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Post by Wolfy on Mar 31, 2007 6:34:44 GMT -5
the article below says 100,000+ fans where at the show. I need to change my sig, lol. Shakira Rocks the Pyramids of Gizawww.waleg.com/archives/007464.htmlIt was a new Goddess that moved the pyramids of Giza in Cairo two days ago ... Shakira sang, danced & mesmerized over 100.000 people at her concert on Wednesday. She didn't only sing her songs, but she also surprised the audiences with an Arabic song, she chose to start her concert with Fairuz's song 'Atini Annay wa Ghanni' & she also belly danced to the song of the fabulous Um Kulthum 'Inta Omri'. Shakira rocked the Pyramids with her famous songs La Tortura, Illegal, Estoy Aqui & Hips don't Lie among others. On the day of the concert, Shakira got a special guided tour of the Pyramids with Dr. Zahi Hawwas. She was astonished & overwhelmed. This was Shakira's 101 concert after which she flew directly to India to start preparing for her 102 concert of the tour.
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Post by sinaliento on Apr 2, 2007 14:39:34 GMT -5
she keeps adding dates, and this is such good news. i'm seeing her in méxico in may ![:d](http://images.proboards.com/cheesy.gif) ![:d](http://images.proboards.com/cheesy.gif) ![:d](http://images.proboards.com/cheesy.gif)
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Post by missclarkson on Apr 2, 2007 15:37:36 GMT -5
shakira is HUGE WW!
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Post by midan1 on Apr 3, 2007 3:20:37 GMT -5
beside Asia.... Hey im new here and i love Shakira!!! Do u think there will be a video for PI?
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Post by robbie23 on Apr 3, 2007 8:32:41 GMT -5
She didn't only sing her songs, but she also surprised the audiences with an Arabic song, she chose to start her concert with Fairuz's song 'Atini Annay wa Ghanni' & she also belly danced to the song of the fabulous Um Kulthum 'Inta Omri'. Shakira rocked the Pyramids with her famous songs La Tortura, Illegal, Estoy Aqui & Hips don't Lie among others. i wish i went to her concert :( guys, is there any mp3z? or mpgs of this concert? was taped for dvd? anything?
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Post by sinaliento on Apr 3, 2007 11:31:59 GMT -5
i was at the miami concert that was filmed for the dvd. i am dying. i need that dvd to come out already!! its taking too long.
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Post by Wolfy on Apr 4, 2007 18:24:33 GMT -5
Hmmmm, maybe Pure Intuition will be on the tour DVD? That would be a good way to get more people to buy the DVD. The phenomenal SHAKIRACharisma rarely floors audiences, the exacting media rarely praises young stars, an artist’s hips or other physical assets have never created cult followings. That is, except for Shakira, 10-time Grammy, 14 Billboard Music Awards, four World Music Awards and ALMA Award-winning singer, songwriter, record-producer, dancer, actor and instrumentalist, taking Latin-American pop by storm in the 1990’s. At her father’s favourite Middle-Eastern Restaurant, she first heard the call of the ‘doumbek’ a belly dancing instrument and her dance on tables earned thunderous applause from patrons. This magical moment created Shakira, the live performer. Performances in Barranquila gained her a reputation from the age of 10 onwards before she successfully auditioned for Sony Colombia at theatre producer Monica Ariza’s bidding who discovered Shakira’s talent. Magia (Magic), the first album released in 1991 and sold less than one thousand copies followed by Peligro (Danger), also a commercial failure because of her refusal for advertising. After graduation, Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet) in 1995 made Shakira a star, selling 4 million copies and spawning a remix album The Remixes another hit with Portuguese versions of Shakira hits capturing the Brazil market. Donde estan los ladrones? (Where are the thieves?), earned even more global success. Riding on success, Shakira released Laundry Service an English crossover album amid mounting criticism. The hit album sold 13 million copies with top singles Whenever, Wherever, Underneath Your Clothes and Objection. The release of a Spanish greatest hits volume Grandes exitos in 2002 and ten-track compilation Live and Off the Record in 2004, followed the landmark album. Fijacion Oral 1 and Oral Fixation its English counterpart came out in 2005 with Tortura (Torture) spending a record 25 weeks on UK Billboard Charts and becoming Europe’s No.1 song! The dual language albums had worked with the song Dia de Enero dedicated to her fiance Antonio De la Rua son of former Argentinian President Fernando De la Rua. Oral Fixation Volume 2 sold eight million copies in November 2005 and Hips Don’t Lie featuring Shakira’s smouldering hip-shaking belly dance, created history on the US Billboards Hot 100 and UK Singles Charts, carving her niche in music folk-lore. Shakira’s still-running biggest tour Oral Fixation Tour kicked off in June 2006. New songs “Illegal” and “La Pared” featuring Carlos Santana have become great Spanish hits. Shakira also collaborated with popstar Beyonce for “Beautiful Liar”. Her album Las de la Intuicion and English counterpart Pure Intuition will release soon and she will provide three songs for the movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. Let us hope 2007 will mark another successful year for this generous pop diva.Trivia: · Shakira’s full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll · Her name means ‘grateful’ in Arabic · She is the youngest of eight siblings and speaks five languages · She doesn’t drink, smoke or eat bread and loves chocolates! · Shakira learnt belly dancing to overcome her shyness and her school choir rejected her because of her ‘high vibrato’. She sounded like a ‘goat’ according to her teacher! · At the age of four, Shakira wrote her first poem The Crystal Rose · Inspired by her father’s grief at her eldest brother’s death, Shakira wrote her first song “Tus Gafas Oscuras” (His Dark Glasses) at the age of eight. · Having sold 50 million albums worldwide, Shakira is the highest selling Colombian artist of all-time and the only artist from the country to reach the number one spot on the UK Singles and US BillBoard Hot 100 charts! · AskMens.com voted her #7 of 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007 · She started the Fundacion Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet Foundation) in 2001 and the United Nations honoured her in 2006 for helping protect young children from illiteracy and violence · She is a goodwill ambassador for Unicef · Shakira acted in Colombian Telenovela El Oasis in 1996 as Luisa Maria and is to co-star in Dare to Love Me, a movie on famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, set to release in 2007. · She currently lives in the Bahamas www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?...1&id=152136
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Post by reception on Apr 6, 2007 14:59:35 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/startracks/070416/shakira.jpg) From the Middle East to Portugal, Shakira's famous abs transcend any language barrier as the singer continues her Oral Fixation world tour at Lisbon's Atlantico Pavilion in front of a sold-out crowd on Wednesday.
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Post by M 123 on Apr 6, 2007 17:05:29 GMT -5
SMASH in portugal!
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Post by Wolfy on Apr 6, 2007 17:51:18 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/startracks/070416/shakira.jpg) From the Middle East to Portugal, Shakira's famous abs transcend any language barrier as the singer continues her Oral Fixation world tour at Lisbon's Atlantico Pavilion in front of a sold-out crowd on Wednesday. With Her Tour Of The Mongoose she set the attendance record at this venue. She broke her own record with this show: Shakira breaks indoor concert attendance record in Portugalwww.gophilippines.net/newsupdate/issues.cfm?id=11685LISBON - A concert by Colombian singer Shakira held here on April 27 set a new record for the largest ever attendance at an indoor concert in Portugal, the Lusa news agency reported. A total of 19,136 people turned out for the concert held at Portugal's 20,000-capacity riverside Atlantic Pavilion, breaking a previous record set by US rock trio R.E.M. back in 1999. Just over 18,000 people turned out to hear R.E.M. perform their angst-ridden songs at that concert which was also held at the five-year-old Atlantic Pavilion, Portugal's largest venue for covered events. Shakira is currently on a world tour to promote her debut English album "Laundry Service," which is triple platinum in the United States and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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Post by BT2891 on Apr 9, 2007 12:48:45 GMT -5
Oral Fixation Vol. 2 re-enters the UK Albums Chart at #70!! :o :o Anybody know why?
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Post by midan1 on Apr 11, 2007 3:34:16 GMT -5
maybe because of BL... GO Shakira!!
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Post by reception on Apr 11, 2007 14:04:09 GMT -5
Shakira busy planning new album and dance moves
By Juan Forero Washington Post BARRANQUILLA, Colombia - As a second-grader, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Rippoll's dream was to join the choir at the prim-and-proper Maria the Teacher Catholic school in this tradition-bound Caribbean city. But the music director felt that her potent voice would overwhelm the syrupy cadence of other children.
"My voice was strong and I wanted to sing out loud, and he didn't think I was the right choice for the choir," she recalls. "And he never let me be in the choir. It was such a huge frustration."
She found solace with her parents, who encouraged her to enter local singing competitions. Soon she began racking up the trophies. And in her early teens the diminutive girl with the throaty, commanding voice struck out on her own.
Having long shed her last name and dyed her black hair blond, Shakira is now a 30-year-old swivel-hipped bombshell, Latin America's most successful crossover artist. Last fall at the Latin Grammy Awards, she won four of the five awards for which she was nominated, including female pop vocal album of the year, song of the year and album of the year for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1." But coming off the follow-up "Oral Fixation Vol. 2," her second English-language album and featuring the smash single "Hips Don't Lie," Shakira is entering territory that, for other global stars, has sometimes resulted in cookie-cutter music and artistic oblivion (see: Ricky Martin). The question is whether the pressures to produce top-selling albums will check the inventiveness that some music critics say has set her apart from other sex-shilling pop stars (see: Britney Spears).
"In every artist's career at that level you're faced with challenges — the challenges of what to do to invent, how to reinvent yourself," says Jose Tillan, a programming and talent executive at MTV Networks Latin America. Some rising stars "crash and burn. They believe the hype and that they're always going to be at the top of their game."
Shakira seems all too aware of the pitfalls as she wraps up an arduous worldwide tour and embarks on the long process of sketching out lyrics for her new album and creating new dance moves for her carnival-like concerts. "That risk is there," she says. "We let ourselves be tempted with fame and the glitters of popularity. ... The risk becomes greater when you start repeating formulas, when you stop competing against yourself. When you lose authenticity. When you don't rely on your own feelings. When you let yourself be absorbed with the outer world, and you lose contact with your inner world."
Shakira prizes her success, of course - "once you reach the top positions in the radio chart, you want to stay there" - and revels in all those flattering magazine shoots and videos that hype her beauty and sex appeal. But in a recent interview, she showed a more thoughtful and intellectual side than might be expected.
Shakira was once compared to Spears, a fellow bottle blonde also known to gyrate like a belly dancer. But the comparison ends there. Shakira is moved by politics and the world around her. She tortures herself over her music - producing, at times, sophisticated lyrics that explore such themes as poisonous resentments and the existence of God. Then there's that voice - deep and sultry one moment, a poignant alto the next, which exudes an experience and pain that seem well beyond her years.
Not even 5 feet tall, she still looks like a teenager and can be completely disarming. She sounds almost schoolgirl innocent as she speaks about her boyfriend, Antonio de la Rua, son of a former Argentine president.
But she's read Walt Whitman and can hold forth on topics as divergent as Freud, Colombia's civil conflict, existentialism, human vulnerability or her rock heroes, Bono and Depeche Mode. She learned English only a few years ago but speaks with adventurous aplomb, peppering her speech with colorful, sometimes oddly poetic metaphors.
She is a shrewd entrepreneur and demanding taskmaster of what has become a one-woman industry that includes not only beefy bodyguards and stage-hands but her parents and other relatives.
"She writes all of her songs," said Archie Pena, a drummer and songwriter who has worked with Shakira since she was 17. "She's involved inside and out, in every single detail of the songs, the album, the performance, her dresses. She's not one of those artists that everybody does something for her. She actually comes up with the ideas herself."
Shakira's story began in this port city of high-rise apartments, turn-of-the-century mansions and gritty warehouse districts along the Caribbean coast. The daughter of a frustrated writer of Lebanese descent and a Colombian mother, Shakira wrote her first song at 8, "Your Dark Glasses," about her father. Two years later, she was certain she wanted to be a singer. It seems that one of the singular events in her life was the night her father, William Mebarak, took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant; hearing the traditional Arab drum, Shakira began to dance.
"The musical roots Shakira has come from my family," Mebarak said proudly. "In my family there was music. There is still music."
By 13, Shakira was recording in a Bogota studio. Her first two albums were quickly forgotten, but then in 1996 came "Pies Descalzos" ("Bare Feet"), which sold 4 million copies.
She hit it big with "Donde Estan Los Ladrones?" ("Where Are the Thieves?") in 1998. The album was nominated for a Grammy, and the song "Ojos Asi" ("Eyes Like Yours"), won best female pop vocal performance.
Her first English-language album, "Laundry Service" in 2001, sold more than 13 million worldwide and established her internationally. The two "Oral" CDs were both in the top five on Billboard's U.S. album chart.
When asked about particular songs, she eagerly recollects how the words came to her. A song called "Shadow of You," for example, came in a storm of creativity at 4 a.m.
"That's beautiful, when in music or in art in general, you have those miraculous moments," she explains. "There's no rational factor involved, and the miracle of art or music just happens and you're just a witness to it."
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Post by ktos on Apr 12, 2007 9:19:50 GMT -5
Next Show May9 - Culiacán, Mexico 11 - Aguascalientes, Mexico 13 - Mexico City, Mexico 16 - Querétaro, Mexico 18 - Veracruz, Mexico 20 - Puebla, Mexico 23 - Torreon, Mexico 26 - San Luis Potosí, Mexico (NEW)30 - Monterrey, Mexico Oral Fixation Tour all have 113 show ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by BT2891 on Apr 14, 2007 12:12:21 GMT -5
Has the album in the UK been certified Platinum n does anybody kno how much its sold so far?
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Post by sinaliento on Apr 16, 2007 0:41:52 GMT -5
I love that article. I can't help but get my hopes up about the next album even though I know it will be years..... =\
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Apr 16, 2007 1:42:19 GMT -5
omg no, she needs a new one like, this winter
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Post by M 123 on Apr 16, 2007 2:18:07 GMT -5
^^^ she will be part of a Soundtrack this year ..... she wrote three songs for the move "Love in the time of cholera" the movie will be out in November(The movie is the most Expensive foreing Movie Ever)..... plus she will be releasing the Tour DVD ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif) shes going to start recording a new album too..... so most likely shes back in 2008 ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by Wolfy on Apr 16, 2007 3:56:27 GMT -5
^^^ she will be part of a Soundtrack this year ..... she wrote three songs for the move "Love in the time of cholera" the movie will be out in November(The movie is the most Expensive foreing Movie Ever)..... plus she will be releasing the Tour DVD An Oscar for Shaki? ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by sinaliento on Apr 16, 2007 3:56:38 GMT -5
I hope so! 2008 sounds good :o But she usually takes sooo long you know. Last time she took two years after the Tour of the mongoose ended to release Vol 1. Tour Fijacion Oral isn't even over yet! So I hope it won't be two more years >:( But yes at least we have Live In Miami DVD to tide us over until then..... ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by M 123 on Apr 16, 2007 12:48:57 GMT -5
^^^ she will be part of a Soundtrack this year ..... she wrote three songs for the move "Love in the time of cholera" the movie will be out in November(The movie is the most Expensive foreing Movie Ever)..... plus she will be releasing the Tour DVD An Oscar for Shaki? ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif) that would be hot ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by BT2891 on Apr 16, 2007 16:17:22 GMT -5
Oral Fixation Vol. 2 inches up to #69 on the UK Album Charts after re-entering last week at #70! How far more is this album going to go? And does anyone know how much to date OFV2 sold and if its certified Platinum.
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Post by ktos on Apr 18, 2007 10:19:41 GMT -5
Next Show May9 - Culiacán, Mexico 11 - Aguascalientes, Mexico 13 - Mexico City, Mexico 16 - Querétaro, Mexico 18 - Veracruz, Mexico 20 - Puebla, Mexico 23 - Chihuahua, Mexico 26 - San Luis Potosí, Mexico 30 - Monterrey, Mexico July9 - Istanbul, Turkey (NEW)Oral Fixation Tour all have 114 show ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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