Shakira News

Shakira goes where wild things are with "She Wolf"

Oct 13, 2009 7:00 pm PDT

In Shakira's hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, there's a 15-foot metal statue of her, wearing bell bottoms and strumming a guitar. It was donated by a German sculptor in 2006, in the midst of the singer's wildly successful Or...

Shakira gets animalistic with new music

Jul 16, 2009 9:00 am PDT

Judging from the way she moves, you wouldn't think Shakira is inhibited at all. But the hip-swiveling bilingual singer says she's just now starting to get in touch with her desires as a woman, and that's reflected in her new animalistic s...

Shakira's gift: hometown school

Feb 5, 2009 3:00 am PST

As a teenager, the pop star Shakira fought illiteracy, teaching reading at a parochial school in the humble La Playa district of her hometown on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Her gift to La Playa is now considerably bigger. The multiple Gr...

Shakira: `I'm quite pregnant' -- with her album

Oct 29, 2008 10:00 am PDT

Shakira revealed Wednesday that she is, in fact, expecting. But it's not what you may think. "I'm quite pregnant with my album," the Colombian pop star told a reporter by phone — between laughs — when asked whether her foundatio...

Paris concert presses for Colombia hostage release

Jul 20, 2008 12:00 pm PDT

PARIS (AP) — Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt took the stage and shook her hips to a Colombian superstar's guitar riffs, leading the crowd in chants of "Freedom for all!" at a concert Sunday dedicated to captives held by Colombia's FA...