Shakira performed on stage in Paris, France in 2010 for her The Sun Comes Out World Tour.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia), known as Shakira, is a two-time Grammy Award-winning and 10 Latin Grammy Award-winning Lebanese-Colombian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and occasional actress.
Shakira is also a philanthropist. She has created the NGO's Pies Descalzos Foundation in Colombia, and the Barefoot Foundation in the US, to help children world-wide.
Shakira is also known for having made a song named "Timor" based on fighting in East Timor between gangs (groups of criminals with guns), security forces (small, personal armies), and the government.
The first single from Shakira's tenth album was released in January 2014. Shakira was released on 21 March 2014.
In 1991 Shakira's first album Magia was released. Her second album Pies Descalzos was released in 1993. In 2001 she released her first English album Laundry Service. The album's first single "Whenever, Wherever" was the best selling single of 2001. In 2005 she released her second English album Oral Fixation, Vol.2. In 2009 She Wolf was released. The first single "She Wolf" reached number four in the UK Singles Chart. On January 14 2014 Shakira released a single with Rihanna, "Can't Remember to Forget You".
Shakira's first language is Spanish. She also speaks Portugese and English. As well as this she can speak some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic. Accordingly, she records songs in both English and Spanish, as well as having covered Francis Cabrel's song Je l'aime à mourir in French and Fairuz's Aatini Al Nay in Arabic as an homage to her home country of Lebanon.
On January 22, 2013 Shakira gave birth to son Milan Piqué Mebarak.
In July 2018, Shakira came back to Lebanon with her family. She visited her grandmother's village of Tannourine where she was granted a square in her name. A statue of the pop-star is set to be built soon in the mentioned village. She also visited her father's hometown, Zahle.
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↑ Corner, Lewis (13 January 2014). "Listen to Shakira and Rihanna's duet". Digital Spy.
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