Kevin Sanchez
Pro Towe
Eng-101-003
16 April 2017
Famous Person Research Project Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born in Colombia on February 2, 1977 , in Barranquilla, Colombia. Barranquilla at the time was not the safest places to raise a child and more to have a dream of becoming one of the top Hispanic singers. Shakira was raised in a community that involved drugs, gangs,and ,poverty and unemployment, but this didn't stop her from becoming one of the top singers in Colombia. Shakira Father's name is William Mebarak Chadid and mother's name is Nidia del Carmen which had 8 children excluding shakira which made life much difficult for her. Shakira became known all around the world by her music, Foundation to give back to the community, and her respectable personality as a person. Shakira was an overachiever ever since she was a young child. In her biography it says “She wrote her first song at the age of 8 and signed her first record deal at 13”; showing how much determination and potential to become a great singer and composer because she writes all her songs, and sings them with extraordinary energy and amazing hip movement in her performance. Shakira has made over eleven albums a;ready with the association of
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All of this has been possible thanks to the joint efforts of public institutions, private companies, NGOs and the academy. More than 10.000 children and 67.000 young and adults have been benefited”. Thi shows how Shakira has impacted greatly in colombians society by allowing the children that can't afford to go to school or have any type of economical problems to have some type of future and