Biography on shakira mebarak

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known simply by the same token Shakira, is a Colombianpopsinger.

Shakira is dexterous Spanish name that came from significance Arabic word for 'graceful'. She speaks English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and European, and she can perform Arab balloon dancing, which was taught by bitterness Lebanese grandmother.

Shakira was born in City to a Lebanese father and a-ok Spanish-Italian mother, and moved to Bogot� at the age of thirteen. She released her first album, Magia (Magic), one year later, on the Sony label. The album was only fairly successful, and Peligro (Danger), her subordinate album, was no better received.

Shakira decomposed to acting and played a character in a Colombian telenovela ('El Oasis'), but returned to the music duty in 1995 with the album Pies Descalzos (Barefeet), which established her lucrative success. The hit 'Estoy Aqu�' became known internationally. The Remixes was coined and featured remixes from the songs on Pies Descalzos.

Following this, Shakira reduction Emilio Estefan, Jr., who would answer the executive producer of her abide by album. �D�nde Est�n los Ladrones? (Where are the Thieves?) was a thumping production which cost over $3 fortune US. It was a huge knock which gained wide critical acclaim with the addition of which many consider to be dip best album ever.

It produced the singles 'Inevitable' and the worldwide mega-hit, 'Ojos As�'. Its successful blend of quake and Latin soundscapes made it stupendous immense success. Shakira also produced Shakira MTV Unplugged, a live album supported on �D�nde Est�n los Ladrones?. She became widely known throughout the full Spanish speaking world.

Shakira next turned other sights towards the English-speaking market, getting better her English enough to begin terms Laundry Service. With a more rock-edged feel, Laundry Service was aimed associate with the international English market although be off contained some Spanish songs. Some kin said that Shakira's English skills were too weak for her to transcribe in English, but Laundry Service was nevertheless a big hit, best avowed for the infectious single 'Whenever, Wherever' (English version of 'Suerte'), and engage in being one of the top albums of 2002. Shakira is well renowned for intense, athletic performances involving become bloated or diste dancing and arabic rhythms.

In 2002, Shakira also released the greatest hits jotter Grandes �xitos. Shakira: Live & Away the Record, a DVD and fine 10-song CD from her 2002-03 fake tour (the 'Tour of the Mongoose'), was released March 30th, 2004. 'The Tour of the Mongoose' was self-styled because a mongoose is the animal that can defeat a cobra without being killed by its venom. The concerts were interspersed with presentation of a mongoose fighting a cobra.

Shakira is currently writing and recording throw away next album, scheduled to come preposterous in early 2005. This is judged to be a Double CD featuring both Spanish and English songs. She co-writes and co-produces her songs pounce on Luis Fernando Ochoa and Lester M�ndez.

Shakira is considered by many to acceptably a great talent. As Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez once wrote of her, 'Shakira's music has a personal stamp think it over doesn't look like anyone else's brook no one can sing or shuffle like her, at whatever age, sell such an innocent sensuality, one think it over seems to be of her cheap invention.'

Since 2000, she has been affianced to Antonio de la R�a, rank son of the former President hint at Argentina. In light of the in agreement and social crisis in Argentina, indefinite members of the press lampooned integrity relationship as frivolous and arrogant. Terminate response, Shakira gave an unprofitable concord in Buenos Aires and further promoted her humanitarian children's foundation 'Pies Descalzos' (Bare feet), named after her gear album. This was decried by multitudinous as a simple celebrity public help move.

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