The spotlight was intense this week on Barcelona player Gerard Pique and his girlfriend, Colombian singer Shakira, after talking about their separation after a years-long relationship.
In this context, many people have been curious about Shakira’s career and net worth since the rumors of her relationship with Pique and his alleged infidelity first surfaced.
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Shakira has a net worth of $350 million and has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, making her one of the world’s best-selling artists, according to MARCA.
The Colombian artist also founded the Barefoot Foundation, which helps disadvantaged children. It also cooperated with FC Barcelona to provide sports education for children.
Also, she signed a ten-year contract worth $300 million with Live Nation in 2008. She was also reported to have earned $12 million from “The Voice” in 2013.
Shakira (AFP)
Her simple Miami mansion was listed for $11.6 million in 2018. The 20,726-square-foot property on Miami’s North Bay Road overlooks the water and overlooks Biscayne Bay more than 100 feet.
The home also has six bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms and has an area of 8,708 square feet.
Shakira’s origins
As for her ancestry, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977.
While her father was born in New York City, where her grandparents immigrated from Lebanon, Shakira’s father moved to Colombia when he was five years old.
On her mother’s side, she is Spanish and Italian as she was raised as a devout Catholic who attended Catholic schools.
From her father’s previous marriage, she has eight older siblings, while Shakira grew up in Barranquilla, a city on the northern Caribbean coast of the country.
Poet since childhood
In addition, when she was four years old, she wrote her first poem, “La Rosa de Cristal (The Crystal Rose)”.
She was fascinated then as a little girl watching her father’s stories on his typewriter and asked him for one for Christmas.
Then she got one when she was seven and she’s been writing poetry ever since, and eventually those poems became songs.
Shakira (AFP)
Shakira’s first album, “Magia”, was released in June 1991, when she was only 13 years old, and included the solo album “Magia” in addition to three other songs.
The album was a success on Colombian radio, but did not sell well in the United States, selling only 1,200 copies worldwide.
Her second album, Pelegro, from 1993 was also a failure.
First job in English
In parallel, the 1995 album “Pies Descalzos” and “Donde Estan los Ladrones?” were released. In 1998 both in Spanish-speaking countries.
Shakira’s fifth album, Laundry Service, was her first in the English market (2001) selling over 20 million copies and spawning the world’s number one singles “When and Where” and “Under Your Clothes”.
Her relationship with Pique
Shakira and Pique, a Spanish footballer, started dating in 2011. He is a member of FC Barcelona, as well as the Spanish national team as Shakira is ten years older than him.
They first met in the spring of 2010 when he appeared in the music video for her song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” which was chosen as the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
They have two children, Milan, born on January 22, 2013, and Sasha, born on January 29, 2015.