Shakira She-Wolf

Issue July 18, 2009. SHAKIRA, A SHE-WOLF IN DISGUISE Beautiful Magazine. Europe Already at young age Shakira developed an unique voice and her strong Vibrato was overpowering the voices of her class mates while singing in group. Some of her school pals would laugh at her singing and called her sound animal like. Funny how this seems to have influenced Shakira´s passion in becomming one of the most successful bilingual pop singers of the moment; a true she-wolf.

It all started back in Barranquilla, Colombia, with writing little notes to her father, who, recognizing his daughters talent, encouraged her to keep penning down her emotions and thoughts, and thus developing a her great talent in song writing. At the age of seven Shakira displayed her impressive dancing ability while joining a group of belly dancers in a local Middle Eastern restaurant. Even before she developed her famous hips, Shakira scored big success with her moves. But, as it is often the case her break came totally unexpected.

A local theater producer and friend of young Shakira coincidentally met a Sony Music executive on a flight. He was able to convince him to audition Shakira which eventually happened in a motel lobby. It didn't take long for Sony to prepare a three-year contract for Shakira, but still her success didn't happen overnight. At 14 she released her first album Magia, which dramatically failed due to a lack of audience. Peligro, which was released two years later was slightly more successful, but Shakira herself wasn't comfortable with the material, feeling it to be more a reflection of her producer than herself. Shakira decided to focus on finishing school before re-entering the studio for her third album. Pies Descalzos was released in 1995 and finally brought her the success she worked for so hard. After joining producer Emilio Estefan, Shakira's tar started to rise. She landed TV performances, like an Spanish-language MTV Unplugged session and started to make name for herself in other parts of the world, which encouraged Shakira to start learning English. Needless to say this was probably one of the best moves in her career. She wrote her first English album and instantly became a super star selling more than 13 million albums with the release of Laundry Service.

Over the past few years, Shakira's star has been rising higher and higher. Her career knows many highlights, such as record breaking numbers – her Hips Don' Lie became the most played song in the history of pop radio – numerous awards for both her English and Spanish accomplishments and interesting co-operations with other artists such as Wyclef Jean and Beyonce, and a respectful Spirit of Hope award for her now 13-year-old Fundación Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet Foundation), which aids child victims of violence in Colombia by providing education, emotional, nutritional, psychological and medical support. This month now Shakira releases her latest musical venture She-Wolf, an album full of tunes that are nightclub dynamite and will doubtless guarantee more chart success for the now 32-year old sexy singer. The first single She-Wolf was released last Tuesday, July 14, simultaneously with the Spanish version entitled Loba. A video for the song will come out later this month and promises to inventively sexy, telling the mischievous tale of a metaphorical she-wolf with Shakira's unique dance techniques. The album will be released in October this year, with a Spanish follow up in 2010. –B-

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