Shakira Tickets

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born: February 2, 1977) known simply as Shakira,  is a Colombian singer-song writer, musician, dancer, record producer and philanthropist who emerged as a musical prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira exposed herself in the school as a live performer, evidently showing her strong throat singing and original belly dancing. She is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English, Portuguese, Italian, and some Arabic.

After a series of commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums and little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her very own brand of music: in 1995 she released ‘Pies Descalzos’, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain and marked Shakira as a musical phenomenon. But 1998’s ‘¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?‘ remains the most essential album of the artist. Since that time she began to gain more fans in non-Spanish-speaking countries like Turkey, France, Switzerland, Canada, and especially the United States. In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of ‘Laundry Service’, which sold over twenty million copies worldwide. Four years later, in the same year Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2 that fortified the singer’s success in the music industry with her most successful song in the twenty-first century, "Hips Don’t Lie."

She has won two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, and has been Golden Globe-nominated. She is also the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, according to BMI. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, and the UK Singles Chart.

Shakira was to be awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which would have made her the first Colombian to receive this honor.