11/11/2022 0 Comments Song hips don t lie![]() ![]() Her globally sourced grooves, girlish smile and sinuous hips made her a music-video sensation. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll became a superstar across Latin America in the 1990s and reached even more of the world with her 2001 album, ‘Laundry Service’, which had songs in English and has sold more than three million copies in the United States alone. ![]() ![]() Her inspiration returned, she said, when she decided that she didn’t have to make an album - just one song at a time: “It was like a liberation.” “Finding inspiration itself and realising it had always been there all along - that was my El Dorado,” she said. The album is named after the mythical golden city sought in the Americas by Spanish conquistadors. It’s an album sung mostly in Spanish, Shakira’s original language - though she is now fluent in English - and it’s full of love songs carried by tropical rhythms. “I was full of doubts, and I thought I was never going to make good music again,” she said in an interview at a Midtown Manhattan hotel suite on a busy day of promotion for yes, a new album, ‘El Dorado’. Not long ago, the Colombian songwriter and pop star Shakira didn’t know if she would ever make another album. ![]()
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