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Complete name:
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Stage name: Shakira
Date of birth: February 2, 1977
Birthplace: Barranquilla
colombia
Zodiac: Aquarius
Measures: 5 ft. 2 in.
Weight: 106 lbs.
Father:
William Mebarak Chadid
Mother: Nidia Ripoll Torrado
Brothers: Tonino, Alberto, Edward, Moisés
Sisters:
Lucy, Ana, Patricia and Roben
Studies: Secondary
schooling in La Enseñanza de Barranquilla; professional
modelaje in the Passarela Academy of that same city, and 2
years of Olympic gymnastics at Atlantic Coldeportes.
Trajectory: At 5 years of age she began to write poems, at 8
composed her first song, at 14 recorded her first CD titled
MAGIC, at 16 she recorded DANGER, and then represented
Colombia in the Festival Viña del Mar occupying third place
with the song ERES. When Shakira was 17 she carried out El
Oasis next to Pedro Rendón, and sang the theme of this
production, composed by Estefano. That year she also was
awarded the prize the Best Butt of Television 1994. At 18
she recorded and promoted Pies Descalzos and at 21 she
produced Donde estan los ladrones?. During these last 3
years she hast turned into the most awarded Colombian artist
in the world, and the one who has sold more albums
Civil state: Unmarried
Current
relationship: Antonio de la Rua
Favorite actor:
Hugh Grant
Bedside book: The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran G
Favorite author: Oriana Falacci
Colors: Black and white
Perfume: Water
D'issein Myoke
Flower: Daisies and sunflowers
Fruit: Mango with salt
Favorite food: Mojarra fried with patacón, arabic food and
sea food
Sweet: Chocolate balls
Group: The Police and U2
Song: With or Without You, by U2
Her best girl friend: Her mother
As she likes to get dressed: With informal clothes
Who is her platonic love: Lorenzo Lamas
Past Boyfriends: Oscar Ulloa, Oscar Pardo, Gustavo Gordillo
Osvaldo Ríos
If she wasn't an artist she would rather be: A psycologist
or an astronomist
Before being a singer she was: An actress, dancer of arabic
dance and a model
Position she likes
to sleep in: Fetal
Things she does before going to bed: Speak with God
That she does before going on the spotlight: To repeat Psalm
91.
Believes in the marriage: Yes
Dream wedding: Dressed in white and at a beach
What does she beleive in: In God
Phrase: "Espérate, esperat", or " Hold on, hold on"
or when she likes somebody "You are super-divine"
Down-side: She is very sensible and cries often
How does she prefer cars: Comfortable
Pastimes: Painting
She would write on her tombstone: "Here lies the woman
whom wished to do many things but time didn't allow it"
Soccer Team: Junior de Barranquilla
Defect: She is unorganized
Her greatest virtue: she is disciplined and a perfectionist
Comic strip: The Pink Panther
Person she admires:
Oriana Falacci
Artist she admires:
Gloria Estefan
The greatest virtue in a man: Honesty
The worst defect in
a man: That he is a liar.
A vice: To listen
to musica.
Her favorite physical characteristic: Her eyes.
Her least favorite physical characteristic: Her hands.
Her greater sadness: When 3 girls died in the first
great concert that she ever gave at Barranquilla, her native
city.
Her goal: To be more than a passing craze, to go on.
She would like to reincarnate into: A panther
What she loves most: Her family
What makes her fall in love: Perseverance
What scares her away: The ugly details
How does she define love: It is the motor of life
Historic person she admires: Jesus Christ
Her ideal man: The physical appearance does not matter, must
have manners, but not perfect, must be intelligent and
enterprising, but the most important thing is that she
should be able to look into his eyes and discover that he is
transparent and honest
What she does not like to do: To put on make up, lip-sinc on
stage and to pack suitcases
Inspiration arrives to her: In airplanes and at dawn
Time she wakes up: 11 am
Time she goes to sleep: 3 am
Number of Premios Lo Nuestro awards: 2
Number of Billboard awards: 3
Number of Premios
TV y Novelas awards: 3
Number of ACPE
awards: 3
Number of Eres awards: 1
Sports she practices: Swiming and Bicycling
cute fact: shakira was wearing a bracelet at the Mad TV show
that one of
her fans made for her!!! It was the one with the
shells....how sweet
Shakira lost her suitcase with all her songs from Donde
Estan Los Ladrones in an airport in Bogotل Colombia. This
happened a couple of months
before she walked into the
recording studio to begin on that album. She
had to remember
all of those songs again. She said that this was
dramatic
and traumatic for her. Some of the songs she had written so
long ago or she did not practice them that much, but she
remembered
Shakira loves
chocolate and she only drink Colombian Nescafe coffee
funny fact:
Shakira hates her ears!!!!!!!! One of the reasons she
doesn't
like her hair up and why whenever she wears a
ponytail she sort of covers them
Shakira is
usually not pleased with most of her performances..she
always feels as she could've done better and finds all these
little mistakes that
we don't even notice
Shakira loves
cats and she had a cat for a long time while growing up
shakira adores
her parents and her mom still cries before her
performances...
and her Dad prays with her as well
She had
composed her first song when she was 7
She began to write poems when she was 8
She had her first record contract at 13
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Shakira cant say fuck in England as she is under Catholic
rules, she
says she would love to ,but Instead she has to say freakin'
this and
freakin' that
One of Shakira's favorite movies is Harry potter she even
invited them to her concert and back stage to meet her as
that's what she wanted.
Shakira worried about her breast size for along time. She
even considered cosmetic surgery but then she thought she's
got to accept herself the way she is, anyway said Shakira a
big butt is more important in the Latin
culture
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