I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
SHAKIRAI don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
SHAKIRAI never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
SHAKIRAI feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
SHAKIRAI did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
SHAKIRAI came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
SHAKIRAPresident Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
SHAKIRAI started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
SHAKIRAFame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
SHAKIRAThe truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
SHAKIRAWhen you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
SHAKIRAI like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
SHAKIRAI adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
SHAKIRASo I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
SHAKIRAI feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
SHAKIRAOur generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
SHAKIRAElixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
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