In Arabic, her name means "woman full of grace," and she is definaetly that. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on February 9, 1977 in Barranquilla, Columbia. Her mother was Columbian and her father was Lebanese. Because her father was a hundred percent Lebanese she was greatly influenced in the Arabic culture. "I was so in love with that rock sound but at the same time because my father is of l00% Lebanese descent, I am devoted …showed first 75 words of 928 total…

…showed last 75 words of 928 total…in Pepsi Commercials. Shakira is admired for her way of dance and expressing herself and that is why she is one of the most famous Latin female singers around. Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote, "Shakira's music has a personal stamp that doesn't look like anyone else's and no one can sing or dance like her, at whatever age, with such an innocent sensuality, one that seems to be of her own invention."