Shakira

Pop superstar Shakira is going to sing for the freedom of the hostages held by a Colombian rebel group, when she will perform in her birth country on 20th July.

The singer met with released FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt- ex Colombian presidential candidate to raise awareness about the hostage’s plight.

Shakira is going to accompany Colombian pop star Carlos Vives for the Independence Day show.

The event is organized to pressurize the terrorist group FARC to release its 700 hostages.

Lebanese-Colombian pop-sensation Shakira is gonna perform live in concert presented by Playstation 3 in Dubai on March 23rd 2007 at the Dubai Autodrome.

The sponsors expect the tickets to be sold like hot-cakes considering Shakira, is the best selling artist in Middle East with her Arabian roots.

And Shakira is equally excited about her tour to Dubai, “I have heard a lot about Dubai and performing in the Middle East for the first time will be something special. The Dubai show will be one of the biggest shows on my 2007 “Oral Fixation Tour”.

I’m sure this show will be a great success like all her Oral Fixation Concerts in Latin America… And she will give all the belly dancers in Dubai a run for their money.

Spanish Automotive Brand SEAT will be the sponsor for Shakira’s 2007 Oral Fixation European Tour.

The Tour is scheduled to begin from 25th January in Hamburg, Germany and last for three months as Shakira will rock more than 10 European Countries.

“I am delighted to have SEAT as the main partner for my 2007 Oral Fixation European Tour. To be associated with this dynamic brand with a true soul is a pleasure. Furthermore, SEAT’s support for my charity foundation will secure even more educational opportunities and nutritional resources for children in Latin America,” said Shakira.

And not only the sponsorship, Shakira proudly becomes Ambassador to SEAT, Europe’s youngest and liveliest brand; and SEAT links its brand pillars – Sporty, Lively and Design-Driven – with the most successful global pop star of today, whose profile and image fit perfectly with SEAT’s.

I’m sure Europe is desperately waiting to groove with Shakira!

Looks like Shakira is all set to conquer complete South America with her frenetic belly dancing.

She is in Peru now shaking her booty at her Oral Fixation tour. She gave her 24,000 Peruvian fans not only a belly dancing treat but also one with her new avatar with dark hair.

She is off to Ecuador next week, then she will go to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Good news for all her European fans, as she is planning a series of tours to Europe next year.

Looks like Shakira not only wants to live up to her nation’s expectations as a singer but also as a socially responsible citizen of Columbia. Thankfully she has not adopted an orphan rather she has planned to open a school for nearly 2000 pupils in her hometown Barranquilla.

“Education is not a luxury, it is a right everyone should have,” Shakira told reporters before a concert that will raise funds for the Barranquilla school.

Local schools, like Colegio El Canahuate are run-down, overcrowded and lacking basic facilities. Many residents hope Shakira’s new project will change that.

“This school is so small, we have to perform magic here,” said director Aldor Carrillo, who has scores of displaced children in his school. The street outside is the soccer pitch, where they do sports, gym and where they hold their social events.”

The Pies Descalzos Foundation says that Shakira’s new school will initially house 1,800 pupils when it opens in early 2008.

Now you see why they have immortalized a young pop singer with a statue…she is definitely worth that!

Colombian pop star Shakira performed to 10,000 fans in Venezuela on Saturday night, thanks to president Hugo Chavez who stepped in and helped her find a venue.

Chavez claims the singer was struggling to find a suitable site in the capital Caracas, until he granted her permission to use a military airbase that was part of a coup in 2002 that temporarily robbed the leader of power.

After an appeal from Shakira’s promoters, Chavez allowed them use of the La Carlota base, he revealed in a televised interview.

Chavez even claimed he may attend the gig in disguise, saying:

“Maybe I’ll put on a wig and go see Shakira.”

Looks like that Columbian beauty seems to have cast her spell over the President too…and has added another hi-profile name to her fan-list!

The 7th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards is said to take place on Nov. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York and will be broadcast on the Univision Network from 8 - 11 p.m. ET/PT (7 - 10 p.m. Central).

The world’s premier Latin music awards show will spotlight performances by our Columbian Crooner Shakira and other Latin stars Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Hector El Father, Willie COlon and many more.

Billboard predicts Shakira will rock the Grammys and walk away with the Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Short form Music video.

We wish our star all the best!

Dont Miss it folks!

Whoa! She looks like a flamboyant character straight out of a mythic Indian Kama Sutra in these pictures. These pictures are dated August 31, 2006 when the Columbian crooner Shakira performed her hit number Hips Dont Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean) at MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

She appeared on stage in a flagrant fuchsia satin ensemble with Indian-style gold embroidery and elaborate Indian style jewellery hanging down her waist. She also wore a piece of jewellery in her hair that hung down on her forehead adding to her look of an Indian gypsy dancer and not forgetting the blood red henna that adorned her hands!

The Grammy winner’s unrivalled curve-appeal made the crowd go beserk when the gyrating, belly-swivelling eye candy performed her hit single ‘hips dont lie’ with Wyclef Jean.

Didnt I tell you guys…This gal is a complete performer!

Shakira set the stage on fire as she opened at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America 2006, in a flowing red and black dress for a mariachi trumpet-backed performance of her hit ‘No’. This performance was quite not the ‘usual’ Shakira performance since it was notably devoid of all hip-shaking that seems to be Shakira’s trademark now!

After her performance she was seen in a pink evening gown, enjoying the show with Daddy Yankee.

Shakira, who won on her single nomination for song of the year for ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, said, “I took seven awards last year, and it was only fair that someone else won this year.”

But only this year huh! Not beyond that

Looks like Shakira is all up to leave a mark everywhere she goes. Pop diva Shakira is to take to play a charity concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia’s civil war.

The concert, part of her worldwide Oral Fixation tour, will be held on November 15 in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla. It is being billed as a festive homecoming for the hip-shaking international superstar who last month was nominated for five Latin Grammy awards.The English and Spanish bilingual school will bear the name of Shakira’s Pies Descalzos (Spanish for Bare Feet) foundation.The school will open in 2008 in La Playa, a poor suburb of Barranquilla where 45% of the residents are children – only about half of whom attend school.

Great going Shakira …