Research Paper On Shakira

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Shakira Shakira was born on February 7, 1977. She was born in the town of Barranquilla. Shakira is the only child. She has Spanish and Italian descent. She first started performing in school. She has eight half siblings from her father’s previous marriage. Shakira wrote her first poem when she was four years old. She named it La Rosa De Cristal which means The Crystal Rose. When she was four, her father took her to this Middle Eastern restaurant where she first heard the doumbek, which is a drum used in Arabic music and for belly dancing. This day is when Shakira realized she wanted to be a performer. She loved to sing and perform for her classmates in school. That is when she became known as the “belly dancer girl “. While Shakira was in …show more content…

She loves world history and loves to study the history of the countries she visits. She attended a summer school class in Los Angeles at UCLA to learn more about Western Civilization. To avoid being viewed as a celebrity, she used her middle name and her last name as her biological name for the class. She told her teacher that she was visiting from Columbia and she wanted to learn more about the places in the West. Shakira is currently in a relationship with a Spanish football player, Gerald Pique. These two met while on the set of one of Shakira’s music videos that he was in. They met in 2010 and they made the relationship public in May of …show more content…

In her music she says she loves to experiments with different genres because she doesn’t like to limit herself. What has influenced her work is when she was a child, her family listened to oriental music, which influenced her to do all genres of music. Shakira’s music was influenced by her childhood. Since her parents listened to a lot of rock and roll, her music was influenced by 70s and 80s rock bands. One of her main influences was John Lennon. His album “Imagined” was one of her favorites. She performed two songs at the Haiti benefit events. She has covered songs by Aerosmith and AC/DC. Shakira is very well known for her belly dancing. She sometimes likes to perform barefooted. She learned this type of dance when she was a young teenager to beat her shyness. In a MTV Interview, she tried to flip a coin with her

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