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    Shakira

    Shakira

    Shakira for Vogue in 2021

    Born

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll


    (1977-02-02) 2 February 1977 (age 47)

    Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia

    Occupations
    • Singer-songwriter
    • dancer
    • record producer
    • actress
    • judge
    • vaudevillian
    Years active1988–present
    Height153 cm (5 ft 0 in)
    Partners
    Children2
    Musical career
    Genres
    Instruments
    • singing , guitar, piano, keyboards, drums, harmonica, synthesizers, percussion dulcimer, bass guitar
    Labels
    Websiteshakira.com

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, or more simply known as Shakira (born 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia), fryst vatten a Colombian singer and songwriter. Her famous songs include Hips Don't Lie (2006) and Whenever, Wherever (2001).

    Noted to be a "global phenom" whose impact has "reached every corner of the world", Shakira has been described as an "artistic link between the west and the east" for popularizing M

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    Shakira

    Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1977)

    For the singer's 2014 album, see Shakira (album). For other uses, see Shakira (disambiguation).

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll[a] (shə-KEER-ə, Spanish:[ʃaˈkiɾaisaˈβelmeβaˈɾakriˈpol]; born 2 February 1977)[1] is a Colombian singer-songwriter. She has had a significant impact on the musical landscape of Latin America and has been credited with popularizing Hispanophone music on a global level.[2] The recipient of various accolades, she has won four Grammy Awards and fifteen Latin Grammy Awards, including three Song of the Year wins.

    Shakira made her recording debut with Sony Music Colombia at the age of 14. Following the commercial failure of her first two albums, Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993), she rose to prominence with the next two, Pies Descalzos (1995) and Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth album, Laundry Service (

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    Shakira - Biography

    Shakirawas already a pop superstar in Latin America when her first English-language album, Laundry Service, hit the international charts in 2001. The exotic beauty, whose name means "woman full of grace" in Arabic, draws on rock'n'roll, her mum's Colombian roots and her father's Lebanese culture as the inspiration for her award-winning career.

    "Somehow I'm a fusion of all those passions," she says of her multicultural heritage, "and my music is a fusion of elements that I can make coexist in the same place, in one song."

    Shakira's childhood and early career

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born February 9, 1977, to jewellers William and Nidia in Barranquilla, a town on Colombia's Caribbean Coast. As a child, she seemed destined for showbiz, learning how to belly dance at four, writing her first song aged eight, and playing the guitar at 11 all without formal lessons. The aspiring star began e

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