Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1977)
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She turned Colombian rock en español into a global grammar, then proved a Latin artist could own the English-language charts without sanding off the accent. Two decades at number one, two languages, one unmistakable voice.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll signed to Sony Music Colombia at 14, but the breakthrough came with Pies Descalzos in 1995 and Dónde Están los Ladrones? three years later—albums that made her the face of Latin rock across the Americas. Laundry Service in 2001 was the crossover: 13 million copies, sung in English with hips that famously don't lie, and suddenly the door was open for every Latin act that followed. She spent the next two decades stacking number-one albums in both Spanish and English across four separate decades, a streak no other woman had managed, while singles like "Waka Waka" and…
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You go out in search of affirmation that you’re good, that people like you. But this time it was different – I was out there because I wanted to feel the pleasure of singing.
I’ve always lived through my mouth. I am fixated on chocolate, the spoken word, things I’ve said and the things I should never have said.
I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one.
It’s in an area where there’s a huge population of displaced people – refugees in their own country.
I always felt that there had to be much more [than] just... shaking it, you know, eternally. Or just making music.
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