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Her official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time. With over 813 million views, its music video is the ninth most-watched video on YouTube. Since 2013, Shakira has served as a coach on the American version of The Voice, having appeared in two of its seven seasons-fourth and sixth. Her tenth album, Shakira (2014), is preceded by its lead single, Cant Remember to Forget You. Shakira has won many awards, including five MTV Video Music Awards, two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, 28 Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe-nominated. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and sold more than 60 million records worldwide, making the third best selling Latin artist of all Stophilanthropic activities through charity work and benefit concerts, notably her Pies Descalzos Foundation, her performance at the Clinton Global Initiative created by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and her invitation to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development. As of 2014, she is listed as the 58th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. As of July 2014, Shakira has become the first person to reach 100 million followers on Facebook. Early life Shakira was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only child of Nidia Ripoll and William Mebarak Chadid. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was bornThe name Shakira is Arabic (OC?oNE, sakira), meaning grateful. From her mother, Nidia Ripoll, she has Spanish (Catalan and Castilian) and Italian[citation needed] ancestry. She was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools. She has eight older half-siblings from her fathers previous marriage. Shakira spent much of her youth in Barranquilla, a city located on the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia. Shakira wrote her first poem, titled La Rosa De Cristal (The Crystal Rose) when she was only four years old. As she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father writing stories on a typewriter, and asked for one as a Christmas gift. She got a typewriter at the age of seven and has continued writing poetry since then. These poems eventually evolved into songs. When Shakira was two years old, an older half-brother was killed in a motorcycle accident and at the age of eight, Shakira wrote her first song, titled Tus gafas oscuras (Your dark glasses), which was inspired by her father, who for years wore dark glasses to hide his grief. shakira career album When Shakira was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Shakira first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied belly dancing. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer. She enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers (and even the nuns) at her Catholic school, but in second grade was rejected for the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded like a goat.At school, she says she had been known as the belly dancer girl, as she would demonstrate every Friday at school a number she had learned. Thats how I discovered my passion for live performance, she says. To instill gratitude in Shakira for her upbringing, her father took her to a local park to see orphans who lived there. The images stayed with her and she said to herself one day Im going to help these kids when I become a famous artist. Between the ages of 10 and 13, Shakira was invited to various events in Barranquilla and gained some recognition in the area. It was at about this time that she met local theater producer Monica Ariza, who was impressed with her and as a result tried to help her career. During a flight from Barranquilla to Bogota, Ariza convinced Sony Colombia executive Ciro Vargas to hold an audition for Shakira in a hotel lobby. Vargas held Shakira in high regard and, returning to the Sony office, gave the cassette to a song and artist director. However, the director was not overly excited and thought Shakira was something of a lost cause. Vargas, not daunted, was still convinced that Shakira had talent, and set up an audition in Bogota. He arranged for Sony Colombia executives to arrive at the audition, with the idea of surprising them with Shakiras performance. She performed three songs for the executives and impressed them enough for her to be signed to record three albums. Career 1990-95: Beginnings Shakiras debut album, Magia, was recorded with Sony Music Colombia in 1990 when she was only 13 years old. The songs are a collection made by her since she was eight, mixed pop-rock ballads and disco uptempo songs with electronic accompaniment, however it was hampered by a lack of recording and production cohesion. The album was released in June 1991 and featu