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About Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia, the only child of William Mebarak Chadid — a writer of Lebanese descent — and Nidia Ripoll Torrado, a Colombian mother of Catalan and Italian ancestry. The bilingual and multicultural household shaped both the Arabic-melodic flourishes that have run through her music from the beginning and the easy code-switching between Spanish and English that became commercial trademarks. She was writing poetry by four, performing belly-dance routines at Lebanese family gatherings by the same age, and singing in school talent showcases by primary school. Local TV appearances on Barranquilla stations through her early teens led to a contract with Sony Music Colombia at thirteen. The first two albums — Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993) — sold modestly and the label considered her career stalled. The breakthrough was Pies Descalzos in 1995, a Latin-rock and Latin-pop record produced with Luis Fernando Ochoa that produced the singles Estoy Aquí, Antología, and ¿Dónde Estás Corazón? — selling several million copies across Latin America and establishing her as a regional star. Dónde Están los Ladrones? in 1998 consolidated the rock-en-español sound across Ojos Así, Ciega Sordomuda, and Inevitable. The English-language pivot arrived with Laundry Service in November 2001 — Whenever, Wherever, Underneath Your Clothes, and Objection (Tango) — selling tens of millions of copies into a market that had been broadly closed to Spanish-singing Latin artists outside of Gloria Estefan's earlier crossover. Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2 in 2005 paired a Spanish-language record with an English-language follow-up, and the second's Hips Don't Lie single featuring Wyclef Jean became a global crossover phenomenon, hitting number one in more than fifty countries. She Wolf in 2009 leaned into electropop. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) — the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, performed at the closing ceremony in Johannesburg with the South African vocal group Freshlyground — became one of the best-selling and most-watched songs ever associated with the tournament. Sale el Sol (2010), the self-titled Shakira (2014), and El Dorado (2017) carried the cycle into the late twenty-tens with Chantaje (Maluma), La Bicicleta (Carlos Vives), and Me Enamoré. The February 2020 Super Bowl LIV halftime show co-headlined with Jennifer Lopez was among the most-watched halftime performances in the event's history at the time. The years after were marked publicly by the breakdown of her long-term partnership with the retired Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué — the father of her two sons Milan and Sasha — and a catharsis-and-public-letter cycle of singles: Te Felicito (Rauw Alejandro), Monotonía (Ozuna), BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53 with Bizarrap, TQG with Karol G, and Acróstico. Those singles plus new material became Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (March 2024), which won the Latin Grammy Album of the Year and the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. Across the catalogue she has won three Grammy Awards and fourteen Latin Grammy Awards and founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation in 1997 — a Colombian education and child-welfare charity that has built and funded schools across vulnerable Caribbean coastal communities. She records for Sony Music Latin and lives between Miami and Barcelona.

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