!

For complete lyrics of the song, you can check youtube.com.

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