Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born Wednesday, February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira, is a ten-time Grammy Award-winning Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, music-video director, dancer, choreographer and Golden Globe nominee who has sold over fifty million records worldwide. She has been in the music industry since 1991, when she released her first album. A child prodigy, she began writing poems and songs at age four and taught herself the guitar at age ten. In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking market with the release of her first album in that language, Laundry Service, which she wrote and produced herself and which has sold 3 million copies in the United States and 13 million copies worldwide.

Shakira is half lebanese, one quarter Spanish, and one quarter Italian. She was born to a Colombian mother of Catalan and Italian descent, Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado, and a lebanese father, William Mebarak Chadid, in Barranquilla, ...