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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 (2001), which sold over 13 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album of all time by a

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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 entering talent and beauty pageants, travelling to Bogota for a modelling shoot when she was just 13.

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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, born in Barranquilla, Colombia on the 2nd of February 1977, is a singer, songwriter, and dancer who emerged into the Latin American music scene in the early 1990s and has since become the number one top-selling Latin artist of all time.

Shakira, as she is known, has achieved international success and fame with her unique music and original dance style. Encouraged by her father, Shakira began writing at a very early age. At age four, she had already written her first poem. Later that year, Shakira and her father were dining at a Middle Eastern restaurant when she enthusiastically joined a group of belly dancers who were performing that night.

Her impressive belly-dancing performance, which would later become her signature dance move, was rewarded with applause. It was then that Shakira knew she wanted to become a performer. At the age of seven, Shakira received a typewriter which she used to write poems that would later evolve into songs.

Young Shakira enjoyed singing and performing to anyone who would pay attention, undeterred by the fact that she