Shakira
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll" better known as "
Shakira" born 02 February 1977, is a
Colombian singer, songwriter. She born and raised in
Barranquilla, Colombia. With
multi-language knowledge skills like
Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan and
Arabic she emerged in the music scene of
Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. With her demonstrating vocal ability
Shakira rock and roll,
Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on
belly dancing. She started performing from her school level.
If we look at her music career we come to know that she faced a
failure for her first two albums due
to poor commercial reception with local producers. But she never stoped
herself due to her failure and decided to come up with her
own brand of music and then in
1995 she had a great success in the shape of "
Pies Descalzos" and then in
1998 with the record selling of more than
7M copies of "
Dónde Están los Ladrones"
she show how capiable and briliant singer she is. But
she didn't stopped herself to her native language singing only and then
in
2001 she came up with her
first English song "
Whenever Wherever" and shown her skill to the
English Music Industry with the record selling of
best single of 2002. Then again her release of "
Laundry Service" set other standard with the record
selling of 13M copies around the globe. Afterward "
Hips Don't Lie" was another brake for her which remained the
best selling song of 20th century. Then "
WAKA WAKA" was a smash hit by
Shakira with record
biggest selling song of
all time for
World Cup. For those who may not know "
WAKA WAKA" was chosen as the
official song for the
FIFA World Cup 2010.
Shakira has
won two
Grammy Awards,eight
Latin Grammy Awards, twelve
Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been
Golden Globe nominated. She is also the
highest selling Colombian artist of all time, and the
second most successful female Latin singer behind
Gloria Estefan, having sold over
70 million albums worldwide.
With her music career
Shakira also did some
humanitarian and
social work for
poor childrens charity.
Shakira founded the
Pies Descalzos Foundation in 1995, which is a
Colombian charity with special schools for
poor children all around
Colombia. For her
charity and social welfare work she did number of
benefit concerts as well, including "
Live 8 Benefit Concert", "
Live Earth Concert", "
Clinton Global Initiative", and many more. She was also invited to the
Oval Office by
President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss
early childhood development.
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