History of Shakira - Popular Women in the World : Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born in Colombia, February 2, 1977, age 34 years), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced / ʃəkɪərə /, Spain: [tʃakiɾa] or [ʃakiɾa]), is a singer Colombia, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a musical genius in the field of Latin American music in the early 1990s.
Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many talents at the school as a perpetrator of life, showing vocal abilities with a rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with his own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese. Some of the song is "Hip's Do not Lie" and "La Tortura." Shakira is known for rocking his hips and a distinctive singing voice. This is the History of Shakira - Popular Women in the World.
Biography
Shakira is a Colombian mother, Nidia del Carmen Ripoll named which is a Spanish-Catalan descent. While his father was a descendant of Lebanese-born American Catholic named William Mebarak Chadid.
Shakira has been working in the field of music since the age of 8 years. And, little by little he became famous, until her first album Magia recorded in 1991. From 1995-2000 he was the success of Latin America and Spain. Then his first English language album, Laundry Service was launched in 2001.
After the commercial flops with local producers in his first two albums, and a little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce its own brand of music. In 1995 he released the Pies Descalzos, which brought great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her album ¿Dónde 1998 Están los Ladrones? critical success. Since then he has gained many fans in countries with semi-Hispanophone, and the countries of non-Spanish speaking a lot, especially the United States. In 2001, and assisted by heavy rotation of music videos, "Whenever, Wherever", he broke into the English speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released the project's second album called Fijación Oral Vol. Oral Fixation 1 and Vol. 2. Both reinforced his success, especially with one of the most successful song in the 21st century so far, "Hips Do not Lie" From October-November 2009 Shakira released a new album around the world She Wolf ..
He has won two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards and been nominated for Golden Globe. He is also the highest selling Colombian artist of all time, and the second most successful female Latin singer has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide [10]. In addition, he is the only artist from South America to reach the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, Australian ARIA chart, and the UK Singles Chart. Shakira will be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Album Fijación Oral Vol. 1 is a Spanish-language album, which was launched in 2005 received rave reviews world. Even in Spain the album was a debut at the top.
English version of Fijación Oral Vol. 1, Oral Fixation Vol. 2 was released late 2005, although the song was well received but did not make the songs on this album to fill top positions.
In Indonesia, East titled song from the album Oral Fixation Vol. 2 changed its title to It's Alright
The song that became the World Single of the Year
Is in fact a song from Shakira songs dance-pop, dancehall and electro-traditional dance-pop. All the first songs were welcomed by English-language world. Proven 3 of the Shakira song managed to become "World Single of the Year" which was never achieved by any artist, even Madonna who only has 2 songs that managed to become "World Single of the Year". Here are three songs that managed to become "World Single of the Year":
• "Whenever Wherever", released in 2002, managed to get a top position in almost all countries in Europe, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and reached position 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. This song became the "World Single of the Year" by beating several other top songs, call it "Get The Party Started" from Pink, Madonna, or American Life of Complicated from Avril Lavigne. This song topped the world in 40 countries and has sold at least 6 million copies in 2002.
• "Hips Do not Lie", released in 2006 who managed to get a top position in all countries in Europe, except Austria, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and also the United States. This song is successfully sold far more than Whenever Wherever, as many as 9 million copies over only in 2006, beat the big hits from Madonna is "Hung Up" also get a top position in many countries. This song topped in 65 countries around the world, managed to be on track with the acquisition of peak throughout the country the second largest, behind the song ... Baby One More Time by Britney Spears who occupied the first position by occupying the first position in more than 75 countries around the world.
• "She Wolf", released in 2009 is the only song of the three songs that became the World Single of the Year, but instead just get a Major Award in Single Latin only, while the World Single of the Year 2009 is still on hold by the "I Gotta Feeling "from the Black Eyed Peas. In 2009, this single is the single most successful Latin with sales reaching 2 million copies, but this new single released a few months. However this song is still quite far to be a World Single of the Year in 2009 compared to premises which I Gotta Feeling adrift about 3 million copies.
Concert
On 18 November 2006, Shakira music concerts in Venezuela and attended by President Hugo Chavez at between 10 thousand spectators. Concert to promote the album titled Fijacion Oral Vol 1 took place at a military airport in Caracas. No less was 30 million albums sold worldwide.
