Top Hits known as “Whenever Whenever”, “Hips Don’t Lie”, song writer, singer, dance, choreographer and beautiful model Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll also known as Shaki was born February 2, 1997. Today known as the most 2nd famous Latin American pop artist , winning two Grammy Awards , seven Latin Grammy Awards and 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award at the age of 37. Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Columbiana and raised a city located Caribbean coat of Columbiana.
Shakira Ripoll is the only child. Her beautiful mother Nidia Ripoll is Spanish and Italian descent. Her handsome father, William Merbarak Chadid he is a Lebanese American immigrant born in New York City where her grandparents emigrated from. Shakira has eight half siblings from her fathers last marriage and is the youngest. The oldest half brother was killed in accident by a drunk driver on a motorcycle. Lucy her older half sister is an excellent surgeon, Alberto, is a lawyer, Mosises is the 3rd child, and Tonino is the 4th child and the closest to Shakira. He has been working as road manager for Shakira for years. Patricia a special education teacher lives in Spain. Finally, there are Antonio and Edward, who live in Miami and the youngest.
Shakira has started writing songs since the age of 8 years old and wrote her first small poem at the age of 4, titled “La Rosa De Cristal”. Shakira preformed at school demonstrating Latin, rock and Arabic. She loved singing for classmates and teachers at her school she attended. She got criticized about her voice, for example Shakira states “ My teacher told me I sounded like a goat”(wikipedia.com).Shakira spent a lot of time writing poems growing up but they soon turned into songs. I...
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...e replaced by Christina Aguilar and CeeLo Green September 17, 2012. Shakira wanted to focus on her music and return to the sixth season of “The Voice” February 2014. Shakira tweeted about her new album, stating “"Amazing day in the studio! 2 years and I finally feel in these songs as comfortable as I do in my torn jeans!"(wikipedia.com). Shakira tweeted that her album would be delayed until January 2014 featuring the beautiful Rihanna. Both Shakira and Rihanna tweeted the song would be called “Can’t Remember to Forget You” and was planned to be released January 13, 2014. March 2014 Shakira tenth album was officially released. Shakira has worked with many successful artists such as; Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Wyclef Jean, Carlinhos Brown, Alejandro Sanz etc … and hopes to still make worldwide music from this day and be known as the most successful Latin American artist .
To start with, Rosie Perez or Rosa Marie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She is a actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist. Her parents are Lydia Perez, a singer and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her aunt had been raising and catering her until her mother, Lydia Perez took her away and put her in Foster Care when she was 3. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if Rosie was to detest her parents after all they put her through. Rosie stayed there until she moved in with another aunt when she was 12. Later on she joined a high school in Rightwood, Grover Cleveland High School. Now most of the confusion and sadness had culminate.
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16,1971 in Lake Jackson,Texas. She died on March 31,1995 in Corpus Christi,Texas. Selena Quintanilla was only twenty-three years old when she died. Her death was a big impact on life,music, and history. Selena Quintanilla had an amazing journey in life and it’s so sad it had to end so early. Finally, this is the story of Selena Quintanilla from start to the end.
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
At the 1987 Tejano Music Awards, Selena won both “Best Female Vocalist of the Year” and “Performer of the Year”. Her album, Ven Conmigo, was the first Tejano to sell more than 500,000 copies, which reached gold record status. In 1993, Selena won the Grammy Award for “Best Mexican-American Album” for her album Live. In 1994, Selena y Los Dinos played tour dates all around the country, including tours in New York, California, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. In that same year another album, Amor Prohibido, was released and it went gold.
Known as the “Queen of Tejano” and the “Mexican Madonna”, Selena Quintanilla-Perez was the adored Latin singer who sadly did not get to live to see all of the success of her career. One of her most famous quotes is, “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever but to create something that will (PhilosIblog, 2014).” That is just what Selena did and she made sure that her legacy would live on for years. Selena surely left a her mark in this world with the help of her family, in her short lived 23 years. Selena was an amazing singer, she even made it very far in a genre of music that was dominated by men. Selena Quintanilla-Perez is an influential person because of her loving personality, her music career, her determination to succeed in a genre that was only men, and her success with her music that will never stop playing even if she is not here.
parents names were Enrique and Angela. Angela was his mother and Enrique was his dad. His
Imaging that you found out that the love of your life who promised you to bring down the stars, who said yes in the altar, who you married, who is the biological father of your children is cheating on you through these dating websites that are destroying marriages nowadays. In these websites you find thousands of married people of both genders having adventures with stranger out there. They do not feel fulfil in the relationship which they have now, and simply just because they got tired of their loved partners.
As the "Queen of Tejano Music", Selena served as a very important representation of Latinos. As mentioned before, she was known as Mexican Madonna for her dance moves and nice looking outfits. After winning Best Female Vocalist and Performer of the Year for nine times in a row it seems impossible to forget the legacy that she has left for us. Selena was a person who stepped out of her comfort zone to succeed, as well as, never let money and fame get into her way. Selena became an inspiration not only to girls who shared her dream but to the many Latino people she represented. Through her music people have and still continue to unite and relate to. As a representation of the Hispanic and Latino culture, Selena has the touched the hearts of many who till this day remember and keep her legacy
Demi Lovato is a famous singer, songwriter, and actor born in 1992 in New Mexico. Although she was on “Barney & Friends” as a child, most people know her from her years as an actress and an occasional singer on disney channel. She co-starred in the famous movie series “Camp Rock” and also in the television series “Sonny with a Chance.” After these acting positions, Lovato began a career in singing. She has released many albums and has had many hit songs such as “Heart Attack” and “Cool for the Summer.” In 2012 and 2013, Lovato was a judge on “The X Factor” (Wikipedia). Singing is a huge part of Lovato’s life, and she pours her heart and should into her lyrics.
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 9, 1963 (A&E Television Networks). Her father, John Russell Houston Jr., was an army serviceman and entertainment exec (Marquina). Her mother, Cissy Houston, her cousin Dionne Warrick and godmother Aretha Franklin were all legendary figures in American gospel and soul music (A&E Television Networks). At the age 14, Whitney became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band’s single “Life’s A Party!” Zager offered Whitney a recording contract but her mother rejected the offer, wanting her to finish school first (Marquina). At the age 15, Whitney was performing often with her mother and trying to get a record deal of her own. She also sings background vocals on Chaka Khan’s song “I’m Every Woman,” (Marquina). Around that time, she was discovered by a photographer and soon became a teenage model. She was one of the first African American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine, but music still remained her true love and dream, (A&E Television Networks).
She was born in St. Michael Parish on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Her mother's name is Monica Fenty, who is an accountant, and she is a mother of three, Rihanna being the oldest. Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, is the father of Monica’s three children.... ... middle of paper ...
Aretha was born into a family that attended a Baptist church, with her father named, C.L Franklin, who was a Baptist preacher and gospel singer. Her mother was also a gospel singer and somehow there came to be reports that her mother had abandoned Aretha and her siblings, but she claims it to be all a lie (“CNN”). She was the fourth of five children, and lost her mother in 1952, a few years after her parents had gotten divorced.
Selena, “Le Reina de Tejano”, was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson. She was the youngest of three children of Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela, his wife. At a young age, Abraham had a strong passion for music that he still has. During the 1950s and 1960s, him and his friends made a group called “Los Dinos” and played at nightclubs and restaurants. Even though his passion for music, he gave it up when he got married and earned a job at Dow Chemical as a shipping clerk.
Rihanna in her childhood was inspired by Bob Marley, Madonna, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. This reflected most in her very first single “Pon de Replay”, which was a reggae inspired dance track, immediately hitting the top 2 on billboard singles chart. The song not only reached a second place but also shout out to the world: Rihanna is coming! It was 2005, the year she kick
Dr. Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps she was faced with the brutality of racial discrimination, and a very traumatic incident where she, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend when she was eight, but because of this she also developed an unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family. (Angelou)This shaped her poetry and her involvement in the arts. Where she began to sing and dance and planned to audition in professional theater but that didn’t work out well because she began working as a nightclub waitress, tangled with drugs and prostitution and danced in a strip club. In 1959, she moved to New York, became friends with prominent Harlem writers, and got involved with the civil rights movement. In 1961, she moved to Egypt with a boyfriend and edited for the Arab Observer. When she returned to the U.S., she began publishing her multivolume autobiography, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as well as several books of poetry and the third being Still I Rise in published in 1978. (Maya Angelou is born) Because of this life of hardship shaped her to who she is and was the inspiration for a lot of her poetry.