Sunday 15 July 2007

Shakira





Full name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll

Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977. Her father is a Lebanese immigrant and her mother a native of Colombia. She is also of Macedonian and Italian descent, and is fluent in Portuguese, Italian, and English, in addition to Spanish and Arabic. She reputedly has an IQ of 140! She is also only 4ft 11 inches tall (1.52m)!

Shakira began her musical career at age 12 and quickly captured fans throughout Latin America. She burst onto the UK scene with her song, "Whenever, wherever", which went to number two in the charts. It was one of the biggest selling songs of the year, but was denied the number one spot in the charts by those two annoying fellas from the original Stars in their eyes, sorry Pop Idol. She also achieved a number one song with "Hips don't lie"

She has been trained as a belly dancer, and uses this to great effect in her videos. She is also rumoured to be double jointed. The last I heard, she was engaged to the former President of Argentina' son, who had to escape the country after a coup.

Whilst not being an avid boot wearer, I am a big fan of her bum, so I'll let her off for now...

Party taken from www.imdb.com