"That risk is there, it's definitely there because we're humans and we're vulnerable and we let ourselves be tempted with fame and the glitters of popularity," she says.
She knows it's easy to sound crassly commercial. She acknowledges that she is at a crossroads that's familiar to rising stars - pressured to produce top-selling albums and still sound fresh and inventive. Her albums take time to produce - up to three years. Those close to Shakira say that she feels a certain responsibility.Ĭoming off a hit album, Shakira says she is now going to take some time to ponder which direction she'll go next. "There are a few who have much many who have very little." "Latin America is the world's region with the most inequality," she said. It's raising money to build schools for poor children.Īt a press conference, the singer discussed poverty, the sorry state of schools, and political violence. Indeed, a big reason for coming home is to tout her Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet) Foundation. They may not know that Shakira speaks three languages, is conversant on existentialism and holds forth on Colombia's complicated guerrilla conflict. "I take pop music very seriously, and I try to give the best I can give through my music, always improve and always learn because I think that's the only way you can't get bored with what you do," she says.įans have come to expect a fresh sound with each Shakira album. Her most recent two CDs - one in English, one in Spanish - both made the top five on Billboard's U.S.
That led to another hit album and, finally, her first English-language album, Laundry Service. Then in 1996 came Pies Descalzos, or Bare Feet, which sold 4 million copies. She then talked her mother into moving to Bogota, the capital, where she could get close to the record companies. Instead, she went her own way - winning a string of local singing competitions. "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. “And we’d even get the policeman in the car, he’d be occasionally singing along.Many know the Colombian singer Shakira for her potent, sultry voice and swiveling hips. “And my mother, she’d be driving along, singing at the top of her voice,” William explained. “Because sitting in the backseat, singing away, it felt like a real family moment.” “One of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and I still ― to this day ― still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner’s ‘The Best,’” he said. And my mother used to play all sorts of songs to kind of while away the anxiety of going back to school,” the duke said. “When I was younger, Harry and I, we were at boarding school.
William also talked about his own happy memories of musical moments with his late mother, Princess Diana, and his brother, Prince Harry. “It’s a really happy moment where the children just enjoy dancing, messing around and singing,” he said. A post shared by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said that Charlotte generally puts on dresses and ballet accessories and then “goes completely crazy with Louis following her around trying to do the same thing.”
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