PERSONAL INFORMATION:
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professional by mentioning personal information like: Full name, age,
nationality, birthplace and occupation.
Shakira
Shakira is a pop singer. She is from Colombia. She is a beautiful
woman. She is short and slim. Her hair is blond and her eyes are brown. She is
a kind and generous person. This singer is a friendly woman.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on
February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, in southern Colombia. Shakira's father
William Mebarak, American-born but of Arab origin, was a jeweler but working
with the local newspaper. The view in front of the typewriter Shakira woke up
in the desire to do so too, had learned to read at age three and was writing
poetry atfour. Her father encouraged the paper to transcribe your thoughts and
emotions, and so, almost playing, he developed his ability to write songs.
At four years, Shakira first heard the dumbek
or derbake, the drum that accompanies belly dancing in Arab food restaurant in
Barranquilla. There were two dancers who took her out to dance and taught him
some steps. And since that day, dancing Shakira bellydancing at all hours in
his room at the park, at family gatherings, and even in front of the nuns at
his school. He also started singing since childhood, but Shakira's voice was
very powerful and strong vibrato, so that in the school choir sang only solo
parts.
That is to say that even then were combined
talents as a songwriter Shakira, dancer and singer, who then would make famous.
When I waseight years his father was wrong with the jewelry and had to close
it, then Shakira wrote "Your dark glasses", a song about sunglasses
hiding his father's tears. And sang songs in different events of the moment,
but also every Friday Shakira danced the dance Friday at his Catholic school,
with the consent of the nuns. In 1988 participated in the contest Looking
Artist Kids, which aired in theColombian chain Telecaribe, and won the first
prize was a bicycle and fifty dollars. Then he would win two more times.
Before he was thirteen, Shakira got to be heard
by a Sony Colombia executives singing a capella in the hotel lobby, with its
now classic hip movements. The result was a contract to record three albums. Th
e first album came out in 1991 with the name of Magic, where he recorded
thesongs he had composed. In 1993 came another album called Danger, also songs
by Shakira. Due to the limited impact of both failed to record the third album.
At fifteen, Shakira represented Colombia at the
Festival de Viña del Mar in Chile, obtaining the third with the song
"You." After taking the time to finish high school, Shakira was
convened by Sony in 1995 to record their third album, Barefoot,which launched
in Latin America thanks to hits like "I'm here," "Bare feet,
white dreams" and "Where are you heart." The album sold over
four million copies and shortly after the remix version of Shakira sold another
500,000 units.
This success attracted the attention of
Shakira's largest producer of Latin albums in the world, Emilio Estefan, who
produced their fourth album entitled "Where Are theThieves", released
in 1998. This album of Shakira had repercussions not only in Latin America, but
is sold in France, Switzerland, Canada and especially in America. Eight of the
eleven songs of this production were simple discs, including "Blind, deaf
and dumb", "Flies in the house", "No way", "Inevitable",
"You," "If you go", "Eighth Day" and the most
successful for the time Shakira "Ojos Asi".Shakira The next two years
devoted himself to learning English in order to compose in that language. With
the help of Gloria Stefan translated some of his songs and composed new ones.
In November 2001 they released the single "Whenever, Wherever", with
great success worldwide, and soon after released the album Laundry Service
(Laundry), with thirteen million albums sold. That same year, Shakirawon the
American Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. In 2002 appeared in the San Remo
Festival and won the European public, and some months later was invited to the
program Divas Live, in America, where Shakira starred with Whitney Houston,
Cher, Celine Dion and Anastacia, among others. In the same year Shakira won
another MTV Award and five Music Video Awards and MTV Latino.
