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Shakira

Singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and philanthropist

Born 1977

Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and philanthropist whose career helped make Spanish-language pop a durable global force. Born in Barranquilla to a Colombian mother and Lebanese-Colombian father, she wrote songs from childhood, signed with Sony Music Colombia at 13 and endured two commercially unsuccessful albums before the guitar-led Pies Descalzos established her across Latin America. Dónde Están los Ladrones? and MTV Unplugged deepened her reputation as a confessional writer and rock performer; Laundry Service then carried her into English-language pop without abandoning the Latin American and Middle Eastern sounds central to her work. Her catalogue spans Whenever, Wherever, La Tortura, Hips Don't Lie, She Wolf, Waka Waka, Chantaje, the record-setting BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53 and the Grammy-winning album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. She has also voiced Gazelle in Disney's Zootopia films, written a Dora the Explorer children's book and performed at multiple FIFA World Cups. Away from music, she founded Fundación Pies Descalzos and has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2003, making access to education a parallel, decades-long body of work. In 2025–26, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour became a career-spanning stadium production; in 2026 she released Dai Dai with Burna Boy, returned to the World Cup stage, received her first Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination and reunited with Maluma for the September single Agua.

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ConnectionBurna BoyCollaborated with Shakira on the 2026 World Cup song Dai Dai.

ConnectionBizarrapPartnered on BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53, a centrepiece of her 2023 career resurgence.

ConnectionKarol GCo-recorded TQG and won the 2023 VMA for Best Collaboration.

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Burna Boy

Collaborated with Shakira on the 2026 World Cup song Dai Dai.

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Bizarrap

Partnered on BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53, a centrepiece of her 2023 career resurgence.

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Karol G

Co-recorded TQG and won the 2023 VMA for Best Collaboration.

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Wyclef Jean

Co-created and performed the global hit Hips Don't Lie.

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Carlos Vives

Co-recorded La Bicicleta, a Latin Grammy-winning Colombian collaboration.

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Gerard Piqué

Former partner and father of her two sons; their separation was confirmed in 2022.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Friend, fellow Colombian and literary influence whose novels she has praised.

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