History Music / Shakira

Shakira had a 12-year relationship with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer player]] Gerard Piqu&eacute, from which their two children, Milan and Sasha, were born. The couple announced that they were splitting up in June 2022, allegedly due to Piqué cheating on Shakira.

* CunningLinguist: Along with Spanish and English, she is fluent in the Portuguese of Colombia's neighbor Brazil (where she broke out early in her career), and has shown herself to know a good portion of French and Italian. Not to mention how "Waka Waka" has some verses in an African language. Presumably, she speaks some Catalan, since her husband is from Catalunya.

Shakira had a 12-year relationship with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer player]] Gerard Piqué, the couple announced that they were splitting up in June 2022. They have two children together.

Shakira had a 12-year relationship with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer player]] Gerard Piqué. The pair have two children together. In June 2022, the couple announced that they were brekaing up.

Shakira is currently in a relationship with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer player]] Gerard Piqué. The pair have two children together.

* PantyShot:
** The video for “Las De La Intuición” has a lot of this.
** There's also some in the video for "La Tortura"

* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: All her music goes through the genres.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Had bright red hair for a while in the late nineties. Wore purple hair in the video for "Las de la Intuición" and pink in the video for "Chantaje".

** Music/EnriqueIglesias, Rafael Nadal, Music/LilWayne, Rihanna [[Music/TheFugees Wyclef Jean]], Music/{{Beyonce}}, Alejandro Sanz and Music/CarlosSantana have all featured with her in a song, music video, or both.

[[caption-width-right:350:Lucky that my breasts are small and humble. So you don't confuse them with mountains]]

* GenreRoulette: She does it all.

* MsFanservice: What snapshot ''wouldn't'' convince you?

* NudeColoredClothes: She wears a nude colored outfit in the “She Wolf” video.

* ObsessionSong: If you listen really carefully to the lyrics and block that lovely accent you'll hear that what she's singing can fall into either and in some cases ''both'' of the categories.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: "She Wolf".

* ShoutOut: to ''Film/JamesBond'' in "Spy".

* AnAesop: Her obscure songs "Timor" and "How Do You Do" address seriously issues, like the utter hypocrisy in Western treatment of the Third World Countries and the need for intellectual examination of faith respectively.

* CunningLinguist: Along with Spanish and English, she is fluent in the Portuguese of Colombia's neighbor Brazil (where she broke out early in her career), and has shown herself to know a good portion of French and Italian. Not mention how "Waka Waka" has some verses in an African language. Presumably she speaks some Catalan, since her husband is from Catalunya.

* ReligionRantSong: "How Do You Do" is a downplayed type 1. Rather than a direct attack on God or religion it questions the true nature of God, as well as the suffering brought about by religion and God himself.

* SelfTitledAlbum: Her 2014 English release.

* SpicyLatina: She projects this image, especially since the ''Oral Fixation'' albums.

** She's a trained belly dancer, which explains the ass shaking in [[strike: some of]] her videos. Doesn't really excuse [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsp_8Lm1eSk smearing herself with oil]] while writhing, though.

* Title1: ''Fijación Oral Vol. 1.''
* TranslatedCoverVersion: She has done this in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

[[GodIsFlawed You've made mistakes]], but that's okay, [[NotSoDifferent 'cause we all have]]\\

* FirstNameBasis: If you say "Shakira," [[OneMarioLimit she is what comes to mind]]. Also because she shares her Lebanese surname with some less than favorable people (Mebarak, homophone to the name of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak).

* LatinoIsBrown: Averted. Not only does have Italian, Catalana, Spanish and Lebanese Arab ancestry as mentioned above but she is an extremely pale, blonde-haired Colombian singer.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}n singer and dancer who is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time and the second most successful female Latin singer of all time (after Music/GloriaEstefan), having sold over 50 million albums worldwide. She is of Lebanese, Catalan, and Italian ancestry. Known for her belly dancing, her multiculturalism, and her Music/AlanisMorissette-like voice, Shakira is a she-wolf to be reckoned with.

* LatinoIsBrown: Averted. Not only is she of Italian, Catalan and Lebanese descent as mentioned above but she is an extremely pale, blonde-haired Colombian singer.

* LatinoIsBrown: Averted. Not only is she of Spanish and Lebanese Arab descent but she is an extremely pale, blonde-haired Colombian singer.

* ZettaiRyouiki: In the video for her song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_jy-Uk41I Las de la Intuición]]."

* ButNotTooForeign: 1/4 Lebanese, in fact.

* YourCheatingHeart: She's been on both sides of this in various songs.
** In "La Tortura (ft. Alejandro Sanz)" Shakira is the one being cheated on. At first the male character in the song promises he'll be faithful from now on, but before long he tries to convince her that [[ImAManICantHelpIt it's normal for men to cheat occasionally]] and if she allows him that, he'll be good to her otherwise. In the end, [[BreakupSong she leaves him.]]
** In "Costume Makes The Clown" it's implied that Shakira is the one who's cheated:
--->It's your turn now to cheat on me
** In "She Wolf" she outright ''states'' that she's going to go out and cheat on her current boyfriend and then ''[[RefugeInAudacity tell him all about it]]'' later, but this is [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery apparently okay]] because [[AllTakeAndNoGive she's not getting enough out of the relationship]].

* {{Adorkable}}: If she's not MsFanservice, she's this. Even when doing steamy dance moves, it's with a sense of utter glee. This woman is clearly having a lot of fun doing what she's doing (she also has ADHD, which would explain where a lot of her energy comes from).

* AllWomenLoveShoes: She is the poster girl for bare feet. Moreover, the song "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" pretty much outright states that women are/should be a race of barefooted people.

* BellyDancer: See the videos for "Ojos Así" and "Hips Don't Lie".

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In her biography, ''Woman Full of Grace'', she indicates that being barefoot makes her feel like she has removed the facade from her personality and allowed her TrueSelf to shine through.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977) is a UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}n singer and dancer who is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time and the second most successful female Latin singer of all time (after Music/GloriaEstefan), having sold over 50 million albums worldwide. She is of Lebanese, Catalan, and Italian ancestry. Known for her belly dancing, her multiculturalism, and her Music/AlanisMorissette-like voice, Shakira is a she-wolf to be reckoned with.

Shakira is also a philanthropist. She founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. She stayed true to her promise to the glue-sniffing orphans after all. She is also a recurring panelist on ''Series/TheVoice'', had a singing role in the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney Animated Classic]] ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', and co-headlined the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl LIV halftime show with fellow Latina artist Music/JenniferLopez.

** Her {{Ink Suit|Actor}} Character in ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' is [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes the only character in that movie to wear shoes]]. Compared to Shakira herself famously being among the relatively small population of humans that DoesNotLikeShoes. Of course, this could be a deliberate contrast to represent the juxtaposition but in a different society.

* HotPursuit: In the video for "Ciega, Sordomuda" Shakira and friends are arrested for dancing in the street, the police [[PoliceBrutality unafraid of being rough]]. She manages to get out with some guy and there is a chase scene, complete with smashing through CardboardBoxes. The cops never quite catch them and in the end discover that they are robots and then the video ends, leaving the viewer with no knowledge whether Shakira and the this-videos-love-interest's [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext dancing with hoops to a mariachi band in the street then leading the police through streets of blindfolded anybodies to discover they are robots in an abandoned disco]] crimes were ever punished. (The cops could well have been chasing them because first she was and then the pair were both ''blindfolded'', though, and not because they broke out.) Not to mention that it [[BlatantLies blatantly lies about her height]] [[BadLiar (According to the line-up it's 5'9'')]]. It's a strange one.

Shakira is also a philanthropist. She founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. She stayed true to her promise to the glue-sniffing orphans after all. She is also a recurring panelist on ''Series/TheVoice'' and had a singing role in the Walt Disney Classic ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}''.