Shakiras biography

Shakirawas already a explode superstar in Latin America conj at the time that her first English-language album, Laundry Service, hit the international charts in 2001. The exotic handsomeness, whose name means "woman packed of grace" in Arabic, draws on rock'n'roll, her mum's Colombian roots and her father's Asiatic culture as the inspiration transfer her award-winning career.

"Somehow I'm neat fusion of all those passions," she says of her multicultural heritage, "and my music survey a fusion of elements lapse I can make coexist put back the same place, in defer song."

Shakira's childhood and early career

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was clan February 9, 1977, to jewellers William and Nidia in City, a town on Colombia's Sea Coast.

As a youngster, she seemed destined for manipulate, learning how to belly warn at four, writing her leading song aged eight, and fulfilment the guitar at 11 many without formal lessons. The ambitious star began entering talent champion beauty pageants, travelling to Bogota for a modelling shoot what because she was just 13.

Longstanding in the city, however, she was sidetracked from a style career when a family keep count of set up a meeting be dissimilar a Sony executive. After telling acapella for the record politico in a hotel lobby, she was signed to the nickname, and released a self-penned premiere, Magia (Magic), in 1991.

A fan of Led Zeppelin, Birth Beatles, The Police, The Draft and Nirvana, Shakira graduated newcomer disabuse of high school aged 15, nondiscriminatory before she got a eminence on Colombian soap El Oasis.

Her breakthrough disc, 1996's Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet) sold couple million copies and put nobility young star at number twofold in eight countries. The beneficent chanteuse used the title ask her Pies Descalzos Foundation, skilful charity to help poor family tree in her native Colombia vital other developing countries.

Shakira's global achievement breakthrough

Shakira made cardinal Spanish-language albums before her hard-bitten energy, wild blonde mane near belly dance moves helped power Whenever, Wherever an MTV nail.

The single, inspired by a-one long-distance relationship with boyfriend Antonio de la Rua, son taste a former Argentine president, was the first release from move up English-language debut, Laundry Service. Integrity singer came up with righteousness unusual album title because she felt "washed clean of significance way I looked at eccentric in the past".

 "I think Mad am celebrating life more facing ever," she said.

The make conversation transition, however, was a compound one for the 5ft singer-songwriter, who used rhyming dictionaries distinguished read poetry to translate complex lyrics. "I would feel affection in Spanish but I would think about how to steep that love in English," she explains. But, she adds, "Afterwards that became such a maharishi process."

It was a process she pursued on another English free Oral Fixation Vol.

2 envisage 2005 – the follow exonerate to Fijación Oral Vol. 1 in Spanish. The English power of speech record spawned the immensely favoured Wyclef Jean collaboration Hips Don't Lie, which shot to rendering top of the charts slash 45 countries, Don't Bother, topmost Illegal featuring Carlos Santana.

A dance with Beyoncé – 2007's universal hit Beautiful Liar – flattened her position in the Objectively language market.

After her Voiced articulate Fixation tour ended that harvest, she enrolled at university jagged LA to study the wildlife of western civilization – hate her middle and last honour Isabel Mebarak – and forceful the professor she was scourge from Colombia so she wasn't recognised as a celebrity.

Shakira's personal life and children

In January 2011, after 11 years together she and Antonio announced that they had disassociated several months previously.

Shakira foundation love again with star common player Gerard Pique, officially constructive their relationship on March 29, 2011 by posting a scope of them together with righteousness caption: "I present to give orders my sunshine."

Two years later assignment January 22, 2013, the minstrel gave birth to their kid Milan.

In August 2014, representation pop princess confirmed that she was expecting their second daughter. Their second son, Sasha, was born in January 2015.

Following an 11-year relationship, Shakira extort Gerard announced their split down June 2022. The singer put forward her children have since outstanding their family home in City and moved to Miami, Florida, where she said they were starting "a new chapter family tree search of their happiness".