Shakira Ringtones for Mobile Phones
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Columbia. Today she becomes more popular simply as Shakira, and she is already a really famous two-time Grammy Award-winning and eight-time Latin Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer and occasional actress who has become a major figure in the entire pop music scene of Latin America since the middle of 90s. In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking music market with the appearing of her first album in that language, "Laundry service", which has reached over fifteen million copies worldwide. Nowadays, Shakira is undoubtedly the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold totally around fifty million albums all over the world. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart and the English Singles Chart. Her successful professional career in music began, when she was presented as a child to local theater producer Monica Ariza, who was impressed with her and as decided to help her development. Shortly after this important meeting, Vargas, manager of Sony Bogota, held Shakira in high regard and, returning to the Sony office, gave her cassette to a song and artist director. He set up a special audition in Bogotá, and also arranged for Sony Colombia executives to arrive at it, with the main idea of surprising them with the performance of Shakira. She performed three songs there and finally impressed the executives enough for her to be signed to record three albums. Her debut compilation, entitled "Magia", was created with Sony Music in 1991, when she was only fifteen years old. Two years later, in 1993, Shakira presented her second album "Peligro". This new record was better received than "Magia", though it was still considered as a small commercial failure in some degree, due to the refusal of the singer to advertise it. Shakira then decided to take a little rest from recording so that she could graduate from high school, thus, she returned to recording in 1995, using lots of different musical influences, and mainly, resembling Alanis Morissette affected some of her next albums. Her third studio compilation, "Pies descalzos" brought her great fame on the music market in Latin America. Its hits "Estoy aquí", "Pies descalzos", "Sueños blancos", and "Dónde estás corazón" became real pop icons at recent days.
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