Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer and record producer. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she began performing in school, demonstrating Latin American, Arabic, and rock and roll influences and belly dancing abilities. Shakira released her first studio albums, Magia and Peligro, in the early 1990s, failing to attain commercial success; however, she rose to prominence in Latin America with her major-label debut, Pies Descalzos, and her fourth album, Dónde Están los Ladrones?...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 February 1977
CityBarranquilla, Colombia
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.
In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.