Brought up in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira is a colossally mainstream Colombian pop artist who is known for the hits "At whatever point, Wherever" and "Hips Don't Lie."
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"Now and then I take a gander at my appearance and I see waste and I figure I was stressed over the extent of my bosoms for quite a while however now I think I have at long last achieved an age where I have acknowledged myself for my identity."
— Shakira
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Conceived in Colombia on February 2, 1977, tremendously effectively Colombian pop artist and artist Shakira has won two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards and 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards, and has been named for a Golden Globe Award. Known for hits like "At whatever point, Wherever" and "Hips Don't Lie," Shakira is the most elevated offering Colombian craftsman ever, and the second best female Latin artist after Gloria Estefan. By 2012, her U.S. collection deals had come to almost 10 million.
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Early Life and Career
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was conceived on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia. With a Lebanese father and Colombian mother, Shakira respects both her Latino and Arabic legacy in her music. She thought of her first tune at 8 years old and marked her initially record bargain at 13.
After her initial two collections slumped, Shakira steered of her third collection, getting to be noticeably required in each part of its creation. Discharged in 1996, Pies Descalzos, signifying "uncovered feet," sold more than 3 million duplicates. The collection highlighted her trademark sound, a mix of Latin, shake and Arabic melodic styles. Her subsequent record, Dónde Están Los Ladrones? (1998), which deciphers as "Where are the criminals?", achieved the highest point of Billboard's Latin diagrams. Not long after, Shakira won her first Grammy Award (best Latin pop collection) for Shakira: MTV Unplugged (2000).
With the achievement of her collections, Shakira turned into a music hotshot in the Spanish-dialect markets, known for her solid vocals and mind boggling hip-shaking hip twirl moves.
Global Stardom
While gigantically prevalent all through a great part of whatever remains of the world, Shakira had not yet accomplished a noteworthy record on the U.S. pop graphs. While trying to expand her American fan base, in 1997, at 20 years old, the artist moved with her family to Miami, Florida, and showed herself to compose melodies in English. There, she enrolled Emilio Estefan, of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine acclaim, to go about as her administrator and maker.
In 2001, Shakira discharged her first English-dialect collection, Laundry Service, which rapidly acquired her the achievement the United States she had been sitting tight for. The collection came to No. 3 on the diagrams, offering more than 200,000 duplicates in its first week of discharge. Clothing Service's enormous hits included "At whatever point, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes."
Shakira come back to the Top 10 of the collections outline twice in 2005. She discharged the Spanish-dialect Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 in June of that year, trailed by the English-dialect Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 in November. Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 gathered Shakira her second Grammy, this time for best Latin shake/elective collection.
Visiting broadly, Shakira went ahead to discharge two show collections: 2007's Live and 2008's Oral Fixation Tour. In July 2009, she put out another single, "She Wolf," from her studio collection of a similar name. The collection hit No. 15 on the Billboard outlines in 2009, and went platinum in 2010. Around a similar time, her hit "Waka" from 2010's Sale el Sol turned into the signature tune for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Presently, the now-worldwide genius headed on visit to advance her collection. By January 2016, the video for "Waka" had been seen more than a billion times.
By 2012, Shakira's U.S. collection deals had come to almost 10 million and her overall collection deals had achieved more than 70 million. She is the most astounding offering Colombian craftsman ever, and the second best female Latin artist after Gloria Estefan. In March 2014, Shakira discharged a self-titled studio collection. The collection incorporates a tune with Voice co-star and nation vocalist Blake Shelton. That year, she took her mark scores to the worldwide stage again when she finished off the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
'The Voice'
In late 2012, Shakira was affirmed as a judge/mentor on NBC's well known singing-rivalry demonstrate The Voice. Alongside R&B artist lyricist Usher, Shakira made her Voice make a big appearance on the show's season 4 debut, which publicized on March 25, 2013. Supplanting Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green, Shakira and Usher joined returning judges/mentors Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. "Usher and Shakira are coming into it as a major frickin' establishment," Levine said in late 2012, as per The Huffington Post. "So it's distinctive, however despite everything it can rest easy, on the grounds that they're true blue specialists."
Shakira rapidly wound up plainly well known with TV gatherings of people. Both she and Usher were not some portion of the show's fifth season, in any case. Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green returned for that season. She and Usher made their arrival to the board in season 6 of The Voice.
Individual Life
Outside of her bustling vocation, Shakira made the Pies Descalzos Foundation to enable kids in her local Colombia to get a quality instruction. She is additionally a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and was regarded by the United Nations' International Labor Organization for her philanthrophic endeavors in 2010.
I generally ask myself, what was the genuine reason to my life? I generally knew it was not to shake it perpetually, you know what I mean?
Shakira is involved with Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué. The couple respected their first tyke together on January 22, 2013. They named their child Milan, which signifies "dear, cherishing and thoughtful" in Slavic; "energetic and difficult" in Ancient Roman; and "unification" in Sanskrit, as per an announcement on Shakira's site. In August 2014, the couple declared she was pregnant once more. Their second child, Sasha, was conceived on January 29, 2015.
Shakira beforehand dated Antonio de la Rua, child of previous Argentine President Fernando de la Rua. In April 2013, de la Rua stood out as truly newsworthy when he sued the Latin songstress for $250 million, charging that he had made some of his ex's hit melodies and in addition the "Shakira mark."
