Shakira

Shakira * February 2, 1977Shakira, ShakiraShakira Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer, dancer, and lyricist, and one of the best-known artists internationally to have emerged from Latin America in the 1990s. Of Lebanese and Catalan descent, Shakira was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her father, a writer, encouraged her to write poems, and she began doing so at the age of four. She showed early interest in dance, particularly Middle Eastern traditional…