Shakira

[HeWolf]

Shakira just reached 9 million followers on twitter. She's also about to reach 41 million likes on Facebook! She's the most followed/searched Hispanic person on the web!

9,007,794 Followers

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[HeWolf]

Euro 2012: Shakira to unveil Ukraine £300m stadium to host new Olympic Stadium in Kiev!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... final.html

[HeWolf]

After a year of touring for the "Sun Comes Out" world tour, it ended today in Puerto Rico. A total of 5 continents!

[denise]

After a year of touring for the "Sun Comes Out" world tour, it ended today in Puerto Rico. A total of 5 continents!

Wooo that's a long tour !
Total gross????

[HeWolf]

The Sun Comes Out World Tour:
- 24 concerts in North America
- 45 concerts in Europe
- 32 concerts in Latin America
- 1 concert in Africa
- 3 concerts in Asia
Total: 105 concerts this era. She did it in 1 year.

[JackDaniels666]

Woefully underrated in the west (not helped by Epic records ahem). Beautiful spanish albums too.

She is very underated in the west or sen as just a sex symbl (although very beautiful). But her voice. wow.

BTW: mini rant why oh WHY Epic-ness did you not release SES here in the UK?

Best songs:

Loca
Sale El Sol
Gordita
She Wolf
Good Stuff
La Tortura
Illegal
Underneath Your Clothes
Whenever Wherever
Objection
Don't Bother

News please?

Jamie

[GetBack]

Her new boyfriend is 10 years younger!

[Brazilian]

Miley Cyrus and Shakira to Duet in a New Song for Charity

Miley Cyrus and Shakira reportedly are going to hook up in a studio for a brand new song. According to reports, the two female singers are lending their voice for good cause, which is to raise fund for children with heart problems.

The charity song is rumored to be titled "Love & Rock", and is expected to be released on Valentine's Day this year. Words are, the two female artists are going to perform it at a charity gala on February 14, and will follow it up by premiering a music video.

Miley and Shakira have participated in a number of charities in the past years, including recording songs for Haiti Relief initiatives. The former joined "Everybody Hurts" and "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", while the latter took part in "Somos El Mundo 25 Por Haiti".

[url]reportedly are going to hook up in a studio for a brand new song. According to reports, the two female singers are lending their voice for good cause, which is to raise fund for children with heart problems.

The charity song is rumored to be titled "Love & Rock", and is expected to be released on Valentine's Day this year. Words are, the two female artists are going to perform it at a charity gala on February 14, and will follow it up by premiering a music video.

Miley and Shakira have participated in a number of charities in the past years, including recording songs for Haiti Relief initiatives. The former joined "Everybody Hurts" and "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", while the latter took part in "Somos El Mundo 25 Por Haiti".

Source: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00046607.html

[GetBack]

She's collaborating with Pharrell and Britney (rumored!)..

[Brazilian]

She's collaborating with Pharrell and Britney (rumored!)..

That would be really amazing ! Britney gets very strong digital downloads and airplay in USA(mainly),while Shakira is dead for them since She Wolf era second single.

On the other hand,Shakira smashes in Europe,where Britney needs to regain her huge popularity ! That makes sense ,since Shakira is finishing her new album in english.

[GetBack]

She's collaborating with Pharrell and Britney (rumored!)..

That would be really amazing ! Britney gets very strong digital downloads and airplay in USA(mainly),while Shakira is dead for them since She Wolf era second single.

On the other hand,Shakira smashes in Europe,where Britney needs to regain her huge popularity ! That makes sense ,since Shakira is finishing her new album in english.

I just can't imagine the hotness of the video!! Hope this will be true!

[HeWolf]

- Shakira has sold over 60 million albums worldwide, over 9m just in the US.

- She has sold over 100 million records.

- Highest selling international artist in Spain, this decade.

- Her first spanish album, “Pies Descalzos” achieved great success, getting
sales of over 5 million.

- Her second spanish album, “Donde Están Los Ladrones?” has sold over 7
million of copies, over 1 million of copies in the US being a Spanish album.

- She made a wonderful MTV Unplugged, which sold over 5 million of copies.

- Her crossover album, Laundry Service, has sold over 13 million of copies worldwide.

- The song "Whenever Wherever" sold over 8.5 singles worldwide.
According to mediatraffic, this was the highest selling song in 2002.

- Her spanish album, Oral Fixation Vol. 1, debuted 4 in Billboard 200, and has
sold over 4 million copies.

- Her first single from this CD "La Tortura", with Alejandro Sanz, stayed total
of 25 weeks #1 in the Hot Latin Tracks on the billboard charts. Which broke records!

- Her second English album, Oral Fixation 2, was one of the most sold albums in the
year 2006 in USA.

- "Hips Don't Lie", her most successful single in the american market, was the
most downloaded song of 2006, and the most successful song
worldwide of that year.

- It reached the number one spot in at least 55 countries, and has sold over
10 million copies, over 2 in the USA Alone.

- It became the fastest song to reach a million digital sales, selling them in 9
weeks in the US.

- This single, helped Oral Fixation 2 to become certified platinum in the USA,
selling over 8 million copies world-wide.

- Although her sixth album, She Wolf, wasn't as successful in the US, it peaked
at 15 in the Hot 200 reaching moderate success and provided us singles like
She Wolf (platinum), Did It Again, Gypsy, and Give It Up To Me (gold). It has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

- Her 7th album, "Sale el Sol" has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. It debuted
7th in US billboard charts, being an album mostly in spanish, and reached
the top spot in the latin albums category.

- Her first single from this cd, Loca, went to number one in over 33
countries, and reached number one on Latin Songs, Dance Songs, Latin Pop
Songs and Tropical songs in the US billboards chart.

- Her second single, "Sale el Sol" achieved great success in all Latin America.

- Her third single, “Rabiosa”, collaboration with Pitbull was an international hit, charting really high in many countries, including #1 in
19 countries and its video reached over 20,000,000 views on youtube in the
first week of released.

- Her most recent DVD “Live in Paris” has achieved great success overseas. So far, it has sold a little over 500,000 copies.


- Her latest single in France, "Je L'aime a Mourir" has achieved massive success in France. It has been the top selling single in France for 7 weeks, and has been on top of the charts in the country for the same amout of time.


- Winner of at least 274 awards worldwide.

- Nominated for over 309 awards worldwide.

- Among the most important awards, we can stress 2 Grammys, 9 Latin
Grammys, 4 American Music Awards, 6 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Latin
MTV Awards and 5 MTV Video Music Awards.

- In 2011, she was awarded with a star in Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame for her
talent and achievements in the music industry.

-Also in 2011, she was recognized as Latin Grammy’s Person Of The year, an
award that has been given only to legends of Hispanic music. Names like Julio
Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Juan Gabriel and just a few others have been able to
achieve this much in the Spanish market.

- In 2007, she was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Original Song-
Motion Picture for “Despedida”.

- According to Forbes, she's one of the singers that earn the most money
worldwide.

- In 2008 was the 4th highest earning woman in music.

- She has also been recognized and awarded for her social labor on top of
her musical achievements.









- Shakira is the only Sudamerican artist to reach the number 1
spot in the US Billboard Hot 100.

- According to Sony, she’s the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time.

- She has managed to stay relevant in the international market for around 20
years.

-The first Colombian to receive a star in Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame.

- With “La Tortura”, she became the FIRST LATIN ARTIST to sing a spanish
song in the MTV Video Music Awards, and being nominated with a Spanish
song.

- Her video for Waka Waka is one of the most watched music videos on
youtube ever, having over 400 millions plays. If we sum the Spanish version
views, they go up to almost 500 millions. The song achieved massive success
in Latin America, Spain, France and other parts of Europe.

- This video, made her become the third person to achieve over 250,000,000
views on youtube, just after Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber

- This theme was chosen as the theme song for the 2010 FIFA World and is
the biggest selling World Cup Song of all times.

- She’s the 4th most followed person on twitter, and the most followed latin.
At the moment, she has over 112 million followers.

-Her channel in youtube is the 8th most viewed in the worldwide music area with
over 1.3 billions of views.



- She’s an amazing dancer, and constantly shows it in her videos and
performances.

- She speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Arabic.

- She can play guitar, harmonica, drums, and percussion.

- She’s an impressive writer, producer, and composer.

- When she was young she acted in a Colombian mini-series, and has
appeared in series like the successful Ugly Betty, Wizards of Waverly Place
and Dora the Explorer. She even recorded a song for the last one.

- She’s also an incredibly intelligent woman. She studied History Of Western Civilization, at UCLA. Also, has a high IQ!

- She’s a successful business woman, backed up by the success of her 2
fragances.

- She debuted as an editor for her father’s book “Al Viento y Al Azar” in 2011.



- Since 1995 she has the “Barefoot Foundation”, formed to
help poor children mainly from Colombia, but also from other third-world
countries.

- Her foundation aids the system of her country, Haiti and South Africa
providing education and meals for over 6,000 children.

- The money of this foundation comes mainly from contributions by Shakira,
coming from either her pocket or auctions of her clothes and guitars, and
donations from other national and international companies that admire her
labor.

- She was named by the President of The United States, Barack Obama a member
of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

-She’s one of the founders of Latin America In Solidarity Action (ALAS in Spanish),
A coalition of artists and business leaders seeking to promote integrated early
Childhood public policies

- She has participated in important events for donation, including a
presentation for “ALAS”, in an event that donated over 40 million dollars to
the people of Peru and Nicaragua.

- Apart from this she has performed in a huge amount of important benefit
concerts.

- In 2003,she became Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.

- She was also one of the artists who sang in the Spanish version of the
event “25 for Haiti”, which collected money to help Haiti after the big
earthquake they suffered in 2010.

- Her foundation helped rebuild one of Haiti’s historic public schools after
the earthquake, donating $800,000 for reconstruction and new suplies

- She was one of guests to make a song for charity called "Sing" with Anni
Lennox, in which artists of the caliber of Madonna and Pink also participated.

- She's also part of FIFA's "1 goal for education" campaign, which has the objective
of improve education, constructing educational and sports facilities.

While, she may no longer be able to compete with these young popstars in today's music industry, she's been in the music business for 20 years! She's truly one of a kind and is the most influential Latina in the music business on a global scale.

[GetBack]

Happy Birthday Shakira!

[HeWolf]

VOTE guys! She needs to make the Top 30 (at least).
http://www.vh1.com/interact/social/100_greatest_women/

[Brazilian]

Shakira Signs To Roc Nation as her Management

Roc Nation is part of Live Nation for those of you that are still confused. (Similar to her old label Epic Records= Sony Music) In April 2008, Live Nation partnered with Jay-Z to create Roc Nation. Shakira's upcoming English album TBA will be promoted by her new management Roc Nation.



Shakira, Shakira! She’s throwing up the Roc.
The superstar Colombian singer has signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for management, XXLMag.com has learned.
With worldwide appeal, Shakira has sold more than 60 million albums and won 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards.
With the signing to Roc Nation for management, Shakira joins the likes of Rihanna, Wale, Santigold and Melanie Fiona, who are all signed under Roc Nation’s management umbrella. Managed producers under Roc Nation include Jahlil Beats, No I.D. and S1.
Signed Roc Nation artists of course include the company’s founder, Jay-Z, J. Cole, Jay Electronica, Rita Ora and Willow Smith, the daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.
In related news, Shakira recently recounted a frightening ordeal, during a vacation in Cape Town, South Africa, in which she just narrowly avoided a sea lion attack.
“I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists and went down to a rock trying to pet them, doing a baby talk while taking pictures,” Shakira tweeted after last Sunday’s (Feb. 12) incident. ”Suddenly, one of them jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from me, looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me. Everyone there screamed, including me. I was paralyzed by fear and couldn’t move.”
Fortunately, she escaped that, the story likely to be one she keeps close to her chest for a long time. Shakira released her sixth studio album, She Wolf, in October 2009, having worked with the likes of The Neptunes on the project. —XXL Staff with reporting by Mariel Concepcion'

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[Titan3510]

Roc Nation?

What?! Go Shakira...

[Brazilian]

Followers on Twitter

1. Lady Gaga - 20 million
2. Justin Bieber - 18 million
3. Katy Perry - 15,7 million
4. Shakira - 14,5 million
5. Rihanna - 14,4 million

[Benjamin]

Shakira + Afrojack in the studio!

[aaliyahman]

Love this girl. I want another sexy duet with Beyonce!

[Star]

Love this girl. I want another sexy duet with Beyonce!

That would be so hot. I'm sure they could come together with something powerful, with all that delicious booty. But it has to be a collaboration between the two, unlike Beautiful Liar i.e. Shakira adding vocals to B's track.

[aaliyahman]

Love this girl. I want another sexy duet with Beyonce!

That would be so hot. I'm sure they could come together with something powerful, with all that delicious booty. But it has to be a collaboration between the two, unlike Beautiful Liar i.e. Shakira adding vocals to B's track.

Yes! Something hot in a desert lol!
Something like Did it Again...or Why Wait.

[Jesper]

I really begin to appriciate Shakira more and more, she loves to do different kinds of music and is an amazing live performer from what I coudl see from her DVD!

I am ready to see what she and Afrojack cooked up

[Brazilian]

Shakira Stops Traffic To Dance To Skrillex Song 'Kyoto'

VIDEO

Shakira wants everyone to know that she's "crazy about Skrillex!" In a recent video posted on her Youtube channel and Twitter, the Colombian singer stopped traffic in Barcelona to get out of her car and rage to an epic drop in Skrillex's "Kyoto."

Though the video is a mere 15 seconds long, it's worth watching, if only to see Shakira hold up traffic with her awesome dance moves.

Source

PS. Rumours says that Shrillex would be working on Shakira's album to be released.

[summer]

Love this girl!!!

[GetBack]

Shakira Stops Traffic To Dance To Skrillex Song 'Kyoto'

VIDEO

Shakira wants everyone to know that she's "crazy about Skrillex!" In a recent video posted on her Youtube channel and Twitter, the Colombian singer stopped traffic in Barcelona to get out of her car and rage to an epic drop in Skrillex's "Kyoto."

Though the video is a mere 15 seconds long, it's worth watching, if only to see Shakira hold up traffic with her awesome dance moves.

Source

PS. Rumours says that Shrillex would be working on Shakira's album to be released.

Oh my god, this is so exciting!