The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
SHAKIRAWe’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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