Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, "Hips Don't Lie". Recorded in Miami, 'Shakira Oral Fixation Tour,' is the record of the tour that toured several countries. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. Shakira has won many awards, including five MTV Video Music Awards, two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, 28 Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe-nominated.She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has sold between 70 and 125 million records worldwide (depending on the source), making her one of the best selling Latin artists of. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single "Whenever, Wherever", she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album ❽ónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French and Arabic.Īfter commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist onbelly dancing. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced /ʃəˈkɪərə/, Spanish: or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene ofColombia and Latin America in the early 1990s.