Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French and Arabic.
Pop superstar Shakira was leading the cheers as her soccer star boyfriendGerard Pique helped Spain's FC Barcelona to victory in the Champions League final in London on Saturday (28May11).
The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker began dating the sports star shortly after announcing her split from longtime partner, Antonio de la Rua, in January(11) and she is often spotted supporting him at games.
Pique took to the pitch at London's Wembley Stadium on Saturday as his team took on Britain's Manchester United in the final of Europe's Champions League - and Shakira shared her excitement with fans as Barcelona thrashed their opponents 3-1.
In a post on Twitter.com, she writes, "Champions! Long live Barca! And now get ready, the big celebration is coming!" Pique later revealed the team will celebrate the victory by attending Shakira's concert in Barcelona on Sunday (29May11).
Other stars who attended the game included veteran crooner Neil Diamond, who posted a picture on Twitter which showed him at Wembley wearing a Manchester United hat and scarf.
But Diamond wasn't too disappointed when his team lost, writing, "What a match! Champions League Final at Wembley... Congratulations Barcelona. Great try Manchester!" Dedicated sports fan Russell Crowe was also following the game and 'Tweeting' throughout the action.
He concluded his Twitter coverage by writing, "Barcelona! Never in doubt. Bad luck Man U, did great to get to the final".
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Shakira and her dancers display sexy hip shaking movements.
Hips Don't Lie super star Shakira had her audience shaking their booty to her sexy musical beat.
Shakira appeared in a red sparkling bra and red string skirt and bare feet as she performed her World Cup single, Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) at the NRJ Music Awards at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres in Cannes last Saturday.
She was accompanied by sexy, hot hip moving dancers dressed in zebra striped flare skirts and bare feet as Shakira and the backup dancer performed sexy hip movements.
Her second song Loca got both the audience and the dancers into a hot hip moving frenzy.
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Shakira and dancers move their hips to the beat of Loca.
Against a background of hot dancing fire, we see a series of sexy pictures as Shakira and her backup dancers show off their hip shaking belly dance moves.
Appearing in a golden bra top and skin tight pants covered in the front with golden strips, Shakira moved her hips to the beat of Loca.
Shakira even sang the The French National Anthem – La Marseillaise as the audience rose to their feet to applause and sing along with Shakira.
Not only did Shakira sexy and hot hip shaking experience thrill the audience, but she also captured two top awards for the night.
Shakira was named at the International Female Artist of the Year and also won the International Song of the Year award for her World Cup single Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).
Earlier in the evening, Shakira appeared on the red carpet in a black mini dress by Alaia, accessorized with jewelry by Lorraine Schwarts, a clutch from Christian Louboutin and black patent leather peep toe platform pumps from Sergio Rossi.
Shakira, who got the world moving their hips in 2006 with her hit, Hips Don't Lie, is shaking up the beauty world with a new perfume called S by Shakira.
The perfume will combine the fragrances of jasmine and sandalwood and go on sale in September.
Shakira Arabic Belly Dancing
Shakira is also a flexible dancer and has long practiced the art of Arabic belly dancing.
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Shakira lifts her leg and bare foot above her head
During the photo shoot for her new perfume, Shakira used her Arabic belly dance techniques to create striking, sexy poses for her perfume ads pictures.
Shakira often dances barefoot and she creates many extraordinary pictures by using her unique belly dance moves to strike riverting poses.
In these pictures, the photographer captured her as she used the pink veil to create a fantastic pose.
She can also raise her foot high above her head to a unique picture for the perfume ads, as captured in this picture.
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Shakira moves her booty on SNL with glittery booty pads
Shakira who set the world's booties in motion with her hit song Hips Don't Lie is out with her new release She Wolf.
Her pervious smash hit single Hips Don't Lie resulted in numerous internet video producers creating mashups between Shakira sexy Latin beat and sexy dance moves by dancers turning up the heat with every musical beat.
Her new album She Wolf is due to be released in the US on November 23, 2009, the same date as Rihanna new album.
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Shakira arrives at MTV VMA in black with silver mini dress and knee high black boots.
The single She Wolf, which has a very sexy booty beat, already has over five million plays on Shakira official MySpace page.
The song is really something to howl about.
Yep, Shakira let out a great big howl, before going into her booty shaking gyrations and hair fling routine, as she performed the feature track She Wolf on Saturady Night Live - SNL
Shakira danced to her feature track single She Wolf in a pair of very tight black spandex pants with oversized hip shaped black sequins that captured her hip movement.
Not only is Shakira a very talented singer but also a great and sexy dancer.
Her hip movements can rival the best belly dancer's hip movements, in fact, her friends use to call her the belly dancer.
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Shakira attends Paris Fashion Week in a white with black dots mini flare skirt, leather jacket and ankle open toe boots.
What we also love about Shakira is that she is not only a very sexy singer and dancer, but also a very intelligent woman.
While other singers would going on parting and relaxing after a grueling tour, Shakira unwound from her last tour by taking a history course at UCLA in 2007.
According to news reports, Shakira dressed like a boy wearing a cap and a big backpack.
Although some people looked at her suspiciously, she was able to go unrecognized on UCLA campus.
Pop star Shakira is terrified the video for her new single is too sexy, fearing the raunchy promo will shock her parents and neighbors.
The stunning Colombian singer dons a flesh-colored leotard to writhe around in a cage in the video for She Wolf. But Shakira was worried about how the footage would be received by her loved ones.
She tells Britain's The Sun newspaper, "My parents texted me to say they had watched it and really loved it. A bit provocative, but they loved it. But my mother was just a little bit concerned what the neighbors were going to say.
"No matter how famous you are, you always wonder what your parents and neighbors will say. Parents are like your conscience. My mom saw some of the images before the edit and said, 'Oh my God, is that really you?' My dad said it was very artistic. I have their blessing".
I showed his parents the video and the ex-First Lady of Argentina thought it was sexy but classy
And Shakira's fiance Antonio De La Rua, the son of former Argentine president Fernando de la Rua, was also wary of her appearing to bare all in the video.
She adds, "He was at the shoot and he watched me walk out in the leotard and said, 'Hey, why don't you wear a scarf? Put a scarf on!' Then he closed his eyes and just let it happen.
"I showed his parents the video and the ex-First Lady of Argentina thought it was sexy but classy. I didn't want to look at his father's face".
Shakira will never return to her acting roots — because she was a “terrible” actress.
The Hips Don’t Lie singer, 32, started out as an actress in a bid to get famous –but she was so bad, she never wants to appear on screen again.
“I acted once — years ago,” she says. “I was such a terrible actress, so I stopped. I’m always making up excuses not to take up any roles that I’m being offered.
“I don’t know. I am very unsure about my skills as an actress so I don’t know.”
The Colombian star recently revealed that she used to find it really “difficult” when it came to writing songs — because she had to look up every word in an English-Spanish dictionary.
“Writing songs used to be so difficult for me,” said Shakira, whose latest album is mostly in English. “A few years ago I could barely speak English and I used to write my songs with a dictionary.
“It was a real labor of love and I would sit there for hours just looking up words. But now thankfully it comes to me more naturally and spontaneously.”
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