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Shakira Mebarak: A Famous Singer
My person is a famous singer name is Shakira Mebarak, Shakira was born on february 2, 1977. Shakira was born and raised in Barranquilla, colombia. Shakira started singing in talent competitions in colombia at the age 10. When she turned 13 she stopped competing and she left home and went to live in bogota the capital of colombia, a couple months while Shakira was in bogota she got a record with sony colombia record.
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Shakira made her first album and it sold really successfully so she wrote more songs for her second album. Shakira made her second album and it didn't sell well like the first one so sony had to stop working with her.After stopping with sony, she graduated
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While Shakira was with Emilio she was recording a song with him called “ciega sordomuda” it hit the latin chart when it came out.Gloria Estefan wanted to translate her song that she sang with Emilio, but it was hard for Shakira because she never learned how to speak english. But when she sang the song in english it didnt sound like she already knew English. My person is a famous singer name is Shakira Mebarak, Shakira was born on february 2, 1977. Shakira was born and raised in Barranquilla, colombia. Shakira started singing in talent competitions in colombia at the age 10. When she turned 13 she stopped competing and she left home and went to live in bogota the capital of colombia, a couple months while Shakira was in bogota she got a record with sony colombia …show more content…
Shakira made her second album and it didn't sell well like the first one so sony had to stop working with her.After stopping with sony, she graduated from high school but did not go to college because she wanted to continue with her career of singing. Shakira never stopped she audition for roles for show in colombia, she got the lead role for a novela (tv show) called “el oasis” till episode 3 it got really big in colombia.Shakira also wrote a theme song to a tv show in colombia called “lo

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