Shakira Biography

Do you know Shakira’s date of birth? Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer and songwriter who was born on February 2, 1977. Shakira, who was born and reared in Barranquilla, has been dubbed the "Queen of Latin Music" and is known for her musical diversity. At age 13, she made her recording debut with Sony Music Colombia. After the financial failure of her first two albums, Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993), she came to fame in Hispanic nations with her subsequent albums, Pies Descalzos (1995) and Dónde Están Los Ladrones? (1998).

Shakira (Shakira Singer) has sold over 75 million albums with a repertoire of 145 songs, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. According to Forbes, Shakira has sold the most albums of any female Latin artist in history as of 2018.

Shakira Biography- Childhood 

Have you ever wondered what Shakira's full name is? Shakira Ripoll was born in Barranquilla, Colombia on February 2, 1977. Let us know more about Shakira’s family. She is William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado's only child. Her father, William, was born in New York City to a Lebanese family. His family relocated to Colombia when he was five years old. Her maternal  Columbian side had two Spanish surnames, Ripoll and Torrado, the former of which is Catalan and is descended from four brothers who moved from Catalonia to coastal Colombia in the nineteenth century. She has also claimed to have distant Italian ancestors through a "Pisciotti '' ancestor. Shakira is the feminine version of the name Shakir, which means "grateful" in Arabic. She was reared in a Catholic household and attended Catholic schools. 

Her father's previous marriage resulted in eight elder half-siblings for her. Shakira spent part of her childhood in Barranquilla, a city on Colombia's northern Caribbean coast. Shakira's commercial ability is sometimes ascribed to her high IQ, which has been estimated to be 140 in the entertainment press. Shakira's first poetry, "La rosa de cristal," was written when she was four years old. She was captivated as a child watching her father write stories on a typewriter and requested one as a Christmas present. She received the typewriter when she was seven years old and has been composing poems ever since. These writings ultimately become tunes. An older half-brother was murdered in a motorcycle accident when 

Shakira was two years old; six years later, at the age of eight, Shakira composed her debut song, "Tus gafas oscuras" ('Your dark spectacles,'), which was inspired by her father, who wore dark glasses to mask his sadness for years. She liked singing for her classmates, instructors, and even the nuns at her Catholic school, but she was rejected from the school chorus in second grade because her vibrato was too powerful. Her music teacher said she sounded "like a goat." She claims she was also known as "the belly dancer girl" because she would perform a number she had learnt every Friday at school. 

Shakira was invited to numerous events in Barranquilla between the ages of 10 and thirteen, and she earned some local fame. It was at this time that she met Monica Ariza, a local theatre producer who was pleased with her and sought to aid her career. Ariza persuaded Sony Colombia CEO Ciro Vargas to organize an audition for Shakira in a hotel lobby during a trip from Barranquilla to Bogotá. Vargas admired Shakira and returned to the Sony headquarters, where he presented the tape to a song and talent director. However, the director was not overjoyed and considered Shakira to be a "lost cause."

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Personal Life

In 2000, Shakira aged 23 began dating Argentinian lawyer Antonio de la Rua. Shakira claimed in a 2009 interview that their relationship already functioned like a married pair and that "they don't need documents for that." Shakira and de la Rara divorced after ten years of marriage in August 2010, citing a "mutual choice to spend time apart from our loving partnership."

The pair "consider this moment of separation as brief," she said, with de la Ra continuing to manage Shakira's "commercial and career interests as he has always done." As previously reported in September 2012, de la Rua sued Shakira in April 2013, claiming he was due $ 100 million after Shakira abruptly ended their business collaboration in October 2011.

In 2011, Shakira aged 34 began dating Gerard Piqué, a Spanish footballer who plays centre back for Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Piqué, who is ten years Shakira's junior, met her for the first time in the spring of 2010 when he featured in the music video for Shakira's song "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)," which was the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Achievements

Shakira (Shakira singer) is a prominent figure in Latin music, commonly referred to as the "Queen of Latin Music" for her crossover to the global market, which is so significant that The New York Times dubbed her the "Titan of Latin Pop" for her unique and leading position in Latin music, writing: "Even as a new generation of Spanish-speaking artists crosses over into American music's mainstream." 

The Independent provided a similar comparative perspective, naming Shakira an "International Phenom" for her global appeal and sales statistics, adding, "To put her in perspective, other Latin exports such as Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez are mere minnows next to Shakira, selling half the number of records she does."

Shakira has won three Grammys, twelve Latin Grammys, four MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, 39 Billboard Latin Music Awards, six Guinness World Records, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Billboard twice awarded her the Top Female Latin Artist of the Decade (the 2000s and 2010s). In 2011, she was named Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year and Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year for her philanthropic work with the Barefoot Foundation and contributions to music.

She was appointed to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in the United States in 2011, and she was given a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.

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Conclusion 

Shakira is a Colombian pop singer and dancer, who has won several Grammys, Latin Grammys, and American Music Awards. She is the best-selling Colombian musician of all time, with over 70 million records sold worldwide, with songs like "Whenever, Wherever" and "Hips Don't Lie." She was a judge on The Voice, a renowned singing competition show. Shakira's music celebrates both her Latino and Arabic roots, as she was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese father and a Colombian mother. Shakira was picked to perform her song "Hips Don't Lie" at the 2006 Germany Soccer World Cup closing ceremony.