RUMOR BUSTED: "Love And Rock", Shakira And Miley Cyrus Not Recording Duet For Charity

UPDATE: Epic Records, Shakira's record label, informs The Huffington Post that the rumor about a duet between Shakira and Miley Cyrus is not true.

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Shakira and Miley Cyrus are reportedly recording a song together which they will reveal on Valentine's Day, February 14, at a gala benefit for children with heart ailments. The song, "Love and Rock", will serve to raise funds for this shared cause, with all proceeds going to charity.

Neither Shakira or Cyrus will include the song in their current or upcoming albums, with one of Shakira's representatives telling a Spanish-language Venezuelan newspaper that "This song is being done for charitable purposes, not commercial ones." The song is expected to be made available for download via popular digital music sites.

Both stars are known for their support of charitable causes, Shakira perhaps more so due to her very public efforts with her Pies Descalzos organization to help children living in poverty receive an education. In 2011, in recognition for this work and much more, Shakira was honored by The Latin Recording Academy as their 2011 Person of the Year.

This is not Cyrus' first time recording a song for charity. In 2010, following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Cyrus released a cover of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts", with all proceeds to benefit Haiti relief.


Here are Shakira and Miley Cyrus enjoying moments of success:

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• Those Hips Don't Lie

• Edgy Miley Cyrus

• Award Goes To Shakira

  Shakira wins award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album during the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 10, 2011.

• Favorite Movie Actress? Miley Cyrus

  Miley Cyrus onstage accepts the award for favorite actress for "The Last Song" at Nickelodeon's 24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards at Galen Center on April 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

• Shakira Singing

• Miley Cyrus Singing

• Look At Shakira Perform!

• And Miley On Stage!

• LBD Shakira

• LBD Miley Cyrus

Comments

[mfan2]

01:27 PM on 01/07/2012

Maybe Shakira is better known for her charity work by people who write Latinovoices, but O.K. magazine reports Shakira gives $55,000 a year to charity, though she does fundraiser concerts that result in much bigger amounts. Miley gives five to ten times that for just one of her 30 charities. Her charity work is really inspiring in it's scope. Not to take anything away from Shakira, but Miley does more.

[IIJustwannaknow]

09:23 PM on 01/12/2012

Shakira has schools in many countries like colombia, haiti, and now brasil and mexico, lots of poor children are now studying thanks to her, you must check out her real charity work, magazines are not the real true, you should go to barranquilla and see with your own eyes what she have done, i'm from costa rica and i have seen the schools in a travel some years ago, now that kids are in college thanks to her

[LobaLuis]

11:39 PM on 01/12/2012

No offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about.

Shakira's greatest contribution, which you completely ignored, is the creation of a number of schools which serve several thousand children and provide them with a free education and meals.

That $55,000 number you pulled up in no way accounts for the fact that over 6,000 children have full academic scholarships from kindergarten to their senior year of high school in schools that Shakira funded through her foundation. Shakira has been doing this since 1996.

I get it that you're a Miley fan, but let's tone down the exaggeration.

[kane65]

01:29 AM on 01/07/2012

wow!!! Miley Cyrus Nude Photos --- http://bit.ly/x7Yiuz

[James Leo]

09:44 AM on 01/06/2012

Why should Shakira denigrate herself with the likes of Miley Cyrus?

[theexitistotheleft]

02:18 PM on 01/05/2012

I will forgive Shakira for cavorting with the likes of Miliey as it IS for a good cause.

[freedom1947]

02:15 PM on 01/05/2012

Shakira just gets better looking with age. No offense to Miliey.

[Behaviour Problem]

12:41 PM on 01/05/2012

It just reminds me of how dumb I can be. Like when I drove my car into the lake thinking it'd morph into a boat like in 'Spyhunter'.