http://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Eve85 2012-07-01T21:25:42Z http://everything2.com/user/Eve85/writeups/ShakiraEve85http://everything2.com/user/Eve852012-07-01T21:25:42Z2012-07-01T21:25:42Z <p><strong><a href="http://shakira.com/">SHAKIRA</a></strong></p> <p> <br>Shakira is awesome! isn't she? Well, the ones who don't know her yet, must do it. <br>Shakira is very famous round the world, but it isn't luck! Actually, it's the result of a hard working life.</p> <p>In this article, you'll know more about her career and her contribution to the musical and social world.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Early years and Career</strong></p> <p> <br>Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born in Barranquila, <a href="/title/Colombia">Colombia</a> on February 2, 1977. She is a Lebanese, Spanish and Italian <a href="/title/descendent">descendent</a>, and it has contributed a lot to the definition of her <a href="/title/music">music</a> style.</p> <p>Yet on her childhood she discovered she wanted to be a <a href="/title/performer">performer</a> and she used to perform her <a href="/title/belly+dancing">belly dancing</a> at school on Fridays. <br>After going through some difficult events in her family, she also decided she would help orphans when she became famous.</p> <p>Shakira's career started early. She wrote her first <a href="/title/poem">poem</a> when she was just four and never stopped.&hellip;