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
In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.
In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.
We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.
Nationalism is cured by traveling.
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...
My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!
I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music.
They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.
You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.