Shakira’s Biography, Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Songs, and more

Birth name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Nickname: Shaki
Date of birth: 02 February 1977
Place of birth: Barranquilla, Colombia
Profession: Singer
Marital status: unmarried, 2 children
Net Worth: $300 million in 2021 and $350 million in 2022
Partner: Gerard Pique
Height: 158 cm
Original hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Star ticket: Aquarius

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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia. Shakira is the only child of Nidya del Carmen Ripoll Torrado and William Mebarak Chadid of Lebanese origin. He has eight older half-siblings – four sons and four daughters from his father’s previous marriage. She started belly dancing at the age of 15. Shakira means “grateful” in Arabic. This is the feminine form of the name Shakir.

He spent most of his childhood in Barranquilla, in northern Colombia. Among other things, Shakira is known for her IQ of 140. He wrote his first poem at the age of 4, entitled Kristályrózsa. As he got older, he became more and more excited about writing, and for his seventh birthday, he asked his parents for a typewriter. The poems he wrote were later included in songs. At the age of eight, after one of her brothers died in a motorcycle accident, Shakira wrote her first song, Tus Gafas Oscuras.

When she was 4 years old, her father took her to a Middle Eastern living room, where Shakira first heard the doumbek, the traditional drum that Arabs typically use for belly dancing music. That was the moment when Shakira decided she wanted to be a performer. She loved to sing, but her teacher at school wouldn’t let her sing in the Catholic choir, saying her voice was too strong. At school, she was only known as the belly dancing girl, as she performed a belly dancing number every Friday at school. Between the ages of 10 and 13, he was invited to perform at many events, thus becoming recognized in his hometown.

Career
1990–1995: The Beginnings
Shakira’s debut album was Magia, which was recorded and directed in 1990 when Shakira was only 13 years old. The songs were recorded from the age of eight, and their genres are pop-rock ballads and disco. The album was released in June 1991, shortly after Shakira’s songs were heard on Colombian radio stations, but it didn’t sell many copies, barely selling 1,200 copies worldwide. After the Magia performance failed, Shakira was invited to China to perform at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in February 1993, where she placed third. The one who voted for him was 20-year-old Ricky Martin.

Shakira’s second album was Peligro, which was released in March, but Shakira was not satisfied with the results and had problems. The album received much better reviews than his first album. Shakira then decided to take some time off so that she could graduate. Earlier this year, Shakira started appearing in a Colombian TV series called The Oasis.

1995-2000: The Breakthrough
Shakira signed with Sony Music in 1995. It was then that his third album,  Pies Descalzos, was recorded. Recordings began in February 1995, after the success of “¿Dónde Estás Corazón?”. The album was released in February 1996, reaching number one in eight countries. It was certified platinum by the RIAA in August 1996.

In March 1996, he went on his first international tour, which was called Tour Pies Descalzos. The tour provided 20 performances and ended in 1997. Also this year, Shakira won three awards courtesy of the Billboard Latin Music Awards. The Pies’ Descalzos album later sold five million copies. Not long after, he also released a remix album called The Remixes. This remix album also included tracks that were in Portuguese. In Brazil, this record sold almost a million copies.

Her fourth album was Dónde Están los Ladrones, directed entirely by Shakira and Emilio Estefan, Jr. The album was released in September 1998. The album peaked at number 131 on the US Billboard 200, and topped the US Latin Albums chart for weeks. Seven million copies were sold worldwide, and 1.5 million were sold in the US. The album included tracks such as Ciega, Sordomuda, Moscas En La Casa, No Creo, Inevitable, Tú, Si Te Vas, Octavo día, Ojos Así. Two of his songs also won Latin Grammy awards.

In 1999, he received his first Grammy Award nomination in the Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album category. On August 12, 1999, the MTV Unplugged album was recorded in New York, for which he also received the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album. By 2001, the album had reached five million sales worldwide. In March 2000, Shakira went on Tour Anfibio, which was a two-month tour in Latin America and the USA. In August 2000, Shakira also won the MTV Video Music Award. Later that same year, he received five award nominations at the Latin Grammy Awards. He also won two Grammy Awards.

2001–2004: Landry Service
A Dónde Están los Ladrones? and after the success of MTV Unplugged, Shakira started new work, on an English album. He worked on this album for over a year. It was then that the song ” Whenever, Wherever ” (Suerte in Spanish) was released, which was the first track from the album and became a huge success. The album was released as the fifth track in August 2001. This track reached number one in several countries. It was the first major success in the US, where the song peaked at number six on the Top 100. In 2003, Shakira co-wrote Come Down Love with Tim Mitchell, which became the soundtrack to the film The Italian Job. in which Charlize Theron and Mark Wahlberg starred, however, the song was not included on the film’s soundtrack.

Shakira’s fifth and first English album was Laundry Service, which was released on November 13, 2001. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard USA 200 and sold 200,000 copies. It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in June 2004. Seven tracks were released from the album “Whenever, Wherever” / “Suerte”, “Underneath Your Clothes”, “Objection (Tango)” / “Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)”, “The One”, “Te Dejo Madrid” , “Que Me Quedes Tú” and “Poem to a Horse”. Despite being the best-selling album of 2002, it sold over twenty million copies worldwide, boosting her music career. At this time, Shakira was the He also advertised for Pepsi.

In 2002, Shakira performed “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” at Aerosmith’s MTV Icon and then joined Cher, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Anastacia and the Dixie Chicks at VH1 Divas Live Las Vegas. In September, he won the International Viewer’s Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards with the track “Whenever, Wherever”, and in the same year, Laton also bagged a Grammy Award. In October, he won the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America award os. In May 2003, he embarked on a tour that included 61 performances. The tour was worldwide, including North America and South Africa, Europe and Asia. Shakira also released the Grandes Éxitos compilation album. Not long after, he also released a DVD called Live & Off the Record, which sold a total of 3 million copies.

2005–2007: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation, Vol. 2
Shakira’s sixth album Fijación Oral, Vol. 1was published in June 2005. The song La Tortura was released from the album, which quickly climbed the top 40 and top 100 charts. The song was produced together with Alejandro Sanz. Shakira was the first singer to perform a Spanish song at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was a great success, debuting at number four on the Billboard 200 list, selling 157,000 copies in the first week. It has sold more than two million copies in the USA, and received eleven Platinum from the RIAA. One million copies were sold worldwide in three days. Four songs were released from the album, No”, “Día de Enero”, “La Pared” and “Las de la Intuición”, all of which reached number one on the song charts worldwide. From Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 more than four million were sold in 2006.

Shakira’s seventh album was Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, which was released on November 29, 2005. The album charted at number five on the Billboard 200. The album sold 125,000 copies in the first week, then 1.8 million, and the number of sales jumped to 8 million worldwide. Tracks from the album included Hips Don’t Lie, co-produced with Wyclef Jean, this was released in February 2006, The song soon became very popular, becoming the first number to reach number one on the Billboard 100 and there ikss stayed, in 55 different countries. Another track Illegal was released from the album.

In 2006, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz made another song together called Te lo Agradezco, Pero No, which was included on Sanz’s album El Tren de los Momentos. The song was very successful in Latin America. Not long after, he made a duet with Miguel Bosé on the song Si Tú No Vuelves. In 2007, Shakir teamed up with Beyoncé, and together they produced the song Beautiful Liar. The track was included on Beyoncé’s B’Day album. The track was also nominated for a Grammy Award. Shakira also collaborated with Annie Lennox on the song Sing, which was included on the album Songs of Mass Destruction. Towards the end of 2007, Shakira and Wyclef Jean completed their second duet, King and Queen, which appeared on the 2007 album Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant.

2008–2012: She Wolf and Sale el Sol
In 2008, Forbes magazine revealed that Shakira was the fourth highest-paid singer. In July 2008, he signed a $300 million deal with Live Nation, a ten-year deal to stage a tour. He also signed a new contract with Epic Records for three albums – one in English, one in Spanish and a selection. In January 2009, he performed We Are One, where President Barack Obama was also present. He also performed the song Higher Ground with Usher and Stevie Wonder. Shakira also appeared in one of the tracks of the Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa’s Cantora 1 album, La Maza.

She-wolf was one of the lead tracks on Shakira’s 8th album, released on July 13, 2009, Shakira wrote and directed this track with John Hill and Sam Endicott. The title of the Spanish verso was Loba, which appeared on the same day. She-wolf and Loba became available digitally the next day. The music video for She Wolf premiered on MTV on July 30, 2009. This track was a huge success worldwide, reaching number one in Latin America, number two in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Estonia, number five in Canada, Belgium, number six in Finland, number ten in Japan and number eleven in the United States of America. The She Wolf album was released worldwide in October 2009, then on November 23 in the USA. The album received a very positive review, 89,000 copies were sold in the first week, and in the end it sold 300,000 records in the USA alone. Thanks to its worldwide success, it became a gold record in Russia, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, France, Argentina, Hungary, and Greece. It went platinum in Colombia, Mexico and went triple platinum in Taiwan. A total of two million copies were sold.

The second song from the album was Did It Again, which was released in October 2009. This song reached the top 40 worldwide. His song Give It Up to Me, which he produced with Lil Wayne, was released in November 2009. The release of the album in the USA was postponed, and the third song, which means Gypsy, was released in February 2010.

In May, Shakira teamed up with a South African band, Freshlyground, and they covered the theme song of the 2010 World Cup, the song Waka Waka (This Time for Africa). The song was based on the song Zangalewa. The track was a huge success around the world, in several countries in Europe it was in the top 20 list. It became the best-selling song written for the World Cup.

In October 2010, Shakira released her ninth album, Sale el Sol. The album peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200. The first track that was released from the album was Luca, which was number one on the music charts in many countries. The album sold more than one million copies worldwide within a week and sold a total of four million copies.

In 2011, Shakira was awarded the title of Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, and then performed Joe Arroyo’s Barranquilla Me Quedo, to whom she also paid tribute, as the singer died a year ago. In 2010, Shakira collaborated with Pitbull, the title of the song was Get It Started, which can be heard on Pitbull’s album Global Warming. This issue was released on June 28, 2012.

2013–present: The Voice and Shakira
In November 2011, Shakira spoke about her tenth album, at which time she stated that she had already started working on it. He has worked with famous people such as Benny Blanco, Tiësto, RedOne, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, LMFAO, Akon, Fernando Garibay, Sia, Ester Dean Skrillex, The Runners, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Shea Taylor and Billboard. Originally, the first song from his album was Truth or Dare. The filming of the video clip began in Lisbon on June 29, 2012, but due to the singer’s pregnancy, the release of the song and the completion of the video clip were postponed.

On September 17, 2012, it was announced that Shakira and Usher would join the fourth season of The Voice alongside Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. However, Shakira announced that she would now focus on her new album in the fall and ended up appearing in the sixth season of the talent show.

On November 23, 2013, Shakira announced that she had finished writing the lyrics for all the tracks on the album. In December 2013, it was announced that the singer’s new song would be delayed a bit, but in January 2014, she recorded a new song with Rihanna. Shakira and Rihanna’s joint song Can’t Remember to Forget You was released on January 14, 2014. And Shakira’s 10th album was released on March 25, 2014.

On 13 July 2014, Shakira performed La La La (Brazil 2014) , a song she co-produced with Brazilian singer Carlinhos Brown, at the closing ceremony of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. This performance was now his third appearance at FIFA.

On August 14, 2015, she announced at Disney’s D23 Expo that she would appear as a voice actor in the children’s animated film Zootopia as Gazelle, the biggest pop star in Zootopia. The film was shown in February 2016, at the premiere of which the singer was also present. Shakira will also appear in a film by singing a theme song. The theme song for the film was composed by Sia and Stargate, the title of the song is Try Everything. On October 28, 2016, he released the song Chantaje, which he produced together with the Colombian singer Maluma. The track will be heard on Shakira’s 11th album.

On April 7, 2017, Shakira released the song Me Enamoré from her seventh studio album El Dorado. The album was released on May 26, 2017. In November 2017, Shakora will embark on the El Dorado album tour. The tour includes a total of 36 locations and will end in February 2018. The tour was supposed to start in Germany on November 8, 2017, but the singer had to cancel due to illness and postpone the concert to a later date. On November 9, the singer canceled her concerts in Paris, Amsterdam and Antwerp for similar reasons. On November 14, 2017, he announced via social media that, unfortunately, his vocal cords were bleeding. He couldn’t sing, so he postponed all his performances in 2017 to 2018. Shakira also added via Twitter, that in 2018 he will also visit Brazil and give a concert. At a concert in Hamburg on June 8, 2018.

In 2019, he did not release another song or album. Later this year, the NFL and Pepsi jointly announced that Shakira and Jennifer Lopez will perform a song together at the 2020 Super Bowl. Shakira contributed to “Girl Like Me,” a track from the Black Eyed Peas’ Translation album. . The album was released on June 19, 2020. Shakira made two appearances during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine in Global Goal: Unite for Our Future and The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II.

Personal life
Shakira got together with an Argentinian lawyer Antonio de la Rúa in 2000. In 2009, during an interview, Shakira stated that their relationship is like being married, they don’t need a paper to prove it. On January 10, 2011, Shakira announced that she and Antonio had parted ways after 11 years.
In September 2012, it became public that de la Rúa was suing Shakira for $250 million, and in April 2013, he filed and sued the singer for $100 million due to management issues.

Shakira is currently in a relationship with Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué, who plays for FC Barcelona. In 2010, they met on the set of the music video for the song Waka Waka, which was prepared for the 2010 World Cup. Shakira confirmed their relationship on March 29, 2011. Shakira gave birth to her first son Milan Piqué i Mebarak on January 22, 2013 and gave birth to her second child Sasha Piqué i Mebarak on January 29, 2015 in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

Interesting facts
– He has always loved children, so through his foundation, he builds schools for children in need.
– In addition to his mother tongue, he speaks English, Portuguese, Italian and a little Arabic fluently.
– In 2021, news broke that the singer was involved in a tax family case

Shakira Movies

FILMS, SERIES
Zootropolis-Animal Big Bad (2016) – Voice of Gazelle
El oasis (1996) – Luisa Maria

Shakira Discography

Pies Descalzos (1995)
1. Estoy aquí
2. Antología
3. Un poco de amor
4. Quiero
5. Te necesito
6. Vuelve
7. Te espero sentada
8. Pies descalzos, sueños blancos
9. Pienso en ti
10. ¿Dónde estás corazón
11. Se quiere, se mata

Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998)
1. Ciega, sordomuda
2. Si te vas
3. Moscas en la casa
4. No creo
5. Inevitable
6. Octavo día
7. Que vuelvas
8. Tú
9. ¿Dónde están los ladrones?
10. Sombra but you
11. Ojos así
Laundry Service (2001)
1. Objection (Tango)
2. Underneath Your Clothes
3. Whenever, Wherever
4. Rules
5. The One
6. Ready for the Good Times
7. Fool
8. Te Dejo Madrid
9. Poem to a Horse
10 Que Me Quedes Tú
11. Eyes Like Yours (Ojos así)
12. Suerte
13. Te Aviso, te Anuncio (Tango)

Fijación Oral Vol. 1 (2005)
1. En tus pupilas
2. La pared
3. La tortura (featuring Alejandro Sanz)
4. Obtener un sí
5. Día especial (featuring Gustavo Cerati)
6. Escondite inglés
7. No (featuring Gustavo Cerati)
8. Las de la intuición
9. Día de enero
10. Lo essential
11. La pared (Versión Acústica)
12. La tortura (Shaketon Remix)

Oral Fixation Vol. 2 (2005)
1. How Do You Do
2. Illegal (featuring Carlos Santana)
3. Hips Don’t Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean)
4. Animal City
5. Don’t Bother
6. The Day and the Time (featuring Gustavo Cerati)
7. Dreams for Plans
8. Hey You
9. Your Embrace
10. Costume Makes the Clown
11. Something
12. Timor

She Wolf (2009)
1. She Wolf
2. Did It Again
3. Long Time
4. Why Wait
5. Good Stuff
6. Men in This Town
7. Gypsy
8. Spy (featuring Wyclef Jean)
9. Mon amour
10. Lo hecho está hecho (bonus track)
11. Años luz (bonus track)
12. Loba

Sale el Sol (2010)
1. Sale el Sol
2. Loca (featuring El Cata)
3. Antes de las Seisrdita (featuring Residente Calle 13)
4. Gordita (featuring Residente Calle 13)
5. Addicted to You
6. Lo Que Más
7. Mariposas
8. Rabiosa (featuring El Cata)
9. Devoción
10. Islands
11. Tu Boca
12. Waka Waka (Esto es África) (K-Mix)
13. Loca (featuring Dizzee Rascal)
14. Rabiosa (featuring Pitbull)
15. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (K-Mix)

Shakira (2014)
1. Can’t Remember to Forget You
2.Empire
3. You Don’t Care About Me
4. Dare (La La La)
5. Cut Me Deep (featuring Magic!)
6. 23
7. The One Thing
8. Medicine (featuring Blake Shelton)
9. Spotlight
10. Broken Record
11. Nunca Me Acuerdo de Olvidarte
12. Loca por Ti