Shakira Shares Hugs and Promises with Sons Sasha and Milan as ...

Shakira was pulling double duty as a superstar and a mom at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards.

The Colombian singer, 46, had an incredible night at the event with sons Sasha, 7, and Milan, 9. The boys joined their mom on stage for her beautiful ballad, "Acróstico." The boys were seen hugging their mom after the performance in a sweet exchange between mother and sons.

Later in the night, they cheered her on from the crowd as she accepted the award for Song of the Year — a category in which she was nominated for three separate tracks — for "BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53."

Shakira dedicated the award to her sons in her acceptance speech, explaining in Spanish that she promised her boys "that I will be happy."

"I have promised them that they will have a mother who will laugh as hard as she can, because they deserve it."

Going on to explain that she wants to put that happiness into the music she writes and anything she puts out in the world, she concluded, "As a friend once told me, there is nothing in the past. Only the future is remembered."

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Sasha and Milan — who Shakira shares with ex Gerard Piqué — also appear in the music video for "Acróstico," released in May. The video begins with Shakira singing by the piano and slowly pans out to focus on photos of her two sons. As the song progresses, Sasha begins to sing and play the piano, seated next to his smiling mom.

"This year, Milan has written songs that have brought me to tears of emotion and Sasha has spent hours at the piano, finding his voice," the proud mom of two captioned her Instagram, as translated from Spanish to English. "Both have been by my side in the studio and after hearing this song dedicated to them they asked me to take part."

"They have felt and interpreted it by themselves and for themselves, with passion and feeling of those that have music inside," the singer continued. "Milan and Sasha, it's so nice to see how you spread your wings and follow your dreams! There is nothing that makes me more fulfilled than being your mother."

Although Shakira and the former footballer split in June 2022, the star said she is doing all that she can to "conceal" the situation from her kids. "I try to do it and to protect them, because that's my number one mission in life," she previously told ELLE.

She's also been adamant about giving her sons as normal of a life as possible. "I can't deny they can't escape the reality that I'm a public person, as well as their dad," Shakira told ET Canada in 2021. "But we try to provide as much normalcy as we can, and live really as very simple people."