"My voice was strong and I wanted to sing out loud, and he didn't think I was the right choice for the choir," Shakira says. She says she wasn't able to join the school choir because a music teacher thought her voice was "too strong, too powerful." She wrote her first song when she was 8.īut not everyone in the Catholic girl's school she attended thought she had a future. 2, Shakira has become a superstar, one who has achieved a crossover appeal in the United States that most Latin singers can only dream of.īorn to a father of Lebanese descent and a Colombian mother, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll says in a rare interview that she started singing at a young age. With hits like "Hips Don't Lie," from her latest album, Oral Fixation Vol. In a recent stop in her hometown, Barranquilla, Shakira told thrilled fans attending her concert at the huge soccer stadium that everything she's learned, she's learned from Barranquilla - and that the night belonged to the city of her birth. Now, she's wrapping up an exhausting world tour, singing in English and Spanish and showing why she's Latin America's most successful crossover artist. The world has seen her play at last summer's World Cup in Berlin, the world's biggest sporting event.Īnd she dominated the Latin Grammys in November - winning four of the five nominations she received. Many know the Colombian singer Shakira for her potent, sultry voice and swiveling hips.
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