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Shakira

real name Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll

Colombian singer-songwriter

Colombia · b. 1977-02-02

Shakira is credited on 710 releases across 142 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1993–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Colombian singer and songwriter, born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia, to a Colombian mother of Spanish-Italian descent and an American father of Lebanese-Italian descent.
Writing songs and belly-dancing since childhood, her first album was released when she was a mere 14 years old.
Other Spanish-language albums followed, each faring better than its predecessor, but it was not until 2001 that she achieved a world-wide breakthrough with the English-language "Laundry Service" album.
Shakira is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese.

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