Artist: Shakira
Genre(s):
Pop
Latin
Dance
Other
Pop: Latin
Discography:
Grandes Exitos
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Oral Fixation Vol. 2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Oral Fixation vol. 1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Don't Bother
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
The One
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Laundry Service
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Underneath Your Clothes Single
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Remixes
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Bonus
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Servicio de Lavanderia
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Donde estan los ladrones
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Pies Descalzos
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Peligro
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Unplugged
Year:
Tracks: 11
The Remixes
Year:
Tracks: 10
Magia
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live and Off The Record
Year:
Tracks: 10
En Vivo Y En Privado
Year:
Tracks: 10
After achieving superstardom throughout Latin America, Colombian-born Shakira became Latin pop's biggest female crossover creative person since Jennifer Lopez stone-broke down the doors to English-language winner. Noted for her aggressive, rock-influenced access, Shakira maintained an extraordinary degree of creative control over her music, specially for a female creative person; she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her have corporeal, and in the serve gained a reputation as one of Latin music's to the highest degree ambitiously poetic lyricists. When she released her first English material in late 2001, she became an inst pop sensation, thanks to her quirky poetic sense and a aphrodisiacal video recording image built on her hip-shaking belly dance moves.
Shakira Mebarak (wide make: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) was natural February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, into a poor sept. Her mother was a native Colombian and her father was of Lebanese line of descent, and so as a child Shakira pixilated up music from both cultures; she as well listened heavily to English-language rock & rove, itemization her pet bands in afterward interviews as Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Police, the Cure, and Nirvana. Shakira wrote her first sung at eld ashcan School, began entrance (and fetching) talent competitions at years x, and started scholarship the guitar at years 11; one write up runs that around this age, she was kicked out of her school choir for singing as well forcefully. In 1990, at age 13, Shakira affected to Bogotá in hopes of pursuing a modeling life history, but wound up sign language a phonograph recording deal with Sony's Colombian division rather. Her 1991 debut album, Magia (Thaumaturgy), was comprised of songs she'd written o'er the past five or sestet old age, including some of her earliest efforts. Although it didn't break internationally, the record started to make up a identify for her in her menage nation. Dissatisfied with the crop up inclinations of the follow-up, 1993's Peligro ( Shakira changed guidance for a time, connexion the hurl of the Colombian soap opera El Oasis in 1994.
When Shakira returned to transcription in 1995, she asserted more mastery over the direction of her music, and worked more careen & roll rhythms -- as well as occasional Arabic tinges -- into her Latin crop up material. The first-class honours degree results were Pies Descalzos (Stripped Feet), which was ab initio released in 1995; a slow seller at number 1, the album step by step caught on thanks to "Estoy Aqui," which became a hit all over Latin America, as well as Spain. After that breakthrough, Pies Descalzos barely unbroken spinning off singles: "Dónde Estás Corazón?," "AntologÃa," "Pienso en Ti," "Un Poco de Amor," "Se Quiere, Se Mata." The record album strike number one in eight different countries and eventually went platinum in the U.S. as well; Shakira toured for well-nigh deuce years promoting it (she ultimately left El Oasis in 1997).
Seeking to build on her winner, Shakira signed Emilio Estefan -- Gloria's husband and a highly successful music-biz insider -- as her coach and producer. The move paid cancelled when her followup album, 1998's Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Where Are the Thieves?), became an regular bigger universal pip than its predecessor. What was more than, it cracked the lucrative U.S. securities industry across-the-board open, outlay 11 weeks at phone number one on Billboard's Latin record album chart and producing two U.S. figure ones (on the Latin chart) with "Ciega, Sordomuda" and "Tu." The album's signature track, however, was the global hit "Ojos AsÃ," her about denotative nod so far to the Arabic music she'd picked up from her don (not to credit its latent paunch saltation connotations). Dónde Están los Ladrones? was as well the most effective presentation yet of Shakira's strong-minded persona; her soul-searching made her even more than pop among female fans, spell her angriness over love gone wrong drew comparisons to Alanis Morissette.
When Gloria Estefan offered to translate "Ojos AsÃ" into English, the prospect of a crossing on the spur of the moment seemed real, and Shakira distinct that the most effective means to sustain control o'er her real was to get a line English well enough to pen in it herself. In the interim, she set the stage for her crossover voter offer with a performance on MTV Unplugged, the channel's first gear Spanish-language propagate. MTV Unplugged was released as an album in early 2000, and topped the Latin charts for deuce weeks on its room to decorous her third base neat platinum album; it too north Korean won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. At the inauguration Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2000, Shakira delivered a much-discussed, show-stopping performance of "Ojos AsÃ" and took nursing home Unpluggedrelated trophies for Best Female Pop Vocal ("Ojos AsÃ") and Best Female Rock Vocal ("Eightvo Dia").
Mainstream pop stardom beckoned. Shakira bleached her long brown hair blonde, romanced Antonio de la Rua (word of the early president of Argentina), and went to work on her first (mostly) English-language album, Laundry Service. The single/video "Whenever, Wherever" was released in advance of the album in late 2001, and made her a star in the English-speaking world about overnight. Laundry Service entered the American pop charts at number trinity, and "Whenever, Wherever" climbed into the Top Ten of the singles chart, peaking at issue six-spot. The follow-up, "Underneath Your Clothes," likewise dispatch the Top Ten, game at number nine; less than a year after its dismission, Washables Service had gone three-base hit platinum. Reviews of Wash Service were divided as to the effectuality of Shakira's English lyrics, only nearly all in agreement on her unique poetic imaging.
Extensive touring to support Wash Service lED to a long break for the isaac M. Singer, so a remix assemblage (2002's Laundry Service: Washed and Dried) and a live record album (2004's Alive & Off the Record) appeared in position of a new album. Revitalized, Shakira began the writing process for her following release and before long had 60 songs quick to go, some in English, some in Spanish. Twenty of the songs were selected and divided up by language to make deuce different albums. Both appeared in 2005 and both dispatch the Top Ten, with the Spanish-language record album Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1 starring the fashion in June with a number quaternity placing and the English-language record album, Unwritten Fixation, Vol. 2, undermentioned in November at number quintuplet. As sales of Unwritten Fixation began to slow in early 2006, Epic reissued the record album in March with a fillip track, "Hip Don't Lie." The freshly recorded song went on to top the Billboard Hot century chart in June, seemly one of the summer's biggest hits and reviving gross revenue of Unwritten Fixation as well as Shakira's total back catalog.
