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Shakira
was born on February 9, 1977, in the Colombian city of Barranquilla.
Her name, Shakira, which in Arabic means "woman full
of grace", comes from her ancestry. She is the daughter
of a Colombian mother and a Lebanese father whose Arabic background
greatly influenced his daughter.
Shakira is a 21-year-old
singer and songwriter, who's been catapulted to international
fame with the multi-million selling "Pies Descalzos".
Her sound, like her hit single "Estoy Aquí",
are musically surprising and gritty, with intellectual lyrics
and an electronic and an acoustical blend.
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Her gutsy, rock infused album,
"Donde Están los Ladrones", assures her position
as a pioneer who has redefined the scope of Latin American singers.
Shakira won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Ojos
Así" at the first annual Latin Grammy Awards in fall
2000.
Shakira's love and talent
for music was apparent at early age when she started winning local
and national talent contests at age 10. Shakira moved to Bogota
to become a model, and instead emerged with a recording contract
for Sony. Her debut album "Magia", released in 1991 when
she was just 14, consisted entirely of self written songs. Shakira
appeared on the Colombian soap opera El Oasis beginning in 1994,
but returned to music the following year.
Shakira is the most exciting
singer songwriter to come out of Latin America in years. For the
millions that already bought her albums, she is already the voice
of a new generation. She is perhaps the most recognizable and certainly
the most intriguing voice in Latin pop-rock music today.
Shakira recorded the phenomenally
successful "Pies Descalzos", a smash hit album, which
has sold close to four million copies worldwide. Shakira became
an international sensation, touring for almost solid two years,
playing her songs to sold-out audiences throughout the world. In
Brazil alone, "Pies Descalzos" sold an excess of 900,000
copies.
Shakira who was chosen among
dozens of female Latin singers to grace the cover of Time Magazine
in a recent article titled "Era of the Rockera". Last
year, the Colombian government designated Shakira as an official
goodwill ambassador, and the Pope granted her an audience in the
Vatican. She was named Latin Female Artist of the Year at the World
Music Awards in Monaco.
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