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" She&amp;#x27;s a mother and mogul&amp;amp;#8212;and full of shockingly good career advice. With hit songs in more than 55 countries&amp;amp;mdash;and a seat next to Adam Levine on The Voice&amp;amp;mdash;what&amp;#x27;s left for Shakira to do? Jason Sheeler finds out. Walking into Gordon Ramsay&amp;amp;#8217;s restaurant in Los Angeles, I can spot Shakira just by her mane of hair. Today those lush and much-attended-to curls aren&amp;amp;#8217;t spilling over the back of a red and hydraulically lifted chair on an NBC soundstage. But her seat is a throne all the same: ornate wood, gold leather, and perched in the restaurant&amp;amp;#8217;s window, overlooking the city she calls home while filming The Voice. She is undoubtedly music royalty. The 37-year-old Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll has sold more than 50 million albums all over the world and racked up a combined 10 Latin and American Grammys. (&amp;amp;#8220;Hips Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Lie,&amp;amp;#8221; by the way, is worldwide the biggest-selling single of the twenty-first century. True story.) Along the way Shakira has picked up a Spanish soccer star (boyfriend Gerard Piqu&amp;amp;eacute;, father of her baby, Milan); a whole new fan base, thanks to her seat on the hugely successful singing competition show; and a cause: providing education to children living in poverty through her Fundaci&amp;amp;oacute;n Pies Descalzos/The Barefoot Foundation. &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m a perennial student myself,&amp;amp;#8221; she says modestly. And, hey&amp;amp;#8212;lest you be wary of celebrities with charities, Shakira&amp;amp;#8217;s doing a lot more than just writing a check (although she did write a $10 million one to start a fund for educational centers throughout Latin America). Ask Bono: &amp;amp;#8220;When she gets going on the subject of child poverty,&amp;amp;#8221; U2&amp;amp;#8217;s philanthropic front man has said, &amp;amp;#8220;she can be pretty scary.&amp;amp;#8221; But on this afternoon Shakira&amp;amp;#8217;s not baring any fangs. In fact, when I sit down and make a joke about hoping her chair would spin around, she ups the game. She pulls her chair closer to mine. Welcome to Team Shakira. Here are a few of my favorite moments from her cover story below; to read the full story, pick up a copy of the February issue of Glamour on newsstands starting January 14, or download the digital edition now at glamour.com/app. Shakira on her duet with Rihanna&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;[W]orking with her was utopia. She&amp;amp;#8217;s the sexiest woman on the planet. And at the end of the day, we&amp;amp;#8217;re both just basically Caribbean girls. The chemistry was so good and so real. She taught me dance moves. She was a sweet teacher.&amp;amp;#8221; Working with fellow The Voice judge Adam Levine and other men in the industry&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;Dealing with boys at work and being the only girl can be challenging. I have my insecurities, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ve learned I have to be a good sport. I have to be able to take certain jokes and not take them personally. There are jokes made almost every second of the day. I had to develop a tough hide. You know, the music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time&amp;amp;#8212;producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.&amp;amp;#8221; Her success&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings. I met with a record executive when I was 13 and sang &amp;amp;#8216;Material Girl&amp;amp;#8217; to a cassette-tape boom box. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve shaken hands at every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest&amp;amp;#8217;s. One day [I realized I was famous] enough. But here&amp;amp;#8217;s the thing: I&amp;amp;#8217;m still hungry. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m not hungry for fame&amp;amp;#8212;just the need to prove to myself that I can still do this.&amp;amp;#8221; Her vision for her life&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;I feel like I&amp;amp;#8217;m not on earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?&amp;amp;#8221; Whether she has gotten any grief from Latin fans about her blond hair or being too thin&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;At the beginning. But my man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. He doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t like too skinny. [Laughs.] That takes pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about. This month I&amp;amp;#8217;m not exercising because I have an album to finish and I have a baby. And I like these pastries in front of me.&amp;amp;#8221; Whether the injustice she saw growing up planted the seed for her education charity&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it&amp;amp;#8217;s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don&amp;amp;#8217;t get a chance to be heard. [The Barefoot Foundation] provides education to vulnerable kids who live in extreme poverty. We&amp;amp;#8217;ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.&amp;amp;#8221; To read the full story, pick up a copy of the February issue of Glamour on newsstands starting January 14, or download the digital edition now at glamour.com/app. Want a peek at Shakira&amp;#x27;s cover shoot? See some of the stunning photos here and watch her behind-the-scenes cover video below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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