Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: People from Barranquilla, Shakira, Edgar Renteria, Sofia Vergara, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, Andres Cabas, Orlando Fals Borda, Carlos Moreno de Caro, Gabriel Silva Lujan, Natasha Klauss, Armando Benedetti, Cecilia Lopez Montano, Evaristo Sourdis Juliao, Eduardo Verano de la Rosa, Nina Garcia, Alejandro Char Chaljub, Natalia Navarro, Abel Gonzalez Chavez, Alex Comas, Ernesto McCausland, Angie Sanclemente Valencia, Charlie Goff, Ivan Valenciano, Arnulfo Valentierra, Jery Sandoval, Carlos Rodado Noriega, Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, Victor Pacheco, Maia, Arturo Char Chaljub, Marcos Coll, Ricardo Ciciliano, Eudalio Arriaga, David Char Navas, Macnelly Torres, Valerie Dominguez, Jack Guzman, Isaac Gilinski Sragowicz, Juan Jose Barros, Jose David Name, Ivan Leonidas Name Vasquez, Likar Ramos Concha, Helmut Bellingrodt, Roberto Polo, Sergio Rada, Anthony Tapia, Gabriel Forero Sanmiguel, Efrain Sanchez, Francisco Osorio. Excerpt: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced, Spanish: ), 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. After commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and being 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 ...