Shakira Biography

Biography

Slated to appear on two popular TV programs of ABC's "Good Morning America" (1975) and NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (1975) by early December 2005, Shakira once again showed her dominance in American music scene as her duet with Alejandro Sanz, "La Tortura," has gloriously become one of the VH1's Top 40 Videos of the 2005 which set to encounter its premiere on the channel by December 2nd. Smoothly released her second English album, "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2," on November 22 following the tremendous success of "Fijaci ón Oral, Vol. 1," she previously has been bestowed the title of Favorite Latin Artist at the 33rd Annual American Music Awards held on November 22, pointing out that her star still shines brilliantly in this year indeed.

The talented Latin pop singer Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977, as Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. Being the youngest daughter in the family, she inherits an exotic look with the mixture of Lebanese-Colombian blood from her parents, William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado. At her early age, she listened to the music of her parents' culture as well as English-language songs, preferably those came from Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, The Police, ...

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and The Cure. "I was so in love with that rock sound" she said, "But at the same time because my father is of Lebanese descent, I am devoted to Arabic tastes and sounds. Somehow I am fusion of all of those passions and my music is a fusion of elements that I can make coexist in the same place in one song." Shakira began writing her own song when she was merely 8 years old, then at age 10 went to compete in either local or national talent contests in which she always won. Within the year of 1990, this 13-years-old girl, whose name in Arabic means "woman full of grace," moved to Bogota, hoping to establish a career in modeling. Instead of becoming a model, her remarkable talent was noticed by Miguel E. Cubillos and Pablo Tedeschi of Sony Colombia which later offered her to sign a record deal with. In the following year, she released her first album entitled "Magia" (Magic) which was quite successful. It contained the songs she had written on her own between the age of 8 and 13. The second album, "Peligro" (Danger), came to public in 1993 and had the ...