Shakira

Birth name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Also known as: Shaki 
Born: 2.2.1977 
Years active: 1990 – present
Origin:Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian contralto singer,
songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, philanthropist and occasional
actress who has been a major figure in the pop music scene of Latin America since the mid-1990s.
In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service,
which sold over fifteen million copies worldwide. A two-time Grammy Award-winning and seven-time
Latin Grammy Award-winning artist, Shakira is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time,
having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide according to BMI. She is also the only artist
from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart,
the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart.
According to the United World Chart, Shakira is as of 2007 the fourth most successful artist
so far from the 2000s. She is also the only artist to have two songs in the top ten of the
most successful singles since 1999. She has a total of four, the lowest one being number 51.

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