Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning and 10 Latin Grammy Award-winning Colombian-Lebanese singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and occasional actress, first season of the coach The Voice.
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| Born | Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll 2 February 1977 |
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| Years active | 1988–present |
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Website | shakira |
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Mebarak 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.
Mebarak 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 Mebarak's tenth album was released in January 2014.[2] Shakira by Mebarak was released on 21 March 2014.
Career
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 14 January 2014 Shakira released a single with Rihanna, "Can't Remember to Forget You".[3]
Personal life
Shakira's first language is Spanish. She also speaks Portuguese and English. In addition she can speak some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic/Japanese. 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.
She has two sons, Milan (born 2013) and Sasha (born 2015) with her former boyfriend, Gerard Piqué.[4] In July 2018, Mebarak 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.
Discography
| Year | Album | Chart position | Albums sold | |||||||
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| US | UK | FR | DE | AU | CA | AT | CH | |||
| 1991 | Magia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1993 | Peligro | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1995 | Pies Descalzos | - | - | - | 71 | - | - | - | - | |
| 1997 | The Remixes | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1998 | ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 131 | - | - | 79 | - | - | - | 73 | |
| 2000 | MTV Unplugged | 124 | - | 32 | 91 | - | - | 55 | - | |
| 2002 | Laundry Service | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2002 | Grandes Exitos | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 45 | |
| 2004 | Live and Off the Record | 45 | - | - | 14 | - | - | 9 | 20 | |
| 2005 | Fijación Oral Vol.1 | 4 | 122 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2005 | Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2009 | She Wolf | 15 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| 2010 | Sale el sol | 7 | ||||||||
Singles
| Year | Song | Album | Chart position | Points | ||||||||
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| USA | Latin | GER | FRA | SPA | EUR | ITA | UK | WW | ||||
| 1991 | "Magia" | Magia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Esta Noche Voy Contigo" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Sueños" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1993 | "Peligro" | Peligro | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Brujería" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Eres" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1994 | "Tú Serás La Historia De Mi Vida" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1995 | "Dónde Estás Corazón" | Pies Descalzos | - | 5 | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Estoy Aquí" | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1997 | "Se Quiere, Se Mata" | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| "Antología" | - | 15 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998 | "Ciega, Sordomuda" | ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | - | 1 | - | 28 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Ojos Así" | - | 22 | - | 15 | 9 | 52 | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999 | "Tú" | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| "Inevitable" | - | 3 | - | 27 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "No Creo" | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Moscas En La Casa" | MTV Unplugged | - | 25 | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2001 | "Whenever, Wherever"/"Suerte" | Laundry Service | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8,541,000 |
| 2002 | "Underneath Your Clothes" | 9 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5,727,000 | |
| "Objection (Tango)" | 55 | 16 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 2,500,000 | ||
| "Te Dejo Madrid" | - | 45 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003 | "The One" | - | - | 39 | 15 | - | - | 20 | - | 29 | 500,000 | |
| "Que Me Quedes Tú" | - | 1 | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Fool" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003 | "Poem To A Horse" | Live & Off the Record | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2005 | "La Tortura" (feat. Alejandro Sanz) | Fijación Oral Vol. 1 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 2 | 5,985,000 |
| "No" (feat. Gustavo Cerati) | - | 11 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| "Don't Bother" | Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 42 | - | 6 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3,000,000 | |
| 2006 | "Día De Enero" | Fijación Oral Vol. 1 | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Hips Don't Lie" (feat. Wyclef Jean) | Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13,845,000 | |
| "Illegal" | - | - | 11 | - | - | - | 4 | 34 | 23 | 703,000 | ||
| "La Pared" | Fijación Oral Vol. 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2007 | "Las de la Intuición"/"Pure Intuition" | Fijación Oral Vol. 1 | - | - | 10 | - | 1 | 43 | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | "She Wolf"/"Loba" | She Wolf | 11 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3,105,000 |
| "Did it again"/"Lo hecho esta hecho" | - | 6 | 34 | - | 12 | 44 | 15 | - | - | - | ||
| "Give it up to me"(feat. Lil Wayne) | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2010 | "Gypsy"/"Gitana" | 65 | 6 | 7 | - | 3 | 25 | - | - | 36 | - | |
| "Waka Waka (this time for Africa)" | FIFA World Cup 2010 Official Song | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 11,035,000 | |
| "Loca"(feat. El Cata or Dizzee Rascal) | Sale el sol | 32 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 29 | 1 | - | 19 | - | |
| Year | Song | Album | Chart position | Points | ||||||||
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| USA | Latin | GER | FRA | ESP | EUR | ITA | UK | WW | ||||
| 2007 | "Te lo Agradezco, Pero No" (Alejandro Sanz feat. Shakira) | El Tren de los Momentos | 124 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | "Beautiful Liar" (with Beyoncé) | B'Day - Deluxe Edition | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4,416,000 |
| 2007 | "Si Tu No Vuelves" (Miguel Bosé feat. Shakira) | Papito | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
References
- "ROC NATION Artists".
- kevin.rutherford (17 December 2013). "New Shakira Single Set for January". Billboard.
- Corner, Lewis (13 January 2014). "Listen to Shakira and Rihanna's duet". Digital Spy.
- Terrero, Nina (22 January 2013). "Shakira welcomes baby boy Milan Piqué Mebarak". NBC Latino. Archived from the original on 7 April 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
Other websites
- aCharts Data
- 2007 New Entries
- refused-to-perform in FIFA 2022
- Current Single Placing
- Barefoot Foundation Archived 2011-04-11 at the Wayback Machine official site
- Fundación Pies Descalzos Archived 2011-04-24 at the Wayback Machine official site (in Spanish)