SHAKIRA

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977),
known simply as Shakira , is a Colombian singer,
songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer and
occasional actress who has been a major figure in the
pop music scene of Latin America since the
mid-1990s. In 2001, she broke through into the
English-speaking market with the release of her first
album in that language, Laundry Service, which has
sold over fifteen million copies worldwide. A two-time
Grammy Award-winning and eight-time Latin Grammy
Award-winning artist, Shakira is the highest-selling
Colombian artist of all time, having sold around fifty
million albums worldwide or more.She is also the only
artist from South America to reach the number-one
spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA
chart, the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart.
Shakira is also known for her intelligence, reportedly
having an IQ of 140.
According to the United World Chart, Shakira is as of
2007 the fourth most successful artist so far from the
2000s.
According to an article published on December 10,
2006 on The Boston Globe, Shakira is to provide three
songs for the soundtrack of the film adaptation of the
Gabriel García Márquez novel Love in the Time of
Cholera, which is due out around late 2007