Hips Don't Lie - Shakira

As a response to the esteemed people of the press who tagged her engagement to Antonio de la Rua, the son of the former President of Argentina, as frolicksome and haughty. Shakira performed at a charity concert in Buenos Aires and later on promoted her charitable children's foundation 'Pies Descalzos' (Bare feet), which is called so after her third album.

Talented singer Shakira recieved a triple platinum disc for the sales of Fijacion Oral 1 in Colombia at a pressconference in Radisson Hotel in Bogota.Shakira.Not released yet, the album has already sold so well on presales that the estimated sales figure for the first day in Colombia is 75 000 - 80 000 copies.

Music fans and critics in America often misconstrue Shakira, seeing her as nothing but a pretty face to splash across magazine covers. However, a closer look at this Colombian singer/songwriter illustrates a more accurate depiction. Aside from writing her own lyrics -- which are eccentrically poetic in both Spanish and English - and penning and producing her own music, Shakira is a magnetic performer. Years of being one of Latin America's biggest music stars before breaking into the English-speaking market with "Laundry Service" has given Shakira a mesmerizing, physical stage presence. She flashes her expressive eyes, shakes her hips and belts her vocals with unbridled enthusiasm. Shakira is, in many ways, the "whole package" in the music industry. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia's Nobel laureate, so eloquently put it, "Shakira's music has a personal stamp that doesn't look like anyone else's, and no one can sing or dance like her, at wh...

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Shakira, the pop diva of " Hips Don't Lie " fame, will reportedly donate the proceeds from her November 15th concert in her hometown of Barranquilla. The funds will be used to build an arts school for children that have been forced from their homes as a result of Colombia's civil war. The concert is one of many in the singer's Oral Fixation tour. The hip-shaking, international star has announced that the school will be located in La Playa, a poor suburb of her hometown. Estimates have 45 percent of the area's residents as minors with barely half of the school age children actually attending school. The bilingual (Spanish and English) school, set to open in 2008, will bear Shakira's name. The school has received approval from Colombian education officials and is being designed by Rafael Vinoly, the designer of the New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center facility. Shakira , one of the most recognized Latin singers and songwriters in America, has been nominated...