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April 11, 2002

Cover Story: Shakira

Latin America's biggest star is ready for you to fall in love with her. Resistance is futile
January 23, 2002

Q&A: Shakira

A pop artist with a rock & roll heart

Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Shakira's 2001 English-language debut, Laundry Service, may have expanded the Colombian superstar's audience far beyond her Latin fan bases, but it also scrubbed her particular blend of South American pop, Middle Eastern-influenced melodies and decidedly international dance music a little too...

2005 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Fijacion Oral, Volume 1

2005

Laundry Service

2001

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Biography

When Shakira shimmied her way onto MTV in 2001 with a steamy video for a slick, cookie-cutter dance-pop song, some people associated the Colombian singer with her American pop-music contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But the stylistic breadth of Shakira's music — elements of folk, Middle Eastern and traditional Latin styles over a foundation of rock and pop — gave he...

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