Shakira - The Best Singer in the World

In my opinion, Shakira is the best singer in the world. She is considered the most acclaimed female solo singer nowadays: she has received the American Music Award in the category “Favourite Latin Artist” and the European Music Award in the category “Best Female Artist”. Since her first album “ Pies Descalzos”, which was launched in 1996, she has sold more than 30 million copies until her new album “Oral fixation Vol.2”.

















Shakira has produced all her songs’ collection, has written all the lyrics and composed almost all the music. She has been very involved in the creation of all her albums, that contain the essence of her person and her vision about the present times, between a great mixture of musical influences , since rock until pop and from traditional Latin rhythms to electronic music.

The most important to Shakira, of being famous, is not making a lot of money, but to use her voice and musical ability to communicate and express her thoughts and feelings to the other people, as she said “ The best part of being an artist is that I get to be a communicator; I get to build bridges that bring me closer to people. I get to be a creator of my own environment. Just having the freedom of expressing myself and creating; is a beautiful thing.”












Being a person who has good feelings and thoughts of how to help the others that need our help, Shakira has founded the beneficial institution “ Pies Descalzos” (Bare Feet) , a organization that promotes the education and takes care of some of the basic needs of children that had to abandon their houses with their families because of Colombia’s violence. This foundation fights to reduce the number of children who are obligated to work in the streets, where they can easily enter prostitution, join war groups or enter in criminal life. Shakira has been nominated UNICEF’s emissary for the creation of “Pies Descalzos” and for her persistent work with the foundation. Being 28 years old, she is the UNICEF’s youngest ambassador .











As everybody can see, Shakira is a beautiful woman, a strongly emotional artist, an excellent singer and a very good person, who is worried about he future of Colombia’s children. In other words, Shakira is really great. Because of that I consider Shakira the best singer in all the world.


NOTE: Some informations included in this composition were taken from the Shakira’s official website: http://www.shakira.com/ and from www.piesdescalzos.com



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