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Date of Birth
She was born 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia
Birth Name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll -
Parents
Her father is a Lebanese American immigrant and her mother a native of Colombia of Italian and Spanish descent. William Mebarak and Nidia Ripoll, -
8 Years
She composed his first song at the age of eight so called " Your dark glasses ", dedicated to his father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zacEvazFi80 -
"Buscando artista infantil"
Shakira took part for the first time in the contest of television " Searching infantile artist " in 1988, in which she turned out to be winning, and then she repeated the victory in 1989 and 1990. -
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Her first contract
Shakira signed his first record contract with Sony Music Colombia, stamp for the one that recorded his first album, Magic (1991), with topics that it had composed between the eight and thirteen years, to that it followed two years later the second album, Danger (1993). -
VIÑA DEL MAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdBdwDx3vkM Shakira was invited to inform in the " Festival de la canción de Viña del Mar " in the year 1993. She with only sixteen years and his interpretation of the so called ballad "Eres" "Are" it opened him the doors of the Latin-American market. -
PIES DESCALZOS
Shakira realized that it would be his third so called album "pies descalzos " in 1995. The disc was including besides the topic that gives him title other hits since "Estoy aquí ", " Sueños blancos " and Dónde está el corazón? ", it was a success in the whole Latin America it was possessing more than four million sold copies; his songs were raised in extraordinary successes and million admirers made him win. -
More new music
"Dónde están los ladrones?" produced by Emilio Estefan, it turned her into the indisputable star of the Latin pop-rock, with more than eight million sold copies. Some of the topics that this album was containing (nominated to the prize Grammy and that was kept during more than one year between the ten first ones of the Soundscand in The United States, as that it gives him title or Inevitably, They redoubled Shakira's popularity and projected his figure on the international markets. -
MTV Unplugged
The singer recorded in New York Shakira MTV Unplugged , a live concert with a special Latin flavor that constituted the first acoustic presentation broadcast in Spanish for MTV in this country. For this work it gained Shakira his first Grammy (to the best album of Latin pop) and the Grammy Latino to the best singer pop (ojos como esos) and to the best singer of rock (octavo dia). -
LAUNDRY SERVICE
Shakira decided then to give one more step in his career and wrote a new album: Service of lavandería/Laundry Service , with nine be afraid in English, between them Underneath Your Clothes and Whenever, Of Wherever, and four in Spanish. The disc was a number one in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, and supposed his world consecration, with more than 13 million sold copies. -
DVD Live and Off the Record
The tour of presentation of the album, the " Tour of the Mongoose ", lasted six months (from November, 2002 to May, 2003) and left for the recollection the DVD Live and Record Off. -
S by Shakira
Shakira presents her own perfume. -
WAKA WAKA!
The Colombian singer was the manager of dismissing the Glass of the World of Football of South Africa, to the pace of the Waka, waka, a new version of the song native of Cameroon Zangalewo and official anthem of the World one. -
In love
She supports a sentimental relation with the Spanish football player Gerard Piqué, done public from the beginning of 2011 and confirmed by the singer, on March 29, 2011 -
IT'S A BOY !!
In September, 2012, Shakira confirmed that she and Piqué were waiting his first son, giving birth on January 22, 2013. -
A new baby
In the magazine Cosmopolitan México of September, 2014, Shakira confirmed his second pregnancy close to Piqué. January 29, 2015 was born By Sasha Piqué Mebarak.
