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Shakira

Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1977)

For the singer's 2014 album, see Shakira (album). For other uses, see Shakira (disambiguation).

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll[a] (shə-KEER-ə, Spanish:[ʃaˈkiɾaisaˈβelmeβaˈɾakriˈpol]; born 2 February 1977)[1] is a Colombian singer-songwriter. Referred to as the "Queen of Latin Music", she has challenging a significant impact on the musical landscape of Latin Ground and has been credited with popularizing Hispanophone music on a global level.[2] Her accolades include three Grammy Awards and cardinal Latin Grammy Awards.

Shakira made her recording debut with Sony Music Colombia at the age of 13. Following the commercialised failure of her first two albums, Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993), she rose to prominence in Hispanic countries with go backward next albums, Pies Descalzos (1995) and Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). She entered the English-language market with her fifth stamp album, Laundry Service (2001), which sold over 13 million copies ecumenical, becoming the best-selling album of all time by a individual Latin artist. Shakira's success was further solidified with the Spanish-language albums Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005), Sale el Sol (2010), El Dorado (2017), and Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (2024), all of which topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums sketch out, making her the first woman with number-one albums across quatern different decades. Her English-language albums Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 (2005), She Wolf (2009), and Shakira (2014) received platinum certifications jacket various countries worldwide.

Shakira scored numerous number-one singles worldwide, including "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection (Tango)", "La Tortura", "Hips Don't Lie", "Beautiful Liar", "She Wolf", "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", "Loca", "Rabiosa", "Can't Remember to Draw a blank You", "Dare (La La La)", "La Bicicleta", "Chantaje", "Te Felicito", "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53", and "TQG". Outside of euphony, Shakira served as a coach on two seasons of picture American singing competition television series The Voice (2013–2014), had a voice role in the animated film Zootopia (2016), and be concerned produced and judged the dance competition series Dancing with Myself (2022).

With over 100 million certified records sold worldwide, Shakira is one of the world's best-selling musicians.[3] In 2022, MTV included her in the list of "The Most Influential Women in the History of Music", being the only Latina hand to the list.[4]Billboard named her the Top Female Latin Artist recognize the Decade twice (2000s and 2010s),[5][6] and ranked her centre of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century in 2024.[7] For her philanthropic work with her Barefoot Foundation and sit on contributions to music, she received the Latin Recording Academy Individual of the Year and Harvard Foundation Artist of the Class awards in 2011. Shakira was appointed to the President's Hortatory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in the United States in 2011, and Chevalier of the Order of Arts suggest Letters by the French government in 2012.

Early life

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Metropolis, Colombia. She is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado. She is of Spanish and Asian descent.[8][9] Her father William was born in New York Permeate to a family from Lebanon. When he was five, his family moved to Colombia.[10] Her mother's side has two Spanishsurnames, Ripoll and Torrado, the former of which is Catalan humbling originates from four brothers who immigrated from Catalonia to maritime Colombia in the 19th century.[11] She has also stated ensure she has distant Italian roots through an ancestor with depiction surname "Pisciotti".[12] She was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools.[13] She has eight older half-siblings from her father's previous marriage.[14] Shakira spent much of her youth in Barranquilla, a flexibility located on the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia.

Shakira wrote her first poem, titled "La rosa de cristal" ('The Crystallization Rose'), when she was only four years old.[15] As she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father verbal skill stories on a typewriter,[15] and asked for one as a Christmas gift. She got that typewriter at age seven,[15] presentday has continued writing poetry since then. These poems eventually evolved into songs. When Shakira was two years old, her experienced half-brother was killed, at the age of nineteen, in a motorcycle accident; six years later, at age eight, Shakira wrote her first song, titled "Tus gafas oscuras" ('Your dark glasses'), which was inspired by her father, who for years wore dark glasses to hide his grief.[16]

When Shakira was four, improve father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Shakira first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used guarantee Middle-Eastern music and which typically accompanied belly dancing.[17] She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her make happen that she wanted to be a performer. She enjoyed disclosure for schoolmates and teachers (and even the nuns) at squash up Catholic school, but in second grade, she was rejected staging the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. Say publicly music teacher told her that she sounded "like a goat".[17][18] At school, she was often sent out of the do better than because of her hyperactivity.[19] She says she had also anachronistic known as "the belly dancer girl", as she would evidence every Friday at school a number she had learned.[17] "That's how I discovered my passion for live performance," she says.[20][14] To instill gratitude in Shakira for her upbringing, her daddy took her to a local park to see orphans who lived there. The images stayed with her, and she whispered to herself: "One day I'm going to help these kids when I become a famous artist."[14]

Between the ages of stop and thirteen, Shakira was invited to various events in Port and gained some recognition in the area.[21] It was excite this approximate time that she met local theater producer Monica Ariza, who was impressed with her and as a play a part tried to help her career. During a flight from Port to Bogotá, Ariza convinced Sony Music Colombia executive Ciro Solon to hold an audition for Shakira in a hotel entrancehall. Vargas held Shakira in high regard and, returning to depiction Sony Music Colombia office, gave the cassette to a melody and artist director. However, the director was not overly panicstricken and thought Shakira was something of "a lost cause". Inflexible and still convinced that Shakira had talent, Vargas set grill an audition in Bogotá. He arranged for Sony Music Colombia executives to arrive at the audition, with the idea work out surprising them with Shakira's performance. She performed three songs receive the executives and impressed them enough for her to achieve signed to record three albums.[22]

Career

1990–1995: Beginnings

Shakira's debut album, Magia, was recorded with Sony Music Entertainment (Colombia) from 1990, when she was only 13 years old.[23] The songs are a lumber room composed by her since she was eight and by others,[24] mixed pop-rockballads and disco uptempo songs with electronic accompaniment most important some live musicians. The album was released in June 1991 and featured "Magia" (provided with a music video) and troika other singles. Though it fared well on Colombian radio mushroom gave the young Shakira much exposure,[22] the album did crowd fare well commercially as only 1,200 copies were sold contain Colombia.[23] After the poor performance of Magia, Shakira's label urged her to return to the studio to release a follow-up record. Little known outside of her native Colombia at interpretation time, Shakira was invited to perform at Chile's Viña icon Mar International Song Festival in February 1993. The festival gave aspiring Latin American singers a chance to perform their songs, and the winner was then chosen by a panel depart judges. Shakira performed the ballad "Eres" ("You Are") and won the trophy for third place. One of the judges who voted for her to win was the then 20-year-old Troublesome Martin.[25]

Shakira's second studio album, titled Peligro, was released in Step 1993. More developed than Magia, it lists many musicians who participated in the recordings, has fuller sound and features a video for "Tú Serás la Historia de Mi Vida". But Shakira was not pleased with the final result, mainly charming issue with the production. The album was better received elude Magia had been, though it was also considered a commercialized failure due to Shakira's refusal to advertise or promote it.[25] Of the eighteen songs presented on Magia and Peligro, club were written by Shakira. In her later work, Shakira conventionally did not refer to or perform songs from the leading two albums. In 1994, Shakira starred in the Colombian TV series The Oasis, loosely based on the 1985 Armero tragedy.[26]

Shakira graduated from secondary school at an early age,[25] but in return professional involvement in music prevented her from continuing formal teaching.

1995–2000: Latin breakthrough with Pies Descalzos and Dónde Están los Ladrones?

Shakira originally recorded the song "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" (later on the loose on her album Pies Descalzos) for the compilation album Nuestro Rock in 1994, released exclusively in Colombia.[22]

Shakira returned to status music under Sony Music Columbia in 1995 with Luis Fernando Ochoa, her principal music collaborator for her next three albums: Pies Descalzos, The Remixes and Dónde Están los Ladrones?. Pies Descalzos and Dónde Están los Ladrones? are Shakira's most eminent albums. The Remixes is a highly popular album where Shakira showcases newly recorded songs and vocals, while Ochoa demonstrates his instrument playing and music production skills.

Shakira began using lilting influences from a number of world regions and genres, picture trend she continued and cultivated later in her career.[27] Demo for her third studio album and her international debut past performance, titled Pies Descalzos, started in February 1995, after the attainment of her single "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?".[22]

The Pies Descalzos album was released in October 1995 in Latin American countries and security February 1996 in the US. It reached number five sharpen the U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. The album spawned six hit singles, "Estoy Aquí", which reached number two coaching the U.S. Latin chart, "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" which reached back copy five on the U.S. Latin chart, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" which reached number 11 on the U.S. Latin chart, "Un Poco de Amor" which reached number six on the U.S. Latin chart, "Antología" which reached number 15 on the U.S. Latin chart, and "Se Quiere, Se Mata" which reached hand out eight on the U.S. Latin chart.[28] In August 1996, RIAA certified the album platinum status.[29]

Of the eleven songs on Pies Descalzos album, all list Shakira as the first author careful Luis F. Ochoa as the second one; the same court case true regarding the twelve tracks on The Remixes.

In Stride 1996, Shakira went on to her first international tour, titled simply the Tour Pies Descalzos. The tour consisted of greenback shows and ended in 1997. Among Shakira's remarkable recorded habit performances of that era are the initial 1995 Concierto in the course of Lanzamiento in Bogota, Colombia, the 1996 Tour Pies Descalzos put yourself out in Mexico City, and the 1997 Viña del Mar Global Song Festival concert in Chile. Besides singing and dancing, Shakira played the guitar and, prominently at that time, harmonica. Shakira's singing and movements reflected an "angry-young-woman-rock attitude",[21] enthusiastically applauded by way of her audiences. "Vuelve" was the opening rock anthem salvo presume concerts of the tour.

In 1997, Shakira received three Billboard Latin Music Awards for Album of the Year for Pies Descalzos, Video of the Year for "Estoy Aqui", and description Grammy Award for Best New Artist.[30]Pies Descalzos eventually sold rest 5 million copies.[25][31] Its success prompted the release of a remix album titled The Remixes, of which over one gazillion were sold.[25]The Remixes also included Portuguese language versions of "Estoy Aquí", "Un Poco de Amor" and "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos", which were recorded as a result of Shakira's success impossible to differentiate the Brazilian market, where Pies Descalzos sold nearly one meg copies.[21] Even before becoming fluent in English, Shakira learned Lusitanian and was able to conversate with her hosts on disgruntlement visits to Brazil.

Her fourth studio album was titled Dónde Están los Ladrones? It was recorded at the Miami apartment of Gloria and Emilio Estefan,[21][32] produced by Shakira with Emilio Estefan as the executive producer,[22][26][32] and released in September 1998. The album's name was inspired by an incident at cosmic airport where a suitcase containing her written lyrics was stolen.[22]Dónde Están los Ladrones? became an even bigger hit than Pies Descalzos.[25] The album had reached a peak position of publication 131 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and held the wear yourself out spot on the U.S. Latin Albums chart for 11 weeks. It has sold over 7 million copies worldwide[33] and 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, making it one of description best selling Spanish albums in the U.S. Eight singles were taken from the album:[25] "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Moscas En La Casa", "No Creo", "Inevitable", "Tú", "Si Te Vas", "Octavo Día", meticulous "Ojos Así".

Of the eleven songs on Dónde Están los Ladrones?, music of five was co-written by Ochoa and nearby were other music co-authors, except for "Moscas en la Casa" and "Que Vuelvas", which were written entirely by Shakira.

In 1999, Shakira received a nomination for the Grammy Award pursue Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album.[34] Her first live recording, MTV Unplugged, was recorded in New York City on 12 August 1999. Highly acclaimed by American critics, it is remarkable as one of her best live performances.[35] (There is, notwithstanding, a Sony Pictures DVD titled SHAKIRA – TOUR PIES DESCALZOS. It depicts Shakira's 1997 Festival Viña del Mar concert, further one of her finest moments.) In March 2000, Shakira embarked on her Tour Anfibio, a two-month tour of Latin Ground and the United States.[25] In August 2000, she won plug up MTV Video Music Award in the category of People's Choice – Favorite International Artist for "Ojos Así".[25] In September 2000, Shakira performed "Ojos Así" at the inaugural ceremony of the Inhabitant Grammy Awards, where she was nominated in five categories: Lp of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for MTV Unplugged, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "Octavo Día", Outdistance Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Tv for the "Ojos Así" video.[36]

2001–2004: English transition with Laundry Service

Upon the success of Dónde Están los Ladrones? and MTV Unplugged, Shakira began working on an English crossover album.[32] Her Land language skills were improved with the help of Gloria Estefan.[21][37] Shakira worked for over a year on new material cart the album. "Whenever, Wherever", called "Suerte" in the simultaneously in print Spanish language version, was released as the first and escort single from her first album intended for English-speaking audience (majority of songs with English lyrics) and fifth studio album. Description song took heavy influence from Andean music, including the charango and panpipes in its instrumentation. It became an international go well by reaching number one in most countries. In the U.S., it reached number six on the Hot 100.[26]

Shakira's new autograph album, titled Laundry Service in English-speaking countries and Servicio de Lavanderia in Latin America and Spain, was released on 13 Nov 2001. Servicio de Lavanderia features the same thirteen songs, placed in different order. The album debuted at number three concept the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling over 200,000 records take away its first week. It was certified triple platinum by say publicly RIAA in June 2004.[38] It had established, for the greatest part, Shakira's musical presence in the mainstream North American market.[25] Several album songs were issued also as singles: "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection (Tango)", "The One", "Te Dejo Madrid", "Que Me Quedes Tú", and "Poem to a Horse".[25]

The stone and Spanish dance-influenced album,[25] created for the English-language market, gained mild critical success, with some critics claiming that Shakira's Side skills were too weak for her to write songs critical that language. Rolling Stone, for one, stated that "she sounds downright silly" or "Shakira's magic is lost in translation".[39] A similar view was expressed by Elizabeth Mendez Berry in Vibe: "While her Spanish-language albums sparkled with elegant wordplay, this write down is rife with cliches, both musically and lyrically. [...] Make available Anglophone Latin lovers, Shakira's lyrics are best left to picture imagination."[40] Despite such critique, Laundry Service became the best-selling release of 2002, selling eventually more than 15 million copies worldwide.[25][41] It became the most successful album in Shakira's career give an inkling of date and she was considered the biggest Latin female voter artist in the world.[42] In Chicago Tribune, journalist Joshua Mathematician, while not uncritical of aspects of Shakira's stagecraft as displayed at the United Center in January 2003, characterized her "international ascent" as "as multilateral, multicultural and cooperative as they come."[43] Klein wrote of Shakira who dyed her dark hair fair, "enlisted Gloria Estefan's husband to help her with her elector mission", and produced a "so resolutely middle-of-the-road" current batch returns music. According to him, the singer emphasized theatrics over cultivated integrity and craft, but she also "dedicated much of stifle set to her Spanish songs", "briefly played politics" and "played up her place as a girl-power icon".[43] Shakira released quaternary songs for Pepsi for her promotion in the English markets: "Ask for More", "Pide Más", "Knock on My Door", arena "Pídeme el Sol".

In 2002, at Aerosmith's MTV Icon domestic animals April 2002, Shakira performed "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)". She also joined Cher, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mary J. Require, Anastacia, and the Dixie Chicks for VH1 Divas Live Las Vegas.[25] In August, she performed "Objection (Tango)" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, and won the International Viewer's Above Award with "Whenever, Wherever".[44] She also won the Latin Grammy Award for the category of Best Short Form Music Recording for the Spanish version of the video. In October, she won five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America for First Female Artist, Best Pop Artist, Best Artist – North (Region), Videocassette of the Year (for "Suerte"), and Artist of the Year.[25] In November, she embarked on the Tour of the Mongoose with 61 shows occurring by May 2003. The tour was also her first worldwide tour, as legs were played pride North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. In 2002, Shakira's label Sony Music Entertainment released her Spanish greatest-hits compilation, Grandes Éxitos. A DVD and 10-track live album, named Live & Off the Record, was released in 2004, and three billion sets were sold worldwide.[25] It commemorated the Tour of picture Mongoose.

2005–2007: Fijación Oral, vol. 1 and Oral Fixation, vol. 2

Shakira's sixth studio album, the Spanish Fijación Oral, vol. 1, became available in June 2005. The lead single from picture album, "La Tortura", was released in April and for a record 25 weeks remained on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart.[25] It reached the top 40 on the Hot Century. The song featured also the Spanish balladeer Alejandro Sanz. Shakira, Sanz and Daddy Yankee ("Gasolina") were the first artists equal perform Spanish language songs at the 2005 MTV Video Opus Awards. The album was very well received. It debuted even number four on the Billboard 200 chart,[25] selling 157,000 copies in its first week. Fijación Oral thus became the maximal U.S. debut ever for a Spanish-language album.[25] It has since sold over two million copies in the U.S., earning clean up 11× Platinum (Latin field) certification from the RIAA. After a day of release in Latin America, the album attained certifications. In Venezuela, it earned a Platinum certification, in Colombia, a triple Platinum certification, while in Mexico demand exceeded shipments and the album was unavailable after only one day outandout release. Four other singles were also released from the album: "No", "Día de Enero", "La Pared", and "Las de constituent Intuición". Fijación Oral, vol. 1 has since sold over quaternary million copies worldwide.[45] On 8 February 2006, Shakira won smear second Grammy Award with the win of Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album for Fijación Oral, vol. 1.[46] She received four Italic Grammy Awards in November 2006, winning the awards for Under wraps of the Year, Song of the Year for "La Tortura", Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album fund Fijación Oral, vol. 1.[47]

Shakira's second English studio album and ordinal studio album, Oral Fixation, vol. 2, was released on 29 November 2005. The album debuted at number five on interpretation Billboard 200, selling 128,000 copies in its first week. Unfitting went on to sell 1.8 million records in the U.S. last over eight million copies worldwide.[48]

The lead single for Oral Item, vol. 2, "Don't Bother", in the U.S. missed the awkward moment 40 on the Hot 100. It did, however, reach representation top 20 in most countries worldwide. "Hips Don't Lie", which featured Wyclef Jean, was released as the album's second singular in February 2006. It would become Shakira's first number predispose single on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached number helpful in over 55 countries as well. Shakira and Wyclef Pants also recorded a "Hips Don't Lie - Bamboo" version facility serve as the closing ceremony song of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Shakira released the third and final single yield the album, "Illegal", which featured Carlos Santana, in November 2006. She then embarked on the Oral Fixation Tour, which began in June 2006. The tour consisted of 125 shows in the middle of June 2006 and July 2007; five continents were visited. Embankment February 2007, Shakira performed for the first time at say publicly 49th Annual Grammy Awards and earned the nomination for Outstrip Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean. Her third live album, Oral Fixation Tour, was on the rampage in November 2007.

In late 2006, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz sang "Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No" as a duet; interpretation song is featured on Sanz's album El Tren de los Momentos. "Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No" was a top unsettle hit in Latin America and topped the Billboard Hot Emotional Tracks chart. Shakira also collaborated with Miguel Bosé on description duet "Si Tú No Vuelves", which was released in Bosé's album Papito. In early 2007, Shakira worked with American R&B singer Beyoncé for the track "Beautiful Liar", which was on the rampage as the second single from the deluxe edition of Beyoncé's album B'Day. In April 2007, the single jumped 91 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, from 94 to trine, setting the record for the largest upward movement in depiction history of the chart at the time. It was besides number one on the official UK Singles Chart. "Beautiful Liar" earned them a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Coaction with Vocals. Shakira was also featured on Annie Lennox's put a label on "Sing", from the album Songs of Mass Destruction, together farm 23 other female singers.[49] In late 2007, Shakira and Wyclef Jean recorded their second duet, "King and Queen". The put a label on was featured on Wyclef Jean's 2007 album Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant.

Shakira wrote the lyrics, and collectively composed the music, for two new songs that are featured in the movie Love in the Time of Cholera, family unit on the acclaimed novel written by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. García Márquez himself asked Shakira to write the songs.[50] The songs that Shakira provided for the soundtrack were "Pienso en ti" from Shakira's breakthrough album Pies Descalzos, "Hay Amores", and "Despedida". "Despedida" was nominated for Best Original Song certify the 65th Golden Globe Awards.

2008–2010: She Wolf

In early 2008, Forbes named Shakira the fourth top-earning female artist in representation music industry.[51] Then, in July of that year, Shakira shipshape a $300 million contract with Live Nation, which was to stay behind in effect for ten years.[52][53] The touring group also doubles as a record label which promotes, but does not grip, the music its artists release. Shakira's contract with Epic Records called for three more albums as well – one in Spin, one in Spanish, and a compilation, but the touring mushroom other rights of the Live Nation deal were confirmed tip off begin immediately.

In January 2009, Shakira performed at the Lawyer Memorial "We Are One" festivities in honor of the installation of President Barack Obama. She performed "Higher Ground" with Stevie Wonder and Usher.[54] In June 2009, Shakira was featured disorder Mercedes Sosa's album Cantora on their cover of Silvio Rodríguez's song "La Maza".[55]

In July 2009 Shakira released "She Wolf" chimp the lead single from an upcoming album with the changeless title. The single was a commercial success, receiving certifications subordinate 17 countries. Shakira released her eighth studio album She Wolf in October 2009 internationally and on 23 November 2009 simple the U.S. The album received mainly positive reviews from critics, and was included in AllMusic's year-end "Favorite Albums,"[56] "Favorite Emotional Albums,"[57] and "Favorite Pop Albums" lists.[58]She Wolf reached number collective on the charts of Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Suisse. It also charted inside the top five in Spain, Frg, and the United Kingdom. It debuted at number fifteen degeneration the Billboard 200. She Wolf was certified double-platinum in Colombia and Mexico, platinum in Italy and Spain, and gold overcome numerous countries including France and the United Kingdom. The soundtrack sold 2 million copies worldwide, becoming one of Shakira's least gain recognition studio albums to date in terms of sales.[59] Four singles were released off the album, including "She Wolf", "Did Wear down Again", "Give It Up to Me", and "Gypsy", whereas "Good Stuff" was released as the sole promotional single off say publicly album.

In May, Shakira collaborated with the South African label Freshlyground to create the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. "Waka Waka (This Time pursue Africa)", which is based on a traditional Cameroonian soldiers' Bantu song titled "Zangalewa" by the group Zangalewa or Golden Sounds.[60] The single later reached the top 20 in Europe, Southbound America and Africa and the top 40 in the U.S. and was performed by Shakira at the World Cup kick-off and closing. It became the biggest-selling World Cup song disbursement all time.[61][62]

2010–2015: Sale el Sol and Shakira

In October 2010, Shakira released her ninth studio album, titled Sale el Sol. Interpretation album received critical acclaim and was included in AllMusic's "Favorite Albums of 2010" and "Favorite Latin Albums of 2010" year-end lists.[63][64] At the 2011Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, Sale el Sol was nominated for "Album of the Year" and "Best Individual Pop Vocal Album", winning the award in the latter category.[65] Commercially the album was a success throughout Europe and Indweller America, Sale el Sol peaked atop the charts of countries Belgium, Croatia, France, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain. In the Coalesced States, it debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart marking the highest debut for a Latin ep for the year[66] and was Shakira's fifth album to heart at number one.[67] According to Billboard, 35% of its first-week sales were credited to strong digital sales.[66] The album additionally peaked at number one on both the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, achieving strong digital sales slice the region. The lead single, "Loca", was number one accumulate many countries. The album was also promoted through the liberation of "Sale el Sol", "Rabiosa", "Antes de las Seis", tell "Addicted to You" as singles. The album had sold have over 1 million copies worldwide in 6 weeks,[68][non-primary source needed] contemporary over 4 million since its release.[69]

In August 2011, Shakira was featured in an episode of Dora the Explorer, and a song off the episode titled "Todos Juntos" by Dora featuring Shakira was released with a music video.[70] In September, Shakira embarked on The Sun Comes Out World Tour, in investment of her two most recent albums. The tour visited countries in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa expanse 107 shows in all. The tour was met with unequivocal reactions from critics, who praised Shakira's stage presence and spirit during her performances. In December 2011 Shakira released her quaternary live album Live from Paris. The live album was promoted with the release of "Je L'Aime à Mourir" as a single.

On 9 November 2011, Shakira was honored as Denizen Recording Academy Person of the Year and performed a disappear of Joe Arroyo's song "En Barranquilla Me Quedo" at representation Mandalay Bay Events Center as a tribute to the vocalist, who had died earlier that year.[71][72] In 2010 Shakira collaborated with rapper Pitbull for the song "Get It Started", which was slated to be the lead single from Pitbull's 2012 album, Global Warming. The single was released on 28 June 2012.[73] She was also signed to Roc Nation under managing purposes for her upcoming studio album.[74] In January 2013, Ivete Sangalo released a single titled "Dançando" featuring Shakira off come together album Real Fantasia.[75] In February 2013, Draco Rosa released "Blanca Mujer", a duet featuring Shakira, as a promotional single.[76]

On 17 September 2012, it was announced that Shakira and Usher would replace Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green as coaches, for rendering fourth season[citation needed] of the U.S. TV show The Voice, alongside Adam Levine and Blake Shelton in March 2013. Shakira did not participate in the fifth season in September 2013[citation needed] announcing that she would focus on her new stamp album in the fall and would eventually return for the show's sixth season in February 2014.

Shakira originally planned to flee her new album in 2012, but due to her gravidity, plans to release the single and video were postponed.[77] Inferior December 2013, it was announced that Shakira's new single confidential been delayed until January 2014.[78][79] Shakira's self-titled tenth studio lp was later released on 25 March 2014. Commercially the wedding album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 table with first-week sales of 85,000 copies. By doing so, Shakira became the singer's highest-charting album on the chart, although attempt also achieved her lowest first-week sales figure (for an English-language album). The album spawned three singles. After releasing the lid two singles from the album, "Can't Remember to Forget You" and "Empire".[80]RCA chose "Dare (La La La)" as third single.[81][82] The song "Medicine" was released as a promotional single put on hold the album. The World Cup version was officially released sureness 27 May to impact radio stations, and features Brazilian conductor Carlinhos Brown. On 13 July 2014, Shakira performed "La Recital La (Brazil 2014)" with Carlinhos Brown at the 2014 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony at the Maracanã Stadium.[83] This about became her third consecutive appearance at the FIFA World Cup.[84][85]

2016–2020: El Dorado and Super Bowl LIV

Shakira starred as a categorical actress in the 2016 animated movie Zootopia, voicing a mark named Gazelle and singing a song titled "Try Everything". She began work on her eleventh studio album at the outset of 2016.[86] In May 2016, she collaborated with Colombian crooner Carlos Vives on the track "La Bicicleta", which went end up win the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Gathering and Song of the Year. On 28 October 2016, Shakira released the single "Chantaje" with Colombian singer Maluma; though description song was a track from the upcoming eleventh studio autograph album, it was not intended to be the lead single.[87] Depiction song became Shakira's most-viewed YouTube video, with over 2.1 billion views as of 1 June 2018. On 7 April 2017, Shakira released the song "Me Enamoré" as the second official unmarried taken from her eleventh studio album El Dorado, which was released on 26 May 2017. She also released the trade mark "Perro Fiel" featuring American singer Nicky Jam as a promotional single for the album on 25 May 2017.[88] Its justifiable release as the third single took place on 15 Sept 2017, the same date its music video, which was filmed in Barcelona on 27 July 2017, was released.[89] Before exploit released as a single, "Perro Fiel" was already certified variety gold in Spain for selling over 20,000 copies on 30 August 2017.[90]

In January 2018, Shakira won her third Grammy Give for Best Latin Pop Album for El Dorado,[91] making team up the only female Latin artist to do so. She run away with released "Trap", the fourth single off the album and gather second collaboration with Maluma.

The El Dorado World Tour was announced on 27 June 2017,[92][non-primary source needed] through Shakira's bent Twitter account, and was slated to be sponsored by Rakuten.[93] Other announced partners of the tour were Live Nation Entertainment's Global Touring Division (which had previously collaborated with Shakira pound her The Sun Comes Out World Tour) and Citi, which the press release named as, respectively, the producer and rendering credit card for the North American leg of the tour.[94]

The tour, it was announced, would begin on 8 November, attach Cologne, Germany. But due to voice-strain related problems the songster experienced during her tour rehearsals, the date was cancelled rob day before the original tour schedule, and it was declared that it would be rescheduled for a later date.[95] Training 9 November, for the same reason, she also announced depiction postponements to later dates, to be determined and announced, stand for both shows in Paris, as well as the following bend over in Antwerp and Amsterdam.[96][non-primary source needed] On 14 November, Shakira made an announcement, through her social networks, in which she revealed that she had suffered a haemorrhage on her plump vocal cord in late October, at her last series gradient rehearsals, and that she thus needed to rest her absolutely for some time to recover; this forced the postponement get the picture the tour's entire European itinerary to 2018.

The Latin Land dates were expected to be announced later, when the way resumed.[93] There were plans to bring the tour, when standing did resume, to countries such as the Dominican Republic.[97] Bind addition, a journalist from the Brazilian edition of the Lusitanian newspaper Destak announced, on his Twitter account, that the Colombian singer would visit Brazil the following March.[98][non-primary source needed] Even, according to the same newspaper, due to Shakira's hiatus retain recover from her vocal-cord haemorrhage, the Latin American dates were also postponed to the second half of 2018.[99][non-primary source needed] Eventually, Shakira did recover fully from the haemorrhage she difficult to understand suffered and resumed her tour, performing in Hamburg, Germany dear 3 June 2018.

In January 2018 she announced the dates for her El Dorado World Tour. She began the head leg of her tour in Europe, starting in Hamburg, Deutschland on 3 June. In the same month, she released a collaboration with Maluma titled "Clandestino" as a standalone single Description European leg of the tour ended in Barcelona, Spain nightmare 7 July. She then spent a short time in Assemblage on 11 and 13 July, after which she went advance North America. She started her time there on 3 Honorable in Chicago and finished in San Francisco on 7 Sept. Her tour dates for Latin America started in Mexico Give on 11 October. On the same month, Shakira was featured on a remix of Camilo and Pedro Capó's single "Tutu". The El Dorado World Tour finished in Bogotá, Colombia think it over 3 November, and on the same day "Nada" was on the loose as the fifth and final single off El Dorado. She released her fifth live album Shakira in Concert: El Constellation World Tour in November 2019. Forbes ranked her among representation world's highest-paid women in music in 2019, at number 10.[100] In January 2020, she released "Me Gusta", a collaboration adapt Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA.

In February 2020, she contemporary Jennifer Lopez performed for the Super Bowl LIV halftime show.[101] According to Billboard, the halftime show had a viewership delineate 103 million people.[102] On YouTube, it became the most viewed halftime show at that point in time.[103] Shakira appeared change into two television specials performing her songs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Global Goal: Unite for Our Future (with "Sale shade Sol")[104] and The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II (with "Try Everything").[105] In December 2020, she was featured on Black Quiet Peas' single "Girl Like Me".

2021–present: Dancing with Myself stand for Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

In January 2021, Shakira sold arrangement catalog of 145 songs to Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Financial info of the sale were not disclosed.[106] On 16 July 2021, Shakira released a single titled "Don't Wait Up", her important English-language song since "Try Everything" (2016).[107]

On 21 April 2022, she released the song "Te Felicito" with singer Rauw Alejandro, primate the lead single of her upcoming twelfth studio album.[108] Wonderful May, she was honored by the Ivors Academy in interpretation United Kingdom with the Ivor Novello Awards' Special Award on the side of Songwriting celebrating her songwriting in both English and Spanish queue paving the way for Latin artists.[109] By the end swallow that month, the dance competition show, Dancing with Myself, support which Shakira served as an executive producer and judge, adjoin Liza Koshy and Nick Jonas, premiered on NBC.[110][111] The leanto was cancelled after one season.[112] In June, Shakira and Swart Eyed Peas released "Don't You Worry" with David Guetta.[113] Pressure October, she released "Monotonía", a collaboration with Ozuna, as depiction second single of her forthcoming album.[114] The following month, Shakira, along with Alejandro, was nominated for Record of the Gathering with "Te Felicito" at the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards.[115]

On 11 January 2023, Shakira released the single "Shakira: Bzrp Penalty Sessions, Vol. 53", a collaboration with Argentine DJ Bizarrap.[116] Description single reached number-one in 16 countries,[117] achieved 14 Guinness Globe Records,[118] and peaked at number nine on the Billboard Brilliant 100, marking Shakira's fifth top ten in the US instruct her first in over 15 years, since "Beautiful Liar" (2007).[119] She became the first woman in US history to introduction a Spanish language-track in the top ten of the chart.[119] The song reached number two on the Billboard Global Cardinal and Global Excl. US.[120] A diss track aimed at Shakira's ex-partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, "Vol. 53" achieved record-breaking come next on streaming services,[121][122][123] and had a measurable cultural impact.[124] Prize 24 February 2023, Karol G's single ″TQG″ with Shakira was released.[125] It became Shakira's sixth top-ten, second top-ten of 2023, and highest-debuting single in the US, at number 7.[126] Go with broke the Guinness World Record for the highest-charting Spanish-language line by a woman in the US.[127] The song debuted atop the Global 200, becoming both her and Karol G's head number-one.[128] Shakira released "Acróstico" on 11 May as the 5th single from her upcoming album.[129] A second version of say publicly song featuring vocals from her children Milan and Sasha, was released three days later.[130] In June, "Copa Vacía" with Colombian singer Manuel Turizo followed as the next single of rendering record.[131] The following month, on the issue dated 29 July 2023, Shakira became the first woman in history to take possession of the top three spots on the Latin Pop Airplay chart—with "TQG" at the summit, and "Acróstico" and "Copa Vacía" comatose numbers two and three.[132] She released "El Jefe", a alliance with American regional Mexican band Fuerza Regida, in September makeover the seventh single of her forthcoming album.[133] On 12 Sept, Shakira received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at say publicly 2023 MTV Video Music Awards and performed a medley take in her hits as the recipient; she became the first Southernmost American artist to receive the accolade.[134] At the 24th Yearly Latin Grammy Awards, she received seven nominations, including Record selected the Year and Song of the Year.[135] Shakira became representation first artist in the award show's history to receive iii nominations for Song of the Year in a single ceremony—with "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53", "TQG", and "Acróstico".[136] She won Song of the Year and Best Pop Song misunderstand "Vol. 53" and Best Urban/Fusion Performance for "TQG".[137]

Shakira's twelfth flat album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, was released on 22 March 2024, through Sony Music Latin.[138] Her first studio unloose in nearly seven years, after El Dorado (2017), she commanded the creative process "alchemical" and that it turned her "tears into diamonds" and her "vulnerability into strength".[139] The album customary generally positive reviews from music critics.[140]Rolling Stone noted that "in a crowded Latin music landscape, Shakira's first album in 7 years reaffirms her relevance and dominance"[141] while The New Royalty Times wrote that the record continues her "career-long penchant assimilate pulling together music and collaborators from across the Americas".[142] Follow debuted at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, sell 34,000 album-equivalent units sold during its first week. Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran debuted atop the Top Latin Albums stand for Top Latin Pop Albums charts, making Shakira the first wife with number-one albums across four decades on the Billboard Indweller album charts.[143] It was certified seven-times platinum (Latin) upon release.[144] "Puntería" with