Colombian Musicians by Genre - Colombian Dance Musicians, Colombian Rock Musicians, Vallenato Musicians, Robo, Shakira, Silvestre Dangond (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Colombian Dance Musicians, Colombian Rock Musicians, Vallenato Musicians, Robo, Shakira, Silvestre Dangond, Rafael Escalona, Leandro Daz, Jorge Celedn, Jean Carlos Centeno, Israel Romero, Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colacho Mendoza, Alejo Durn, Juancho Rois. Excerpt: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced, Spanish: or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged as a musical prodigy in the music scene of 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. After commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album Dnde Estn los Ladrones? was a critical success. Since then she has gained many fans in semi-Hispanophone countries, and many non-Spanish-speaking countries, especially the United States. In 2001, and aided by heavy rotation of the music video, "Whenever, Wherever," she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijacin Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Both reinforced her success, particularly with the most successful song in the 21st century to date, "Hip... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6479315