SHAKIRA

Name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Meaning: ´ ´ Goddess of the light
Full woman of gracia´ ´.
Date of birth: 2/02/1977
sign: aquarium
Father: William Mebarak
Mother: Nidia of the Carmen Ripoll
Sisters: Lucy, Robin and Patricia.
Brothers: Tonio, Alberto, Moisés.
Color of eyes: Brown.
True color of hair: Brown dark.
Height: 152 cm

The bilingual Colombian, of 30 years, Shakira, has ilunado and universal of pop music by approximately one decade and has sold more than 30 million of álbunes anywhere in the world.
Into 1996 &acute burst in with its first disc; ´ Barefoot feet ´ ´ that it catapulted it to estatus of super star in Latin America, Brazil and Spain. Its following albún ´ ´ Where estan the thieves? ´ ´ of 1998 one became a still greater success, and in 2001 fianlmete was revealed as a super world-wide star Co the publication of ´ ´ Laundry service´ ´ , that includes number one in the list of successes ´ ´ Whenever, Wherever´ ´ and ´ ´ Underneath your clothes´ ´. Songs that have gained the title of the best Latin artist of the world.

Been born in the coastal city of Barranquilla in Colombia, the 2 of February of 1977, Shakira is smallest desus eight brothers. Their Catalan mother ysu Lebanese father, a jeweler and esescritor whose Arab origin has influenced enormously its daughter, both has supported it in or ambition to be itself to singer.
Shakira knew soon that it wanted to be a professional in music and from the 8 years it already began to write to write his songs.

The words play a roll in my life, song everything what I say, and I always end up saying everything what I think.

During the school, Shakira did well-known its musial talent gaining spectacles where it touched the guitar and until she was espulsada of the choir of his school because its voice drowned the one of the other singers. To the 13 years, it signed his agreement of recording with Sony in Colombia, that gave like result its first album ´ ´ Magia´ ´ and immediately it obtained a site in the musical map of Colombia.