Whatever happened, it’s right there in the songs,” she said during an interview with The New York Times, “I’ve decided that I’m not going to explain every song this time. Taking a more personal approach, and a chance to reconnect with herself, the artist considered this the best album of her career. Pulling back a little and returning to her Latin roots, Shakira worked with multiple producers and artists and recorded in several studios throughout the world to create Sale el Sol ( Sunrise) which was released in 2010. Despite her tense relationship with Epic Records who failed to promote the album, She Wolf earned gold and platinum certification in several countries and sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. “It’s designed for people to have fun and enjoy themselves and forget about their troubles and the crisis,” she said at the time. In 2009 with the release She Wolf, Shakira mashed up electro, disco, Latin, Middle Eastern beats to create a highly danceable album that ramped up her sex appeal and proved once again that she had a true talent for wordplay, and not taking herself too seriously.
2 that she recorded with musician Wyclef Jean that would catapult Shakira into the homes and heads of an untold number of fans. But it was “Hips Don’t Lie” from Oral Fixation, Vol. 1, a perfect follow-up to her Shakira: MTV Unplugged which won Best Latin Pop Album in 2000. This proved to be a winning combination and Shakira won the coveted Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album for Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 which was followed by the English language Oral Fixation, Vol.
Responding to her Latin American fans concerns that she was moving away from them, in June 2005 the pop princess took a strategic decision and released Fijación Oral, Vol. With cuts like the ballad “Underneath Your Clothes” and the rousing “Whenever, Wherever,” album reached number three on the charts and sold over 200,000 copies in the first week, and over 15,000,000 copies worldwide. Enlisting the help of music producer Emilio Estefan, Shakira recorded her first English language album, Laundry Service, in 2001. Her always supportive parents moved with the singer to Miami where she taught herself to write in English. A star was born, but her success was limited to the Spanish speaking world, and the girl from Barranquilla had much bigger goals than that.Įven though she enjoyed fame in much of the Spanish speaking world, Shakira felt a driving need to breakthrough to English speaking audiences. Two years later, Shakira released Dónde Están Los Ladrones? ( Where are the Thieves?) and the album skyrocketed to the top of Billboard’s Latin charts. And international audiences also caught a glimpse of her unique hip thrusting belly dancing that pays homage to her Middle Eastern roots in videos like the reggae infused Un Poco de Amor. A powerful vibrato, passionate lyrics, pulsating beats that blend rousing rock, Latin rhythms, and melodic Arabic strains. Still signed with Sony Music Colombia, Shakira took control of production and when Pies Descalzos ( Bare Feet) was released in 1996, the world heard for the first time what is now her signature sound. After that, the singer took a break from recording to finish high school and was also cast in a Colombian telenovela.īut the lure of the studio called her back soon enough, but this time on her terms. Her sophomore effort, Peligro ( Danger) didn’t fare much better, in great part because of Shakira’s dissatisfaction with the production. However, the album did expose the fledgling singer to the world of the recording studio and got some good play on Colombian radio. But her debut album, Magia ( Majic), was anything but and sold only 1,200 copies. Her first milestone was reached in 1990 when, at age 13, she signed a contract with Sony Music Colombia. bio, “And that’s what I’ve done my entire life – work real hard to accomplish those goals.”
“I knew I had to work real hard to conquer my dreams and make them tangible,” the singer said in an interview for. By the time she was eight Shakira wrote her first song, “Tus gafas oscuras” (“Your Dark Glasses”) inspired by her beloved father who wore dark lenses for years after one of his sons, Shakira’s older half-brother, was killed in a motorcycle accident.Īfter being rejected by a local choir director because her voice “sounded like a goat,” Shakira continued to write her music and sing never giving up on her determination to become an international star. Born in 1977 to a Lebanese father and Colombian mother in Barranquilla, Shakira discovered her talent when she started writing poetry at age four. Fame didn’t exactly greet Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll at her family doorstep in the middle class neighborhood of Barranquilla where she was raised.
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