Shakira: I want my music to transcend all the barriers. The spirit of conquest is a trait that has survived in human beings from the beginning. I want it for the same reason the Spaniards wanted to come to America. You have to cross the oceans. To be able to sink my Colombian flag in this land, that is a motivation
Shakira: Somedays I would look at my reflection and see garbage and I guess I was worried about the size of my breasts for a long time. But now I think I have finally reached an age where I have accepted my self for who I am. And anyway, a big butt is far more important in Latin culture.
Shakira: I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Shakira: I don't like the competitive part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art.
Shakira: The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
Shakira: I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
Shakira: The cobra is deadly but mongoose can overcome it. We all have possibillity to defeat prejudiced and resentment in our lives. Fear is the thing that makes us attack, that makes us strike. We must overcome it. We must.
Shakira: I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. But there are always people close to me who I trust, who will scold me and pull my ears if I need it. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.
Shakira: I expect my beloved to be kind, generous, I expect him not to lie so I can look him straight in the eyes, and I expect him to fall in love with me ten times a day.
Shakira: My mouth is my biggest source of pleasure: singing, conversing, eating, and giving kisses to the person who deserves them.
Shakira: I’m more afraid of marriage than death.
Shakira: I can't wait for the time when curves and a little bellie fat will be sexy again!
Shakira: It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
Shakira: I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.
Shakira: My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Shakira: I'm always trying to escape from the pressure of expectation.
Shakira: I want one day to be able to love with the same intensity the way parents love their children. Is this possible?
Shakira: You have to do everything you can to make your butt stand out. It’s almost a requirement. But for me, I think I have enough to sit on, so it’s fine. I like it as it is. But it’s also a bad thing, because I have to work to keep it hard.
Shakira: Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
Shakira: In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
Shakira: I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Shakira: I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira: For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
Shakira: People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.
Shakira: Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever. There is no way to divorce the image from the music once the video has been filmed and exposed.
Shakira: The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.
Shakira: I can't hire other people to write songs for me. I have to write them myself.
Shakira and Beyonce are collaborating on a song called Beautiful Liar. The song will appear on a special-edition reissue of Beyonce’s solo album, B'Day.
Shakira is the youngest of eight siblings.
Shakira's 2005 Awards. MTV Latin Awards: Mejor Artista Femenina, Mejor Artista Pop, Mejor Artista Centro, Video del A?o "La Tortura", Artista del A?o; Billboard Music Awards: Hot Latin Song, Best Latin Pop Artist, Latin Pop Album, Favorite Latin Artist; American Music Awards: Favorite Latin Artist; MTV Europe Awards: Best Female Artist; Premios Juventud: Dynamic Duo, Best Moves, I Hear Her Everywhere, Favorite Pop Star, Rock en Espa?ol.
She was considered as one by LA Times as one of the most sucessful and charismatic people on the planet.
Alejandro Sanz and Shakira became the first Latin duet to performed live at the MTV Awards Ceremony in Miami.
Billboard Latin Music Awards: Hot Latin Song of the Year - Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Duet - Latin Pop Album of the Year, Female - Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year, Due or Group - Latin Ringtone of the Year.
After the release of her album Peligro, she decided to take a hiatus from recording so that she could graduate from high school.
On April 3, 2006, Shakira was honored at an United Nations ceremony because she created the Pies Descalzos Foundation, a charity that helps to protect children from violence in Colombia.
She was the most nominated artist for the MTV Video Music Awards 2006.
In 2002, emails were circulating about a supposed interview of MTV Europe where she said that Israelis and Jews were "pigs". This has never been confirmed.
Her favorite thing to paint is fried eggs.
Her rendition of the Flores song Amor has become a collectors' item because of its rarity.
She admits that she is very shy about her body and that her sexy videos do not represent the kind of woman she is.
She does not think of herself as a feminist, just that she is a strong woman with masculine qualities.
She fired her beauty staff after deciding she had become too obsessed with her appearance.
Discography: Magia (1991); Peligro (1993); Pies Descalzos (1996); ?Donde Estan Los Ladrones? (1998); MTV Unplugged (2000); Laundry Service (2001); Live & Off the Record (2004); Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 (2005); Oral Fixation Vol. 2 (2005).
She announced engagement to Antonio de la Rua, son of the present President of Argentina on March 2001.
She admires Gloria Estefan.
She was the youngest goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 2003 when she received the title on October 24.
She was listed in Mr. Blackwell's 46th annual "Worst Dressed" list.
She made a donation of 10,000 pairs of tennis shoes to her hometown of Barranquilla to impoverished children through her Barefoot Foundation in 2002.
Her dream wedding is to dress in white and hold the ceremony on a beach.
She is five time Grammy winner.
She won a singing competition for a children's show called "Vinan Los Ni?os."
Her song 'Ojos asi' has a verse in Arabic.
Shakira blends American style pop-rock with traditional Latin rhythms, creating her own unique sound and forging new ground in the growing Latin music market in the US. She says, "I was born and raised in Colombia, but I listened to bands like Led Zeppelin, The Cure, The Police, The Beatles and Nirvana."
Shakira's MTV Unplugged was on the Billboard Chart 60 weeks. Son by Four was on the Chart for 62 weeks, being the only group or artist beating Shakira.
Her favourite color is black.
Her favorite actor is Hugh Grant.
She plays the guitar and the mouth organ.
Her favorite Latin band is Soda Stereo.
She doesn't drink coffee or alcohol.
Shakira is currently the 2nd longest running artist or group on Billboard's latin 50 chart.
She recently announced her Oral Fixation Tour, will begin on August 9, 2006 in El Paso, Texas at the Don Haskins Center.
Shakira states that both she and Wyclef Jean dream about each other, and as soon as they contacted each other they began making the video for Hips Don't Lie.
Oral Fixation Vol. 2 is Shakira's first album being sung totally in english.
She released an album with two volumes, the first one being Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 in Spanish, and Oral Fixation Vol. 2 in English.
Her cousin is fashion designer and Miss Colombia 2006, Valerie Dominguez Tarud.
Her English language album Oral Fixation 2 was released in November 2005.
Mattel put out several Barbie dolls inspired by Shakira and her look.
The first English song she wrote was Objection, from the album Laundry Service.
Steven Spielberg offered her the role of Elena Montero in The Mask of Zorro back when he was originally in talks to direct it. But, she turned the offer down because she felt that not only was she a bad actress, but her English wasn't good enough.
Her mother is half Colombian and half Italian and her father is American with Lebanese ancestry.
She likes chocolate balls.
She hates to wear jewellery.
She announced engagement to Antonio de la Rua, son of the present President of Argentina in March 2001.
Shakira's song, La Tortura is in the fifth position of the best 10 songs of the world.
Her Lebanese grandmother taught her the art of Arabian Belly Dancing so she can stay true to her middle eastern roots.
She has perfect pitch, which is the ability to recognize any note upon hearing it or sing any note without prior to hearing it.
The name Shakira is Arabic for "grateful or full of grace."
When Shakira was two years old, her oldest half-brother died in an accident while he was riding a motorcycle and was struck by a car driven by a drunk driver.
She loves to eat corozos, a little Colombian fruit that is sweet-sour.
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