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Read some Fun Facts about the highly talented Shakira, watch her best music videos and enjoy hilarious parodies on Shakira’s songs.

Shakira is the highest selling Colombian artist, who has sold over 50 million albums worldwide.

Shakira was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Shakira means “thankful” in Arabic. It is the feminine form of the name Shakir.

When Shakira was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Shakira first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied belly dancing. Before she knew it, Shakira was dancing barefoot on the table, as restaurant patrons responded by clapping enthusiastically. It was then that Shakira said she knew she wanted to be a performer.

Shakira wrote her first poem, entitled “La Rosa De Cristal” (”The Crystal Rose”) when she was only four years old! As she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father writing stories on a typewriter, and asked for one as a Christmas gift. She got her wish at age seven and continued writing poetry. These poems eventually evolved into songs. At the age of eight, after an older half-brother was killed in a motorcycle accident (she was only two when this happened), Shakira wrote her first song entitled “Tus gafas oscuras” (”Your dark glasses”). The inspiration came from her father, who for years wore dark glasses, to hide his grief.

She enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers and even the nuns at her Catholic school but in the second grade was rejected for the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded “like a goat”. At school, she says she had been known as “the belly dancer girl”, as she would demonstrate a number she learned every Friday at school. “That’s how I discovered my passion for live performance,” she says.

Shakira’s debut album, Magia, was recorded with Sony Music in 1991, when she was only fourteen years old. The album did not fare well commercially, selling less than one thousand copies.

Sexy teenage Shakira in bikini in 1993

Please bear through the crap for the first 1 min. It’s worth the wait. :-). Teenage Shakira’s bikini photo session.

In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over fifteen million copies worldwide.

Whenever, Wherever - Shakira

“Hips Don’t Lie” made Shakira the only Colombian and South American artist in history to top the U.S. Hot 100. According to Media Traffic, “Hips Don’t Lie” is the second most successful song since 1998, only behind Cher’s 1999 hit “Believe”, so far, the most successful single in the twenty first century, the forty-sixth most successful song in music history.

According to Media Traffic, “La Tortura” is the most successful song worldwide in Spanish and the forty-sixth most successful song since 1999. The song won two Latin Grammy Awards at the 2006 Ceremony for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

Shakira Don’t Bother

In this music video, Shakira is so upset with her boyfriend that she crushes his car!

Shakira Jokes and Parodies

Like all famous people, shakira is also targeted for parody videos. I love Shakira but here are some of the Shakira Parodies just for fun. WARNING : If you are a die-hard shakira fan, you may not like some of them.

Shakira Parody - Funny cartoon music video - Whenever Wherever

Shakira Parody - British Shakira

4 year old cute girl dancing salsa.

Shakira Parody - Hips don’t Lie - Verarsche

Shakira Parody - “La Tortura”

Shakira - Parody Factor X

Shakira Parody - Australian show Big bite

Shakira - whenever dont matter

Shakira Mad TV Parody

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