Real name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Place of Birth: Barranquilla Colombia
Maternal ancestry: Spanish (Catalan) and Italian ancestry
Paternal ancestry: Lebanese ethnicity
Her name Shakira means "thankful" in Arabic.
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She's from Barranquilla, Colombia.
Her father is Lebanese and her mother is Colombian.
in her childhood, she lived in barranquilla, dreaming to become a singer.
Shakira was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
What do Mexicans actress Salma hayek and Colombian singer Shakira have in common?
Both Beyoncé and Rihanna are engaging performers with vocal, enthusiastic fan bases. The singers tend to focus on the Pop and R&B genres, but also work outside these genres. They are both very beautiful but in different ways. They are trendsetters and very fashionable.