Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, and record producer. Referred to as the "Queen of Latin Music", she has had a significant impact on the musical landscape of Latin America and has been credited with popularizing Hispanophone music globally, contributing to increased learning and use of the Spanish language worldwide. She is also credited with opening the doors of the international market in popular music for other Latin artists. Her accolades include four Grammy Awards and fifteen Latin Grammy Awards. Shakira made her recording debut with Sony Music Colombia at the age of 14. She rose to prominence with the albums Pies Descalzos and Dónde Están los Ladrones?. Her first English release, Laundry Service, sold over 13 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female Latin artist. Her success was further solidified with the Spanish-language albums Fijación Oral, Vol. 1, Sale el Sol, El Dorado, and Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, all of which topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, making her the first woman with number-one albums across four different decades. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
