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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2 1977), known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian Latin pop singer-songwriter. She is best known for songs such as "Estoy Aquí", "Tu", "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Ojos Así", "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection", "Don't Bother", "La Tortura", "Hips Don't Lie" and her dancing style which primarily features her hips. She is in the Guinness Book of World Records: Most #1 weeks on Billboard Latin Single Charts for La Tortura. In 2007 she will be added as best selling single in a week for Hips Don't Lie.

Biography

Childhood and beginning

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Personal life

In 2000, Shakira started dating Antonio de la Rúa, the son of then president of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa, a romance that made headline news throughout Latin America. In March of 2001, he proposed to her. During Fernando De la Rúa's presidency, the economy of Argentina collapsed, leading to the subsequently violent December 2001 riots; in response to the turmoil, Tower Records decided to no longer sell Shakira's albums in Argentina as Antonio was directly involved in the management of his father's administration. De la Rúa and Shakira remain engaged, with future plans to marry.

Dancing

Shakira is well-known for her dancing in various music videos. The moves are based on the art of belly dancing, a part of her Lebanese heritage, which Shakira says she learned as a young teen to overcome her shyness . The intense training has afforded her a fluidity in her body movement most seen in the video to her hit "La Tortura". In an MTV interview, she said people told her she never moved her chest when dancing, so she danced with her chest (as well as her usual belly dancing moves) in the videos for "La Tortura" and "Hips Don't Lie".

She has had several belly dance choreographers, including award-winning Bellydance Superstar Bozenka . As her MTV 'The Making of...' special entales, she worked with Jamie King for the choreography, but ended up creating most of it herself.

Discography

Albums:

• 1991: Magia
• 1993: Peligro
• 1996: Pies Descalzos
• 1997: The Remixes
• 1998: ¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
• 2000: MTV Unplugged
• 2001: Laundry Service
• 2001: Servicio de Lavanderia
• 2002: Laundry Service: Washed & Dried
• 2002: Grandes Éxitos
• 2004: Live & Off the Record
• 2005: Fijación Oral Vol. 1
• 2005: Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Grammy & Latin Grammy History

• Shakira has also 6 nominations for the 7th Latin Grammy Awards.

See also

• List of Shakira awards
• Oral Fixation Tour
• List of Colombians
• List of Lebanese people
• Pop Latino
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
• List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
• List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart
• List of best-selling albums worldwide
• List of best-selling singles (F)
• List of best-selling music artists
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
• List of world records

References

• Oral Fixation World Tour 2006 (info) Template:Es icon
• VH1 Driven: Shakira (article)
• VH1 Driven: Shakira (video)
• Book: Woman Full Of Grace by Ximena Diego
• Pareles, Jon (Nov. 14, 2005). "Shakira, from lip to hip". New Straits Times, p. L3.
• "Shakira pertahan orang Arab". (Nov. 8, 2005). Berita Harian, p. 13.
• Frank Cogan's review of Laundry Service for The Village Voice
• Chart Performance for "Don't Bother" from Billboard Hot 100
• Chart Performance for Oral Fixation 2
• Oral Fixation 2 Sales
• Template:Es iconTower Records Argentina boicot en contra de Shakira
• Tower Records Argentina boycotts Shakira
• Reported IQ of 140 USA Today article
• belly dancing

Notes

1. http://www.mtvasia.com/News/200203/14003510.html
2. http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/shakiras%20belly%20dancing%20discovery_27_01_2006
3. http://www.bozenka.biz
4. http://www.shakiramedia.com/index.php?page=popup&id=314&rate=350

External links

• Official website
• Shakira at IMDb

• 1977 births
• Colombian musicians
• Colombian singers
• Colombian women
• Dance musicians
• Grammy Award winners
• Lebanese-Colombians
• Living people
• People with absolute pitch
• Rhythmic Top 40 acts
• Roman Catholic musicians
• Shakira
• Singer-songwriters
• Spanish-Colombians