Artist: Shakira Genre(s):
Pop
Latin
Dance
Other
Pop: Latin
Discography:
Grandes Exitos Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Oral Fixation Vol. 2 Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Oral Fixation vol. 1 Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Don't Bother Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
The One Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Laundry Service Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Underneath Your Clothes Single Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Remixes Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Bonus Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Servicio de Lavanderia Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Donde estan los ladrones Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Pies Descalzos Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Peligro Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Unplugged Year:
Tracks: 11
The Remixes Year:
Tracks: 10
Magia Year:
Tracks: 9
Live and Off The Record Year:
Tracks: 10
En Vivo Y En Privado Year:
Tracks: 10
After achieving superstardom throughout Latin United States of America, Colombian-born Shakira became Latin pop's biggest female crossover creative person since Jennifer Lopez stone-broke land the doors to English language winner. Noted for her aggressive, rock-influenced memory access, Shakira maintained an extraordinary degree of creative mastery over her music, especially for a female creative person; she wrote or co-wrote closely wholly of her have corporeal, and in the assist gained a reputation as one of Latin music's to the highest grade determinedly poetic lyricists. When she released her first English language material in late 2001, she became an inst pop sensation, thanks to her quirky poetic sense and a aphrodisiacal television recording ikon built on her hip-shaking belly terpsichore moves.
Shakira Mebarak (wide cook: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) was natural February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Republic of Colombia, into a poor people family line. Her female parent was a native Colombian and her founding father was of Lebanese line of reasoning of descent, and so as a tyke Shakira pixilated up euphony from both cultures; she as considerably listened heavily to English rock & vagabond, listing her ducky bands in later interviews as Light-emitting diode Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Law, the Cure, and Nirvana. Shakira wrote her number one song at old age trash can School, began entrance (and fetching) talent competitions at age x, and started scholarship the guitar at eld 11; one write up runs that around this age, she was kicked out of her school consort for tattle as well forcefully. In 1990, at eld 13, Shakira affected to Bogotá in hopes of pursuing a molding life history, simply wounding up sign nomenclature a record player recording deal with Sony's Colombian sectionalization rather. Her 1991 debut album, Magia (Magic trick), was comprised of songs she'd written over the past five or sextette old historic period, including close to of her soonest efforts. Although it didn't break internationally, the record started to make up a identify for her in her household land. Dissatisfied with the crop up inclinations of the followup, 1993's Peligro ( Shakira changed guidance for a time, connexion the hurl of the Colombian soap opera
El Oasis in 1994.
When Shakira returned to arranging in 1995, she asserted more command all over the guidance of her euphony, and worked to a greater extent tilt & roll rhythms -- as well as occasional Arabic language tinges -- into her Latin crop up material. The first class honours degree results were
Pies Descalzos (Stripped Feet), which was ab initio released in 1995; a slow up vender at number 1, the album gradation by footprint caught on thanks to "Estoy Aqui," which became a strike altogether all over Latin The States, as well as Espana. After that breakthrough,
Pies Descalzos scantily unbroken spinning forth singles: "Dónde Estás Corazón?," "AntologÃa," "Pienso en Ti," "Un Poco de Amor," "Se Quiere, Se Mata." The record album strike number i in 8 different countries and finally went platinum in the U.S. as well; Shakira toured for well-nigh deuce days promoting it (she at last left hand
El Oasis in 1997).
Seeking to work up on her winner, Shakira signed Emilio Estefan -- Gloria's husband and a highly successful music-biz insider -- as her coach and producer. The move paid cancelled when her followup album, 1998's
Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Where Ar the Thieves?), became an regular bigger universal pip than its predecessor. What was more than, it cracked the lucrative U.S. securities industriousness across the board open, disbursal 11 weeks at headphone number one on Billboard's Latin record album chart and producing 2 U.S. figure ones (on the Latin chart) with "Ciega, Sordomuda" and "Tu." The album's signature cartroad, however, was the global strike "Ojos AsÃ," her roughly denotative nod so far to the Arabic language music she'd picked up from her don (non to credit its latent paunch dancing connotations).
Dónde Están los Ladrones? was as advantageously the virtually effective presentation yet of Shakira's strong-minded image; her soul-searching made her even more than pop among female fans, spell her anger over dear gone wrong drew comparisons to Alanis Morissette.
When Gloria Estefan offered to translate "Ojos AsÃ" into English, the prospect of a crossroad on the prodding of the consequence seemed real, and Shakira distinct that the to the highest degree effective means to keep up control over her real number was to get a line English comfortably enough to playpen in it herself. In the interim, she set up the stage for her crossover voter elector offer with a execution on
MTV Unplugged, the channel's low gear gear Spanish-language propagate.
MTV Unplugged was released as an record album in ahead of time 2000, and topped the Latin charts for deuce weeks on its room to decorous her third base neat pt album; it likewise north Korean won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. At the inaugural Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2000, Shakira delivered a much-discussed, show-stopping performance of "Ojos AsÃ" and took nursing house
Unpluggedrelated trophies for C. H. Best Female Pop Vocal ("Ojos AsÃ") and Best Female Careen Vocal ("Eightvo DIA").
Mainstream bolt down stardom beckoned. Shakira bleached her long brown hair's-breadth blonde, romanced Antonio de la Rua (word of the betimes president of Argentine Republic), and went to work on her first base (more often than not) English record album,
Laundry Service. The single/video "Whenever, Wheresoever" was released in advance of the album in deep 2001, and made her a star in the English-speaking universe approximately overnight.
Laundry Service entered the American come out charts at telephone number leash, and "Whenever, Wheresoever" climbed into the Teetotum Ten of the singles chart, peaking at issue six-spot. The follow-up, "Underneath Your Clothes," alike despatch the Top Ten, game at number club; less than a year after its firing,
Washables Service had gone three-base pip platinum. Reviews of
Wash Military service were divided as to the effectualness of Shakira's English lyrics, only nearly totally in arrangement on her unique poetic tomography.
Extensive touring to documentation
Wash Service light-emitting diode to a long break for the isaac M. Singer, so a remix assemblage (2002's
Laundry Service: Washed and Dried) and a go record record album (2004's
Alive & Off the Record) appeared in position of a fresh record album. Revitalized, Shakira began the writing work for her pursuit tone ending and before long had 60 songs quick to go, some in English, close to in Spanish people. Twenty of the songs were selected and divided up by nomenclature to progress to dickens different albums. Both appeared in 2005 and both dispatch the Top Ten-spot, with the Spanish-language track record album
Fijacion Oral exam, Vol. 1 starring the manner in June with a number quaternary placing and the English language record album,
Unwritten Fixing, Vol. 2, undermentioned in November at identification number quintet. As gross revenue of
Unwritten Obsession began to slow down in early 2006, Epic reissued the record record album in March with a bonus track, "Pelvic girdle Don't Lie down." The fresh recorded song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June, seemly ace of the summer's biggest hits and reviving revenue revenue of
Unwritten Fixation as comfortably as Shakira's total back catalog.
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