Shakira Carrer, Music Personal Life Age and Biography

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Shakira

Introduction

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll conceived 2 February 1977 is a Colombian artist and songwriter. Born and brought up in Barranquilla.  She made her chronicle debut under Sony Music Colombia at 13 years old. Following the business disappointment of her initial two collections, Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993), she rose to conspicuousness in Hispanic nations with her next collections, Pies Descalzos (1995) and Dónde Están Los Ladrones? (1998). Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth collection, Laundry Service (2001), which sold more than 15 million duplicates around the world. Floated by the global number-one singles "At whatever point, Wherever" and "Under Your Clothes", the collection moved her standing as the main hybrid craftsman. 

Her prosperity was additionally hardened with the Spanish collections Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005), Sale el Sol (2010), and El Dorado (2017), all of which beat the Billboard Top Latin Albums outline and were affirmed diamante by the Recording Industry Association of America. In the interim, her English collections Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 (2005), She Wolf (2009), and Shakira (2014) were totally affirmed gold, platinum, or multi-platinum in different nations around the world. A portion of her melodies have graphed at number one in different nations, including "La Tortura", "Hips Don't Lie", "Excellent Liar", "Waka (This Time for Africa)", "Loca", and "Chantaje". Shakira filled in as a mentor on two periods of the American singing rivalry TV arrangement The Voice (2013–2014). 

With an index of 145 melodies, Shakira has sold more than 75 million records, making her one of the world's smash hit music specialists. Forbes detailed that starting in 2018, Shakira has become the female Latin craftsman who has sold the most collections ever. Shakira has gotten various honors, including three Grammy Awards, twelve Latin Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, 39 Billboard Latin Music Awards, She was named the Top Female Latin Artist of the Decade by Billboard twice (the 2000s and 2010s). For her charitable work with her Barefoot Foundation and her commitments to music, she got the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year and Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year grants in 2011. She was designated to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in the US in 2011, and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.

Early life

Shakira was brought into the world on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the lone offspring of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado. Her dad William was brought into the world in New York City to a family from Lebanon. At the point when he was 5, his family moved to Colombia. Her Colombian mother's side has two Spanish last names, Ripoll and Torrado, the previous of which is Catalan and begins from four siblings who moved from Catalonia to waterfront Colombia in the nineteenth century. She has likewise professed to have inaccessible Italian roots through a predecessor with the family name "Pisciotti".The name Shakira (Arabic: شاكرة‎) is Arabic for "thankful", the ladylike type of the name Shakir (Arabic: شاكر‎). She has eight more established half-kin from her dad's past marriage. Shakira spent quite a bit of her childhood in Barranquilla, a city situated on the northern Caribbean shoreline of Colombia. Shakira's business keenness is frequently credited to a high IQ, which is accounted for in the amusement press to be 140. 

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Shakira thought of her first sonnet, named "La rosa de cristal" ('The Crystal Rose') when she was just four years of age. As she was growing up, she was intrigued watching her dad composing stories on a typewriter and requested one as a Christmas present. She got that typewriter at seven years old and has kept composing verse from that point forward. These sonnets, at last, advanced into tunes. At the point when Shakira was two years of age, a more established relative was slaughtered in a bike mishap; after six years, at eight years old, Shakira thought of her first tune, named "Tus gafas oscuras" ('Your dim glasses'), which was motivated by her dad, who for quite a long time wore dim glasses to shroud his distress. 

At the point when Shakira was four, her dad took her to a nearby Middle Eastern café, where Shakira initially heard the Doumbek, a customary drum utilized in Arabic music and which normally went with hip twirling. She began moving on the table, and the experience caused her to understand that she needed to be an entertainer. She delighted in singing for classmates and educators (and surprisingly the nuns) at her Catholic school, yet in 2nd grade, she was dismissed for the school ensemble since her vibrato was excessively solid. The music instructor revealed to her that she sounded "like a goat". At school, she was regularly conveyed to the class due to her hyperactivity (ADHD). She says she had likewise been known as "the paunch artist young lady", as she would show each Friday at school a number she had learned. "That is how I found my energy for live execution," she says. To impart appreciation to Shakira for her childhood, her dad took her to a nearby park to see vagrants who lived there. The pictures remained with her, and she said to herself: "One day I will help these children when I become a renowned craftsman." 

Between the ages of 10 and 13, Shakira was welcome to different occasions in Barranquilla and acquired some acknowledgment around there. It was at this estimated time that she met nearby theater maker Monica Ariza, who was intrigued with her and subsequently attempted to help her profession. During a departure from Barranquilla to Bogotá, Ariza persuaded Sony Colombia leader Ciro Vargas to hold a tryout for Shakira in an inn anteroom. Vargas respected Shakira and, getting back to the Sony office, gave the tape to a tune and craftsman chief. Nonetheless, the chief was not excessively energized and thought Shakira was something of "an act of futility". Unfaltering and still persuaded that Shakira had the ability, Vargas set up a tryout in Bogotá. He masterminded Sony Colombia chiefs to show up at the tryout, astounding them with Shakira's exhibition. She performed three melodies for the leaders and dazzled them enough for her to be endorsed to record three collections. 

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1990–1995: Beginnings 

Shakira's presentation collection, Magia, was recorded with Sony Music Colombia in 1990 when she was just 13 years of age. The melodies are an assortment made by her since she was eight, blended pop-rock ditties and disco uptempo tunes with electronic backup. The collection was delivered in June 1991 and included "Magia" and three different singles. Even though it fared well on Colombian radio and gave the youthful Shakira much openness, the collection didn't passage well industrially, as just 1,200 duplicates were sold around the world. After the terrible showing of Magia, Shakira's name asked her to get back to the studio to deliver a subsequent record. Even though she was mostly secret outside of her local Colombia at that point, Shakira was welcome to perform at Chile's Viña del Mar International Song Festival in February 1993. The celebration allowed hopeful Latin American vocalists an opportunity to play out their melodies, and the champ was then picked by a board of judges. Shakira played out the ditty "Eres" ("You Are") and won the prize for the third spot. One of the appointed authorities who decided in favor of her to win was the then 20-year-old Ricky Martin, whose underlying conspicuousness had come from his enrollment in Menudo. 

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Shakira's second studio collection, named Peligro, was delivered in March, yet Shakira was not satisfied with the end-product, predominantly disagreeing with the creation. The collection was preferably gotten over Magia had been, however, it was likewise viewed as a business disappointment because Shakira refused to publicize or advance it. Shakira at that point chose to take a break from recording so she could move on from secondary school. Around the same time, Shakira featured in the Colombian TV arrangement The Oasis, inexactly dependent on the Armero misfortune in 1985. From that point forward, the collections have been pulled from discharge and are not viewed as true Shakira collections but instead limited-time collections. 

1995–2000: Latin leap forward 

Shakira initially recorded the tune "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" (later delivered on her collection Pies Descalzos) for the assemblage collection Nuestro Rock in 1994, delivered only in Colombia. The melody was a moment accomplishment on radio broadcasts in Colombia and Sony chose to back her third record, by allowing her the last opportunity because of past business disappointments. 

Shakira got back to recording music under Sony Music alongside Columbia Records in 1995 with Luis F. Ochoa, utilizing melodic impacts from various nations and an Alanis Morissette-arranged persona which influenced two of her next collections [failed verification] These accounts brought forth her third studio collection, and her worldwide introduction collection, named Pies Descalzos. Recording for the collection started in February 1995, after the achievement of her single "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?". 

Famous

The collection, Pies Descalzos, was delivered in October 1995 in the Latin American nations and in February 1996 in the US. It arrived at number five on the U.S. Board Top Latin Albums outline. The collection produced six hit singles, "Estoy Aquí", which arrived at number two on the U.S. Latin outline, "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" which arrived at number five on the U.S. Latin diagram, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" which arrived at number 11 on the U.S. Latin graph which arrived at number eight on the U.S. Latin chart In August 1996, RIAA affirmed the collection's platinum status. 

In March 1996, Shakira went on to her first worldwide visit, named essentially the Tour Pies Descalzos. The visit comprised of 20 shows and finished in 1997. Pies Descalzos later sold more than 5 million duplicates, inciting the arrival of a remix collection, essentially named The Remixes. The Remixes additionally included Portuguese adaptations of a portion of her notable tunes, which were recorded because of her accomplishment in the Brazilian market, where Pies Descalzos sold almost 1,000,000 duplicates. 

Her fourth studio collection was named Dónde Están los Ladrones? Delivered by Shakira with Emilio Estefan, Jr. as the chief maker it was delivered in September 1998. The collection, propelled by an episode in an air terminal wherein a bag loaded up with her composed verses was taken, turned into a greater hit than Pies Descalzos. The collection has arrived at a pinnacle position of number 131 on the U.S. Bulletin 200 and held the best position on the U.S. Latin Albums outline for 11 weeks. It has since sold more than 7 million duplicates worldwide and 1.5 million duplicates in the U.S. alone, making it outstanding amongst other selling Spanish collections in the U.S. Eight singles were taken from the collection including "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Moscas En La Casa", "No Creo", "Unavoidable", "Tú", "Si Te Vas", "Octavo día", and "Ojos Así". 

Shakira additionally got her first Grammy Award selection in 1999 for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. Shakira's first live collection, MTV Unplugged, was recorded in New York City on 12 August 1999. Profoundly acclaimed by American pundits, it is evaluated as one of her best-ever live exhibitions. In March 2000, Shakira left on her Tour Anfibio, a two-month visit through Latin America and the United States. In August 2000, she won an MTV Video Music Award in the class of People's Choice – Favorite International Artist for "Ojos Así". In September 2000, Shakira performed "Ojos Así" at the debut function of the Latin Grammy Awards, where she was designated in five classifications: Album of the Year and Best. 

2001–2004: English progress with Laundry Service

Upon the achievement of Dónde Están Los Ladrones? what's more, MTV Unplugged, Shakira started dealing with an English hybrid collection. She learned English with the assistance of Gloria Estefan. She worked for longer than a year on new material for the collection. "At whatever point, Wherever", called "Suerte" in Spanish-talking nations, was delivered as the first and lead single from her first English collection and fifth studio collection all through the period between August 2001 and February 2002. The melody took a weighty impact from Andean music, including the charango and panpipes in its instrumentation. It turned into a global accomplishment by arriving at number one in many nations. It was likewise her first accomplishment in the U.S., by arriving at number six on the Hot 100. 

Shakira's fifth studio collection and first English language collection, named Laundry Service in English-talking nations and Servicio De Lavanderia in Latin America and Spain, was delivered on 13 November 2001. The collection appeared at number three on the U.S. Board 200 graph, selling more than 200,000 records in its first week. The collection was subsequently affirmed triple platinum by the RIAA in June 2004 too. It assisted with setting up Shakira's melodic presence in the standard North American market. Seven singles were taken from the collection, for example, "At whatever point, Wherever"/"Suerte", "Under Your Clothes", "Protest (Tango)"/"Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)", "The One", "Te Dejo Madrid", "Que Me Quedes Tú", and "Sonnet to a Horse". 

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Since the collection was made for the English-language market, the stone and Spanish dance-affected collection acquired gentle basic achievement, for certain pundits asserting that her English abilities were excessively feeble for her to compose tunes for it; Rolling Stone, for one, expressed that "she sounds absolutely senseless" or "Shakira's wizardry is lost in interpretation". A comparable view was communicated by Elizabeth Mendez Berry in Vibe: "While her Spanish-language collections shone with rich pleasantry, this record is overflowing with banalities, both musically and melodiously. [...] For Anglophone Latin sweethearts, Shakira's verses are best left to the creative mind." Despite this reality, the collection turned into the top-of-the-line collection of 2002, selling more than 13 million duplicates around the world. also, turned into the best collection of her profession to date. The collection procured her the title of the greatest Latin female hybrid craftsman on the planet. Around this time, Shakira likewise delivered four tunes for Pepsi for her advancement in the English business sectors: "Request More", "Pide Más", "Thump on My Door", and "Pídeme el Sol". In Chicago Tribune, columnist Joshua Klein characterized her worldwide climb "as multilateral, multicultural and helpful." 

In 2002, at Aerosmith's MTV Icon in April 2002, Shakira performed "Fella (Looks Like a Lady)". She likewise joined Cher, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mary J. In August, she performed "Protest (Tango)" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, and won the International Viewer's Choice Award with "At whatever point, Wherever" She likewise won the Latin Grammy Award for the classification of Best Short Form Music Video for the Spanish rendition of the video. In November, she set out on the Tour of the Mongoose with 61 shows happening by May 2003. The visit was likewise her first overall visit, as legs were played in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Shakira's name, Sony BMG, likewise delivered her Spanish most noteworthy hits arrangement, Grandes Éxitos. A DVD and 10-track live collection, named Live and Off the Record, was likewise delivered in 2004, remembering the Tour of the Mongoose. 

Shakira's 6th studio collection, Fijación Oral, Volumen Uno, was delivered in June 2005. The lead single from the collection, "La Tortura", arrived at the best 40 on the Hot 100. The tune likewise included the Spanish entertainer Alejandro Sanz. Shakira turned into the primary craftsman to play out a Spanish language tune at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. The collection was amazingly generally welcomed. It appeared at number four on the Billboard 200 graph, selling 157,000 duplicates in its first week. It has since sold more than 2,000,000 duplicates in the U.S., acquiring an 11× Platinum (Latin field) certificate from the RIAA. Because of its first week's deals, the collection turned into the most elevated introduction ever for a Spanish language collection. After just a day of delivery in Latin America, the collection acquired certificates. In Venezuela, it procured a Platinum certificate, in Colombia, a triple Platinum affirmation, while in Mexico request surpassed shipments and the collection was inaccessible after only one day of delivery. Four different singles were additionally delivered from the collection: "No", "Día de Enero", "La Pared", and "Las de la Intuición". Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 has since sold more than 4,000,000 duplicates around the world. On 8 February 2006, Shakira won her second Grammy Award with the success of Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album for Fijación Oral, Vol. 1. She got four Latin Grammy Awards in November 2006, winning the honors for Record of the Year, Song of the Year for "La Tortura", Album of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album for Fijación Oral, Vol. 1. 

The lead single for Shakira's seventh collection, Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, "Try not to", neglected to make graph progress in the U.S. by missing the best 40 on the Hot 100. It did, nonetheless, arrive at the main 20 in many nations around the world. Shakira's second English studio collection and seventh studio collection, Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, was delivered on 29 November 2005. The collection appeared at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 128,000 duplicates in its first week. The collection has proceeded to sell 1.8 million records in the U.S., and more than 8,000,000 duplicates around the world. 

Despite the business disappointment of the collection's lead single in the U.S., it proceeded to produce two additional singles. "Hips Don't Lie", which highlighted Wyclef Jean, was delivered as the collection's second single in February 2006. It would turn into Shakira's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as arriving at number one in more than 55 nations. Shakira and Wyclef Jean likewise recorded a Bamboo adaptation of the tune to fill in as the end function melody of the FIFA World Cup 2006. Shakira later delivered the third and last single from the collection, "Illicit", which included Carlos Santana, in November 2006. She at that point left on the Oral Fixation Tour, which started in June 2006.

In late 2006, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz teamed up for the two-part harmony "Te lo Agradezco, Pero No", which is highlighted on Sanz's collection El Tren de Los Momentos. The tune was a best ten hit in Latin America and beat the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks diagram. Shakira additionally worked together with Miguel Bosé on the two-part harmony "Si Tú No Vuelves", which was delivered in Bosé's collection Papito. In mid-2007, Shakira worked with American R&B vocalist Beyoncé Knowles for the track "Lovely Liar", which was delivered as the second single from the fancy release of Beyoncé's collection B'Day. In April 2007, the single bounced 91 situations, from 94 to three, on the Billboard Hot 100 graph, establishing the standard for the biggest vertical development throughout the entire existence of the diagram at that point. It was likewise number one on the authority UK Singles Chart. The tune acquired them a Grammy Award designation for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Shakira was likewise included in Annie Lennox's tune "Sing", from the collection Songs of Mass Destruction, which additionally includes 23 other female artists. In late 2007, Shakira and Wyclef Jean recorded their subsequent two-part harmony, "Ruler and Queen". The tune was highlighted on Wyclef Jean's 2007 collection Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant. 

Shakira composed the verses and mutually formed the music, for two new melodies that are included in the film Love in the Time of Cholera, in light of the acclaimed novel composed by Colombian creator Gabriel García Márquez. García Marquez himself requested that Shakira compose the melodies. The tunes that Shakira loaned to the soundtrack were "Pienso en ti", a tune from Shakira's advancement collection Pies Descalzos.

Artistry

In her music, Shakira has said that "my music, I believe, is a combination of a wide range of components. What's more, I'm continually testing. So I do whatever it takes not to restrict myself, or put myself in a class, or... be the draftsman of my own prison." Shakira has oftentimes expressed she is motivated by oriental music and Indian music, which impacted a large number of her prior works. She has additionally been impacted by her Arabian legacy, which was a significant motivation for her advancement world hit "Ojos Así". She disclosed to Portuguese TV, "A considerable lot of my developments have a place with Arab culture." She additionally refers to her folks as having been significant supporters of her melodic style. She is additionally firmly affected by Andean music and South American people music, utilizing her local instrumentation for her Latin dance-pop melodies. 

Her previous Spanish collections, including Pies Descalzos and Dónde Están Los Ladrones? were a blend of society music and Latin stone. Her get-over English collection, Laundry Service, and later collections were impacted by pop-rock and pop Latino. "Clothing Service" is principally a pop-rock collection, yet in addition draws impacts from an assortment of melodic types. The vocalist attributed this to her blended nationality, saying: "I'm a combination. That is my persona. I'm a combination among high contrast, among pop and rock, between societies – between my Lebanese dad and my mom's Spanish blood, the Colombian fables and Arab dance I love, and American music." 

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The Arabian and Middle Eastern components that applied a high effect on Dónde Están Los Ladrones? are additionally present in Laundry Service, most unmistakably on "Eyes Like Yours"/"Ojos Así". Melodic styles from various South American nations surface on the collection. Tango, a style of quick-moving partner dance that started in Argentina, is clear in "Protest (Tango)", which likewise consolidates components of rock and roll. The uptempo track includes a guitar solo and an extension in which Shakira conveys rap-like vocals. 

She Wolf is fundamentally an electropop collection that joins impacts from the melodic styles of different nations and areas, similar to Africa, Colombia, India, and the Middle East. Shakira named the collection as a "sonic exploratory outing", and said that she investigated people music from various nations to "join gadgets with world sounds, tambourines, clarinets, oriental and Hindu music, dancehall, and so forth" Her 2010 collection, Sale el Sol, is a re-visitation of her beginnings containing ditties, rock tunes, and Latin dance tunes like "Loca". In 2017, Deutsche Welle's writer Kate Müser remarked on Shakira's "globalized sound": " Latin beats, spiced with Middle Eastern and other world components and made serenely recognizable by being stirred through the pop machine, cause you to feel like a resident of the world.

Achievements

Shakira has gotten various honors and acknowledgments for her work. She is the beneficiary of three Grammy Awards and twelve Latin Grammy Awards—the most for a female craftsman. Shakira has sold more than 75 million records around the world, making her one of the world's top-rated music craftsmen. Shakira turned into the principal craftsman throughout the entire existence of the Billboard graphs to arrive at the main spots on both the Top 40 Mainstream and Latin Chart around the same time doing as such with "Hips Don't Lie". Furthermore, she is the lone craftsman from South America to arrive at the main spot on the U.S. Bulletin Hot 100, the

 Australian ARIA outline, and the UK Singles Chart. 

Achievements

Her tune "La Tortura" at one time held the record for Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks graph, showing up at number-one more than some other single with a sum of 25 non-continuous weeks, a record as of now held by the Luis Fonsi tune "Despacito" with 56 weeks. Nokia expressed in 2010, that there were more Shakira music downloads in the earlier year than for some other Latino craftsman over the most recent five years, and She Wolf bested the Top 10 Latino downloads. In 2010, she was positioned number five on the 'Online Video's Most Viral Artists of 2010' with 404,118,932 perspectives. In 2011, Shakira was regarded at the Latin Grammys as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, and by the Harvard Foundation as Cultural Rhythms Artist of the Year. She likewise got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame situated at 6270 Hollywood. Initially, she was to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, however, she turned the proposal down. In 2012, she got the honor of Chevalier De L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2014, Shakira turned into the primary melodic demonstration to perform multiple times at the FIFA World Cup. Around the same time, Aleiodes Shakira, another type of parasitic wasp was named after her since it makes its host "shake and squirm". Forbes positioned Shakira on their rundown of. In 2015 Time perceived Shakira as quite possibly the most powerful individuals via online media. Shakira and Argentinian president; Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the lone Latin influencer named on the rundown. All the more so Time noticed that Shakira has an "unrivaled stage" via online media where she advances her altruism. In 2008, Shakira was named as the Honorary Chair of the Global Campaign for Education Global Action Week. 

In 2018, Spotify remembered Shakira for the rundown of the top 10 most streamed female craftsmen of the decade on the stage, making her the most elevated streamed Latin craftsman. In 2020, Shakira turned into the main female craftsman in history to have 4 tunes from various a long time to have more than 100 million streams on Spotify, likewise denoting her as the lone craftsman with Spanish tunes, the solitary Latin craftsman, and third in general after Michael Jackson and Eminem to accomplish this achievement. In 2020 she broke the Vevo Certified Awards records, and set the standard at 37, turning into a craftsman with the most recordings with more than 100 million streams ever. She is currently worth $300 million.

TV 

Year Title Role

1994 El oasis Luisa Maria Rico 

2002 Popstars Brazil Mentor assistant Season 1 

2002 Taina Herself Episode: "Abuelo Knows Best" 

T.V

2005 7 vidas Herself Episode: "Task por las pastis" 

2009 Ugly Betty Herself Episode: "The Bahamas Triangle" 

2010 Wizards of Waverly Place Herself Episode: "Fella Looks Like Shakira" 

2013–2014 The Voice Coach/Mentor Seasons 4 and 6 

2014 Dreamland Herself Episode: "3" 

2020 Global Goal: Unite for Our Future Herself Television extraordinary 

2020 The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II Herself Television extraordinary 

Film 

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Year Title Role

2002 Shakira: The Documentary Film Herself Documentary 

2007 Pies Descalzos Foundation Herself Documentary 

2011 Hagamos que Salga El Sol Herself Documentary 

2011 A Day with Shakira Herself Documentary 

2016 Zootopia Gazelle Voice job 

2020 Miss Americana Herself Documentary

Personal Life

Shakira started a relationship with Argentinian attorney Antonio de la Rúa in 2000. In a 2009 meeting, Shakira expressed their relationship previously functioned as a wedded couple, and that "they needn't bother with papers for that". 

Following 10 years together, Shakira and de la Rúa isolated in August 2010 in what she depicted as "a shared choice to require some serious energy separated from our close connection". She composed that the couple "see this time of partition as a brief", with de la Rúa administering Shakira's "business and vocation interests as he has consistently done". As first announced in September 2012, de la Rúa sued Shakira in April 2013, requesting the $100 million he accepted he was owed after Shakira abruptly ended her business organization with him in October 2011. His claim was excused by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in August 2013. 

Shakira entered a relationship with the Spanish football player Gerard Piqué, focus back for Barcelona and the Spanish public group in 2011. Piqué, who is by and large ten years her lesser, initially met Shakira in the spring of 2010, when he showed up in the music video for Shakira's melody "Waka (This Time for Africa)" the authority tune of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Shakira brought forth the couple's first child Milan on 22 January 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, where the family had taken up home. Shakira brought forth their second child Sasha on 29 January 2015. Forbes recorded Shakira and Gerard in their rundown of "World's Most Powerful Couples". 

In 2020, Shakira declared her fruition of an Ancient Philosophy course through the University of Pennsylvania, depicting it as an unreasonable interest of hers.

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