She is also the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, and the second most successful female Latin singer behind Gloria Estefan, having sold over 70 million albums worldwide. She has won two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe-nominated. She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development. Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the "Clinton Global Initiative" created by former US President Bill Clinton. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. In 1995, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, "Hips Don't Lie". Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single "Whenever, Wherever" that became the best selling single of 2002, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album ❽ónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 7 million copies worldwide. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic.Īfter commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll ( /ʃəˈkɪərə/, Spanish: born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s.
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