PORTAL 2: PERSONAL INFORMATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Make a collage with pictures to introduce the 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.