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Hola buenas noches por favor me pueden dar la biografía de shakira en ingles con imágenes doy 20 puntos.
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The only daughter of William Mebarak, an American of Lebanese origin who emigrated to Colombia at the age of five, and of Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado, a Colombian of Catalan descent. He has eight older half brothers from a previous marriage of his father.
When Shakira was two years old, her older stepbrother died in an accident when her motorcycle collided with the car of a drunk driver. She was raised as a Catholic.
  
Shakira in Arabic means "grateful" or "full of grace". He speaks fluent Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish and Arabic.
Since she was a child she composed songs and attended children's competitions. His Lebanese grandmother taught him the art of Arab belly dancing.
She was a great admirer of the singer Gloria Estefan and appreciates everything she did for Latin music.
When he is thirteen years old, a Sony Music representative gets him his first record contract. In the year 1991 Shakira debuts with the album, 'Magia', published only in Colombia and thanks to this work she is chosen to represent her country in the OTI Festival in Spain, although she was not able to participate in the contest because she did not have the minimum age, which was sixteen.
  
In 1993 Shakira releases 'Peligro', her second album and appears as an actress in a television series called 'El Oasis', on Caracol Televisión. His third album, 'Pies descalzos' (1996), sold more than four million copies worldwide and started a world tour that lasted two years. In 1998 it appears Where are the thieves? who composed after being stolen in an airport all the songs that he had composed for a new album.
Steven Spielberg offered him a role in his film 'The Mask of Zorro' in 1998, but he did not accept because his English was not good enough. The role was finally played by Catherine Zeta Jones.
In 2000 the Colombian government appoints Shakira Ambassador of Good Will. A year later, 'Laundry Service' (2001) appears, also translated as 'Laundry Service' that sold more than ten million copies worldwide. On September 25, 2002 Shakira announced in New York a new world tour titled 'Mongoose Tour'. Since 2000, he has maintained a sentimental relationship with Antonio de la Rúa, son of former Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa.
Shakira published two LPs in 2005: one in Spanish, 'Oral fixation vol.1', and another in English 'Oral fixation vol.2'. Oral fixation Vol. 1 was launched in June 2005 in Europe, North America, Australia and Latin America. The album reached the first place of sales in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Spain and several countries in Latin America. On August 28, 2005, she became the first singer to perform a musical theme in Spanish during the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, held in Miami, Florida.
With the collaboration of the Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz he played 'La Tortura'. On February 28, she was awarded her second Anglo-Saxon Grammy in the category of Best Latin Rock Album. During November 2005 he released 'Oral Fixation Vol. 2', which debuted at number five in the United States within [Billboard 200]. In 2006 a new edition of 'Oral Fixation Vol. 2' was published, which included a new track, 'Hip's do not lie'. The single, sung in English with former Fugees Wyclef Jean, became the biggest success of his career.
  
On April 3, 2006, Shakira received an honorable mention at a ceremony of the United Nations Organization for the creation of the foundation called 'Pies Descalzos', which is in charge of helping and protecting children suffering from intrafamily violence in Colombia. . On April 27 of the same year, Shakira won six Billboard Latin prizes and was chosen to sing her song 'Hips Do not Lie' at the final ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, Germany 2006. In 2007, she collaborated with her friend Alejandro Sanz, in the album 'El tren de los momentos' in the song 'I thank you, but not', and in the same year, in a song and the music video entitled 'Beautiful Liar' with the American singer Beyoncé, corresponding to his album "B'Day".
On October 12, 2009 he released 'She Wolf' his sixth studio album. On June 29, 2009 premiered the Spanish version of the first single titled 'Loba' ('She Wolf' in English). The album was a hit in the charts and Gold record in Russia, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, France, Argentina, Greece and Hungary, Platinum in Spain, the United Kingdom and the Middle East, Platinum 2X in Colombia and Mexico, and 3 times Platinum in Taiwan.
During the World Cup of South Africa 2010 Shakira became the interpreter of the official song of the event, the so-called 'Waka Waka' (This Time For Africa), which uses fragments of an African military song, interpreted it with the collaboration of the group South African 'Freshly Ground' and becomes one of Shakira's greatest successes in Latin America and Europe. 'Sale el sol', his new album, is presented in