Shakira
Born Feb. 2, 1977
Shakira, born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is a Colombian singer, musician, dancer and philanthropist. She emerged in the Latin music scene in the early 1990s and reached stardom for her distinct style of rock when she released Pies Descalzos in Latin America in 1995. After her crossover pop single “Whenever, Wherever” was released in 2001, Shakira found success in the United States and worldwide with her first English album, Laundry Service. She has won two Grammys, seven Latin Grammys and is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time.
Though the timing of Shakira and Gerard Piqué's breakups may seem suspicious, reports of them "making out" in Spain are apparently false.
In August of 2010, Shakira was snapped exiting the same Barcelona hotel as the popular Spanish football star, who apparently was not registered for a room. Local tabloids reported that the duo had spent two nights together. When confronted about the rumors,...
He's been romantically linked to Shakira since August, reportedly kissed her a few months ago, and now Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique has broken up with his girlfriend Nuria Tomás less than one week after Shakira...
Emerging reports that Shakira and fiancé Antonio de la Rua’s split may have been prompted by his dragging his feet to have kids when she was ready to be preggers is no surprise to one relationship expert we asked to help us decode what may have gone wrong in between the singer and her Argentinean fiancé. Licensed relationship coach Darshana Hawks also spoke to us about how couples can successfully work...
On Monday, Shakira took to her blog to tell her fans about her split from Antonio de la Rúa, her boyfriend of more than 10 years. "They have been the most wonderful years of our lives,” wrote the Colombian singer, “However, since August 2010, we made a mutual decision to take time apart from our romantic relationship.”
But it seems that...
Speculation as to what caused the split between Colombian pop princess Shakira and her longtime boyfriend Antonio de la Rua heated up yesterday, with many outlets (including ours) questioning the suspicious timing of the split.
Back in August, Barcelona-based newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya spotted the football star (who currently plays for FC Barcelona) exiting the same hotel that Shakira had been shacked up in for a couple of days. Since then, the paper has reported a string of supposedly secret meetings between...
Shakira has always been an independent and free spirit—so much so that though her now ex-boyfriend Antonio de la Rua proposed almost a decade ago, she never felt the rush to get married. We bet she's counting her lucky stars now that the couple has decided to split!
But while they were together, Shaki and Antonio shared some undeniably cute and romantic moments. Join us for a trip down memory lane...
After hearing about Shakira and Antonio de la Rua's split this morning, we were particularly struck by something the Colombian singer mentioned in her post to fans about the split.
"Antonio continues to oversee and conduct my business and career interests as he has always done," Shakira wrote. "We move forward as partners, developing projects together, working hand in hand and in close communication."
Even if a split is mutual and amicable, it must be tough to keep working with someone you shared an intimate...
Although sources close to Shakira and her ex-boyfriend Antonio de la Rua are insisting that there was no drama involved in the longtime couple's decision to part ways in August, we find the timing of the split a little fishy, especially since it happened around the time that rumors were swirling about a possible affair between the Colombian singer and Spanish football star Gerard Pique.
But then again, it’s not the first time that the pint-sized pop star had been linked to another man during her decade-long...
Shakira took to her blog yesterday to tell her fans about her split from her boyfriend of 10-plus years, Antonio de la Rúa, which actually happened almost six months ago.
"They have been the most wonderful years of our lives, and thanks to that love and the respect that we share for one another we have been an exceptional couple and partners. However, since August 2010, we made a mutual decision to take time apart from our romantic relationship," the Colombian singer confessed on her...
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